Just had a sickening thought

[two_bit_score]

If your tractor is really low I guess it could happen. Most of them the wheel would hit the ground before you got crushed. I wouldn't worry about it to much unless you have a tube poking out the side of your tire. I would say your chances of getting hit by lightning are greater.

More likely he would be injured from the force of the blown tire than crushed by the tractor.

TBS

 

[bcp]

Decades ago several friends and I decided to take our motocross bikes to a track about 75 miles away. I had a truck so we put 3 in it while a friend with a Honda Civic pulled the other two on one of those real cheap trailers with 8" wheels. I would say we did 65 mph on the interstate. After about 15 minutes after getting there we were putting on our gear and one of the tires on the trailer exploded. It's the first time and only time I've seen this. Of course it was probably the cheapest quality Chinese made tire. Anything can happen but the odds on a tire not just deflating but exploding when just standing still has to be extremely low.

At high speed it had lots of cooling air going by. After stopping, the heat couldn't escape.

Bruce

 

[ovrszd]

At high speed it had lots of cooling air going by. After stopping, the heat couldn't escape.

Bruce

Yep. Have had wagon tires blow just sitting in the hot sun.

 

[DieselBound]

Did you hear the one about the atomic physicist running around fearing falling through the atomic structure of the universe?

This subject's best point is that of approaching something with caution. While the issue of a tractor crushing someone due to a "tire blow-out" is pretty darn remote, it's thoughts like this that cause us to pause and think, and that pause (and thought) might also cause us to take note of something that's truly a more up-front threat. But then again.... A person might be stuck thinking about this such that he steps off a sidewalk and into the path of an on-coming vehicle!:laughing:

My rears are ballasted. I'm now shopping for scuba gear!

 

[teg]

From the Farm Show in Raleigh... portable jacks and a big old tractor. It would stink to have one of these tires blow!!!

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[breadtrk]

I have had my hydro tractor creep a little bit when I had my foot close to the front of the tire. I caught it in time but I would hate to be stuck with my foot jammed under a tire and all I have with me is a rusty jackknife.

The rusty jackknife explains why you were out of your running hydro tractor without the hand brake set.