Tire explosion kills farmer.

[ebme96]

I don't think the rim was damaged in any way. They said there was very little visible damage to his forehead but the impact evidently is what did it.

 

[boggen]

pressure testing plumbing. general rule of thumb = filling the pipes full of water, with just a little bit of air, right at the air injection point.

if a test plug or fitting comes loose, it gets fired like a bullet out of the pipe... if you just used all but air in pressure testing. if using water like noted above, if plug comes loose it is dramatically reduced to barely being shot out.

compressed air can hold a huge amount of energy!

many tire repair shops, will refuse dry rotted tires, due to risk of tire explosion.

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the scary apart with tractor tires, is they are not like car/truck tires that get replaced every so many years or miles. but rather last many years, and are at a higher risk of dry rot / surface cracks within the tire itself.

 

[Bill 55]

Tire work can be very dangerous. I worked in a diesel garage for 20 years and always hated tire work

 

[PRF]

In our shop we have one of those chucks that clips to the tire valve with a 5' with a valve on one end.. I always stand off to the side when airing up a tire to 110-115psi just in case.. Very sorry about your friend, very tragic.

 

[Happy Gilmore]

In our shop we have one of those chucks that clips to the tire valve with a 5' with a valve on one end.. I always stand off to the side when airing up a tire to 110-115psi just in case.. Very sorry about your friend, very tragic.

That sounds like a good idea PRF, you never know when something so seemingly mundane like airing up a tire can turn for the worse.

 

[RickB]

35psi in a large tire is an unbelievable amount of force.

Surely is.......

 

[chopped]

Just this week I had a 16 incher explode. Its the front, and I run 35 to 40. But in this case, there had been a small slice in the tire itself and I added some rubber on the inside when I patched the tube. It has worked well in the past. but this time a small pebble had worked its way inside and kaboom. Im glad the bucket was empty then.
This was own faut in a couple ways. one is obvious but I also was watching a video the day before and saw a tractor tire blow .
Sad for the friend also

 

[RickB]

front....

I'm not volunteering to stand near an 1100x16 3 rib if it is going to blow off the rim in my direction @ 35PSI. "Older tractor" really doesn't tell us anything. There are 50 year old 4020's and 806's as of this year that had some pretty big front tires.

Tragic, at any rate. Folks in our area still grieve a well respected and loved truck repair shop owner who dies far too young due to an exploding tire he was repairing............

 

[Happy Gilmore]

After reading the initial post, I googled similar incidents. Scary stuff right there. I had never thought much about the violent force released from a tire exploding. Controlled environment testing video shows just how violent it is. New found respect here.

 

[PRF]

That sounds like a good idea PRF, you never know when something so seemingly mundane like airing up a tire can turn for the worse.

This is the one we use... I get real squeamish around truck tires..

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