Pathetic Tire Shops these days

[Gunny]

If you ever want your "friend" list to explode exponentially...buy a tire machine and balancer. They will be glad to bring their tires over to get mounted and balanced for free!

Yep, found that out - and it didn't take long for the word to spread around. Same with a welder, wood planer, cutting torches but the biggest one was after I got a tiller for the tractor - all of a sudden it seemed like half of town decided they needed a garden spot tilled.

I finally got to the point where I'd keep a few projects in a wait status until someone showed up wanting me to do something for them. I'd always tell them that I'd be happy to do it, but this or that needed doing first and if they'd help me with it, then we'd get to their job faster.

It was amazing how fast my "friend" list shortened.

 

[ultrarunner]

^^^I love it and will need to remember because being capable and available will run you ragged...

 

[goeduck]

Unfortunate experience. No idea where you are but in the PNW its Les Schwab to get any tire fixed.

Yep. Had them do two 14.9 x 24 AG tires two weeks ago that I need to get on the Massey I use for pasture mowing. I changed from turf to AG and got new rims. Piece of cake for a Les Schwab place.

I was in the Les Schwab in Spokane Valley early one morning after I ran over a chunk of iron there in my F250 in the dead of night. Road hazard repair. Those folks know service, too bad their prices went up a few years ago. I have been to 15 to 20 Les Schwab places due to my travel, so many that when I go in to a new one they ask me which goeduck I am and I tell them they are all me

I was doing a project at the Prineville OR Hospital once and went into a HUGE patient room and asked what the story on the room was. They bowed their head and said this was Les Schwabs room (his hometown and where his tire business chain started).