Be careful out there!
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What a tragic story.
When I was 16 I was working in a shop, one of the mechanics couldn't get the bead to "pop" on a tire. He pulled it off the tire machine, had it on the ground and was leaning over it putting air to it. Well it blew. I turned around at the noise to see him flying backwards across the shop and the tire went up and hit the roof and almost hit me when it came back down. Split the poor guys head open from the top of his head to his nose...yuck.
It turns out he was mistakenly trying to mount a 16" tire on a 16.5" rim.
Bobby
When I was 16 I was working in a shop, one of the mechanics couldn't get the bead to "pop" on a tire. He pulled it off the tire machine, had it on the ground and was leaning over it putting air to it. Well it blew. I turned around at the noise to see him flying backwards across the shop and the tire went up and hit the roof and almost hit me when it came back down. Split the poor guys head open from the top of his head to his nose...yuck.
It turns out he was mistakenly trying to mount a 16" tire on a 16.5" rim.
Bobby
I shop I worked at , before I started (I guess I was the replacement) a guy tryed the same thing 'cept the wheel and tire were still on the tire machine when it blew
]a few weeks later when I started there the blood stains were still on the ceiling above the tire machine
I met him a while after - had a nasty scar across his cheek and nose that looked like he had been hit by a wheel edge
Posting Guru
Joined: Jul 2012
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From: Southern SC.
I worked for a cement contractor for two summers as a "do whatever I was told to do each day kid" one day I was told to put the repaired tires on the dump trucks. The guy doing the repairs fell behind the kid (meaning me) so he started taking short cuts. He didn't bother putting the chains around the tire and thru the rims to save time. As he filled one it blew the ring off and it whet straight up and imbedded in the ceiling taking his hat with it. Just barely missing his head. He used the chains after that and I never had to do the tire mounting again. I guess he didn't want to be reminded about the near miss.
Hotshot
Joined: Jan 2001
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From: SE Wisc. (the Rust Belt)
I saw an ad on CL the other day, the guy was searching for replacement wheels for his '48-52 large Ford truck. I emailed to see if he was looking for stock wheels and if he was I warned him about the dangers of the original WMs. He just emailed one short sentence, "I mount my own". Hopefully no else is around when he does it. We've had a few people here over the years with the same attitude. Hopefully they'll have to learn the hard way.
Laughing Gas
Joined: Jun 2007
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From: Richland, WA.
What a tragic story.
When I was 16 I was working in a shop, one of the mechanics couldn't get the bead to "pop" on a tire. He pulled it off the tire machine, had it on the ground and was leaning over it putting air to it. Well it blew. I turned around at the noise to see him flying backwards across the shop and the tire went up and hit the roof and almost hit me when it came back down. Split the poor guys head open from the top of his head to his nose...yuck.
It turns out he was mistakenly trying to mount a 16" tire on a 16.5" rim.
Bobby
When I was 16 I was working in a shop, one of the mechanics couldn't get the bead to "pop" on a tire. He pulled it off the tire machine, had it on the ground and was leaning over it putting air to it. Well it blew. I turned around at the noise to see him flying backwards across the shop and the tire went up and hit the roof and almost hit me when it came back down. Split the poor guys head open from the top of his head to his nose...yuck.
It turns out he was mistakenly trying to mount a 16" tire on a 16.5" rim.
Bobby
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From: Central PA
I talked to my sister who is married to a big time dairy farmer (milk 3000 cows 3 times a day) in Southern Lancaster County. She heard that the manure spreader was one of those side discharge spreaders for liquid manure with those huge balloon tires. My brother-in-law said they are very difficult and dangerous to change or work with.
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