Anchoring Tire Changer? Suggestions / Ideas Please

big a · Feb 29, 2012

Bought a TSC tire changer just to use around here. With the cost of tire repairs, this thing will pay off pretty quickly, I think.

My shop is 18x24, with a full basement....previous owners bomb shelter, I guess! In order to free up floor space on the main level, I want to mount it in the basement. The problem is that the basement has a dirt floor.

I am trying to come up with a way to secure this thing to make it useable...I can't get small 'mud buggy" loads of concrete anymore, so would have to mix and pour a slab down there, using Quikrete, or something similar. Thinking like a 6x6 slab here. Not crazy about lugging all that concrete down there and mixing in a wheelbarrow.

Thought about making a wooden platform of similar size to mount it on, not sure that would work out too good either.....

Anyone have any good ideas here?

Anonymous-0 · Feb 29, 2012

I mounted mine, on a beefed up pallet, with extra wood, where the bolts go through, and plywood, for a floor, on top. Done 5-10 tires, so far, no problems.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 29, 2012

Build a minimum 7 foot square wooden platform to mount it on. You will be standing on that when you use it. Nothing can move since all forces are on that platform.

Areo

504 · Feb 29, 2012

I would use 3/4 plywood, outdoor grade will hold up
for years.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 29, 2012

Those ideas for a platform seem OK ,,. BUT ,do you have a way to get tires down there and back up? ,maybe you have a lowere level entrance that is a walkin? ,, mite want to have a dumb waiter or chain hoist lift ?,, we all get older , and man -handling tires up steps has no appeal to me

Bryan inIowa · Feb 29, 2012

I think lugging tires down there woul dbe worse than concrete over the long run

4020guy · Feb 29, 2012

On my little manual changer, I bolted it to a chunk of 20inch I beam I got in a pile of scrap. It was 6 feet long and I put the changer nearer one end and welded a 30 inch shelf at the other end to hold tools and irons etc. Sometimes fab. shops have cut-offs they sell for scrap. I have hooks welded to the bottom and I move it with the loader. It is just outside the roll-up door.....Ron

2x4 · Feb 29, 2012

bury a pipe upright in the ground that has 2 metal pieces (car springs or angle iron) through the bottom that form an "X". This will keep it from twisting.Mount the changer on the pipe.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 1, 2012

I have mine outside weather doesn't seem to hurt it much.
You could cover it with a barrel or garbage can.

Texasmark1 · Mar 1, 2012

I had an old wheel and tire from an 18 wheeler. I left the tire
mounted in the wheel and just sat the changer on top and welded it
down. Mine sits outside all the time and it hurts nothing but the
paint.

Mark

Jim in MN · Mar 1, 2012

At my old shop I had a 2" hitch receiver in the floor. I added a 2" square tube about 6" long to the bottom of the tire changer and the import Hossfeld style bender. I also had a plug to keep the dirt out. To use, I would remove the plug, and drop the changer (or bender) in. When done, I could pull them out and get my floor space back.

I haven't gotten aroung to adding them to my new shop yet, but I sure miss them. In the meantime I clamp to the bucket on the tractor (not very handy). I'm planning to put a couple of receivers in this time and maybe one outside in the driveway too.

Brian Dan · Mar 1, 2012

I have a old tire changer mounted to a round steel plate. The plate is about three feet across by 3/8 inch. I can roll it around to move it and it stays in place. It will not move whem removing tires or mounting them.
Brian

sflem849 · Mar 1, 2012

I agree, if you don't want to take concrete down there to mix a slab I sure wouldn't want to be hauling wagon tires up and down. I have heard of some guys rigging it up go to in the trailer hitch reciever. That seems to be a pretty slick method.

Jerry Coulter · Mar 1, 2012

I bolted my tire changer to a rear wheel center from a Farmall M. The elevation suited this tall guy perfectly.

hd6gtom · Mar 1, 2012

I hope you guys all have very good liability insurance.

NW MO Poppers · Mar 1, 2012

We have ours bolted to several 4-5 foot bridge planks, kind of in a cross pattern. Maybe that would work?

Jay Furlong · Mar 1, 2012

I, also am using a pallet that was free when I purchased 30 Flourescent light fixtures. I 45 degreed the 4 corners, closed in the sides & painted a bright yellow, so as no tripping when steppin up. Beefed up the area where bolt mount thru, b ut works great. Ask why I 45,dthe corners. It, so it is rasier to roll outside in nice weather, bring in for winter, just tip up, and roll.

Leroy · Mar 1, 2012

Mine is just on a partial sheat of plywood setting outside. Probly will never use it again as I just had rotator cuff surgery from tearing a couple of tendons in shoulder dismounting a tire.

barnE · Mar 1, 2012

Had mine about 15 years, never got around to anchoring it. Almost got away from me several times. Maybe in a year or two. Huh??? Dave

Anonymous-0 · Mar 1, 2012

Why, I aint a gonna sue myself!

Hal/Eastern WA · Mar 1, 2012

I hadn"t thought about bomb shelters in a long time! When I was a kid, one of our neighbors had a fallout shelter basement under his garage. The floor in the garage was more than 3 feet thick concrete! As I remember, that neighbor worked for the local cement plant and probably got a "deal" on all that concrete. The basement room had bunks to sleep on and also had a bunch of camping equipment to use. Thank God no one ever had to use it for a real bomb/fallout shelter--but those were the 50"s.

I wonder what that basement cost to build, and I also wonder if the 3+ feet of concrete would have been enough shielding to really protect the people inside if there had been a nuclear bomb exploded in our area. We had a SAC base just West of Spokane with B36"s and later B52"s that carried nukes and I suppose Fairchild would have been a prime target. Probably NOTHING would have been enough protection this close.

I have used a manual tire changer a couple of times and I would sure want it to be mounted solidly, since sometimes you apply quite a bit of levered force to the unit. Having it held down good might prevent injury or other hassles. Good luck.

Jim KS · Mar 2, 2012

I made an adaptor to fit my reciever hitch. I used apiece of square tube with a aplate on the end and 2 muffler clamps on the post. You can use it any where. Works good.

Jim

J.Wondergem · Mar 2, 2012

Geez, I like your idea, Jim. I not only have a receiver hitch on my old 4 wheel drive pick up, but have one for my tractor. No reason not to take it out in the field, or any place it's handy.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 2, 2012

Hi Hal. I read civil defencse paperwork on the most likely scenario of a nuclear strike at Fairchild. The documents predicted within a 7 mile radius there would be at least 100 pounds per square inch of overpressure on any structure. I don't know if that roof would have held - maybe with lots of rebar.

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