My friend the trucker had a flat on his trailer one day. I happened to be in the shop helping him with something. Went to bead up the tire and we use a rubber ring looks like a bike tire tube. works good and I am standing against the tire as it fills after bead is on. Tested pressure, 65lbs. hook it back up and just standing there keeping the tire from rolling away or falling over. BOOM I'm thrown back about 3-4 ft onto the snow blower(just bruised and scratched) The tire blew on the opposite side of me. Cleared at least 8ft of shelf off and blew a paint can into the 4 inch wall that had 1/2 inch plywood on inside and tin on outside. Plywood had a hole in it and pushed the tin on the outside out about an inch. Not sure how bad it would have been if the tire blew on my side but may have been a lot worse. The tire had rubbed a bit on the other tire when it was flat but the scuff mark looked very minor. I know better than to fill a tire that has been run a bit flat now. If I am not sure I lay it down outside and make sure I'm far enough away or behind something that if the tire flies it won't get me.
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Russ from MN
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- Bemidji MN
One of my friends had a son that was killed by an exploding tire. He had clipped a air chuck on to it, and then the phone rang, when he came back from the phone call it blew up and killed him.
New a guy that was airing one up on his semi. It blew and threw him back onto the highway knocking him unconscious. He woke up in the hospital with a big gash on his head and a bad or broken leg. Not sure anymore which it was but he had a brace on for quite awhile. My nephew was airing up a smaller trailer tire in his garage when it blew. About knocked him out and flew up and bent the overhead door that was open at the time. Another time a neighbors son was working at a tire dealer and had one that exploded on him. He was never the same agin, kinda effected his mid. Messed his face up too.
Glad you are ok. I read about people being killed from that very thing. The tire shop I use has a cage for airing up large tires. I guess the real killers were the split rims. My tire failure story. When I was about 16 I had a 34 chevy. I was kneeling over a tire while airing it up. The tire blew out. I don't know if it was just air, or a piece of the tire, what ever it was it hit me in the crotch. You think a ball hurts, a ball ain't nothing compared to the pain I felt. First thing I did was to see if I still had a pair. When we least expect it things like this happen. Stan
fastfarmall
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I seen a split ring let go in a cage, in Fargo at tire shop, it blew he was totally covered with dust, he was scared but unhurt, he had to go home and shower up!
Dieseltech
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- Akron, Indiana
There was a local fellow killed at a tire shop when the CAST IRON wheel he just put a new tire on let go. The cast wheel had an old crack that was not seen under the paint. Wheel was from an early JD model H..
I have told this story on here before.but here it is again, working and the boss's wife pulls up to the overhead door in a SUV with children inside. The boss walks up and opens back hatch and grabbed the air hose to air up a maybe 12 inch bicycle tire. He blew the tire up inside the SUV with his wife and kids inside, nobody hurt. It was VERY hard for the guys to keep a straight face until the boss left! Would like to have been a fly on the wall when he got home.
Be safe and stay healthy,, joe
Be safe and stay healthy,, joe
Steve@Advance
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Stan I have a similar story.
I was probably about 12-13 years old, doing tire work at my dads service station.
Had a passenger car wheel clamped onto the manual tire changer that I had just put a rotten old tire on that the customer had brought it to be mounted.
Standing there airing it up and it let go!
Thank God it was clamped to the changer so the wheel didn't go flying, and it blew on the opposite side from where I was standing, so I wasn't neutered!
But it blew down and toward the floor and corner. The floor was covered with all kinds of dirt and debris, old wheel weights, oil absorb, nuts and bolts...
All that came blowing back at me, miraculously none hit me in the eyes but dirt, but I was covered in whelps and bloody scratches. I guess nothing penetrated deep enough to cause problems, I didn't go to the Dr, but right up there as one of the scariest things that ever happened to me!
I was probably about 12-13 years old, doing tire work at my dads service station.
Had a passenger car wheel clamped onto the manual tire changer that I had just put a rotten old tire on that the customer had brought it to be mounted.
Standing there airing it up and it let go!
Thank God it was clamped to the changer so the wheel didn't go flying, and it blew on the opposite side from where I was standing, so I wasn't neutered!
But it blew down and toward the floor and corner. The floor was covered with all kinds of dirt and debris, old wheel weights, oil absorb, nuts and bolts...
All that came blowing back at me, miraculously none hit me in the eyes but dirt, but I was covered in whelps and bloody scratches. I guess nothing penetrated deep enough to cause problems, I didn't go to the Dr, but right up there as one of the scariest things that ever happened to me!
old
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- Location
- Camdenton Missouri
I have a tire on a 1949 Case VAC I was airing up but it looked odd to me so I stopped doing so.. I unhooked the clip on air chuck and walked maybe 20 foot from it an the bead broke and the side of the tire blew out. Had I been as close as I had been good chance I would have lost an arm if not my life. 36 or so years ago I worked at a tire shop so I learned to watch out for odd things when working on tires
I knew one guy and met another that lost sections of their arms from exploding rims. Arms were reattached and the one had one of those cages with screw expanders to lengthen the bone as it healed.
My own experience. I put an old tractor with old tires in the shop, one rear tire was low on air, I put enough air in so it was round. Couple days later I walked past the shop door and thought someone had broken into the shop. Door was slightly ajar, door split, bolt bent, doorframe split. Sidewall of tire had blow out. Tire was four feet from the door. Good thing it didn't happen while I was adding air.
My own experience. I put an old tractor with old tires in the shop, one rear tire was low on air, I put enough air in so it was round. Couple days later I walked past the shop door and thought someone had broken into the shop. Door was slightly ajar, door split, bolt bent, doorframe split. Sidewall of tire had blow out. Tire was four feet from the door. Good thing it didn't happen while I was adding air.
BarnyardEngineering
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- Rochester, NY
All these horror stories... but we don't need safety rules!
Steve@Advance
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Couple years ago a local man was killed, simply airing up a low tire on his 3/4 ton PU.
The sidewall split, not sure if anything actually hit him other than the blast of air, but he was killed instantly!
The sidewall split, not sure if anything actually hit him other than the blast of air, but he was killed instantly!
caterpillar guy
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I've worked on tires for about 50 years or so with all kinds of wheels/rims. Only had a couple blow out while pumping them up usually the tread or a sidewall. I watch for problems as I go.
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