37chief

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We have all had flats. If you haven't you are living a charmed life. What is the most unusual thing you pulled out of a tire. Mine would be the bottom of a wine glass. Stan
 
Same here - a squirrel bone in my case. I didn't completely avoid the road kill and a small piece of bone went into the edge of the pickup tire right beside the tread face. Due to the location the tire wasn't repairable but fortunately I was about due for a new set anyway.
 
I'd have to say the tire I ran so long that when I fixed if a few weeks back the tire was so thin the tube in it was thicker. Tire was on the front end of my Farmall BA and the tire has fallen apart so bad there was almost no tire there and was as thin or thinner then the tube that was in it
 
Not really too unusual, but about 5 years ago our township decided to save money and bought some gravel from a new source.
Funny thing was that all these rocks were triangular, very thin, and were sharper than knives. At the last count, there were over 50 flats repaired and about 25 new tires were sold because people drove on about a one-mile section of this road. Hearing all the complaints, the township didn't buy any more gravel from that source.
Happened about 30 years ago, but a high school buddy plugged the tractor-pulled swather and got out his trusty pocket knife to help clean it out. He lost his pocket knife and looked for it for over an hour. He gave up looking and found it after driving ahead about 10 feet. It was stuck in the rear tire of the tractor and ruined the tire.
 
I took a bone out of a customers tire,the marrow blew out, and the tire went down fast.
She wanted the bone to take home because her husband always tried to hit road kill.(I bet he got an ear full that night.)
 
When I was a kid, repairing flats at my dads service station, a flat came in with a half pair of broken needle nose pliers in the tire.

A few days later another flat came in, with the other half of the pliers stuck in the tire!

Just recently my wife said something was making a strange noise in the car. I drove it a few feet and heard the noise, stopped, pulled out a broken pair of small needle nose pliers. The point went in at such an angle it was stuck only in the tread, didn't penetrate the belting!
 

Since I started running the twin spindle 3pt Bush Hogs I have had 3 rears go flat with wire stuck in the sidewalls. I have learned to not pick up the mower when I hit wire of any sort as the blades shred it and shoot daggers everywhere.
 
In the tire shop we saw gobs of things, the plastic filler out of a ball point pen stuck in the side wall of a teachers tire. Never figured out how it got there, during deer season a live 30:06 round, lots of wrenches, pliers, etc. I put a new set of Firestone 20.8X38'S on a 1586 one morning. I helped the old boy get hooked up to the plow. He called me about 2 hours later, he came back from lunch and found the right rear was flat. He had picked up a hay rake tooth that was laying in the bottom of the furrow. He stopped within 3 feet of picking it up. He said this was the first time the hay field had been plowed in years. The imprint of the rake tooth was still in the bottom of the furrow. The first rear I ever repaired had a deer antler in it. Again the guy found it as he came back from chow. Again RR tire. This time the deer antler went in ahead of the bar and came out behind the bar. The tire was not flat, the curve of the antler went in and actually went between the tire and tube. Heck I didn't even have to patch. the tube. And the stories go on and on.
 
Yrs. ago Pa was doing some baling for me in a meadow by my place. He pulled out of field approach I was riding on bale rack. Some one from years before that had a up-side-down drag section laying there. Before anyone new what was happening he had driven over drag. Got front and rear left on tractor, left on baler and front and back left on bale rack. We spent all next morning repairing tires.
 
(quoted from post at 18:02:24 09/17/18) We have all had flats. If you haven't you are living a charmed life. What is the most unusual thing you pulled out of a tire. Mine would be the bottom of a wine glass. Stan
the most unusual piece I ever picked up and blew a truck tire was 1/2 of a trailer spring from a holiday trailer on the alsaka highway. I was moving a loader to a gravel pit following a pickup pulling a holiday trailer, the trailer started fishtailing and sliding sideways when there was chunks and pieces coming out from under the trailer, the spring pack had broken and one of the top leafs had fallen out, the front duals on the truck flipped up the leaf into the face of the tire on the back duals!! a loud bang and a huge pile of dust later I got it stopped :lol: the holidayers didn't want their spring back!
 
First sife's dad repaired his own tires. When she was a teen, the large screw drivers he used to change em disappeared. Kids caught heck for messing with his tools. After we were married, I was home and he had a flat on his Ford 3000. I broke out my tools and helped him get it off the rim. found a couple of long screw drivers. One of them managed to get at a weird angle and punched into the sidewall enough to ruin the tube but not out the tire.
Second wife was driving interstate near Wichita. She felt the car jerk, looked in the rear view and saw a deer rolling down the freeway. thought nothing of it until a few hours later the tire was flat. Had an antler point through the side wall. Pretty bad when you drive so slow the wildlife rear ends you.
 

When I was a kid my dad was planting corn on some bottom land. He turned around next to the creek with the 4 row mounted planter and ran over a sapling that the beavers had cut down, spearing the loaded rear on the WD45D...ruined that tire.....
 
Not me, but I heard of a guy checking for nails in a tire and got snagged by a rattlesnake fang.
Story goes he got a dose of venom. Fact or fiction? I don't know.
 
A 3/8 inch, 5 inch long carriage bolt, sans nut, in a rear tractor tire. The strange thing was that the bolt pierced the tire radially through a lug. When we found the cause of the flat, the head of the bolt was flush with the running surface of the lug. It took a lot of effort to pull that bolt out of 3 inches of rubber.
 
8 or 9? bolt.
Rusty and bent but intact as a bolt.

Threaded itself in and back out (picture a pin being used to hold two pieces of fabric together) of the sidewall of my wife?s tire.

Luckily it happened about 50 feetfrom the house when she was on the way home. So it went flat in the driveway.

Still don?t quite understand how that scenario happens. Neither did my tire guy.
Also wish it happened in the days of picture phones. I have a printed photo of it somewhere.
 
Many of the things others mentioned. Working on a commercial building one day and the owner came back from a trip, showed us the side of his very nice car, ran over a bungie and one hook stuck in the tire and the rest of it beat the heck out of the rear quarter.
 
Years ago turned to short with the corn chopper hitched to the old Case. Put the point of the nose through the sidewall of tire. Tire was ruined.
 
(quoted from post at 21:13:35 09/17/18)
When I was a kid my dad was planting corn on some bottom land. He turned around next to the creek with the 4 row mounted planter and ran over a sapling that the beavers had cut down, spearing the loaded rear on the WD45D...ruined that tire.....

Just remembered, a couple of years later I was discing with this tractor 2 miles from home, turning around in the grass and I started hearing a intermittent buzzing. At first I thought it was a rattlesnake on the tire, I eventually stopped and saw it was half of a cow poke (if anyone knows what those are). I was 10 yrs old and didn't know enough to leave the tractor with the hole at the top, (my dad told me when he got to it), so lost a bit of CaCl. Tire was ok after a vulcanized patch. Had a nice walk home.
 
Got a gutter nail in tire did not leak where the nail went in but the end of nail wore a hole in the opposit side of tire and went flat. Do not know how long nail was in the tire
 
Stopped on a dirt county road one day to look at some tires and wheels somebody had thrown in the ditch. One had a Leatherman tool buried halfway thru the tread.
 
Caught a tarp strap that one of the S hooks was straightened out on. Hook went in the tire and the strap windmilled around, knocked out the left tail light, punched a hole in the tire and scratched up the paint in a few spots.
 

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