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47fivewindow

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I was working on a riding mower when I went to move it. Tire was flat so I clipped the inflated to the tire. Air compressor was on zero so I turned on. That’s when my Son pulled up with car trouble. I went out and forgot the little tractor. At about 100 lbs it blew the tread through the drywall ceiling. I first thought to compressor tank had exploded. Scared the daylights out of us
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I have a clip on valve stem tool, but after reading others stories about blow ups and seeing yours. I'm convinced that I should not use it. I often get side tracked while doing things and that could be me. I over inflated a small hand cart tire, when it exploded I was right there giving it just a little more, lost some more of my hearing that day. Glad you were not injured. gobble
 
That's scary.

I was airing up the tail wheel tire on a plow while the plow was still on my trailer when the tire blew.

Thankfully, where it blew was aimed away from me.
 
I know have a ryobyi 18volt mini compressor. you see the lb that you want the compressor to shut off. better and lighter then any airbubble made!
 
I bet you would be surprised if you calculated how many pounds of force was in that tire at 100 pounds per square inch
 
A few years ago I was working on a small utility trailer, had taken one wheel off to get under the fender doing some welding.

I finished and put the wheel back on. Sometime during the night the tire blew, just sitting there on an empty trailer!

Ripped open around the outside side wall, inches from where my face had been hours before!
 
IF you will combine the clip on chuck with a regulator, you can set the pressure before putting the chuck on the tire and it will only put that much air in.

Comes in real handy when airing up an aging tire you don't trust bring close to.
 
That right there is why you NEVER turn your back on a tire as it is being aired up. Airing up a tire is a hand on NEVER let it be. I was airing up a tire on a Case VAC and noticed something odd about the way the bead looked so instead of unhooking the clip on chuck I went to unhook it at the tank before I could get to the tank the bead blew. It has less then 10psi in it at the time but the wire in the bead broke. Had I tried to unhook the chuck I probably would not have an arm
 
On a good note, the inside of the tire and the rim both appear to have been unblemished. ;-)

Glad to hear that everyone is OK.
 
Steve - I don't trust air regulators. I had one that worked good most of the time, but once in a while it had a mind of its own. I was using it on one of those old cheap paint spray guns and it popped the bottom of the paint cup out so bad that the gun would fall over if I set it on the workbench.
 

BIL bought a log skidder with a bad motor but new tires. It has been parked beside the work shed for about 4 months. Oh a hot day in Aug, there was a tremendous BOOM that no one could figure out. While Glen was looking around, he found the RF tire of the skidder had exploded at the rim. Crazy. The tire looked new, no dry rot noticeable on any of the tires. The only different factor was this tire saw the sun most of the day. Still cannot figure out why the tire blew.
 
I use an in-line shutoff with a pressure gauge. I use a clip on connector with a 12foot hose from the connector to the shutoff valve. This way I can hide behind something when inflating these questionable tires!
 
Scary stuff. Glad nobody got hurt.

Before joining YT and reading the various stories about this subject,.. I had no idea that airing up tires was such a dangerous endeavor.
 
WOW!!! Glad no one was hurt!! I think I would leave that piece of tire stuck in the ceiling as a reminder!! Just imagine if you has fluid in the tire. Have to admit, I got a good laugh out of the picture!! Chris
 
I have a tire on my golf cart that needs air about every 4 days.
Been thinking about it blowing up every time I air it up.
Think I will go get a tube put in it .
Richard
 
I have told this story on here before but here goes. After retiring and before my pensions started, I took a job at a place that applied fertilizer and custom crop spraying. One day the boss's wife and kids drove up to the shop door in am SUV. The boss walked up and drug out the air hose and procceeded to air up a 12 inch bicycle tire still in the SUV. Yep he blew the tire UP!! It was very hard to keep a straight face. I would like to hear that supper conversation that night.
 
I just ordered a clip-on chuck from Amazon yesterday. Maybe that was a mistake as I get side tracked and distracted allot too. I got it to help me when trying to set a bead on a tire but better use it only for that.
 
I have a couple of tire 'blow out' stories, but this one is the best. My first one was when I was 17 working 2nd shift 10:30 at night, in a gas station-back before self service. A guy came in off the interstate with a low LF tire, would I air it up for him? Tire was hot, so not knowing any better, sure--ok, it's up to 32psi now, oh, you want a little extra to get home, ok I can add more if you like. About that time-BOOM- tire blew out in my face, threw me backwards onto my back. As I laid there a moment a cop pulled up-he had been driving past when the tire blew and thought I was being robbed, and had gotten shot. Never getting out of his cop car, and seeing I was not dead, he left! Almost the same time one of the owners pulled in, drunk, asked what happened? Still shook up, I told him, and never getting out of his car, he yells, Sell him a new tire! And he leaves! Glad you're all worried about me, and so I put the guys spare on for him, probably charged him $2.00. Mark.
 
I never use the clip on chucks,because I know I will forget about it and walk away.But I have a lot of questionable tires,so I just use a regular air chuck,but turn my back to it,so if something did happen,It will just knock me over.


Rock
 
I worked part-time at a Sears store while in college. I was in sporting goods, which sold bicycles. I was airing up a bike tire in the store's service garage when I obviously overdid it with the air. The bang was probably the loudest I have ever heard.
 
I run my mower tires as low as they will go. I bought a T240 craftsman last winter and run the OEM turf tires with less than 5# due to the stiff sidewalls. Most of my mowers have studded snow tires on the rear and they are rated 5 psig max, 2 ply. I really like them due to good traction for pond dam mowing and large volume. I changed wheels from the pretty standard OEM 12" to 8" and use the 22x10 tires (more or less depending on mower) on the replacement 8" dia wheel rather than 12" for more air volume....softer ride at lower pressure. Really makes a difference on clump grass growing in clay soils

I too have a clamp on chuck also but only use it for mounting tires....like getting 10" wide tubeless tires on 8" rims.....I only have 2 hands. Grin.
 
I put a pressure regulator on the Tire hose so it stops when inflated, I still watch the tire get filled, but at least when it is full, I feel more comfortable reaching for the chuck. I filled a 8X4X210 hand truck tire with a hand tire pump (remember those), That night it exploded at 2:00am. It was like a 12 gauge 40 feet away. Jim
 
Watched my brother blow up both tires on his 10-speed bike back in the 70's. After blowing up the second tire, I walked over to see what the problem was. Says he was trying to inflate them to what the tire said......70 lbs. Said the gauge said there was much less in both before they blew. I took the tire gauge from him, pulled out the little indicator stem that pops out the rear end, and told him THIS gauge only goes to 50 pounds.

I continued with my work, and he headed to the bike shop.......on foot. : )
 
If you can locate some pictures of 50-70 OEM tractor houses/tire mfgrs you should find pictures of the pipe frames the employees are required when filling a tire after mounting to the wheel. Other similar thing is the old "split rim" on heavy duty multi ply tires.....prior to the tubeless tire revolution. Many a person lost a body member servicing such when the ring wasn't properly seated and 100 PSI required tire pressure (like OTR truck tires to name one) blew the ring off.
 
There used to be a trade magazine that our service shop had laying around. I enjoyed reading it. It always had a cartoon in it called Kaputi Shop. My favorite Kaputi Shop cartoon was a shop scene where all of the mechanics were hiding behind trucks, peeping over the hoods and fenders. They were hiding from one of the other mechanics who was airing up a truck tire, and he was INSIDE the tire cage, reaching out to the tire on the outside of the cage.
 
When I was about 17 I was working for a guy who sent me over to his brothers house to borrow a disk. I hooked the disk to the tractor and headed down the road. In about a half mile I looked back to see the tire smoking like a wild fire. I stopped. Got off the tractor and walked back to see what was wrong. Just as I got to the smoking tire and leaned over, it blew out, right in my face. Completely deafened me. When I came to my senses I had ran about 100 yards down the road. The tire had rubbed on the disk frame until it over heated and then waited till I leaned over it to blow out!
 
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