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I missed the big boom at work

bpostbpost Member Posts: 32,669 ✭✭✭✭
edited March 2015 in General Discussion
They had a large 16R X 25 off road tire explode while filling it today before I got in. The tire was 16 ply; the explosion blew 20 feet X 6 feet of metal wall insulation across the room and dented the metal wall. The windows rattled upstairs in the offices many walls and feet away, nobody got hurt. They always use tire cages to fill large tires just in-case something like this happens. Nobody was hurt, a couple of guys had insulation particles covering them pretty good.

I looked at the tire, it had a split in the side wall about a foot long, you could see the steel side wall belts were torn apart. The rubber was about 1/2 inch thick at that point, sometimes these tires just go bang. 120 PSI has a lot of energy in something that big.
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  • catgunguycatgunguy Member Posts: 6,089
    edited November -1
    I have heard large tires explode and it is something that gets your attention.
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  • perry shooterperry shooter Member Posts: 17,105 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Had a guy get killed in the motor pool Those split rim 1940's vintage military truck rims and no cage rim cut a hole through the roof .4 years ago lawn service customer had a dumb * trying to seat the bead on a zero turn 25x12-12 he had tire flat on the floor. But get this he was sitting on the tire while filling with air because it would not pop the bead all the way No telling how much PSI when sidewall next to the floor gave way it pole vaulted him over 15 foot but all he got was a Black and Blue butt cheeks. He would never have worked another day If I had been employer
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  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Camp Lejeune NC Court House Bay Engineer School. Building used to fix flats had a hole in the roof they left there to show students what happens when You don't use a cage for a Split rim. Guy was luck and all he lost was his arm.
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  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HANwJp8Z5mc

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3_PMhBa_-c
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  • armilitearmilite Member Posts: 35,490 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    There was a guy I used to work with, whose brother worked for the local bus company. He was killed by a tire which exploded while he was filling it at the bus terminal garage.
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  • babunbabun Member Posts: 11,038 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by grumpygy
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HANwJp8Z5mc

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3_PMhBa_-c


    Great videos!!

    Note that the burst PSI was only 150 lbs.

    Any home depot compressor can build that much air pressure.
    BE CAREFUL!!![:0]
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  • nmyersnmyers Member Posts: 16,892 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    We've had 2 separate tractor tire explosion incidents, both while inflating without a cage. One died (compromised airway), the other spent many months in the hospital & rehab (lost most of his teeth & 1 eye).

    I always tell my kids: THINK before you start to do something out of the ordinary.

    Neal
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  • 11b6r11b6r Member Posts: 16,584 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    True story- Company hired a teenager to do some summer work in shop. Day 1, foreman takes kid out in shop, shows him tire cage. Explains they ALWAYS use tire cage when inflating tires- that they can kill you, and inflating tire without using the cage will get you fired, first time.

    Couple of days later, he walks out into shop, finds a semi tire leaned against the OUTSIDE of the cage, air chuck clipped to valve stem. Crouched INSIDE the tire cage is teenager, reaching out through the bars to inflate tire.
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  • ChrisInTempeChrisInTempe Member Posts: 15,562 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by 11b6r
    True story- Company hired a teenager to do some summer work in shop. Day 1, foreman takes kid out in shop, shows him tire cage. Explains they ALWAYS use tire cage when inflating tires- that they can kill you, and inflating tire without using the cage will get you fired, first time.

    Couple of days later, he walks out into shop, finds a semi tire leaned against the OUTSIDE of the cage, air chuck clipped to valve stem. Crouched INSIDE the tire cage is teenager, reaching out through the bars to inflate tire.


    WOW! [:0]

    Well, at least the young man was trying to follow safety procedures!
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  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 60,230 ******
    edited November -1
    Dammm,,,[:0][:0][:0],,,
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  • mogley98mogley98 Member Posts: 18,291 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    [:D]quote:Originally posted by 11b6r
    True story- Company hired a teenager to do some summer work in shop. Day 1, foreman takes kid out in shop, shows him tire cage. Explains they ALWAYS use tire cage when inflating tires- that they can kill you, and inflating tire without using the cage will get you fired, first time.

    Couple of days later, he walks out into shop, finds a semi tire leaned against the OUTSIDE of the cage, air chuck clipped to valve stem. Crouched INSIDE the tire cage is teenager, reaching out through the bars to inflate tire.
    Why don't we go to school and work on the weekends and take the week off!
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  • WarbirdsWarbirds Member Posts: 16,938 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Close call. My introduction to engineering was a high school job sweeping floors and cleaning up at a destructive test lab. They typically tested tires, wheels, hydraulics, shocks, etc. You would just be working and a tire or wheel would let go on one of the machines BOOM!

    Lots of energy and all of it has to go somewhere.
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  • BLKSRT8BLKSRT8 Member Posts: 631 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    tire cages?? At least they were using their heads. Saved there lives though. I read somewere that one big tire has enough energy to blow a 180lb man 100' in the air.
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  • oldemagicsoldemagics Member Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by BLKSRT8
    tire cages?? At least they were using their heads. Saved there lives though. I read somewere that one big tire has enough energy to blow a 180lb man 100' in the air.

    I believe!!
    had lock ring on a 10 x 24 let loose while going on the spider
    had left foot pushing at bottom, hands @ 10 and 2 position so as to slide smoothly onto the hub when it left loose

    threw me back about 30' hitting a rail car on the siding, bounced back about half way again to land on my back behind the service truck !

    hit the rail car hard enough to split the skin on my back under several layers of insulated cloths (December)

    when my senses came back, realized my foot was 180 degrees from what it should be, knee and ankle were both pulled apart, bones in lower leg looked like gravel (shattered)

    welts across lower abdomen and right thigh about 3" high, just inches from making me a woman... [:0]

    seconds before it would have been my spine as I lifted the wheel onto the hub, or a few seconds later my head would have been in line as I picked up the spacer...

    3 surgeries on the leg after wife talked them out of amputating, 4 separate arthro surgeries on the knee and 2 years of therapy later they said I would never walk without a cane !
    since my favorite hobby is making liars out of dr's. I now walk, ride my bike and SKI!! [:D]

    the Boss must have some reason to keep me around this planet, that was the SECOND time I should have bought it
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