My wife about had to plan a funeral

fixerupper · Sep 15, 2009

Just survived another dumb move. One of the rear tires on the 1086 (18.4r38 one star) had a leaky bead, so this evening I broke the bead, pushed the sidewall in and cleaned up the rim.

When I reinflated the tire I pulled out the valve core, clipped on the air hose and went about cleaning up the tools while the tire was inflating. After a few minutes I decided to put the air gauge on her to see how the progress was going and the gauge read 55 PSI! I pulled the tire valve out RIGHT NOW and stood aside while it deflated.

While I was cleaning up I didn't take into account the fact that the core was out and it was going to fill faster.

If the rim would have blown apart she could have had a funeral where they don't show the body.

By the way, does anyone know how much pressure it really does take to blow a rim or tire that size? Just curious. It must be somewhere above 55 PSI.Jim

chevytaHOE5674 · Sep 15, 2009

Pressure required to blow depends on lots of factors like tire condition, dry rot, weight on tire, etc.

But i blew up a slightly dry rotted manure spreader tire in my face this past spring. Took at least a day before most of my hearing returned. Never want to do that again.

tg in VA · Sep 15, 2009

Years ago, I replaced the tube in one of the rear tires on my TO35. I overinflated it to seat the bead and forgot to let the pressure off. I went to the local auto parts store with the tire in the back of my pickup. While inside I heard a tremendous explosion, ran out side in time to see the tire and wheel spinning in the air. When it blew, the tire went as high as the top of the power pole. I was very lucky and learned one of life's important lessons that day.

Wild Bill · Sep 15, 2009

55 lbs of air in a big tire like that is a lot of air. If the tire would have been rotten, or the rim rusted, it could have went boom.

glad you caught it in time!

shaun wallace · Sep 15, 2009

Dont know about air but water at city pressure will rollem of rim. Didnt hurt tire but whopperjawed rim real good. Looked like bent biscyle wheel.

railhead · Sep 15, 2009

agree that tire cond etc plays role but I blew up a 18.4 34 once. An old tire, trying to get the bead to seat, kept pumping air into it, went boom, flipped over (rim off of tractor) and ruined the tube and tire. How you figure a solid rim could have came apart and killed you, I don't understand, but it's your way of looking at it I guess. Rim still mounted on tractor wheel, inflating to 55...could have blown, ruined the tire and tube but I would think you were safe.

Anonymous-0 · Sep 15, 2009

It takes less than 125 psi to blow a 18.4x34 skidder
tire that I know for sure.Few years back I was repairing a skidder in the commercial shop, one of the tires was flat so to locate the leak I attached
the air line to the tire valve then the shop foreman called coffee break so naturelly we all went up stairs to the cffee room.10 min. later it was like a bomb went off blew all the windows out of the shop,blew the furnaces of the ceiling and blew all the shelving,parts and storage down.You couldn't see in the shop for 1/2 hr. the dust was so thick.Luckly no one got hurt just some tempory hearing damage.Oh also took out one over head door. Was a very humble and frightning lesson.

fixerupper · Sep 15, 2009

Tire is three years old and the rim is about fifteen years. The rim is a replacement for one that split at the bead. Jim

flying belgian · Sep 15, 2009

When I was young and stupid (as opposed to old and stupid like I am now) me and a couple buddys were going to blow up a car tire to watch it explode. We hooked the chuck on to it and ran around corner of shop to watch her blow. Waited and waited. Finally compressor shut off at I suppose 140 psi. Now what do we do? Who's going to go remove air chuck? No one was brave enough so we went and got the 22 and shot it. Kaboom. Problem solved.

RodinNS · Sep 15, 2009

Probably take a lot more than that. They can generally be run to about 35 psi (max recomemded) and I'd think there'd bea safety factor of 2:1 there... so that should put you to 70 psi.
I've often run ~50 psi in the 9.5-24's we use on the loader tractor.
It would just depend on the condition of the tire and wheel. It would probably blow the bead lip off the wheel if it was poor. I've seen that happen on flotation tires... BOOM!

Rod

Ron in Nebr · Sep 15, 2009

This talk about blowing up tires reminded me of something a co-worker in a tire shop told me about one time...was a plain old dirty trick and I had nothing to do with it, but thought it was interesting enough to share here anyway.

Seems a kid pushed a bike with a flat tire on it up to the door of the tire shop one day and asked this guy "hey mister, can you blow up my bike tire for me?".....well, you can guess what happened next....the guy stuck a clip-on air chuck on the bike tires valve stem and walked away....sure enough, the kid got his bike tire blew up.

atlarge54 · Sep 16, 2009

It's a good idea to have your funeral arrangements in place before they're needed. Now would be a fine time to start, don't wait and place any extra burden on your survivors. No, I'm not in the funeral business.

Anonymous-0 · Sep 16, 2009

LOL - that's funny!:^)

Anonymous-0 · Sep 16, 2009

...and this was scary. Glad no one was injured. It is common for reople forget how dangerous it is to put air in tires and/or jumper batteries. Be cautious of "explosive situations."

Anonymous-0 · Sep 16, 2009

...well that's just mean!:^(

Mark · Sep 16, 2009

My son in law is a mortician and that sounds like one of his lines......then he"ll encourage folks to take out a "prepaid" plan. Why? So he knows he"ll get paid...it sure isn"t so you"ll get buried.....which is guaranteed to happen, regardless.

Dan-IA · Sep 16, 2009

Fixerupper, congratulations, you have angels watching you!

Bspauld · Sep 16, 2009

I had new tires put on my Allis a year ago.The tire installer put 50 lbs in to seat it,he said he does it all the time that way,then he let air out until he had 13 lbs in it,

Matt from CT · Sep 16, 2009

Guilty.

At least it was my own bike. No idea what I was thinking, just put on the chuck to it from a 100psi system. That was like a shotgun blast when it failed...can't even imagine a big tractor or truck tire failing.

Secret Squirrel · Sep 16, 2009

Be careful indeed. Several years ago, a dear neighbor was inflating a new tractor tire. They were seating the beads. My friend was astraddle of the tire with an air chuck. He sent a co-worker for a gauge. As the co-worker reached the overhead door where the air tools were hung, the tire blew. It sent the hired man out the door onto the driveway, and my neighbor friend through the roof of a Morton building. It was a closed casket funeral, very very sad.

Alex.C · Sep 16, 2009

Some old batteries nearly got me. I was charging the old twin 6volt continentals in my oliver and they started smoking bad and I was tighting the fuel return line and I smelled them and unhooked every thing real quick. I now got 2 12volts in parallel, a new alternator and a rebuilt stater. Just becarfull, there too are many ways to get seriously hurt or killed.
Alex

team flat black · Sep 16, 2009

trying to set the bead on a older 16.9- 38 tractor tire inside the garage, couldnt get it to quite set all the way around so I kept puting more air in, finally the tire started making a tearing sound, something about that noise told me to run, I got around the corner before the tube popped, It tore the tire in half, broke windows, blew flourescent lite bulbs out of their fixtures and tore the wall apart, it actually shook the place so hard the steel chimney for the woodstove was shaken and its still crooked. guess I had somebody looking over my shoulder that day

PJH · Sep 16, 2009

When I was in high school, I worked for a couple of brothers who farmed around 400 acres and also had a dairy herd. Every day they would leave a note in the shop in a tin can. It would be my instructions for the evening. One evening after school I went to check my note, and there was blood all over the place, and no note. An AC sickle mower wheel had blown apart and bounced off of one of the brother's head and went on to imbed itself in one of the overhead trusses. He survived.

Paul

Nebraska Kirk · Sep 16, 2009

When I inflate a rear tractor tire, I don't go over 20-25 lbs. If the bead has not seated all the way, I hit the face of the tire with a sledge hammer, that usually does it, if not I put it back on the tractor and drive it around a little.

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