A First for Me

[eagle19952]

Today my luck ran out  
Sitting in my coach, doing a relax and a cool down (just got done mowing 3-4 acres with the brush hog) and KA-POW scared the crap out of the wife and the dog...

I thought it was a an 8D battery exploded, there was still dust in the air.
The next thing I notice my little lawn tractor hood, parked near my back bay, the engine cowl is a little catywompus....
hhmmm.

On my way to the battery compartment to survey my AGM...what do I see... A BIG Alligator skin wadded up in the wheel well of where my curb side bogey tire was sposed to be...
It let loose with enough force to tweek the baggage bay about a 1/8 inch on the corner.
The coach has not been driven for about 6 weeeks, glad it was parked and not out on the highway is all I can say.

I have never in 40 years in the bizness of trucks and HE Construction seen a tire blow sitting still. Granted it was an old tire i put on to limp home on. No more oldies for me. This was the tire that had been molding in the spare tire bay...probably since it left Brownsville  

Super glad it wasn't in a rv park near where some kids might have been nearby..

[Ed Hackenbruch]

 Back in the 70s i was driving past a gas station early one morning and there was a 56 Ford truck that was sitting at the pumps when his right front tire blew....for a second i thought that somebody had shot it.   

[scanzel]

I blew a front right air bag sitting at the main gate of an RV park while my wife was registering inside. She came out and said the whole building shook when it blew. I was the talk of the whole rv park that weekend, the guy that blew and air bag a scared everyone. After that I just had all 8 replaced.

[Scott & Heather]

Scary stuff. You know, I was topping off all my bus tires with air the other day and kept thinking "if this thing blows, my head is gone".  Your post just convinced me....I'm going out today and buying a locking air chuck so I can lock on to the valve and walk away and set my regulator to a safe setting.


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[eagle19952]

Scott Scott SCOTT....!!!


A locking air chuck is a splendid idea....

Setting the regulator and walking away is NOT... that me-amiggo would get you fired on any earth moving job...OSHA would black list u...

What you do is need to understand.
Leaving a tire while under pressurization can be lethal. EVEN a regulator controled one can fail
An air chuck with a squeeze handle and integral gauge/tire pressure checker WITH enough hose to stand clear while wearing hearing protection, eye protection and a Jedi force field at minimum should be employed  

This one with an additional 6 ft of hose extending to a locking air chuck will keep you laffing at my humorous person.. BE SAFE. this is what I use.

these are found at o'reilly's etc.

 and this

and this which I do not leave on my tire.



Be SAFE  

PS you can use an additional 22 feet of hose if that's what makes you comfortable

you want control in your hand.

[krcevs]

I recommend Cats Eye or Cross Fire dual tire equalizers. Worth every penny! Single source to air both tires at the same time and improves how your tires wear.

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Eagle19952 has the right idea as far as inflators go. Best to have control of the air flow at all times and stand away.

Ken

[gumpy]

I have never in 40 years in the bizness of trucks and HE Construction seen a tire blow sitting still. Granted it was an old tire i put on to limp home on. No more oldies for me. This was the tire that had been molding in the spare tire bay...probably since it left Brownsville  

It was sitting in the sun, wasn't it?

I had a pickup tire blow sitting in the back of my truck once. Yep, old and rotted.

[daddyoften]

Just a month ago I was working in our companie's yard and there was a KABOOM! and dirt flying and some even hit me.  It came from a near by dumpster and I thought someone put a pipe bomb in it.  Once the dust settled and we realized it came from the skid steer sitting right next to the dumpster.  It had been parked there for a few weeks and not moved.  One of the tires blew out on it and left quite a little crater under it.  Craziest thing I ever saw or experienced!   
Eric

[eagle19952]

hmm. yes it was in the sun...late afternoon around near sunset maybe two 1/2 hours prior...makes me also wonder if black tire covers would be a mistake   probably 105 psi air.

[Charles in SC]

I have seen two of them blow sitting parked. Both of them were old.

[Ed Hackenbruch]

I bet that the odds of getting killed by a tire are a lot higher than getting killed by lightening.

[Scott & Heather]

Scary. I watched some YouTube videos of tires blowing.....


I need to stop watching them.


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