Is a ratchet strap a tool?

Geo-TH,In

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It was the only tool I had to get the
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Tire back on the rim.
 
For all the work while it is cheaper it is not necessarily safer. Go get a pail of Murphy's tire mounting compound it will fill the void and the tire will inflate. You can reuse the soap that comes out as the tire slips on the bead edge of the rim/wheel. Just fill the gap on both sides if needed and ad air. I then just wipe the soap off as it comes out and put back in the pail. I have done a lot of tires with the one pail for several years now and still have 3/4 of an 8 pound pail. Even on 24 inch combine tires it worked with an inch gap. You will never bother with that foolishness again if you try it once. I saw the tire guy putting on some 42 inch rime tire one day and it sold me. He mounted a half dozen for my brother with it as he switch tires around on rims and mounted the 4 new ones. It also will work as a lubricant for helping with the bead sliding on or out.
 
I had to tie a rope around it and use a big bar to keep twisting it tight BUT I LIKE THE RATCHET STRAP BETTER

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John T
 
Ive used those straps many times on the mower and the four wheeler. I carry a small compressor and patch plugs on the ATV and the strap has saved me a few times on the trail.
 
One time I was probably about 12 years old helping a man get a tire to take
air using the rope and twisted stick method.

This was a stranger who had stopped in the driveway at my dad's service
station using the air hose.

He had struggled with it a while, so I got the rope and showed him how to do
it.

We were both pushing and pulling, hands everywhere. The last thing I told him
was don't get your fingers under the rope!

About that time it took air, sure enough he got his fingers under the rope.
He instinctively jerked hard to get loose, and when he did caught me right in
the jaw, knocked me and all my probably 60 pounds for a back loop!

I was laying on the ground checking to see if I still had all my teeth, he
finished airing the tire and left! No apology, didn't check on me, just
left...

Maybe he was afraid he was in trouble, I don't know...
 
Back about 36 years ago I worked at a place in town doing tires. Kellie's tire had what looked like a bike tube you would put on a tire and air it up to do that. It had some sort of adjustment to it. John still has a tire business and it you need a tire for say a 1935 Chevy he will have one that came on it when new
 
I've done that and then had a lot of trouble getting things back off when the tire set the beads. Could not get the handle so I could release it or the chain loose with the binder would not open far enough. Had to start over then.
 
I let the air out of the tire before removing the ratchet strap.
If not, you stand to lose some blood and skin.
Ask how I know?
 
I have a bead blaster tank I use. Most of the time it works, sometimes not. I saw a young man use a bead blaster air tank to seat a tire half that size. The wheel was laying flat on the floor. When he blasted the tire it went sliding across the shop fully inflated. He picked it up and put it back on the auger hopper ready to go, no additional air needed.
 

Anything that helps one do a job easier is a tool. I learned that on Sesame Street. :wink: an dats da twooth.
 

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