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A modular home slid over a cliffside in the Colorado Rocky Mountains when the semitractor-trailer hauling it up a steep, icy road in Blue River slipped downhill and jackknifed just before the Thanksgiving holiday.
Getting the home back on the truck without damaging it beyond repair proved to be one of the most difficult missions Mountain Recovery, a Silverthorne-based towing company, has ever completed, according to Charlie Stubblefield, the company’s owner.
“It was definitely top five in terms of level of difficulty,” Stubblefield said, “and it’s because you’re dealing with an oversized load. It’s 13 feet, 6 inches tall, 16 feet wide and 60 feet long.”
Mountain Recovery was there Tuesday night, Nov. 21, when the modular home slid off the mountainside. Stubblefield said the homeowner had called the tow company because the semitractor-trailers that had hauled the disassembled home most of the way to its destination were struggling to complete the last stretch up a dirt road off Colorado Highway 9.
Mountain Recovery had one of its heavy wreckers on scene, and the operator had towed the first semitractor-trailer halfway up the hill before it was able to make it the rest of the way on its own, Stubblefield said.
