Breaking in my new toys... from Yeehaw! to Uh oh!

[sandman2234]

Time for some more tools...

Sawzall?
Tire iron?

A friend had a company come crush about 200 junk cars from his lot, and they had a machine that would rip the tire right off the rim, without ever removing it from the car, or while it was off the car. They wouldn't let spectators near it, and it worked so fast that I couldn't get an idea how it worked. It would pull a tire from a rim faster than I can type it. The tire did not need to be deflated.
How about trying a couple of chains, one holding the tire, and the other the rim, with one hooked to a non-movable item and the other to the tractor might do it. If you position them right, it should peel the rim out of the tire.
David from jax

 

[3RRL]

Hey Spiv,
I just went through that myself at camp. I used a farm jack by putting the bottom onto the tire to break it off the rim. I hooked the top of the jack under the tractor itself. When I jacked it, the jack pushed down and broke the tire off the rim.
Go here to read about it.
DIY Tire Repair

 

[Spiveyman]

Rob, that is perfect. Thanks for the link and idea. Now all I need is a farm jack. (More tools always seems to be the right answer.) Actually, that's what I was trying to do at first, lower the FEL right on that inside edge to break the seal, but the whole tire wound up flipping up. I tried several angles to get it to do that with no luck. One time I pressed hard enough that the teeth punctured the tire. I wish I had pictures or video of me "playing" with that tire from the seat of the tractor. It kind of reminded me of a cat playing with a mouse before eating it.

Sounds like I'm on the right track, but these two wheels had probably been sitting in the field for 20 - 30 years. It's like the dang things are fused to the rims. I did get a sawsall for Christmas last year, so maybe it's time to put that puppy to work. It'd be a bummer not to be able to use my tractor though. I also need to get my wife to come take pictures of all the stuff I get in to. Then I could have parallel posts to Rob's....

Here's me demonstrating how not to get a tire off a rim. See how the tire flips up in the air and comes down still attached? Now, for a method that works, follow this link to 3RRL...

 

[Spiveyman]

OK Rob, I was trying to take it easy given my history for "pimping" your BB (hee hee), but I am still cracking up that you just came across the same basic need as I did, but with a very different result. I think this is getting to the escence of what it means to be truly "handy."

You approached the task at hand with a very logical method, tools laid out, camera fixed on the scene, and wrote a documentary on how to fix a punctured tire by yourself with none of the right tools or patches. I jumped in the seat of my Ford and started smashing the crud out of that tire with the FEL teeth trying get it off the rim and actually put two holes in it. (Not that it matters, but go with me here.)

This is what it means to not be very handy. I think we could define a "handiness scale" now, call it the Liefveld-Spivey Handiness Scale. Everyone ranks somewhere in between, some more on the L side, some more on the S side.

Then again, maybe I just need to apply some perspiration to go along with your inspiration, and get 'er done. Later!

 

[3RRL]

One thing for sure though Tim,
Sounds like you had a lot more fun than I did. Wish I could've seen a video of that.
I would love to beat the crap out of something with my fel.

 

[RollTideRam]

Sounds like I'm on the right track, but these two wheels had probably been sitting in the field for 20 - 30 years. It's like the dang things are fused to the rims. I did get a sawsall for Christmas last year, so maybe it's time to put that puppy to work. It'd be a bummer not to be able to use my tractor though. I also need to get my wife to come take pictures of all the stuff I get in to. Then I could have parallel posts to Rob's....

Here's me demonstrating how not to get a tire off a rim. See how the tire flips up in the air and comes down still attached? Now, for a method that works, follow this link to 3RRL...

At least you found the tire/wheel without using a bush hog. JC

 

[Spiveyman]

One thing for sure though Tim,
Sounds like you had a lot more fun than I did. Wish I could've seen a video of that.
I would love to beat the crap out of something with my fel.

Yeah, you got me there. That was a blast. Like a kid in a sandbox! My mom was over visiting my granny, and they were both in the house watching. They said that they could not figure out what in the world I was doing with that "thing on the front of [my] tractor." I said, taking a tire off a rim of course (as if that was the standard way of doing that.) My back-up response was going to be, practicing for a full scale battle bot competition.

At least you found the tire/wheel without using a bush hog.

Oooo.... ouch. I guess the story implied there is obvious. Yeah, the fields are all in very good condition. Just a few pieces of junk and they are in obvious places. So, did the brush hog eat up the tire, or the other way around?

 

[6sunset6]

If I am scrapping both tire and rim I use a hand grinder. Same one I use for grinding welds down. Rubber cuts easy and wires also just like hydraulic hose. Cut through the tire cross wise and into the rim to cut the bead. Tire peels right off.

 

[sandman2234]

We have all been there, or will be soon!
Of all the things I have hit that didn't agree with my bush hog, the second worst is a tire. The first is a roll of discarded carpet. Third comes in as a roll of barbwire, or a string of it. However things I run over with the tractor that have no bearing on the bush hog are at the top of the list.
Yellow jackets
Snakes longer than a shovel
Ground softer than a JD
and the list, to be continued later:
David from jax

 

[Spiveyman]

If I am scrapping both tire and rim I use a hand grinder. Same one I use for grinding welds down. Rubber cuts easy and wires also just like hydraulic hose. Cut through the tire cross wise and into the rim to cut the bead. Tire peels right off.

I don't have a hand grinder, but I'm always looking for an excuse to get a new tool. On the other hand I've not used my sawsall that I got last Christmas yet. I'm assuming it will work kind of the same.

Now if I can just figure out a way to mount that sawsall to the FEL....

(I just said that to see if Rob would post a picture of how he did it!!!) HA!