Cutting up old tires

Dalex · Jun 28, 2016

How do you guys cut up old sun dried tires ?
I've got two 15.5x38 to remove off of good rims
. I pried up the bead and cut the bead bundle
with a cut off wheel on an angle grinder, but
it's still too stiff to remove. I tried a skil
saw once , that was smokey and dangerous. I'm
thinking of a shear of some kind ....Ideas ?

moresmoke · Jun 28, 2016

Chainsaw. Hard on the chain, but will cut through any non steel tire.

Zachary Hoyt · Jun 28, 2016

Sawzall with a nail embedded wood blade is pretty safe and fast, though it does smell pretty nasty.
Zach

denglish · Jun 28, 2016

I've used a sawzall to cut the sidewall of an old tire. It was easy and safe.

el6147 · Jun 28, 2016

to remove junk rear tires I use a chainsaw and cut both sides of the tire all the way around then use a sawzall to cut through the wire bead after it is broken away from the rim (you will generally ruin a blade doing so) I imagine an abrasive cut off wheel on a 4 and 1/2 inch angle grinder would work on the wire bead also

hd6gtom · Jun 28, 2016

I used to charge 10.00 per tire to take them off rims-- iamoutofthe tire business now, you guys make it sound hard.

rustyfarmall · Jun 28, 2016

(quoted from post at 11:16:23 06/28/16) Sawzall with a nail embedded wood blade is pretty safe and fast, though it does smell pretty nasty.
Zach

Yes. That is what I used. Worked good, but hope to never do it again.

showcrop · Jun 28, 2016

Sawzall around both sides, then cold chisel to cut the bead. Quick and easy.

Adirondack case guy · Jun 28, 2016

I don't understand what your problem is. Break tire bead on both sides, from rim, push it to center of drop in rim and insert tire iron in oposite side of tire bead and pry it off rim. It sure doesn't require cutting the bead with a sawsall or angle grinder. It does take some physical effort and not a lot of brain power.
Loren

showcrop · Jun 28, 2016

(quoted from post at 16:57:29 06/28/16) I don't understand what your problem is. Break tire bead on both sides, from rim, push it to center of drop in rim and insert tire iron in oposite side of tire bead and pry it off rim. It sure doesn't require cutting the bead with a sawsall or angle grinder. It does take some physical effort and not a lot of brain power.
Loren

The problem that I have experienced, is that a tire that has been sitting mounted in the weather for twenty years, has rust built up between the bead and the rim, that makes it way way tighter than it was originally. Rust can build up a great thickness with time. It is not worth my time to fight with a tire that is worthless, to remove it when it takes 10 times the force of a five year old tire to move it on the rim.

Bob · Jun 28, 2016

Yep, they sure do!

Robert Major · Jun 30, 2016

Tom and Bob
If all these tire are so easy to get off and we all make it hard work. How come the 24" front tire on a JD 6410 fwa loader tractor I tried breaking the bead on for 2 hours and couldn't get it to move, Went to the local tire shop when I had enough trying on a hot afternoon. They have a huge hydraulic machine big enough to take a big rear tractor tire off.

It took them an hour to get it off as well, I stood there and watched that machine struggle with the guy pulling the control levers.
That rim had so much rust round the bead when the tire was off from water and cow muck creeping in from the feedlot. The old guy running the shop said he could see why I couldn't move it, and it was a nasty one from what he sees most of the time .

He said he would of never got it off in less than an afternoon without that machine, and probably destroying the tire in the end. Not every tire is text book and easy. I know that and so does my local tire shop guy with about 40 years experience, of some real ignorant tires that might as well be welded to the rims they are that bad to get off.

Cutting up old tires

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