sandhiller Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 😆😆😆🤣😆😆😆 1 9 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ky966boy Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 Well I guess it works. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
int 504 Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 looks like a tubeless tire??? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
65806 Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 That’s better, it protects you from all the tires in the shop. Not just the one you’re working on. The kids a genius! 4 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick G. Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 What’s with the commie t-shirt? Lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobbyfarm Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 No personal connection but hard to believe this was over 5 years ago. 19yr old and 14yr old. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bgriffin856 Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 18 minutes ago, Rick G. said: What’s with the commie t-shirt? Lol I think it explains everything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes806 Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 And here I thought Sandhiller was close to getting the vacuum sweeper started to help the wife. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandhiller Posted December 13, 2022 Author Share Posted December 13, 2022 7 hours ago, ky966boy said: Well I guess it works. Bout as well as wearing a mask🙄 😄 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Englander Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 Scary stuff when one goes. I had an after school job at a Firestone. 4 Deluxe Champions $100. Those bias ply tires wore out fast. Kids like me just did passenger tires while older full time guys did truck tires. They were all lock ring back then and they rarely used the cage but one day a guy apparently had a bad feeling about one and filled it in the cage. It let go and in that enclosed area the explosion was deafening. Cage contained it, ring came loose and rolled around but not with any velocity. It made a believer of me. Plenty of YouTube videos out there of security cameras catching explosions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rawleigh99 Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 When you see the cages at some of the older tire shops that are expanded and bent outwards you become a believer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtanker Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 We had a kid at Ft Riley killed that way too. Truck driver, fix a flat in the shop area. Didn't use a cage. What he did was turn the ring down and he then sat on the tire to air it up. When it let go it threw him head first into the blade of a blade tank that was also in the maintenance bays. Saw a lot of bent cages in the army too. Rick 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rawleigh99 Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 I hate to speak ill of the dead, but he sat on it!!!!! If I have to air one up I take it out behind the barn with the air chuck clamped on and then go inside to turn the air on at the compressor! I figure if it goes off I will be far enough away and protected by the barn. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
int 504 Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 Used a tire shop years ago with multiple holes out through the roof and walls. One guy killed during my time in the area. The holes had been patched. Still never saw a cage there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1256pickett Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 I knew a guy that worked for local dealer that was really good with tires. They had something like 5-6 new running gears come in and he was mounting the tires, over 20 of them one after another. They were all 15” except one was 16”. Never noticed it, even seated the bead. Set it down turned to grab the next one and boom. Luckily it went straight up hit the ceiling and came down farther away from him than where it started. Only thing hurt was his pride for not noticing it and his nerves were a little rattled. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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