Odd Bang today. About scared the out of me

old · Jul 19, 2013

I was out side working in that sprayer and I heard a big bang. Sounded like a shotgun going off or maybe a bigger gun say a 10 gauge shotgun. Yelled to see if the boy had maybe gone out and shot something but got no answer. Slowly and carefully worked to the area of the blast. Found the front tire on my Ford 841 had blew out and the steel belts in the radial truck tire I use on it had a big rip in the tread area. What is real odd is this tire/tube set up has been going flat on me about every day and the last time I aired it up it stayed up till not. Guess now I have no choice but to fix it. Been putting that off for 6 months LOL

pete black · Jul 19, 2013

Just a question, was it a radial? Can a tube be used in a radial?

fixerupper · Jul 19, 2013

You can tube a radial as long as it's a low speed tire.
We had something similar happen years ago, probably in the 60's. We were sitting outside the house on a summer night because the house was too hot, when we heard that same bang. Dad and I walked around the yard and dad finally spotted a flat tire on a wagon sitting in the alleyway of the corncrib. Jim

Janicholson · Jul 19, 2013

A radial tire on a tube rim will not seal to hold air. On a tractor, wagon or implement, it will work fine. (one cant mix 16s with 16.5) I would never do it on a highway speed vehicle. A tube in a radial on a radial rim is kind of a band aid, but on Slow machines isn't dangerous. Jim

David G · Jul 19, 2013

You were my only laugh today.

Thanks

wd45man · Jul 19, 2013

anyone that mounts a 16.5 tire on a 16" is going to blow their head of some day. A tube in a radial tire is ok as long as the tube is made for radial tires.

WAYNE-N-TX · Jul 19, 2013

My one ton did the same thing. Can't figure out which is the cheapest, don't crank the 460 gas engine or buy a tire??? Looks like someone shot it with a shotgun, I'm the only one here???

old · Jul 19, 2013

Yes radial tire and also tube made for a radial tire. That tire/tube has been on this tractor for over 3 years now but have had the problem of it going down for 6 plus months but use the tractor only to move hay bales and plow snow so no big deal

old · Jul 19, 2013

Tube is a radial type tube made just for a radial tire. Been doing tubes in radial for decades low and hi speed and works just fine if you use the correct type tube

ben there · Jul 19, 2013

i had a 22 inch radial on my C65 dumptruck do that one day...just sittin there...been told sun does it...needless to say i had to change pants

old · Jul 19, 2013

Mounted many radial tire on rims with tube in them over the year and never yet had a problem be it slow or fast as long as you use the correct type of tube made for the radial tire. Many of my old truck as in big rig type where radial tires but the rim HAD to have tubes and they worked just fine for years and years

oldtanker · Jul 19, 2013

Son and DIL put a house up the hill on the far side of the barn from our house. Son was working nights when one warm spring night my wife and I heard a guns shot from the direction of their house. Knowing that the DIL was home alone I jumped out of bed grabbed a fire arm and went up the hill to investigate. I checked out the house, could see the DIL watching a movie in the living room. Decided not to bother here and thought that I'd find someone had shot the mail box in the morning. Coming back by the bard decided to check the battery I had on the trickle charger.......Went and got a new battery in the morning.

Rick

2x4 · Jul 19, 2013

happen to me several years ago. Sitting on a bench in the sun, mostly asleep BANG! off to my right. Just a hillside there, wrong time of the year for hunters. MF 150 rear tire blew out. Hadn't used it for a week, it just decided it had worked hard enough & wasn't going to take it anymore. Ruined a good nap.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 20, 2013

Had that happen with a 215 85 16 spare tire on my work truck, BOOM, and cords sticking out of the top of tire!

Best one I ever saw was a fat man decided to sit on the front tire of a cub cadet lawn mower. Soon as his weight was on the tire, it said NO MAS, and blew up. I think he had a #2 in his pants, as he left the auction, walking funny!

boler76 · Jul 20, 2013

while piling wood in my wood shed, heard what I thought was the neighbour shoot, 2 days later I find the rear tire on my 9n has a hole in it big enough to pull a cat thro, steel belts sticking out and the tube ruined as well?? It was just sitting there with 12# pressure in it???

Anonymous-0 · Jul 20, 2013

When I was a kid, I discovered that my bike would pedal easier with about 90 PSI, that was early one morning.. Left it in the summer sun, within an hour, I was off to Western Auto for 2 tires, after I begged Mom for some $$$..

Billy Shafer · Jul 20, 2013

Had a big rig. Blow two tires next to me one morning. Just left the hotel still not really awake. Sure woke me up.

Dean · Jul 20, 2013

It would have scared you more had it happened while you were tooling down the road in 4th/OD.

Dean

MARK ROBKE · Jul 20, 2013

I am a truck mechanic; years ago I had a rear tire blow out while i was working on the engine. It made a ripping sound about 2 seconds before it blew. Another time a truck came in with a big knot on it (recap). We decided to have fun and make it blow, hooked shop air hose to it and waited and waited. It never blew, so one of us had to let the air out of and change it. The knot did get as big as a basketball tho! Mark

BANDITFARMER · Jul 20, 2013

About 8 years ago me and dad were going to rebuild and paint a JD disc. I backed the disc up to the barn and had just put the new tires (4) on it and was sitting on gravel at the time. Dad had just backed up to the side door to unload some parts. We were both in the barn setting parts down when we herd the boom! Went out to find the outside tire on the disc by the truck blown apart and the passengers side window shattered and that side of the truck looked like someone used it for target practice. It was a $1800 fix for the truck and another new tire for the disc. Bandit

JD Seller · Jul 20, 2013

In the 1980s just about any kind of flat bed wagon would sell around here. So a friend and I would buy just about any kind of running gear and put a flat bed on it. We would paint the gear. A local guy would saw us a 14-16 foot oak wagon bed complete with sills for $100. We maybe would buy a "light" gear for $250. Put a bed on it and make a $100 profit over our work. It made us some extra money.

We usually just put car/pickup tires on the wagons. My buddy had just mounted a car tire on a 14 inch rim. I had an old manual tire changer. HE was lifting the tire off the changer when the bottom side wall blew out on the tire. So he was holding the tire waist high when it blew. Lucky he had the bottom bead down. All it did was give him a rush of air on his private parts. LMAO HE told me he was almost afraid to look and see if any serious "damage" was done. LOL Well it did make him hard of hearing for while too.

He would not pump up any more tires after that. He would mount them and then make me fill them with air. LOL.

Dan T in MO · Jul 20, 2013

I'd suggest leather welders gloves. Cats hate being pulled through holes.

old · Jul 20, 2013

Very true since in over drive and wide open that machine can get up some speed and it would have been easy to loose control if that happened

fixerupper · Jul 20, 2013

Yesterday son had an almost brand new recap blow on the rear driver of his truck. He said it was the loudest tire bang he has heard yet. It bent the back of the front half-fender a little but there wasn't any more damage. $600 for two new recaps and some lost time and he was on his way again.
On the harvest, yes another harvest story, the crew was rolling on HWY 30 in Idaho when one of the combine trailers blew both rear duals. Son was following 1/4 mile behind and the bang was loud to him. There was a car tailgating the combine trailer and when the truck stopped the car stopped too. My son said the car just sat there so he went up to the driver's window and the driver was sitting there shaking. I don't know if it was because of the bang or the flying rubber or both. I'll bet he didn't tailgate any trucks after that. Jim

MARK ROBKE · Jul 20, 2013

Also I have seen 2 tires blow apart in the tire cage when airing them up. I can point to the dents on the inside of the cage and tell the young guys,'that's where a split rim ring blew off one night on 3rd shift in the late 70s'. They weren't born then!
The other happened in the same cage a few yrs ago. I returned from a service call, and 1 of the younger guys was airing up a used tire, and as I walked over to check it out, he said,'whats that sound?' I turned my head to cover my ears as it blew that quick. I explained, that was why you are taught to air tires up in the cage; the sound was the sidewall ripping apart.Mark

old · Jul 20, 2013

A place I worked at years ago had a mark on the ceiling from where car tire blew off the rim and hit the ceiling. Bad thing was is that the guy working on it had his head over it when it blew so it broke his jaw. He did get lucky he kept his head. Guy who owned thew shop said it left the mark there to remind others to keep there heads back when airing up any tire

Jonak · Jul 20, 2013

Years ago I was top loading Gasoline and ran a compartment over with Ethyl. Standing in dog house watching, a tire blew on rear of the tanker. I was looking for a place to run to. Nothing more happened. Thankfully!!

Daryl in PA · Jul 20, 2013

Ever use ether to seat the beads? Saw a guy blow the windows out of my FIL's auto parts store. He had it laying on the back of his truck and it bent the tailgate in the shape of a horseshoe.

old · Jul 20, 2013

Used it may time on tubeless tires but never can or need to do so with a tube type tire which tractors have

donjr · Jul 21, 2013

I've had that happen several times now. Had it happen on a disk that was sitting a few feet away by the tool shed, once on a wagon load of hay about a mile from the farm and another time on front tire on the 4240 while I was planting. The wadon and disk tires were former car tires, and the sidewall just finally gave out. The one on the 4240 was an almost new Firestone 10 ply with less than 100 hours on it. Needless to say, Firestone wouldn't warranty it, and I haven't bought one since. Split was about 8" long and diagonally across the sidewall.

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