Tire go boom...

MSS3020 · Dec 19, 2013

took day off work.. Needed to replace thermostat and heater core on my 250. Everything went great...until...I was putting my sons F150 in the shed..and ran over the edge of the bucket on the skidstear ...Boom...shuuuuuuu....Tire had only 10,000 miles on it. He bought them new last september.. *&^%$%$%& So Im buying him two new and taking the good tire to the spare... #&^*%(^#@*!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS YA'LL!!

fixerupper · Dec 19, 2013

I did the same thing to a $1500 rear tractor tire a coupe of years ago. Hit the end of the loader bucket with a dual. I had planned on replacing all four tires the next year so to make a long story short next year came early. $6000! Jim

old · Dec 19, 2013

That type of thing is why I buy the road hazard warranty on all my tires.

Joe Scribner · Dec 19, 2013

I've been there and done that same sort of thing myself. Was working on my old Dodge W150 and went to move it out of the garage. POP !!! Ran over a 7/16" wrench and put the open end through the tread. Had to buy a new Goodyear Duratrac after buying the set about two months before. $$$ gone again.

donjr · Dec 19, 2013

I was down at the barn feeding a couple of months ago, and taking the twine off of a couple of hay bales. There was a cultimulcher parked beside where I was working. All of a sudden, there was a VERY loud KABOOM! One of the tires had blown out across the tread, from dryrot, I guess. Liked to give me a heart attack- it had me diving for cover. Cost me $5 for a new case to put on it....

waltdavies · Dec 19, 2013

Seems like every time I get the mini-excavator near something like the big dump truck or the heavy duty trailer I endup punching a tire with the blade, been thinking about rubber bumper guards HUH?
Walt

jeffcat · Dec 19, 2013

Sorry but I got a good chuckle. My dad NEVER looked where he was going when he backed up. His Volvo wagon has THREE rear left tail lights ALL busted the same way. He said I didn't hit anything!!! Well after a little detective work I found the all of the breaks are the same height as the post and rail fence beside the garage.
A few years back when I worked for a company I hit a curb and blew out BOTH right side tires on an Astro van. Guess who had to pay for new ones!

MSS3020 · Dec 19, 2013

Thanks for making me feel better.. These are Goodyear Wrangler 265 75 15.. $435.00 out of my pocket. Good news is they can get them in today and Ill have them for him tonight. The tire that went boom..shuuuuu has a split from rim to tread.. WHen I Do something I do it right!!

jeffcat · Dec 19, 2013

Here is another one I just remembered. Down in Hammonton , NJ is the local John Deere dealer. A guy walked in and asked if they fixed tires. Well he then showed me and the parts guy what was wrong. He had been mowing at his dads farm and in the weeds he "FOUND" a missing three prong hay hook. ALL three of the teeth were through the tire. After we all got done laughing our as-s-es off he sent the guy to the tire repair shop down the street where they would do an inside plug job. Jeffcat

jm. · Dec 19, 2013

Well here is mine from yesterday bad luck/goodluck deal. Was in the man lift trimming a dead limb off large oak. Lim was hanging out over public road and I thought it needed cutting. Had a 40 ft. lift boomed about all the way up. Big dead limb from 300 yr. old oak. limb was at least 10 n diameter. Had the lift positioned where no way was it going to hit anything. Some way when the cut was finished it too my Stihl i60 with it . Saw fell about 35 ft. ,figured it was junked. Got down to it and it landed flat in a soft ditch and was still running. No damage at all , man needs a little good luck ever now and then.

fixerupper · Dec 19, 2013

Thats still quite a bit of money. At least you didn't have to rock back and forth trying to decide if it was fixable or not. Jim

Anonymous-0 · Dec 19, 2013

how about this. ford 3000 just put a new tire on rear $800 drove about 200ft with brush hog ran over the end of a 5" angle iron. rip the side wall. still upset 3yrs ago.

Unruh · Dec 19, 2013

Yah, but Old, have you ever actually used the warrantee?

Naylorbros · Dec 19, 2013

I have use the road hazard warrenty several times. The last time was about 6 months ago on my F150. The truck is not driven much any more so there was only about 6000 miles on three year old times. I bought the tires from Costco. I killed one tire and they did not have a replacement for that tire as it was NLA. They offered to replace two tires then. They could not find nor get the those tires as fast as they wanted so they replaced all four of them. My total cost for four new tires on my truck was under $10.00.

RBnSC · Dec 19, 2013

Years ago we did a bush hog job around a commercial compound. Drove into an area over grown with vines and one front tire went down, started backing out the other front tire went down. When they got in a clearing and the tractor shut off we realized a back tire was going down. the area of vines was a concrete slab with anchor bolts sticking up.
Ron

old · Dec 19, 2013

Not just yes but heck yes. Over the years I have replaced a good many tires on my cars due to road hazard making the tire go bad so it cost me only $1--30 to replace with a new tire that would have cost me over $100 had it not been for the warranty

Geo-TH,In · Dec 19, 2013

Wouldn't road hazard cover the big boom?

retired farmer · Dec 19, 2013

Would have been cheaper if you had just gone to work.

Joneil · Dec 19, 2013

One day in the barn I kept hearing a ticking sound. Finally got annoyed enough to see what it was. Followed the noise to the other end to a loaded gravity wagon tire. There was bugs in the grain and all over the wagon and tire. Surely the bugs can be inside the tire, it would have to be flat for them to get in I thought. And with my ear against the sidewall, the tread split open and a basketball sized bubble of innertube came out. KAABOOOOM, the tire shredded and the only damage to me was the ringing in my ears.

Another time, trying to seat an old stiff tubeless tire with starting fluid. I may have used a tremendously too large amount of fluid. I saw a bright orange flash, and a hot wind blew around me. When the flames were gone I could see the tire flipping in front of my face like I just flipped a quarter. Bead was seated nicely on the rim, it just wasn't attached to the tire anymore.

Ted in NE-OH · Dec 19, 2013

I was picking up a brushog for an uncle at TSC. There was a disc sticking out, sure enough caught it with a trailer tire, boom. TSC person was nice enough and used their fork lift so I did not have to jack the trailer up.

samn40 · Dec 19, 2013

My mate bought a brand new FX58 (New Holland) self propelled silage chopper. We were working beside it and he set a 4"long 1/2"socket extension bar on the tyre of the harvester. He got into the harvester later that day and drove it out into the yard, the extension fell off the tyre and ended up stuck right in it between the tread-bars. 3 years and 13,500 acres later he traded the machine with the extension bar still buried in the tyre!
Sam

jon f mn · Dec 19, 2013

I had a case 6-18's plow I pulled with my 1370 and it had a big tube that was part of the hitch and stuck out on the left side. Someone had hooked the tail wheel steer arm up wrong so the plow didn't follow as it should. The tube lined up to go between the tractor tire and dual. I told my nephew who was driving to watch out, but the inevitable happened and I ended up with 2 new 20.8-38 tires on the tractor. I did fix the plow steering after that tho. lesson learned.

BANDITFARMER · Dec 19, 2013

Many years ago (late 70s) I went with a friend and his dad to get the 105 JD combine he bought at a sale. Really good lookin 105 that had a low drive tire, more like flat 23.1x26 rice tire. He tried to move it and it broke both beads down on the tire before he stopped. Being close to this guys shop he pulled the air hose out and we started jacking it up till the tires was standing even with the rim. 2 hours later in frustration Donnie got tired of fighting it and got the starting fluid out, And really sprayed a good amount in it. He lit a rag and threw it at the tire. BOOM!!!!! When the dust snow and mud settled things got really ugly! No tire on the 105 and the ladder flipped up and went through the cab doors and it fell off the jack, His truck door that he left open was gone and the 23.1x26 went through the shops sliding door and was laying on top of the owners 55 Chevy he was working on. Nobody was hurt but made one big mess to clean up. I learned a lesson that day..... NEVER use a 1/2 a can of starter fluid on a tire to beed it up!!!! Bandit

David G · Dec 19, 2013

I blew a boat tire apart going over bridge at lake of the Ozarks this summer, blew the fender off the boat. Tires were in great shape, but about 10 years old. I am getting new tires this spring, do not want that to happen again.

paul · Dec 19, 2013

Wow.

Paul

BigMarv1085 · Dec 19, 2013

I went and picked up a load of corn on a gravity flow once. Had to go about 20 miles and I stopped about half way home to let the traffic get by. I could hear air leaking and the sotrtore had no air so I bought a can of fix a flat and put it in the tire. This stuff was bubbling all over the tire and so if left and started home. This car comes up on me and was flashing lights, blowing his horn and was right on my tail but I could pull over. Finall when I get a chance to pull over he pulls up, the tire blows up and sends all of this slime over his car and he never stoppd.

ohiojim · Dec 20, 2013

my best one was as a kid mowing along the road with the farmall bn I ran a womans high heel shoe through the rear tire...

Anonymous-0 · Dec 20, 2013

Was plowing on a rented farm and was turning around about 15 feet away from fence and blew front tire on broken off steel stake, found out the guy was going to put in a cow lane there, didn't understand why leave a broken one in ground. I took tire off and booted it and it lasted a few more years. Tom

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