times have changed.

rustred · Mar 2, 2023

its not the way i was taught.

J Hamilton · Mar 2, 2023

Hopefully that is just showing how NOT to do it, but these days you never know! I've seen as I'm sure many others have seen a cage destroyed by a tire.

matthies · Mar 2, 2023

The shirt says it all.

NDIHC · Mar 2, 2023

100%...Comrade in a cage!

Stephen Newell · Mar 2, 2023

Must be Putin's tire guy. Guess he doesn't trust Russian tires not to blow.

redforlife · Mar 2, 2023

Apparently the guy who took this photo doesn't see anything wrong with this procedure.

moresmoke · Mar 3, 2023

Personal safe space.

JF in MI · Mar 3, 2023

Decades ago I worked in a place and the building next door was a tire shop. The guys working there weren't known for high intelligence. One guy rolled an ag tractor tire into a cage just like that one. Misread the print on the side of the tire and instead of 8 lbs set it to 80 lbs. The explosion felt like an earthquake. The guys staggered out of cloud of dust from the still standing building in shell shock but alive. The cage, that used to be oval like the one in the picture, was now perfectly round.

Hoofer B · Mar 3, 2023

Now that is unique. We have 2 tire cages at the shop I just printed off this pic to hang on the wall. I bet the old timers at the shop told him that is how it is done. He is the same kid that is looking for a left handed crescent wrench. Funny. Bill

Bruce(OR) · Mar 3, 2023

Decades ago. . . .
For me that would be roughly. . .1983.
Out playing Army games in Yakima Washington and one young lad had the 2-1/2 ton truck(?) tire in a cage as he was supposed to be doing. It was a split rim and came apart. Great amount of noise and he would have escaped without injury if he had not been holding onto one of the bars.
He got lucky and didn't lose any fingers on that one.

JohnRowehl · Mar 3, 2023

I plead ignorance. I take it some kind of protective cage is to be used. But not like the one in the photo? What does an approved one look like?

I heard a guy I knew in ag college was killed by by a tire rim that blew apart.

DCM · Mar 3, 2023

There is still a shop in my town where the owner had gravel trucks in the '70s, the plywood ceiling still boasts an imprint of a 20 inch tire ring which blew, no one hurt but I'm sure a lesson learned.

caterpillar guy · Mar 3, 2023

IF the inside tire is bolted on in reverse position like the outside dual is the ring can only go in towards the frame. and if the outside wheel is on with the inside one it can only go till it hits the outside tire. Never had a cage for tires and never had one come apart. Id do check the ring for fitment as I inflate and before.

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