Farm accident

This is another sad story. My heart and prayers go out to family. My wife's friend was killed inflating an irrigator tire last week. The story online is wrong as it refers to a tractor tire. My wife talked to close sources and it sounds like it was a new tire on a new rim for a irragation unit. My question to the farm guys. Do these tires have rims around them that can come off. I just walked out to the center pivot in my back yard and see no ring. I remember this being a truck tire thing years ago but I thought those were long gone. My wife tells me Richard was 58 and a life-time farmer so he had been around this before. He also was not a poor farmer so he would not be a guy to cut corners.

http://www.abc57.com/story/32685263/man-killed-in-farming-accident-in-south-bendL

What a horrible heart aching story,our hearts go out
to the family as well.
We have a high dump from the late 70's early 80's
that has that style of wheel your referring to.

sorry to hear that.
it all depends on the type of rim, as the split rims were kinda dangerous if you did not pay attention to the ring and make sure it was seated in its groove. you were to put the rim in a tire cage when inflating it. may people killed with these rims ... but it was more the fault of the installer. you say new tire and rim so maybe it was a faulty new rim? hard to say without the info. the danger is actually when the tire pops and seats itself on the rim. he could have had too much air pressure when it seated.? lots of speculation here without info.

The son of a friend was killed in a similar accident a few years ago. The way I understand it happened is he had a clip on air chuck, he was inflating a
tire and the phone rang, he went and answered the phone, and when he got back to the tire it blew because it was way over-inflated. I don't think it was
a split rim. I saw a tire blow on a truck once, just sitting in the sun in our yard. I'm glad I wasn't close to it!

tires on the valley or sprinkler drive are very cheep tires and are low pressure so over inflation is easy to do. sorry for the loss

There are still split ring type wheels out there and then there is the old type split rims. There's a big difference between the two. The
split rim was the most dangerous. The split ring is also very dangerous but not like the original split rims. Split ring wheels can have 1, 2
or 3 rings to put on the rim. Bad part with any of the split rim/ring type rims rust builds up in the seat or the split rings get bent during
removal. Always mount the rim on the machine or vehicle before airing it up. Just speaking from experience. One you hear one or feel one blow
up you'll never forget it believe me I know. I had a small 8" rim that the two halves of the rim were bolted together with 8 bolts. When I
went to air it up it blew 7 of the 8 bolts out and edge of the rim hit me just below my right knee cap. It threw me 6 feet and I reached down
to feel if my leg was still there because my knee hurt BAD! I was lucky. Only got 9 stitches out of the whole ordeal. Just something you
never forget. Also dry-rotted tires that still have air in them are a bomb waiting to go off. I saw one blow up while a man was carrying it
into the shop after removing it off of a wagon. The tread peeled like a banana and hit him right in the abdomen. He's lucky he lived. It was
a steel belted tire too and his stomach area looked like it had been sandblasted. Tires are bombs so be careful !!

Yes, tires are bombs. One time when I was out on the road in the big truck, I saw a rear tire blow on a bulk tanker. Must have been a couple of hundred yards ahead of me. I saw the entire back end of the trailer jump up about a few inches, tire threw its cap about 200 feet straight up in the air. AFTER it went through the fender that was over the rear tandems. It made a really loud BOOM as well. Pieces of the casing went in every direction. Quite a sight it was.
To this day, I tell anybody that I ride or drive with to stay away from those big tires. They are bombs waiting to go off. And, it is not a matter of IF they will blow - only a matter of WHEN!!!

I almost lost a hand to regular non split rim truck tire. Knot came up on the sidewall and
blew out as I was pulling the air chuck. Ears rang for 3 days, knocked me down, broke 3
bones in my hand. If my face had been there it could have been worse.

Improperly inflated tires irregardless of the application can kill or cause serious injury.

Most pivots use a standard 8 bolt single
bevel wheel. Except T&L, they use an odd
size 7 or 9 bolt (and are hydrostatically
driven).

If you get a new pivot wheel it's going to
be a single bevel rim.

My guess is overinflation or a bad tire. An
11.2-38 tire under a long pivot span is
maxed out on load capacity.