My dad's friend, Ralph Voights, is the inventor of the tire safety cage. I can only imagine how many lives his invention has saved over the years . R.I.P. Dad and Ralph.
Thanks for the video tho. Very informative. Until I watched this I couldnt imagine how dangerous tires can be. Ill be definitely more cautious in the future.
Sound wasn't so bad I couldn't hear.great info about tires..now I see why reg shops don't want to work on big tires..had a front blow once and seen all the steel poking out the side..looked like a piece of art..this was only a 235 16..
I'm a retired ase senior master tech of 47 years,i personally want to thank you for this presentation,there is no way to calculate how many lives this video will save,god bless you,working on equipment is dangerous,the minute you approach the job,safety IS NOT AN ACCIDENT
Years ago I used to race a drag bike and a local bike shop used to let me go in and use their gear when needed.. A race meet was coming up and I needed a new rear slick fitted so I went to the shop, the guy was real busy but just told me to help myself to his gear.. I got the old slick off no problem but I just couldn't get the new one fitted right, the bead just wouldn't pop up onto the rim.. I told the guy I was having and issue and he just said slap some more lubricant on it and just keep pumping till it pops up onto the rim.. I'd never done this before and was just following his lead... Still it wouldn't seat so I went back to him but by this time he was getting agitated with my interrupting him with questions.. He told me to go back to it, plenty of lubricant and just keep pumping til it seats.. Well the damn thing exploded on me and I got pretty injured but the one thing not mentioned here is the sound.. The percussive force of the sound ruptured both my ear drums and I came within a whisker of being permanently deaf.. I never touched a tire fitting machine again.. Stay safe..
Anything under pressure is dangerous. I was taught to change truck tyres with bead breakers and levers. I was shown how to clean the rim and split ring and make sure everything fitted well when put back. I was taught to always use a cage to inflate and inspect as it was seating and being inflated. I was shown a split rim embedded at 90 degrees into a hardwood tree and how if it hit a person it would cut in half. It comes down to being trained and responsible. when someone is injured by negligence or incompetence think where you will be legally placed when sitting at an inquest.
These have nick names - they call them Widow-makers. I heard all about them at the trucking company I somewhat grew up around. They were about a mile away and my friends dad worked there. You know, the typical we used to ride our bikes over there when we were kids and see his dad. His dad was the head mechanic for the trucking yard, a nice place and well maintained. He used to tell us all the time about them and even joked at the nick name but he was always serious about them as well. Right after we graduated high school it happened. My friends dad was gone in an-instant. The widow maker wheel blew apart and killed him within seconds. I found out a day later. The whole neighborhood was devastated for many months and things were never the same. My friends dad was the neighborhood dad who fixed everyone's bikes, motor cycles, what ever....It's been nearly 25 years later now and I still cringe when I hear anything to do with wheel and tire repair, especially the widow makers. You can have them....
I am sorry to hear this. That is why split rims were outlawed, meaning they can not be sold any more in the US. There is still a log splitter in my dad's garage that has split rims on it. I always told him that he needed to throw them to the scrap gods and put modern style on it. I will do so eventually. He made sure to drive it into my head that you never loosen the lug nuts without deflating the tire first. I have barred my mother from touching the log splitter because she never seems to fully grasp just how dangerous most of the stuff can be, and I don't want to show up down there and find her dead since my dad passed away. When I say that I barred her, it is because I've tried repeatedly to teach her how to use the equipment and she still repeats the bad practices that risk her life. I know she is not stupid, but her intelligence remains solely in books and not with mechanical objects.
Probably like a 2nd dad to all the kids, huh? Awe! I'm sure sorry for your friend and his family. Also, his extended family ( the neighborhood kids and all ) What a travesty 😔
@@2amoto "A person's gotta recognize their limitations." We all have them. They decrease as you age into adulthood, and then they increase as you age further (which is quite discouraging.) Credits to your mom for approaching the log splitter in the first place. Hopefully stubbornness is not one of her "strengths."
I worked with tires in my early years. Anything from wheelbarrows to OTR. I once had a two piece airplane wheel (it had been repurposed for some sort of pipe handling jig) come apart while I was airing it up. I had it sitting on top of an old Coates changer at a 45 degree angle. I was standing off to the side as I didn't trust the old, crusty wheel. When it came apart, half of the wheel sailed over me and hit the ceiling about 20 feet up and twenty feet behind me. It was no larger than a small ATV tire but held a lot more pressure. I have no doubt that if that wheel had hit me it would have changed my life forever. Virtually any tire and wheel can be dangerous due to the potential energy of the compressed air within them. Please be careful out there. Especially with multi-piece wheels of any sort. If it looks too old and rusty, refuse to work on it. It could save you life.
I became the owner of a used tire shop several years back. I had only basic knowledge of tire "work" back then, I had to actually go buy a tire from another shop and have them mount it just so that I could watch the mounting process. (Still took me half a day to figure out the tire machine) About a month after buying the place, a guy walks in right at closing time and wants a 13.6 × 16.5" ag tire mounted. This was my first tractor tire, I was eager for business, and the concept of telling a customer no was a skill I hadn't learned. After stumbling through getting this tire on the rim time came to air it up. I had taken so long getting it mounted that the soap had dried. I started filling the tire with it stood upright against my hip and my arm resting on top. I had all of it seat except about 4 inches of it. I was at 28 lbs and had no clue so I kept adding air. Somewhere around 50 psi was all it could take. The explosion was deafening, I was thrown to the shop floor and the tire went the opposite direction. Amazingly I was unhurt other than ringing ears and a blow to my pride I was completely unhurt. The first words out of the customer's mouth was "you're buying me a new goddamned tire" when I went into my pockets for cash, I discovered everything from wallet, to change, knife, cigarette lighter, and everything was blown from my pockets. EVERYTHING. Even turned them inside out. My gung ho, do it all attitude changed that day for sure. There is more explosive energy in a tire than most people realize. I was very lucky!
My god thankfully you were ok and a customer wasn’t standing there, there is so much tire safety info available to the shop up to and including having a industry pro coming to your location to properly train the crew. Safety first and park the pride, or it could get ya killed in a blink of the eye
I build buildings for a living one simple rule has almost always kept me safe don't take short cuts ever and if you're being pressured to walk away there is another job you can do the right way they don't pay enough to get hurt
That is so true. Couple of times I risked my life, but in the end I realized, it's not worth it, you're not gonna get rewarded, everyone will forget about it in two minutes, and "they" will expect you to do the same every time. Luck has very short life span.
Well yes and no, for some their predicament is such they can’t walk away from a job hoping to walk straight into another. So many will put up with or take risks, you may have that luxury but others don’t. And unscrupulous bosses know this in many places and situations. Look at other countries and how little safety is in the workplace, there are plenty willing to take the next victim’s place.
I was on a jobsite when an old hand working for one sub asked a new guy from another sub why he wasn't wearing safety glasses. The kid replied "Our boss doesn't give us safety glasses." The old hand responded "Is your boss gonna give you new eyes?"
Very important and useful advice! I bet there are a lot of people out there who have been injured in some way, but luckily survived. I have a personal tire injury story from a mere car tire, which I did not properly respect and 17 years later I still have the physical effects from that to deal with. I can appreciate that with larger tires and higher pressures, the threat of injury greatly increases.
My dad served in the army for 17 years. I remeber him telling me one time. The most scarring thing he'd seen in his life. It was a man basically cut into two pieces from an exploding tire. He said it topped what he had seen in Vietnam!
Example 3 nearly took me out when I was a tyre fitter. Up until then we *never* used the safety cage, but simply laid the tyre/wheel assembly flat on the ground just outside the fitting bay doors and inflated them. On this occasion I'd noticed that the wheel seemed to higher off the ground than normal, so I bent down to see what was causing it. As I did so the whole 'bottom' sidewall blew out and the assembly shot many feet in the air with an enormous BOOM. How high? I have no idea as I was inside the bay before it came down again! The noise was so loud that the cops in a nearby police station sent a squad car to investigate assuming that there had been some kind of explosion!
Hey SirHenry, When I was a young lad working in a garage during the 70's we changed 100's of split rims. We didn't have a cage. Just being kids, we did not know any better. Only through sheer luck am I here today, probably. How well I remember staring at those slack rings as the pressure grew and creeped the rubber outward and upward to meet it. Most often, the "meeting" was gradual and non-violent. But, there were too many cases where the "bead setting' was..... abrupt.......... . I'm well sure you know what I mean. I shudder now when I think back to that time. Not just the danger we were in but, also, the fact that the owners of the enterprise didn't value our lives enough to acquire a cage.
Tire cages have saved my life 3 times in my career prior to their wide spread availability I used to work on tires and inflate them in between the narrow fire break between the two buildings .
I saw this video and decided to view it. Reason being. I lived in a little town in SW Georgia back in the latter '90's. In a town next to mine, there was a shop there that repaired tires and rims (etc). Two brothers worked in this shop. One day one of the brothers had just finished changing out rims on a pickup truck. After doing so, he inflated the tires to the proper air pressure and was about to lower the truck off the rack. But noticed some spot on one of the rims that required a weld. He grabbed his torch and made the weld. You may have guessed it already. He failed to deflate the tire before he made the weld - or better yet, dismount the tire and take it back off the rim/wheel to do the job. It did not take long before the heat of the weld transferred to the air in the tire, greatly expanding the air, and then the inevitable happened. The explosion rocked the whole commercial area around there. The pickup truck was shot back off the rack in the opposite direction of the blast and was hanging off of it. The exploded tire tore the rim/wheel in two; the outer half flying across the bay striking the wall. But not before taking the face and front part of the skull off one of the brothers - the one working on the tire of this truck. His brother was also injured severly. He was asking how his brother was. No one wanted to tell him what happened to him. It was not a good sight. I gained an even greater appreciation and respect for the tremendous power of the physics that are involved in the heating and expansion of air (and H2O). Ignorance is NOT bliss. And what you DON'T know CAN KILL YOU! "My people are destroyed [perish] for lack of knowledge..." It goes on to say that "...because though hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee..." To make an application, as an electrician; I had BETTER BE VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE about electrical theory and POSSESS PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE in the field - or I can get myself or others injured or killed, burn property or set up future scenarios that may endanger others. Training. I have come in contact with those who are too proud and stubbornly STUPID to consider their ignorance is not an 'asset'. There are different kinds of fools. Those who REFUSE TO TAKE sound advise and warnings, they go their way - and suffer the consequences of their pride, stubbornness and stupidity. Then there are other fools, who WHEN they witness the previous kind of fool (I call them 'full-time-fools') suffer the fate of their folly; THEY, take a lesson from it. This video reminded me (refreshed my mind) to stay clear of shops where these 'accidents' might occur, due to others failure to appreciate how their ignorance might lead to their death or mine.
I remember when I was inflating a split rim tire, my father came storming over and yelled at me to stop. He then showed me how to wrap it tightly with a heavy chain to keep the rim from flying apart while I was inflating the tire.
Ok, thank you for the reassurance. But what about temperature affecting it? I don’t have an air compressor at home. The closest gas station is about ten minutes away. I live in Florida, where it gets pretty hot most of the time (we’re already hitting low 90’s right now)- does that change anything? This is a legitimate fear of mine and I hate it.
@@sarahewson3607 No the temperature isnt an issue. Car tyres are much less dangerous because they take 32 PSI. The truck tyres go up to 100 PSI, and they often have complex rim systems to keep them in place, which makes them more dangerous. Car tyres are a simpler safer design with much less pressure. Its very very rare for someone to be killed by a car tyre. When the tyre is on the car, the rim is still bolted to the hub, so it cant fly off. As long as your tyres are in good condition, its almost impossible to hurt yourself. If you have an SUV, some of them take 75+ PSI but again, the wheel is bolted to the hub. Just make sure to not over-inflate, and stand back while pumping air. Every vehicle has a tyre placard (usually inside the door) to tell you how much PSI to put in the tire. Or its printed on the side of the tyre.
@1:00 This is a Letourneau that offloads entire logging trucks with one bite. I changed these tires at a saw mill in N. California years ago. The tire without the rim was 1,000 lbs., and I am guessing the rim was much more than that. After a quick servicing, the Letourneau operator took it back to work, and as he was rolling away, maybe 50 yards from me, the front right rim came apart. The locking ring shot straight out sideways maybe 3 feet off the ground, and didn't touch the ground for a good 100 yards. The tire had been in use for the entire season and gave no warning of impending failure. We often took a close look at rims on the outside, inspecting them for cracks, but they were painted yellow and my belief was that the paint itself would stretch with the cracks making them impossible to see. No one was injured this time! But the power behind these is unbelievable. I quit that job after 3 years and many close calls.
About thirty years ago (possibly 1992) my Son and I had gone to the PEP BOYS in Riverside California to purchase a few items and learned that a young man had been killed moments before we arrived when a "split-rim" blew apart while he was "airing it up" killing him instantly as the rim cut him in half at his lower rib cage and then tearing through the corregated metal roof which was another twenty feet above the shop floor. Sad as this was, this was the first day on a job which he had been so proud of since he had just graduated and it was also his first job. I taught Safety at Disneyland for twenty-five years and for him to have been assigned to work on a wheel such as this (per court testimony) was as negligent as it gets. I made this comment in the Hope it will prompt someone to make sure they are not letting someone else put them in a dangerous or Life threatening situation.
I'm with you 100% its an up Hill battle all the way. I had a friend who had a shop and he did not use very good jacking practices before he crawled under a car. We had several loud bitter arguments for a couple three-year period when I tried to tell him to cut an oak block get jack stands or something. Almost got thrown out of his shop couple times there were some hard words exchanged but I haven't heard from him in about 40 years because the car fell on him. Not one other soul back me up and told him anything about this and not one other soul was anything but surprised and shocked when are brilliant mechanic that fixed all these cars wound up under one of them dead. I saw it coming for a long time but nothing I could say helped. I've wondered for many years if I'd have gone out and cut four good blocks myself and brought them by if he'd have used them. Now whenever I see somebody doing something I'll pull out the big old fat roll of bills I get for my disability check and buy him something.
This is precisely(!) correct! I had a job in the USAF doing what these guys did that got them killed. The wheel rims were held together by bolts the same way. Several workers were killed when they didn't follow the proper rim breakdown procedure. --Lee
High pressure tires scare me. My work truck tires are 110psi, I had one blow on the highway on me once. It literally lifted my 17,000lb truck off the road and sounded like a grenade.
Many years ago I worked on a street that had several automotive repair shops on it. The shop across the street from us hired a new guy who didn't have much experience. He took a rim off of an old truck which had a split ring on it, and tried to use the tire machine to remove it from the rim. The split ring broke in two with so much force that a broken section of the flew up and completely cut all the way through his neck, completely decapitating him. I seen a bunch of people standing outside the other shop looking at something, but I didn't go over there to see what was going on.
I gotta say, I really appreciate the work that you men and women of WorkSafeBC do. I've never worked on a car or felled a tree, but I might end up near a mechanic or have need for a chainsaw. You are the best!
Once driving a tanker, i noticed blue smoke when i when through a pay toll, (peage) and parked up to inspect the tyre. It was still inflated and hot and there wires poking through the sidewall. obviously the tyre was breaking up inside. i phoned the company and they wanted me to fit my spare wheel. i said that untill it was cold and deflated i would not go near the thing. i got flack from the bosses but i waited a full hour before using a special valve tool to remove the valve and fully deflate the tyre before replacing it with the spare.. In the eyes of my boss i was lazy or a wimp..in my eyes im still alive, it didnt blow but it could have.. so dont worry about what anyone else says...if you think it's unsafe, then heed your warning and do not take the risk... I did have a truck tyre explode once when a rear brake had stayed on...it was just at a roundabout and the tyre went off like a grenade. a car next to me stopped and the driver got out and popped the bonnet to see if his engine had exploded..your ok i said it was my tyre exploding..he was relieved. when i got to the destinantion a few miles away and unloaded i found the blast had come up through the birch boarded floor and up through some pallets. the damage was almost what a handgrenade would have done....half the goods on that pallet were full of big splinters....i have the most great respect for tyres !!
COLIN,when safety goes out the window,i quit,i've quit many jobs,two of which I heard that men died in my place,you are one smart man,take care of number one,you got time to take care of number two,do it
I remember the local service where i grew up (I'm 53 now ) had a photo of a father and son (son looked about 10 yrs old) lying on the ground dead next to each other, they had been airing up a split rim and it blew the split ring , i was probably 8 yrs old the first time i saw the photo, it really impacted me, in part because i grew up on a junk yard and my dad had warned me several times about split rims & i didn't take his warning too serious, but that all changed after i saw that photo. I'd bet that picture is still there on that wall in the service station today. It was sure a sad sight.
i worked in a tire shop for many years . when i think of some of the things i did that were either straight out stupid or even just not thinking of the danger , i feel very lucky ,... very lucky .
I just left a job where I had to add air to payloader (split rim) tires and truck tires (120 psi regular rim). There was no safety cage and I had to stand real close to the tire because the inflation tool had a very short hose. I worked with DOPES who had no regard for safety. I mentioned things I read on the internet (like this) and was told to "Pffftt. You need to stay off the internet." Why? So I can be a dummy just like you? I would get laughed at for wearing shade 5 glasses with the acetylene torch to prevent infrared light from giving me cataracts. Being concerned about safety isn't being scared. Its ant being smart. I'd like to know what other places are like. Is this the norm? Or was I just working with idiots?
+TheEgg185 They wouldn't lose one night of sleep if someone like you, or me got smashed or shredded on the job thanks to their idiocy. Precisely the reason not to trust random people, especially not those from work.
think about it, if you had a safety cage you'd still need to remove the tire from the cage after it was fully inflated. How would a safety cage help you then? And why is it safe to stand near these fully inflated tires? They are not in the safety cage and people think nothing of standing beside fully inflated tires. Why? You explain that to me.
I had this friend years ago who was working on a small truck tire with a split rim. Instead of using a cage, he put the tire between his legs as he inflated the tire. The rim blew apart, breaking every bone in both of his legs and his pelvis was shattered. He never walked right again. He is lucky he wasn't killed.
This can happen even with car tires. A friend and I were inflating a tire laying on the ground. we were both leaning over it when it exploded. It layed us both out flat and the wheel came back to earth about 30 seconds later. It was dark at the time so we couldn't see where it went. We had both stood up and were looking around when the thing crashed to the ground right between us. Air pressure is a pretty powerful force and caution is definitely sensible.
In the early 1970s I worked for a year in New Guinea, in a truck workshop. I was the only non-native in the workshop - I was in charge - and I had a hell of a job trying to get the tyre guy to follow safe practise when inflating split-rim truck wheels. I kept at him to put bars through the rims and to stand clear with a long hose when inflating.- we didn't have a cage and the penny-pinching boss wasn't inclined the get one. My tyre guy used to do it because I nagged at him, but never got into the habit properly. There was another, similar, workshop out the back of ours and, one day, we all heard boom-clang-clatter from the other workshop. We rushed over and found the whitest New Guinea tyre guy I ever saw standing, shaking, beside what was left of the split-rim wheel he had just been inflating. The rim was lying on the other side of the workshop and there was a perfect circular dent hammered into the underside of the roof. I looked at my tyre guy, who was looking at this mess and I could hear his brain going click-whirr. I never said anything to him, but, after that, I watched him, without being nagged at, get into the habit of safe practice. Bright boy!
@Paul Collinsworth 2:12 Look at the photo at top right. That's what I mean. I worked at mines as well as the transport company and never saw an accident involving exploding tyres and rims. Bars through the rims was one of the safety procedures used at the different places I worked at.
We had a tire guy who came in and did all our heavy equipment when I worked at Squaw Valley years ago. He had been terribly injured from a tire explosion.
Watching this a second time has reminded me of an event, 35 years ago, that could have been much worse. A mechanic from a contract customer's vehicle workshop had come to the tire depot but was in a hurry to get his job sorted. As I recall he got a tube from us and assembled his own split rim wheel and a used tire. This was a medium weight commercial wheel. He was inflating it when I walked back into the depot from doing a breakdown. I called out "Hang on a minute John!" and walked over to him. I then checked round the split rings and saw that they were good (John was a good mech), so I assembled a portable safety cage onto his wheel/tire. This consists of two " H " shaped metal guards, one with a hole in the centre for a clamping post that is part of the second one. I locked the clamping post to the top H, told John to carry on and walked away. Four strides later "BOOM" went his tire and as I turned I saw the wheel and cage 5 feet off the floor and solwly flipping over to crash down again on the concrete a few feet from where I had left it !!!!! The cage was probably about as heavy as the wheel without a tire. So without that extra weight, that wheel could well have gone three times higher and goodness knows what else. Luckily, John was using our airline which always had a 6ft long line after the hand held air guage/trigger. Also luckily, and purely by accident, John had unknowingly placed the weak part of the tire in just the right spot so that when it flipped, if moved away from him! Hmm, never thought about it before, but this little event may well be one of the reasons I have severe tinnitus these days.
wordreet I have tinitus to sometimes on a scale from 1_10 it's 2 and sometimes it's a 10 definitely sucks weeeeee bzzzzxxzzx Sometimes even sounds like crickets
@@fishfire_2999 I've had tinnitus since the age of twelve lived with it and never paid attention to it until I saw a commercial on tv about pills that can help it two years ago. Now the ringing in my ears is driving me crazy at night.
but if he had at least once winked an eye he wood have looked more so like a real dummie lol so like ok your just as right and as if no pun intended !!!!
I had a bicycle tyre explode when I was a kid, I have always followed safety rules on tyres very carefully ever since. And yes bike tyres DO go with a hell of a bang ( and the flying shrapnel hurts)
In secondary school, a guy had a Camaro. He wanted larger tires on the rear of the Camaro but could not afford thick racing slicks that stood higher than the front. He purchased new rear tire of the recommended size. They were 35 pound tires. He inflated then to 90 pounds to get the look he wanted. He decided to do a burnout on the car to show of just how powerful than car was. He started the burnout and one of the tires exploded. The back of the Camaro flew into the air and came crashing down. The fuel tank was shredded, the drive shaft was destroyed, the rear bumper and quarter panel we mangled and the rear window exploded. Nobody was hurt. There was not fire. It could have ended much worse. I remember telling the owner of the Camaro that really tires could explode. He figured it was just like a simple blow out. To tell the truth, that I what I expected may happen as well. It devastated his car and he had to scrap it. I am meticulous about tire inflation after witnessing this.
I served in a maintenance battalion at Schofield Barracks, Oahu. We had steel cages to put 2 1/2 and 5 ton truck wheels to inflate. The rim bead was split. I once saw on pop off inside the cage. Dented the metal. It would not have been good, had it hit someone.
I had some used 18X40X16 a friend wanted to mount for me...on 16.5 rims he had. I did not know that before he started. At 130psi, the bead broke. The explosion was beyond description and the tire ricocheted throughout the small shed in a nanosecond. He had a concussion and broke arm and his other wrist was broken when it flew back breaking my jaw. Yep, we were drunk and I have not drank whiskey since...32 years ago. BTW, my ears still ring constantly. GREAT VIDEO!!:)
Sometime in the mid 60s, a father who was a tire technician had taken his approximately 8-10 year old son to work one Saturday. The father was inflating a trailer tire, and It exploded and the locking rim killed them both instantly.
I learned at 16 about this danger. A friend of mines father was decapitated when the tractor Tire he was inflating blew. It was devastating to my friend and I as we found his head and other parts before the cops and ambulance got there. Tires are nothing to mess with. Even today I am especially careful inflating tires. Even my bicycle tires get respect when I inflate them.
As a tyre fitter of many years this video is good basic knowledge anyone fitting tyres should learn, and keep at the front of their mind anytime they are fitting a tyre. Complacency and familiarity makes people sloppy in their work, and that is what often kills you. Good video.
I was in the US Airforce at Dover AFB I had just left one of the maintenance hangars where in the "Tire Shop" a C-5 cargo plane tire had been mounted and was now in a "Cage" being inflated...For what ever the reason (I'm sure they investigated) the tire exploded during inflation...I will never forget the sound.. and the look on everyone's face when they came out of the hangar....Thankfully no one was seriously injured put the damage in the area was amazing, the cage was twisted like a pretzel and debris was everywhere I think some of the people involved still have ringing in their ears and this was almost 40 years ago!
Years ago when I joined the Navy I was stationed at NAS Miramar north of San Diego. I was assigned to the machine shop, the tire shop was nearby. The usual procedure for building and inflating tires were after they were built the tire was placed in a enclosure and remotely inflated. Most of these tires were multiple plies 20 or so and were operated at high pressure to withstand carrier landings. As I recall it was around 400 PSI. Then the tire was remotely de-inflated and shipped out at 50 PSI. One night a tire was placed into the cage and inflated to its operating pressure, but would not de-inflate. The operator tried everything externally to back off the pressure to no avail. He then decided he had to enter the cage and reposition the air hose on the tire. Just as he was about to do that a low pressure air hose in the shop failed and made a loud pop then you could hear the air flowing. Needless to say that sailor had to change his shorts. He eventually got the tire down in pressure and all ended well except for the fraud nerves!
I worked at a gas station in high school and when the car tires popped onto the wheel bead when inflating THAT got your attention, and it's not nearly the danger of these split rim truck tires as we inflated with about 30 psi to bead the tire. The mechanic never heard of a steel wheel breaking apart, you only had to keep fingers and tools clear of the bead as it could throw a tool a long way with force when the bead set.
Chuck Wagon, I agree! But they keep happening as most shops are "Profit" orientated! Making money is the reason your in business, getting proper training is the employee's & shop's responsibility.
There is still some owners who believe every cashier working at you're local corner fuel and convenience store is eligible to work this business instantly. I worked for one of them!
I have met with a man who was working on a multi piece rim flat on the ground. It blew and took him up to the roof of the workshop and left an impression of his back and the rim. His injuries were so great he never worked again and he looked like a nightmare. His face and skull were permanently disfigured and the brain injury left him on a pension. This shit is very, very real.
@@dwightstjohn6927 People in the USA usually don't follow normal protocol when changing these tires out! I stay away from them while them while being changed.
@@LiPo5000 Many tire shops will no longer work on multi-piece rims, because of past accidents. Unfortunately that often causes people who don't have the right knowledge or equipment to try to do it themselves.
That's too bad. My company harps on safety all of the time and that's a good thing. Thanks for making this safety video I hope it gets view millions of times.
Yeah, it is. I saw a guy who was an elevator mechanic. Apparently, it's a normal reaction to stick your other hand in if one gets caught. Welp, he lost an arm and most of the other...
So tragic. There's just not enough to say about safety. My father had an automotive station (full service gasoline for decades) for 50 years.. and he always said and placed precautions and safety above all else, first. And it was a blessing we never had any fatal workplace accidents all those years.
I lost my father in tire exploded, It was the rusty wheel bolts that caused the accident Before health and safety was in place Was a lot of years ago. But very aware of condition of wheels and stud nuts now
John, when i was first taught tyre fitting, it was explained to me that what did the most damage was the air pressure. I was told before attempting anything with any tyre, let ALL the air out before undoing any fitment, wether it was wheel parts, or bolts and nuts holding anything together. therefore its highly unlikely to kill you.
I've had several trucks with split rims and I allowed no one to touch them. I changed my own tires. Something that is seldom mentioned in these videos is that a tire might mount without incident but then blow apart later while driving down the road.
I attended a scene recently (i'm a paramedic) where two men were killed inflating an industrial harvester tyre. The common sense approach is to use the safety cage at all times otherwise a stranger will be removing your boots that day and putting your name on a foot tag.!!
When I worked the service station 50 years ago my boss always insisted I wrap a chain around 2 and 3 piece trims 2 sides to control it if the ring blew off
Many shops simply refuse to work on those old split rim tires. I remember the old man changing those as a kid. Was always telling me get outta here when he was!🤣
For those who cant understand it compressed gas ie air is simlar to an elastic band pull it back and let it go and slap it hurts but 1000s of times more power in a tyre so your dead. It happens that fast you wont even see it coming.
I'm a farmer in Nebraska. I've had lots of tires fixed over the years, everything from small trailer tires to very large lug-type tractor rears. I take my tire repair to local shops in the small towns around here. These local shops will hire anybody to repair tires. Usually teenagers. And I'm always appalled by how careless they are about safety. Their employers either don't know about the dangers of fixing tires, or don't care about enforcing safety or providing training.
delavalmilker Seriously, call OSHA and make a report. Their website has an easy form. You can even choose to remain anonymous. Those teenagers are too young to realize the serious risk their employer is putting them in.
My family has been farmers, and mechanics since the 1920's, and we also sold, repaired, and changed car, truck, and tractor tires. I started changing the old split rim 16" truck tires when I was 14, and graduated to semi and tractor tires when I was 16. The only time I'd inflate a split rim outide of a cage was if it was an inside dual. While we never had any injuries, we did have a couple of rims let loose, scaring the crap out of me. When I graduated I joined the Army, and then went into Law Enforcement. I still worked the farm, but left the tires to my cousins!
Back in the days of split rims, there was a tire cage in every tire shop. Every one of them was bent outwards from a tire exploding. The only thing, was if you were careful and made sure the ring was seated right, it was perfectly safe. Goes to show how careless people are.
I have experienced wheel barrow tires explode at 15psi where it's max recommended pressure was up to 20 and the tire was new aswell, and the rim was a 2 piece to have the fit into the rim, so since then I've inspected the tire and any thought of it bring defective I'll get another one no matter what the cost
Thanks for the video. I mistakenly aired my tires up to 70-80 psi instead of the recommended 30 psi. It was left like this for around 23 hours until I reduced the air back to 30 psi. Do you think this might have caused tire damage and be dangerous?
I remember watching an old black man at ups in Dallas around 1980.He would lay out around 6 large truck wheels on the floor and go at them with a large hammer.Very skilled and fast all by ✋
I saw a dude at F & F tire get decapitated by a utility tire that shredded into pieces while he was filling it. I've NEVER seen so much blood and body parts everywhere like that. Never will forget it.
+Fuzzy McFudger It is a lie... he first said that he saw a guy getting decapitated (live action) and later said he was an EMT, so unless they called emergencies before the accident happened theres no way he could be there to witness the accident. Fake as a red dollar bill.
I was at a 7-11 at 2am when I heard a loud explosion then something metallic landing on the street. It was a ring from a tire. I ran over where the initial explosion came from there was a tire guy with his skull split open still alive. This guy wasn't using a cage. He did a week later. The ring traveled about 200 feet in the air before landing on the street.
Hydraulic Injection: It's where a pressurized pipe that is carrying fluid (ex, paint, oil) has a little hole in it. These holes are extremely tiny, and since it's pressurized, the fluid shoots out VERY quickly. People put there hands over these pin holes, and their hand gets injected with the fluid at a rapid rate. It doesn't hurt very bad, but there can be liquid now injected into their bloodstream, imagine the pain of knowing paint or oil is inside your blood stream, slowly making it's way to you heart, about to kill you. Luckily not many people are stupid and know how to deal with this by cutting of circulation with some rope or tape. Hydraulic Press: Hydraulic Presses are giant crushers that are made to smash stuff. They are extremely powerful and can pop a head like a cherry. Those are some painful and grim ways to die. Also gettin ya head chopped off.
Icarus Kid I don't want to say too much, but personally I would say perhaps the most grim are accidents involving high speed rotating machinery like a lathe. I have seen some fatality videos that I sometimes wish I hadn't seen. I would not advise seeking them out. Unless you have long hair and/or wear loose clothes and think it's no big deal and won't happen to you. Then I would urge you to seek them out. You'll find your mind changed REAL quick. (And maybe a sleepless night or two)
Split rims are bad.. if you don't have a tire cage, you can wrap a chain somewhat loosely around the tire and rim assembly to prevent things from going flying..
I worked for a federal government agency who were “exempt” and don’t have to follow any safety rules concerning these kinds of things. Working for them was like stepping decades back in time safety wise, the easiest way to get rid of their supposed ‘safety’ people was to point out issues to them such as lack of a tire inflation cage and they’d disappear so they wouldn’t have to do anything about it or make any changes. I brought my own remote locking air chuck from home so I didn’t have to have my face a foot away from a truck tire while inflating it.
It happens more often than you realise especially with multi part or split rims ,a friend of mine spent almost six months in hospital after a similar accident he was lucky he survived at all.
as a semi truck-driver I had heaps of blow-out,s and know haw much damage it can do =. Once I had tire blown when I past a bicycle , the poor guy flew meters(yards)away and KO just from the air-rush
I was really lucky when i was younger i worked at a sketchy truck mechanic joint.. i was left alone to run the workshop with only 2 months of experience. A driver came in he had a faulty valve and had been driving around on the flat tyre.. i had no idea this meant it would explode once i remounted the tyre and fix the valve . I was never taught how to secure the wheel while inflating.. there was no cage there or anything.. anyway i inflated the tire and as i stepped away the side wall burst and flicked my boots near my ankle causing me to do a 360 in mid air while the Rim and tyre got launched over 50 60 meters away just missing other factory workers i was in shock that i could of nearly died!
i witnessed the same when the tyre fitter came to see how the inflation was going it exploded and he hit the roof and died i will never forget it good job i was 50 yards away
Yamaha SR650 Even excellent mechanics may take chances sometimes. It's a lot like a guy who works under his car only supported by a jack, he may get away with it for 20 yr.s then one day it slips off the jack and kills him. It only takes once.
Bo McGillacutty You're certainly right about that... A friend of mine, a super friendly & generous guy, died exactly that way. He used to always joke about all the close calls he had and how someday he'd probably end up dead. Sadly, his newlywed wife came home one day and found his legs sticking out from under his truck that he had crawled under to inspect real quick without jackstands. It slipped off the jack while he was underneath. We still miss you, Dave. I think about you every time I jack up a car, even now 10 years later, and I probably always will.
While in the army as a mechanic I repaired tires such as this and because of proper training I was always aware of such explosion hazards. Proper training and supervision is always less costly than workplace accidents, always.
Premium fuel only"Ok now im scared to touch the split rims on my tractor." If the split ring is damaged or not fully located in its groove on the wheel it can come off with great violence.
1) First guy did it wrong: NEVER work on multi-piece rims with a tire inflated at all PREVENTABLE 2) Second guy got lazy: Never apply heat to a tire (ether-installation included) PREVENTABLE 3) Third report seems like BS: First and last pictures are of a tractor outside in the dirt, middle picture at a well-paved, modern location. WTF? Follow safe practices and you will be OK. I have mounted a dozen tires on old military two-piece rims in my driveway with never a scary second.
I disagree. the split rims were unstable. why do you think they were taken out of service. people died well doing everything right. they were just a bad deal. but in the early years this was what they had. bad invention as they learned years and lost lives years later. yes people make mistakes and it could cost them there life. but we are stupid humans. meaning we do dumb things. but we build cars today safer to avoid death in motor accidents do to some human error. we have air bags, seatbelts, because we know there will be motor crashes. same as why split rims were replaced with safer rims. there will always be human error. so we set up safer things in case of error. so a person has a better chance of surviving there stupid choices. I mean how many of us run late for work. we try to beat a traffic light or we speed. we know the risk. but we do it any how. we all as humans do some stupid things. hell we poison ourselves with smoking tobacco. we drink booze some even use drugs or don't use safety when we get lucky in the bedroom. we really are a stupid species. we do harm to ourselves everyday. that's why we have doctors.to save ourselves from ourselves. I think you get it.
Ken Johnson Ken perhaps they did it wrong. but them rims are unsafe. and them rims killed lots of people. human error and dangerous rims. them rims are a hell of a price of a mans life. over the person making a mistake they end up dead. these rims are ancient. we do have safer newer rims. if there is human error the person does not end up dead or disabled for life. split rims is like handing a loaded 9mm pistol to a man with a bullet In the chamber and the safety off. then you tell him to clean it. no one with a brain would hand a gun to a person with the safety off and one in the chamber. unless they are a fuckin idiot. what I am trying to say is why not do things to prevent accidents in the event of human error or stupidity. one life lost is one to many. unless the person is on death row for taking a life himself. then good by to the less than human animal. but most of us humans are decent and trying to make a living. until oops they made a mistake and the split rim kills them. and you remember there kid gets to go to there dads funeral. that's just a hell of a price to pay over a damn rim that no longer is in production. why do you think they retired the split rims. they were very unpredictable. it was like playing Russian rullett however that's spelled. I hope you can see my view. I also get what your saying. being safe in a dangerous situation. but as humans your right we get stupid. we shouldn't have to die over a stupid moment. I gotta tell you Ken if it weren't for newer safer dumb proof inventions. I would be dead I have done some dumb shit. I learned from it. I did not die from it. because it was stupid proof. newer inventions save lives. I can tell you Ken sometimes in life we at times need to be saved from ourselves. we are our own worst enemies.
alex olshove Actually pretty much all heavy machines still use split rims for the simple fact it's fucking impossible otherwise. If you know what you're doing it's not particularly dangerous, just make sure the locking ring is reseated right and stand the fuck out of the way while it's inflating. Also, maybe I've just had bad luck, but I've seen a hell of a lot of normal rims go as well, some of them in a big way with brand new tyres. I was inflating a brand new truck tyre on a brand new rim in a cage (thank god) and it went at about 75psi. Blew a door clean off its hinges.
Asdfssdfghgdfy the trucks today in most part use one piece rims.. unless the truck is a dinosaur split rims are a thing of the past. you have your opinion and I will honer and respect that. but for me split rims kill people. they are very risky. if they still use split rims today on new trucks. then you know something in which i don,t know. i thought they were taken out of production. i mean hell we are now going to bud rims to get rid of the wheel spacers.
As a morbidly curious teenager I saw a video of someone losing a leg to one of these explosions and it scared me into taking the potential dangers of tires far more seriously. Easy to forget the sorts of forces under pressure in something you see every day.
I seen a guy one time changing a tire on the old style tire changers the one with the big wedge nut that screws down to hold the rim in place. He got the new tire on and started to air it up but forgot to loosen the nut bad mistake he had his hand on top of the big stim the nut was screwed onto it blew the big nut off and it blew him back about 15 feet and severed his thumb almost completely off needles to say he had a bad day.
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My dad's friend, Ralph Voights, is the inventor of the tire safety cage. I can only imagine how many lives his invention has saved over the years . R.I.P. Dad and Ralph.
I saw a video about that thing, that definitely needed to be invented.
Idk why that wasn’t invented wayyy earlier
Saved my friends numerous times
Quit lying
@@GitHubStiizz Government too busy not caring
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Thanks for the video tho. Very informative. Until I watched this I couldnt imagine how dangerous tires can be. Ill be definitely more cautious in the future.
Sound wasn't so bad I couldn't hear.great info about tires..now I see why reg shops don't want to work on big tires..had a front blow once and seen all the steel poking out the side..looked like a piece of art..this was only a 235 16..
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I’ve seen guys do that and I always find myself to the opposite end of the garage
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I'm a retired ase senior master tech of 47 years,i personally want to thank you for this presentation,there is no way to calculate how many lives this video will save,god bless you,working on equipment is dangerous,the minute you approach the job,safety IS NOT AN ACCIDENT
Years ago I used to race a drag bike and a local bike shop used to let me go in and use their gear when needed.. A race meet was coming up and I needed a new rear slick fitted so I went to the shop, the guy was real busy but just told me to help myself to his gear.. I got the old slick off no problem but I just couldn't get the new one fitted right, the bead just wouldn't pop up onto the rim.. I told the guy I was having and issue and he just said slap some more lubricant on it and just keep pumping till it pops up onto the rim.. I'd never done this before and was just following his lead... Still it wouldn't seat so I went back to him but by this time he was getting agitated with my interrupting him with questions.. He told me to go back to it, plenty of lubricant and just keep pumping til it seats.. Well the damn thing exploded on me and I got pretty injured but the one thing not mentioned here is the sound.. The percussive force of the sound ruptured both my ear drums and I came within a whisker of being permanently deaf.. I never touched a tire fitting machine again.. Stay safe..
That is scary, new tires are always hard to set the bead how much psi did U put it in before it burst ?
Anything under pressure is dangerous. I was taught to change truck tyres with bead breakers and levers. I was shown how to clean the rim and split ring and make sure everything fitted well when put back. I was taught to always use a cage to inflate and inspect as it was seating and being inflated. I was shown a split rim embedded at 90 degrees into a hardwood tree and how if it hit a person it would cut in half. It comes down to being trained and responsible. when someone is injured by negligence or incompetence think where you will be legally placed when sitting at an inquest.
These have nick names - they call them Widow-makers. I heard all about them at the trucking company I somewhat grew up around. They were about a mile away and my friends dad worked there. You know, the typical we used to ride our bikes over there when we were kids and see his dad. His dad was the head mechanic for the trucking yard, a nice place and well maintained. He used to tell us all the time about them and even joked at the nick name but he was always serious about them as well. Right after we graduated high school it happened. My friends dad was gone in an-instant. The widow maker wheel blew apart and killed him within seconds. I found out a day later. The whole neighborhood was devastated for many months and things were never the same. My friends dad was the neighborhood dad who fixed everyone's bikes, motor cycles, what ever....It's been nearly 25 years later now and I still cringe when I hear anything to do with wheel and tire repair, especially the widow makers. You can have them....
I am sorry to hear this. That is why split rims were outlawed, meaning they can not be sold any more in the US. There is still a log splitter in my dad's garage that has split rims on it. I always told him that he needed to throw them to the scrap gods and put modern style on it. I will do so eventually. He made sure to drive it into my head that you never loosen the lug nuts without deflating the tire first. I have barred my mother from touching the log splitter because she never seems to fully grasp just how dangerous most of the stuff can be, and I don't want to show up down there and find her dead since my dad passed away. When I say that I barred her, it is because I've tried repeatedly to teach her how to use the equipment and she still repeats the bad practices that risk her life. I know she is not stupid, but her intelligence remains solely in books and not with mechanical objects.
Probably like a 2nd dad to all the kids, huh? Awe! I'm sure sorry for your friend and his family. Also, his extended family ( the neighborhood kids and all ) What a travesty 😔
@@2amoto "A person's gotta recognize their limitations." We all have them. They decrease as you age into adulthood, and then they increase as you age further (which is quite discouraging.) Credits to your mom for approaching the log splitter in the first place. Hopefully stubbornness is not one of her "strengths."
@@2amoto Dumb point? Why not dismantle it to the point where it won't work? :)
Widow maker is a logging term referring to a falling tree limb. I’ve never heard a tire being called a widow maker
I worked with tires in my early years. Anything from wheelbarrows to OTR. I once had a two piece airplane wheel (it had been repurposed for some sort of pipe handling jig) come apart while I was airing it up. I had it sitting on top of an old Coates changer at a 45 degree angle. I was standing off to the side as I didn't trust the old, crusty wheel. When it came apart, half of the wheel sailed over me and hit the ceiling about 20 feet up and twenty feet behind me.
It was no larger than a small ATV tire but held a lot more pressure. I have no doubt that if that wheel had hit me it would have changed my life forever. Virtually any tire and wheel can be dangerous due to the potential energy of the compressed air within them. Please be careful out there. Especially with multi-piece wheels of any sort. If it looks too old and rusty, refuse to work on it. It could save you life.
I became the owner of a used tire shop several years back. I had only basic knowledge of tire "work" back then, I had to actually go buy a tire from another shop and have them mount it just so that I could watch the mounting process. (Still took me half a day to figure out the tire machine)
About a month after buying the place, a guy walks in right at closing time and wants a 13.6 × 16.5" ag tire mounted. This was my first tractor tire, I was eager for business, and the concept of telling a customer no was a skill I hadn't learned.
After stumbling through getting this tire on the rim time came to air it up. I had taken so long getting it mounted that the soap had dried. I started filling the tire with it stood upright against my hip and my arm resting on top. I had all of it seat except about 4 inches of it. I was at 28 lbs and had no clue so I kept adding air. Somewhere around 50 psi was all it could take. The explosion was deafening, I was thrown to the shop floor and the tire went the opposite direction. Amazingly I was unhurt other than ringing ears and a blow to my pride I was completely unhurt. The first words out of the customer's mouth was "you're buying me a new goddamned tire" when I went into my pockets for cash, I discovered everything from wallet, to change, knife, cigarette lighter, and everything was blown from my pockets. EVERYTHING. Even turned them inside out. My gung ho, do it all attitude changed that day for sure. There is more explosive energy in a tire than most people realize. I was very lucky!
Good and useful anecdote.
You almost retired that day. Cheers!
My god thankfully you were ok and a customer wasn’t standing there, there is so much tire safety info available to the shop up to and including having a industry pro coming to your location to properly train the crew.
Safety first and park the pride, or it could get ya killed in a blink of the eye
Imagine if the customer shared your fate, the lawyers would have a field day!
Nice of that customer to be more worried about his tire than the fact you could have been killed.
I build buildings for a living one simple rule has almost always kept me safe don't take short cuts ever and if you're being pressured to walk away there is another job you can do the right way they don't pay enough to get hurt
That is so true. Couple of times I risked my life, but in the end I realized, it's not worth it, you're not gonna get rewarded, everyone will forget about it in two minutes, and "they" will expect you to do the same every time. Luck has very short life span.
Well yes and no, for some their predicament is such they can’t walk away from a job hoping to walk straight into another. So many will put up with or take risks, you may have that luxury but others don’t. And unscrupulous bosses know this in many places and situations. Look at other countries and how little safety is in the workplace, there are plenty willing to take the next victim’s place.
I was on a jobsite when an old hand working for one sub asked a new guy from another sub why he wasn't wearing safety glasses. The kid replied "Our boss doesn't give us safety glasses." The old hand responded "Is your boss gonna give you new eyes?"
Very important and useful advice! I bet there are a lot of people out there who have been injured in some way, but luckily survived. I have a personal tire injury story from a mere car tire, which I did not properly respect and 17 years later I still have the physical effects from that to deal with. I can appreciate that with larger tires and higher pressures, the threat of injury greatly increases.
I never thought about a blowout just during inflating a car tire...or that there's a "safer" place to stand/squat.
Did you ever file a claim or lawsuit ?
My dad served in the army for 17 years. I remeber him telling me one time. The most scarring thing he'd seen in his life. It was a man basically cut into two pieces from an exploding tire. He said it topped what he had seen in Vietnam!
I wouldn't thumbs up that. But wow.
I want to see it in “The Final Destination”
..and then..there are the guys using starting fluid to mount the big truck tires on their sky-king pick-ups...
Example 3 nearly took me out when I was a tyre fitter. Up until then we *never* used the safety cage, but simply laid the tyre/wheel assembly flat on the ground just outside the fitting bay doors and inflated them. On this occasion I'd noticed that the wheel seemed to higher off the ground than normal, so I bent down to see what was causing it. As I did so the whole 'bottom' sidewall blew out and the assembly shot many feet in the air with an enormous BOOM. How high? I have no idea as I was inside the bay before it came down again!
The noise was so loud that the cops in a nearby police station sent a squad car to investigate assuming that there had been some kind of explosion!
Hey SirHenry,
When I was a young lad working in a garage during the 70's we changed 100's of split rims. We didn't have a cage. Just being kids, we did not know any better. Only through sheer luck am I here today, probably. How well I remember staring at those slack rings as the pressure grew and creeped the rubber outward and upward to meet it. Most often, the "meeting" was gradual and non-violent. But, there were too many cases where the "bead setting' was..... abrupt.......... . I'm well sure you know what I mean. I shudder now when I think back to that time. Not just the danger we were in but, also, the fact that the owners of the enterprise didn't value our lives enough to acquire a cage.
Tire cages have saved my life 3 times in my career prior to their wide spread availability I used to work on tires and inflate them in between the narrow fire break between the two buildings .
Truck tires exploding at 100psi, that is a BOOMM you will remember for the rest of your live...
If you survive it that is
Rest of your life is over at 60 to 100.
It will rattle the walls in your shop, and most of the time, it will stop all activity in your shop!
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Dennis Haffner shit yeh it will and dust falls from the ceiling
I saw this video and decided to view it. Reason being. I lived in a little town in SW Georgia back in the latter '90's. In a town next to mine, there was a shop there that repaired tires and rims (etc). Two brothers worked in this shop.
One day one of the brothers had just finished changing out rims on a pickup truck. After doing so, he inflated the tires to the proper air pressure and was about to lower the truck off the rack. But noticed some spot on one of the rims that required a weld. He grabbed his torch and made the weld.
You may have guessed it already. He failed to deflate the tire before he made the weld - or better yet, dismount the tire and take it back off the rim/wheel to do the job.
It did not take long before the heat of the weld transferred to the air in the tire, greatly expanding the air, and then the inevitable happened.
The explosion rocked the whole commercial area around there. The pickup truck was shot back off the rack in the opposite direction of the blast and was hanging off of it. The exploded tire tore the rim/wheel in two; the outer half flying across the bay striking the wall. But not before taking the face and front part of the skull off one of the brothers - the one working on the tire of this truck. His brother was also injured severly. He was asking how his brother was. No one wanted to tell him what happened to him. It was not a good sight.
I gained an even greater appreciation and respect for the tremendous power of the physics that are involved in the heating and expansion of air (and H2O).
Ignorance is NOT bliss. And what you DON'T know CAN KILL YOU!
"My people are destroyed [perish] for lack of knowledge..." It goes on to say that "...because though hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee..."
To make an application, as an electrician; I had BETTER BE VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE about electrical theory and POSSESS PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE in the field - or I can get myself or others injured or killed, burn property or set up future scenarios that may endanger others. Training.
I have come in contact with those who are too proud and stubbornly STUPID to consider their ignorance is not an 'asset'. There are different kinds of fools. Those who REFUSE TO TAKE sound advise and warnings, they go their way - and suffer the consequences of their pride, stubbornness and stupidity.
Then there are other fools, who WHEN they witness the previous kind of fool (I call them 'full-time-fools') suffer the fate of their folly; THEY, take a lesson from it.
This video reminded me (refreshed my mind) to stay clear of shops where these 'accidents' might occur, due to others failure to appreciate how their ignorance might lead to their death or mine.
I remember when I was inflating a split rim tire, my father came storming over and yelled at me to stop. He then showed me how to wrap it tightly with a heavy chain to keep the rim from flying apart while I was inflating the tire.
Don't they make a safer rim in addition now...?
Y’all, I’m terrified of even adding air to a low tire at the gas station. This video did not help. 🤦🏻♀️
Make sure you have a gage, and check what you're doing a couple of times. You have to be fast though or it will cost a small fortune.
It's not dangerous for car tires.. Just make sure to check it with a gauge before adding air
Ok, thank you for the reassurance. But what about temperature affecting it? I don’t have an air compressor at home. The closest gas station is about ten minutes away. I live in Florida, where it gets pretty hot most of the time (we’re already hitting low 90’s right now)- does that change anything? This is a legitimate fear of mine and I hate it.
@@sarahewson3607 No the temperature isnt an issue. Car tyres are much less dangerous because they take 32 PSI. The truck tyres go up to 100 PSI, and they often have complex rim systems to keep them in place, which makes them more dangerous.
Car tyres are a simpler safer design with much less pressure. Its very very rare for someone to be killed by a car tyre. When the tyre is on the car, the rim is still bolted to the hub, so it cant fly off. As long as your tyres are in good condition, its almost impossible to hurt yourself.
If you have an SUV, some of them take 75+ PSI but again, the wheel is bolted to the hub. Just make sure to not over-inflate, and stand back while pumping air. Every vehicle has a tyre placard (usually inside the door) to tell you how much PSI to put in the tire. Or its printed on the side of the tyre.
Most ppl own cars and dont even know what size tire or how much air to put in... sad world we live in
@1:00 This is a Letourneau that offloads entire logging trucks with one bite. I changed these tires at a saw mill in N. California years ago. The tire without the rim was 1,000 lbs., and I am guessing the rim was much more than that. After a quick servicing, the Letourneau operator took it back to work, and as he was rolling away, maybe 50 yards from me, the front right rim came apart. The locking ring shot straight out sideways maybe 3 feet off the ground, and didn't touch the ground for a good 100 yards. The tire had been in use for the entire season and gave no warning of impending failure. We often took a close look at rims on the outside, inspecting them for cracks, but they were painted yellow and my belief was that the paint itself would stretch with the cracks making them impossible to see.
No one was injured this time! But the power behind these is unbelievable. I quit that job after 3 years and many close calls.
About thirty years ago (possibly 1992) my Son and I had gone to the PEP BOYS in Riverside California to purchase a few items and learned that a young man had been killed moments before we arrived when a "split-rim" blew apart while he was "airing it up" killing him instantly as the rim cut him in half at his lower rib cage and then tearing through the corregated metal roof which was another twenty feet above the shop floor.
Sad as this was, this was the first day on a job which he had been so proud of since he had just graduated and it was also his first job.
I taught Safety at Disneyland for twenty-five years and for him to have been assigned to work on a wheel such as this (per court testimony) was as negligent as it gets.
I made this comment in the Hope it will prompt someone to make sure they are not letting someone else put them in a dangerous or Life threatening situation.
Same thing happened to a guy I graduated high school with, he was working at a wrecking yard.
I'm with you 100% its an up Hill battle all the way. I had a friend who had a shop and he did not use very good jacking practices before he crawled under a car. We had several loud bitter arguments for a couple three-year period when I tried to tell him to cut an oak block get jack stands or something. Almost got thrown out of his shop couple times there were some hard words exchanged but I haven't heard from him in about 40 years because the car fell on him. Not one other soul back me up and told him anything about this and not one other soul was anything but surprised and shocked when are brilliant mechanic that fixed all these cars wound up under one of them dead. I saw it coming for a long time but nothing I could say helped. I've wondered for many years if I'd have gone out and cut four good blocks myself and brought them by if he'd have used them. Now whenever I see somebody doing something I'll pull out the big old fat roll of bills I get for my disability check and buy him something.
the door on that truck. bloody hell,
No shit. Wow.
Thats impressive, looks like a fight with a terminator.
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The comment section is a treasure trove of tire stories. Buckle up.
getting real tired of this...
Ya, I got "tired" of reading them. :-)
This is precisely(!) correct! I had a job in the USAF doing what these guys did that got them killed. The wheel rims were held together by bolts the same way. Several workers were killed when they didn't follow the proper rim breakdown procedure.
--Lee
High pressure tires scare me. My work truck tires are 110psi, I had one blow on the highway on me once. It literally lifted my 17,000lb truck off the road and sounded like a grenade.
Many years ago I worked on a street that had several automotive repair shops on it. The shop across the street from us hired a new guy who didn't have much experience. He took a rim off of an old truck which had a split ring on it, and tried to use the tire machine to remove it from the rim. The split ring broke in two with so much force that a broken section of the flew up and completely cut all the way through his neck, completely decapitating him. I seen a bunch of people standing outside the other shop looking at something, but I didn't go over there to see what was going on.
You missed out.
I want to see it in “The Final Destination”
I gotta say, I really appreciate the work that you men and women of WorkSafeBC do. I've never worked on a car or felled a tree, but I might end up near a mechanic or have need for a chainsaw. You are the best!
Once driving a tanker, i noticed blue smoke when i when through a pay toll, (peage) and parked up to inspect the tyre. It was still inflated and hot and there wires poking through the sidewall.
obviously the tyre was breaking up inside. i phoned the company and they wanted me to fit my spare wheel. i said that untill it was cold and deflated i would not go near the thing. i got flack from the bosses but i waited a full hour before using a special valve tool to remove the valve and fully deflate the tyre before replacing it with the spare.. In the eyes of my boss i was lazy or a wimp..in my eyes im still alive, it didnt blow but it could have.. so dont worry about what anyone else says...if you think it's unsafe, then heed your warning and do not take the risk...
I did have a truck tyre explode once when a rear brake had stayed on...it was just at a roundabout and the tyre went off like a grenade. a car next to me stopped and the driver got out and popped the bonnet to see if his engine had exploded..your ok i said it was my tyre exploding..he was relieved. when i got to the destinantion a few miles away and unloaded i found the blast had come up through the birch boarded floor and up through some pallets. the damage was almost what a handgrenade would have done....half the goods on that pallet were full of big splinters....i have the most great respect for tyres !!
a driver i read about a few years ago got out to look at a suspect tyre on his trailer, and as he reached it, it exploded and killed him.
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COLIN,when safety goes out the window,i quit,i've quit many jobs,two of which I heard that men died in my place,you are one smart man,take care of number one,you got time to take care of number two,do it
@Paul Collinsworth happened to me..out the sidewall..think it was Cooper steel belted but not sure.I like firestone transforce.now.
so you carried an air wrench and heavy duty jack in your truck?
I remember the local service where i grew up (I'm 53 now ) had a photo of a father and son (son looked about 10 yrs old) lying on the ground dead next to each other, they had been airing up a split rim and it blew the split ring , i was probably 8 yrs old the first time i saw the photo, it really impacted me, in part because i grew up on a junk yard and my dad had warned me several times about split rims & i didn't take his warning too serious, but that all changed after i saw that photo. I'd bet that picture is still there on that wall in the service station today. It was sure a sad sight.
It's not there now because somebody got offended.
Very SAD"!!!
@@christianmotley262 you people are really trying to bring that subject up *everywhere*. Have you thought about giving it a rest?
@@brodftw What rest?
i worked in a tire shop for many years . when i think of some of the things i did that were either straight out stupid or even just not thinking of the danger , i feel very lucky ,... very lucky .
I feel very lucky myself! I don't know how I made it out of the business, which I retired early! I had no choice.
I just left a job where I had to add air to payloader (split rim) tires and truck tires (120 psi regular rim). There was no safety cage and I had to stand real close to the tire because the inflation tool had a very short hose. I worked with DOPES who had no regard for safety. I mentioned things I read on the internet (like this) and was told to "Pffftt. You need to stay off the internet." Why? So I can be a dummy just like you?
I would get laughed at for wearing shade 5 glasses with the acetylene torch to prevent infrared light from giving me cataracts. Being concerned about safety isn't being scared. Its ant being smart.
I'd like to know what other places are like. Is this the norm? Or was I just working with idiots?
+TheEgg185 They wouldn't lose one night of sleep if someone like you, or me got smashed or shredded on the job thanks to their idiocy. Precisely the reason not to trust random people, especially not those from work.
grown ups behave like children same problem in holland for me it's dangerous to work with others. died almost 2 times. goedendag
A phrase from Firefighting. One Thousand times safe is better than One time Dead.
think about it, if you had a safety cage you'd still need to remove the tire from the cage after it was fully inflated. How would a safety cage help you then? And why is it safe to stand near these fully inflated tires? They are not in the safety cage and people think nothing of standing beside fully inflated tires. Why? You explain that to me.
FontediCalore Safety cages are for seating beads. Seating a tire beads is a lot more dangerous than just filling a tire with air.
I had this friend years ago who was working on a small truck tire with a split rim. Instead of using a cage, he put the tire between his legs as he inflated the tire. The rim blew apart, breaking every bone in both of his legs and his pelvis was shattered. He never walked right again. He is lucky he wasn't killed.
This can happen even with car tires. A friend and I were inflating a tire laying on the ground. we were both leaning over it when it exploded. It layed us both out flat and the wheel came back to earth about 30 seconds later. It was dark at the time so we couldn't see where it went. We had both stood up and were looking around when the thing crashed to the ground right between us. Air pressure is a pretty powerful force and caution is definitely sensible.
In the early 1970s I worked for a year in New Guinea, in a truck workshop. I was the only non-native in the workshop - I was in charge - and I had a hell of a job trying to get the tyre guy to follow safe practise when inflating split-rim truck wheels. I kept at him to put bars through the rims and to stand clear with a long hose when inflating.- we didn't have a cage and the penny-pinching boss wasn't inclined the get one. My tyre guy used to do it because I nagged at him, but never got into the habit properly.
There was another, similar, workshop out the back of ours and, one day, we all heard boom-clang-clatter from the other workshop. We rushed over and found the whitest New Guinea tyre guy I ever saw standing, shaking, beside what was left of the split-rim wheel he had just been inflating. The rim was lying on the other side of the workshop and there was a perfect circular dent hammered into the underside of the roof.
I looked at my tyre guy, who was looking at this mess and I could hear his brain going click-whirr. I never said anything to him, but, after that, I watched him, without being nagged at, get into the habit of safe practice. Bright boy!
MarsFKA... they call helicopters "egg beaters in the sky"
uncletigger was
I like how this story has a happy ending
THANK GOD NO ONE WAS KILLED ITS A WISE MAN WHO LEARNS FROM THE MISTAKES OF OTHERS
@Paul Collinsworth 2:12 Look at the photo at top right. That's what I mean. I worked at mines as well as the transport company and never saw an accident involving exploding tyres and rims. Bars through the rims was one of the safety procedures used at the different places I worked at.
rip to my fellow techs my god hold u in his hands and bless the families you left behind
Yep, Jebus called them all home to work in great servo in the sky....
We had a tire guy who came in and did all our heavy equipment when I worked at Squaw Valley years ago. He had been terribly injured from a tire explosion.
*Would you know how long he was hospitalized, if not away on medical leave T.T. ?*
I think I would have quit after the 1st close call...
Had a friend lose half his face to a split rim. Survived the injury, but ended up losing his marriage, his children, and his house.
Good god. That's bad. Tho many men bail if a woman was seriously ill, also.
I had a bicycle tire explode the other day. That was loud, so imagining one of those big ones blowing up, that has to be tremendous.
never underestimate the power of a tire
Watching this a second time has reminded me of an event, 35 years ago, that could have been much worse.
A mechanic from a contract customer's vehicle workshop had come to the tire depot but was in a hurry to get his job sorted. As I recall he got a tube from us and assembled his own split rim wheel and a used tire. This was a medium weight commercial wheel. He was inflating it when I walked back into the depot from doing a breakdown. I called out "Hang on a minute John!" and walked over to him. I then checked round the split rings and saw that they were good (John was a good mech), so I assembled a portable safety cage onto his wheel/tire. This consists of two " H " shaped metal guards, one with a hole in the centre for a clamping post that is part of the second one. I locked the clamping post to the top H, told John to carry on and walked away. Four strides later "BOOM" went his tire and as I turned I saw the wheel and cage 5 feet off the floor and solwly flipping over to crash down again on the concrete a few feet from where I had left it !!!!! The cage was probably about as heavy as the wheel without a tire. So without that extra weight, that wheel could well have gone three times higher and goodness knows what else.
Luckily, John was using our airline which always had a 6ft long line after the hand held air guage/trigger. Also luckily, and purely by accident, John had unknowingly placed the weak part of the tire in just the right spot so that when it flipped, if moved away from him!
Hmm, never thought about it before, but this little event may well be one of the reasons I have severe tinnitus these days.
wordreet I have tinitus to sometimes on a scale from 1_10 it's 2 and sometimes it's a 10 definitely sucks weeeeee bzzzzxxzzx Sometimes even sounds like crickets
Woah. You're the second guy in these comments to report having permanent lifelong tinnitus after experiencing a tire inflation blowout.
@@fishfire_2999 .. caffeine is what causes it to get louder. Go clean, the volume drops off.
@@fishfire_2999 I've had tinnitus since the age of twelve lived with it and never paid attention to it until I saw a commercial on tv about pills that can help it two years ago. Now the ringing in my ears is driving me crazy at night.
I didn't mean to laugh. I just thought (tinnitus), "You think?
Jesus that is some serious energy released by the rim. Damn
This guy is one hell of a ventriloquist. I didn't see his lips move once.
he sustained an oral injury when attempting to blow a truck tire with his mouth
He's seen one to many tires explode, his face is permanently stiff.
but if he had at least once winked an eye he wood have looked more so like a real dummie lol
so like ok your just as right and as if no pun intended !!!!
Sometimes gotta go through at léast one to gain respect of the job...cause if you don't it'll Fuck you up...
That's because he was talking out of his ass
Happen to My Dad, the tire blew the ring straight up, after breaking both his fore arms and wrist, and went thru the Roof, no safety cage
I had a bicycle tyre explode when I was a kid, I have always followed safety rules on tyres very carefully ever since.
And yes bike tyres DO go with a hell of a bang ( and the flying shrapnel hurts)
In secondary school, a guy had a Camaro. He wanted larger tires on the rear of the Camaro but could not afford thick racing slicks that stood higher than the front. He purchased new rear tire of the recommended size. They were 35 pound tires. He inflated then to 90 pounds to get the look he wanted. He decided to do a burnout on the car to show of just how powerful than car was. He started the burnout and one of the tires exploded. The back of the Camaro flew into the air and came crashing down. The fuel tank was shredded, the drive shaft was destroyed, the rear bumper and quarter panel we mangled and the rear window exploded. Nobody was hurt. There was not fire. It could have ended much worse. I remember telling the owner of the Camaro that really tires could explode. He figured it was just like a simple blow out. To tell the truth, that I what I expected may happen as well. It devastated his car and he had to scrap it. I am meticulous about tire inflation after witnessing this.
People don't realize that PSI is per square inch.
I did that. Do I know you?
indrid cold--you are the mothman
brandy sigmon 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Wow.....what a bunch of bullshit.
I served in a maintenance battalion at Schofield Barracks, Oahu. We had steel cages to put 2 1/2 and 5 ton truck wheels to inflate. The rim bead was split. I once saw on pop off inside the cage. Dented the metal. It would not have been good, had it hit someone.
FIRST TO WATCH THIS VIDEO AGAIN IN 2021!!!
Priceless advice from a video almost as old as RUclips!
I had some used 18X40X16 a friend wanted to mount for me...on 16.5 rims he had. I did not know that before he started. At 130psi, the bead broke. The explosion was beyond description and the tire ricocheted throughout the small shed in a nanosecond. He had a concussion and broke arm and his other wrist was broken when it flew back breaking my jaw. Yep, we were drunk and I have not drank whiskey since...32 years ago. BTW, my ears still ring constantly. GREAT VIDEO!!:)
A 16 inch tyre on a 16.5 inch rim? thats nearly impossible. Now the other way round, which i feel much more likely, well that is just suicidal.
Good lie bro
130 pounds of brute force in every single square inch. I bet you still hear an echo
Sometime in the mid 60s, a father who was a tire technician had taken his approximately 8-10 year old son to work one Saturday. The father was inflating a trailer tire, and It exploded and the locking rim killed them both instantly.
I learned at 16 about this danger. A friend of mines father was decapitated when the tractor Tire he was inflating blew. It was devastating to my friend and I as we found his head and other parts before the cops and ambulance got there. Tires are nothing to mess with. Even today I am especially careful inflating tires. Even my bicycle tires get respect when I inflate them.
Never thought about it much til now (cars and bikes)
It’s sad some workers are in a rush or just want to take short cuts and stuff like this happens.
As a tyre fitter of many years this video is good basic knowledge anyone fitting tyres should learn, and keep at the front of their mind anytime they are fitting a tyre. Complacency and familiarity makes people sloppy in their work, and that is what often kills you. Good video.
I was in the US Airforce at Dover AFB I had just left one of the maintenance hangars where in the "Tire Shop" a C-5 cargo plane tire had been mounted and was now in a "Cage" being inflated...For what ever the reason (I'm sure they investigated) the tire exploded during inflation...I will never forget the sound.. and the look on everyone's face when they came out of the hangar....Thankfully no one was seriously injured put the damage in the area was amazing, the cage was twisted like a pretzel and debris was everywhere
I think some of the people involved still have ringing in their ears and this was almost 40 years ago!
A dozen years on, are folks still getting killed off this way? Let's be careful out there so we don't get hosed. Cheers!
Years ago when I joined the Navy I was stationed at NAS Miramar north of San Diego. I was assigned to the machine shop, the tire shop was nearby. The usual procedure for building and inflating tires were after they were built the tire was placed in a enclosure and remotely inflated. Most of these tires were multiple plies 20 or so and were operated at high pressure to withstand carrier landings. As I recall it was around 400 PSI. Then the tire was remotely de-inflated and shipped out at 50 PSI. One night a tire was placed into the cage and inflated to its operating pressure, but would not de-inflate. The operator tried everything externally to back off the pressure to no avail. He then decided he had to enter the cage and reposition the air hose on the tire. Just as he was about to do that a low pressure air hose in the shop failed and made a loud pop then you could hear the air flowing. Needless to say that sailor had to change his shorts. He eventually got the tire down in pressure and all ended well except for the fraud nerves!
I worked at a gas station in high school and when the car tires popped onto the wheel bead when inflating THAT got your attention, and it's not nearly the danger of these split rim truck tires as we inflated with about 30 psi to bead the tire. The mechanic never heard of a steel wheel breaking apart, you only had to keep fingers and tools clear of the bead as it could throw a tool a long way with force when the bead set.
I'm getting tired of all these accidents.
Chuck Wagon, I agree! But they keep happening as most shops are "Profit" orientated!
Making money is the reason your in business, getting proper training is the employee's & shop's responsibility.
There is still some owners who believe every cashier working at you're local corner fuel and convenience store is eligible to work this business instantly. I worked for one of them!
I have met with a man who was working on a multi piece rim flat on the ground. It blew and took him up to the roof of the workshop and left an impression of his back and the rim. His injuries were so great he never worked again and he looked like a nightmare. His face and skull were permanently disfigured and the brain injury left him on a pension. This shit is very, very real.
and WHERE WAS THIS?? India? Rwanda? there is no excuse for this in ANY modern industrial country. NOne.
@@dwightstjohn6927 People in the USA usually don't follow normal protocol when changing these tires out!
I stay away from them while them while being changed.
@@LiPo5000 Many tire shops will no longer work on multi-piece rims, because of past accidents. Unfortunately that often causes people who don't have the right knowledge or equipment to try to do it themselves.
That's too bad. My company harps on safety all of the time and that's a good thing. Thanks for making this safety video I hope it gets view millions of times.
Yeah, it is. I saw a guy who was an elevator mechanic. Apparently, it's a normal reaction to stick your other hand in if one gets caught. Welp, he lost an arm and most of the other...
Reminds me of a country song I'm going to write. Goes something like this, "Mama's don't let your babies grow up to be tire changers."
So tragic. There's just not enough to say about safety. My father had an automotive station (full service gasoline for decades) for 50 years.. and he always said and placed precautions and safety above all else, first. And it was a blessing we never had any fatal workplace accidents all those years.
I lost my father in tire exploded, It was the rusty wheel bolts that caused the accident Before health and safety was in place
Was a lot of years ago. But very aware of condition of wheels and stud nuts now
John, when i was first taught tyre fitting, it was explained to me that what did the most damage was the air pressure. I was told before attempting anything with any tyre, let ALL the air out before undoing any fitment, wether it was wheel parts, or bolts and nuts holding anything together. therefore its highly unlikely to kill you.
That's horrible. My heart goes out to you, sir.
wow opened my eyes thank you.
I've had several trucks with split rims and I allowed no one to touch them. I changed my own tires. Something that is seldom mentioned in these videos is that a tire might mount without incident but then blow apart later while driving down the road.
I attended a scene recently (i'm a paramedic) where two men were killed inflating an industrial harvester tyre. The common sense approach is to use the safety cage at all times otherwise a stranger will be removing your boots that day and putting your name on a foot tag.!!
When I worked the service station 50 years ago my boss always insisted I wrap a chain around 2 and 3 piece trims 2 sides to control it if the ring blew off
We used to let the hydrolic down on the tire and rim.
Many shops simply refuse to work on those old split rim tires. I remember the old man changing those as a kid. Was always telling me get outta here when he was!🤣
I believe they started phasing them out in the 60's. sold them over seas where they still run them even today !!! Weird, dangerous stuff
For those who cant understand it compressed gas ie air is simlar to an elastic band pull it back and let it go and slap it hurts but 1000s of times more power in a tyre so your dead. It happens that fast you wont even see it coming.
quite often it is that force that kills you by causing internal injury, the tyre fragments and debris just cut you up
@@roberttill3787 I didn't know that. Thanks.
LMAO!
It happened to my friend and he almost lost his leg he is crippled for life now that happened about 4 or 5 years ago you don’t fuck with tires and air
I get anxious pumping air into a bicycle tire. I can't imagine doing anything with these monster tires.
The comments on here have great stories!
I'm a farmer in Nebraska. I've had lots of tires fixed over the years, everything from small trailer tires to very large lug-type tractor rears. I take my tire repair to local shops in the small towns around here. These local shops will hire anybody to repair tires. Usually teenagers. And I'm always appalled by how careless they are about safety. Their employers either don't know about the dangers of fixing tires, or don't care about enforcing safety or providing training.
delavalmilker Seriously, call OSHA and make a report. Their website has an easy form. You can even choose to remain anonymous. Those teenagers are too young to realize the serious risk their employer is putting them in.
My family has been farmers, and mechanics since the 1920's, and we also sold, repaired, and changed car, truck, and tractor tires. I started changing the old split rim 16" truck tires when I was 14, and graduated to semi and tractor tires when I was 16. The only time I'd inflate a split rim outide of a cage was if it was an inside dual. While we never had any injuries, we did have a couple of rims let loose, scaring the crap out of me. When I graduated I joined the Army, and then went into Law Enforcement. I still worked the farm, but left the tires to my cousins!
I'll never do that for a living.
Back in the days of split rims, there was a tire cage in every tire shop. Every one of them was bent outwards from a tire exploding. The only thing, was if you were careful and made sure the ring was seated right, it was perfectly safe. Goes to show how careless people are.
I have experienced wheel barrow tires explode at 15psi where it's max recommended pressure was up to 20 and the tire was new aswell, and the rim was a 2 piece to have the fit into the rim, so since then I've inspected the tire and any thought of it bring defective I'll get another one no matter what the cost
Thanks for the video. I mistakenly aired my tires up to 70-80 psi instead of the recommended 30 psi. It was left like this for around 23 hours until I reduced the air back to 30 psi. Do you think this might have caused tire damage and be dangerous?
I remember watching an old black man at ups in Dallas around 1980.He would lay out around 6 large truck wheels on the floor and go at them with a large hammer.Very skilled and fast all by ✋
Hindsight is 20/20. Goes for everyone saying in what way these things could have been prevented.
I saw a dude at F & F tire get decapitated by a utility tire that shredded into pieces while he was filling it. I've NEVER seen so much blood and body parts everywhere like that. Never will forget it.
Pics or you honeypotting us ...
where are the selfies with the blood and guts?
Joel Winston
I was an EMT at the time. Pictures wasn't an option. Just the ones scarred for life in my memory.
I don't give two shits what anyone believes. They weren't there, I was. End of story.
+Fuzzy McFudger It is a lie... he first said that he saw a guy getting decapitated (live action) and later said he was an EMT, so unless they called emergencies before the accident happened theres no way he could be there to witness the accident. Fake as a red dollar bill.
I was at a 7-11 at 2am when I heard a loud explosion then something metallic landing on the street. It was a ring from a tire. I ran over where the initial explosion came from there was a tire guy with his skull split open still alive. This guy wasn't using a cage. He did a week later. The ring traveled about 200 feet in the air before landing on the street.
Man that's a few grim ways to die. Damn. :(
Hydraulic Injection:
It's where a pressurized pipe that is carrying fluid (ex, paint, oil) has a little hole in it. These holes are extremely tiny, and since it's pressurized, the fluid shoots out VERY quickly. People put there hands over these pin holes, and their hand gets injected with the fluid at a rapid rate. It doesn't hurt very bad, but there can be liquid now injected into their bloodstream, imagine the pain of knowing paint or oil is inside your blood stream, slowly making it's way to you heart, about to kill you. Luckily not many people are stupid and know how to deal with this by cutting of circulation with some rope or tape.
Hydraulic Press:
Hydraulic Presses are giant crushers that are made to smash stuff. They are extremely powerful and can pop a head like a cherry.
Those are some painful and grim ways to die. Also gettin ya head chopped off.
Icarus Kid I don't want to say too much, but personally I would say perhaps the most grim are accidents involving high speed rotating machinery like a lathe. I have seen some fatality videos that I sometimes wish I hadn't seen. I would not advise seeking them out. Unless you have long hair and/or wear loose clothes and think it's no big deal and won't happen to you. Then I would urge you to seek them out. You'll find your mind changed REAL quick. (And maybe a sleepless night or two)
best video like this I have seen.. valuable down to earth information
Ok now im scared to touch the split rims on my tractor.
you should be .
Split rims are bad.. if you don't have a tire cage, you can wrap a chain somewhat loosely around the tire and rim assembly to prevent things from going flying..
Rx7man
if you don't know what you're doing leave em alone.
BTW "some" can still fly apart at any time fully inflated or not.
Ur 100 % correct ir u dont know wot ur doing.leave it too the fella,s that do.
You're right of course, but there is a section of people out there that *think* they know what they're doing.They are the ones I worry about.
I worked for a federal government agency who were “exempt” and don’t have to follow any safety rules concerning these kinds of things. Working for them was like stepping decades back in time safety wise, the easiest way to get rid of their supposed ‘safety’ people was to point out issues to them such as lack of a tire inflation cage and they’d disappear so they wouldn’t have to do anything about it or make any changes. I brought my own remote locking air chuck from home so I didn’t have to have my face a foot away from a truck tire while inflating it.
Back in the 70’s we had no tire cage and the shop was super close to a truck stop we had tons of work I was lucky I was just 16 years old.
It happens more often than you realise especially with multi part or split rims ,a friend of mine spent almost six months in hospital after a similar accident he was lucky he survived at all.
as a semi truck-driver I had heaps of blow-out,s and know haw much damage it can do =. Once I had tire blown when I past a bicycle , the poor guy flew meters(yards)away and KO just from the air-rush
Yeah, I think that's why I'm always pretty far away from semis.
I was really lucky when i was younger i worked at a sketchy truck mechanic joint.. i was left alone to run the workshop with only 2 months of experience. A driver came in he had a faulty valve and had been driving around on the flat tyre.. i had no idea this meant it would explode once i remounted the tyre and fix the valve . I was never taught how to secure the wheel while inflating.. there was no cage there or anything.. anyway i inflated the tire and as i stepped away the side wall burst and flicked my boots near my ankle causing me to do a 360 in mid air while the Rim and tyre got launched over 50 60 meters away just missing other factory workers i was in shock that i could of nearly died!
i witnessed the same when the tyre fitter came to see how the inflation was going it exploded and he hit the roof and died i will never forget it good job i was 50 yards away
You missed out!
hope this advice can save
more worker life.
Hopefully it saved your. life 13 years ago!?!
my mechanic died on Saturday because of an exploding tyre.. so sad
Did he go airborne?
Sounds like he wasn't much of a "mechanic" anyway.
Yamaha SR650
Even excellent mechanics may take chances sometimes. It's a lot like a guy who works under his car only supported by a jack, he may get away with it for 20 yr.s then one day it slips off the jack and kills him. It only takes once.
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Bo McGillacutty You're certainly right about that... A friend of mine, a super friendly & generous guy, died exactly that way. He used to always joke about all the close calls he had and how someday he'd probably end up dead. Sadly, his newlywed wife came home one day and found his legs sticking out from under his truck that he had crawled under to inspect real quick without jackstands. It slipped off the jack while he was underneath.
We still miss you, Dave. I think about you every time I jack up a car, even now 10 years later, and I probably always will.
I’ve always worried about the little tire exploding on my wheelbarrow when I inflate it. I had no idea all this was actually happening.
Excellent video.
While in the army as a mechanic I repaired tires such as this and because of proper training I was always aware of such explosion hazards. Proper training and supervision is always less costly than workplace accidents, always.
Premium fuel only"Ok now im scared to touch the split rims on my tractor."
If the split ring is damaged or not fully located in its groove on the wheel it can come off with great violence.
Holy shit. Thanks for this video you would not think there could be a problem with these types of every day tasks AWESOME, condolences to the families
1) First guy did it wrong: NEVER work on multi-piece rims with a tire inflated at all PREVENTABLE 2) Second guy got lazy: Never apply heat to a tire (ether-installation included) PREVENTABLE 3) Third report seems like BS: First and last pictures are of a tractor outside in the dirt, middle picture at a well-paved, modern location. WTF? Follow safe practices and you will be OK. I have mounted a dozen tires on old military two-piece rims in my driveway with never a scary second.
I disagree. the split rims were unstable. why do you think they were taken out of service. people died well doing everything right. they were just a bad deal. but in the early years this was what they had. bad invention as they learned years and lost lives years later. yes people make mistakes and it could cost them there life. but we are stupid humans. meaning we do dumb things. but we build cars today safer to avoid death in motor accidents do to some human error. we have air bags, seatbelts, because we know there will be motor crashes. same as why split rims were replaced with safer rims. there will always be human error. so we set up safer things in case of error. so a person has a better chance of surviving there stupid choices. I mean how many of us run late for work. we try to beat a traffic light or we speed. we know the risk. but we do it any how. we all as humans do some stupid things. hell we poison ourselves with smoking tobacco. we drink booze some even use drugs or don't use safety when we get lucky in the bedroom. we really are a stupid species. we do harm to ourselves everyday. that's why we have doctors.to save ourselves from ourselves. I think you get it.
Ken Johnson Ken perhaps they did it wrong. but them rims are unsafe. and them rims killed lots of people. human error and dangerous rims. them rims are a hell of a price of a mans life. over the person making a mistake they end up dead. these rims are ancient. we do have safer newer rims. if there is human error the person does not end up dead or disabled for life. split rims is like handing a loaded 9mm pistol to a man with a bullet In the chamber and the safety off. then you tell him to clean it. no one with a brain would hand a gun to a person with the safety off and one in the chamber. unless they are a fuckin idiot. what I am trying to say is why not do things to prevent accidents in the event of human error or stupidity. one life lost is one to many. unless the person is on death row for taking a life himself. then good by to the less than human animal. but most of us humans are decent and trying to make a living. until oops they made a mistake and the split rim kills them. and you remember there kid gets to go to there dads funeral. that's just a hell of a price to pay over a damn rim that no longer is in production. why do you think they retired the split rims. they were very unpredictable. it was like playing Russian rullett however that's spelled. I hope you can see my view. I also get what your saying. being safe in a dangerous situation. but as humans your right we get stupid. we shouldn't have to die over a stupid moment. I gotta tell you Ken if it weren't for newer safer dumb proof inventions. I would be dead I have done some dumb shit. I learned from it. I did not die from it. because it was stupid proof. newer inventions save lives. I can tell you Ken sometimes in life we at times need to be saved from ourselves. we are our own worst enemies.
alex olshove Actually pretty much all heavy machines still use split rims for the simple fact it's fucking impossible otherwise. If you know what you're doing it's not particularly dangerous, just make sure the locking ring is reseated right and stand the fuck out of the way while it's inflating.
Also, maybe I've just had bad luck, but I've seen a hell of a lot of normal rims go as well, some of them in a big way with brand new tyres. I was inflating a brand new truck tyre on a brand new rim in a cage (thank god) and it went at about 75psi. Blew a door clean off its hinges.
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the trucks today in most part use one piece rims.. unless the truck is a dinosaur split rims are a thing of the past. you have your opinion and I will honer and respect that. but for me split rims kill people. they are very risky. if they still use split rims today on new trucks. then you know something in which i don,t know. i thought they were taken out of production. i mean hell we are now going to bud rims to get rid of the wheel spacers.
Sorry, I should have clarified that better, by heavy machines I mean earthmoving machinery, i.e. loaders, scrapers, graders etc. etc.
As a morbidly curious teenager I saw a video of someone losing a leg to one of these explosions and it scared me into taking the potential dangers of tires far more seriously. Easy to forget the sorts of forces under pressure in something you see every day.
I seen a guy one time changing a tire on the old style tire changers the one with the big wedge nut that screws down to hold the rim in place. He got the new tire on and started to air it up but forgot to loosen the nut bad mistake he had his hand on top of the big stim the nut was screwed onto it blew the big nut off and it blew him back about 15 feet and severed his thumb almost completely off needles to say he had a bad day.
You'd think, something like that you'd double-check first...