As a teen in the late 80’s I worked in the tire shop attached to the back end of a gas station, in fact I was the sole tire repair guy at 18 YO. Fixed everything including split rim pickup and big truck tires, we had a cage but looking back now I realize I knew next to nothing about doing the job safely. Had one truck tire come apart in the cage once but not much air in it at the time so it just made a lot of noise and not much else. I am glad I lived through that job.
if you worked the same job in a 3rd world country like mine then youd loose an arm or two from all the imported used tires we import from you guys in the usa
Family friend of mine was working on one of these without a cage... it exploded and quite literally blew his head about clean off. There were tiles knocked out of the 20 ft ceiling of the shop he was working in. Don't screw around with these things, they WILL kill you if you're not careful. RIP Steve Etter, you will be missed.
The power stored in a tire is phenomenal. I've seen two tire explosions in my 40 year career. One eas a sixteen inch split rim that popped the rim apart and the other was a 22.5 truck tire that the sidewall let go. Wicked explosions. Thank goodness the split rim was in a cage. The other was in a stack of tires waiting to go on the truck. Every tire shop I worked in during my early years in the career had scars on the twenty foot ceilings from split rims that let go.
"Every tire shop I worked in during my early years had scars on the twenty foot ceilings ... then came Nixon and OSHA. OSHA complainers don't know what it was like.
1982. Washington State Army National Guard. The motor pool and maintenance yard were next door to our offices. My sergeant pointed out the tire cage built into the inside walls of the shop, and the circular groove worn into the cinderblocks. I was much impressed to say the least.
Yes I use to change truck tyres for my first job after school. Many of the rims needed the rust cleaned out of the recesses. Never had a cage to inflate them too.
In the mid 1980’s, I was hired to be a tire buster at a Western Auto store. They scheduled me to start the following Monday. Before I could start the job, the guy who hired me was killed mounting a big truck tire. Seems like it was the Friday or Saturday before. My sister said it made the local TV news
I once read a story about some dude whose dad went out to air up the split rim on his truck when he noticed it come apart a little. He came back and hit it with a hammer and the rim took his head clean off next to the son. It was in some RU-vid comments so it might not be the most true story, but believable.
I changed lots of those when I was younger, I knew it was dangerous. I done it with tire on the ground and kept hitting the ring until it popped in place while inflating. Also had chain wrapped around it. The last 6 or so I done I installed tire on truck before inflation. I was always so nervous, if I had seen a video of the ring popping off I maybe would of paid a garage to do it in a cage. I don't believe truckers are even aloud to change a flat on side of road these days. It was only 5 lug nuts then though!
So I was told many years ago that from the same tyre shop one fitter was killed by an exploding tyre/wheel one morning, then later in the same day one of the dead fitters colleagues was killed in a road accident. RIP lads. Also this video is why split rim wheels have been banned in UK for general truck or bus use for many years now. Only permitted use on either cars or classic commercial vehicles. Also wheels were redesigned to incorporate better nuts (or lugs in the US) than in the past to try to prevent (although it still happens) total wheel and tyre loss.
@@joeylawn36111 I used to drive big rig in the late 80's hauling stroh's beer out of Winston Salem NC. To all over northeast.......people in Ohio and Pennsylvania all they do is drink stroh's beer and bowl .
My grandfather saw 2 men killed by split rim trick tires, and my father saw a man lose his arm. Luckily when i was young and doing tires, i never had to experience that.
The thing is, this is generally avoidable, you have to pay attention to what you are doing, split rims are a different animal, but you can see if the ring isn't right before you get much air in it
I've done split rims. But more often done safety ring wheels. (Still use them on one of my trucks.) The ones that give me the heebee geebee's are the 3 piece wheels used on heavy equipment. I trust that "o-ring" not at all.
Hey I worked on one of those lol in the 1980's. I did a much better job. Was scary shit to learn about so always conscious of when I was beside a big rig.
It's not video, it's not an action movie, it's a frigging public service documentary on FILM. It's clear you don't understand that film editing isn't like dicking around with the camera software on your phone. The information was presented clearly and concisely, and it's pretty silly to get snotty about 'the editing' like you were expecting it to be a fast-paced thriller cutting between three angles of everything in slow-motion the whole time.
Damn I remember working with Split rims couple years ago.. That was the scariest thing ive done... Sadly the tire shop stopped fixing those just after I left in 2011
I just had a heavy truck tire in for remounting, so they could find the leak, and it blew up in the tire cage. The cage held the tire well enough but the air blast knocked one of the shop guys down so hard he got put in the hospital for a broken hip. I know it was not my fault but I feel really bad for the guy because he is going to be crippled up and in rehab for the rest of the summer now.
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i got the explision before when my tire is aready weak and spoil and i didnt change it. when my tire flat. as usual i pump the air i thiught its safe and i have no experience at all cause i am young. and it explode... lucky there nothing happen to me only hearing problem. i learn that experience and on that day onwards. i am so afraid when trying to pump my tires till now.
And let's not forget the 4 piece rim. So easy to blame the rim . Be scared is best then take notice of how to do it properly clean all mounting plates /rings/ Spring clip/stagger all joints innate to 5psi tapping and making sure the locking ring is in it's groove and then a long air hose tapping as you go whilst it mounted on the vehicle ring did in that how I did it as road side mechanic in the 40s through to present day still doing the odd one . But don't be fooled modern truck tubeless tyres are just as deadly if mounted/ damaged side wall. Killer and we do this job every day to keep the country moving and enjoy the risk no danger money I had one go of when doing a under body not test herd that cracking sound and that day had my off fxxk get out of there head on .let's not for get Batteries little jems of plastic throwing acid spitting blinding killing block of fun got the stitches of them thank you keep safe young ones they don't teach live demonstrates have to watch a video great!!! You can not taste or smell the fear when it goes wrong were old timers because we listen and learned before BANG to late
DANGER ⚠ Tires on multi piece rims are literally live bombs that are very unstable which can go off at any time , Absolutely no inexperienced person should attempt to service them , Especially without a safety cage and hearing protection along with a very long air hose and clip on tire chuck , Wrapping the tire with a chain may not contain the parts if the assembly explodes because of the immense force it generates which means more deadly shrapnel flying in the event of an explosion , NEVER NEVER ATTEMPT TO SERVICE TIRES ON MULTI PIECE RIMS WITHOUT PROPER TRAINING AND PROPER SAFETY EQUIPMENT , Also , Being in close proximity to a tire rim explosion , The force of the blast can rupture your ear drums , It can also collapse your lungs , Two more reasons why you must be at a safe distance away when airing up a tire , For those individuals not experienced in this field , Definitely not for the do it yourselfer , So for safety's sake , Let a professional tire technician handle it , In everything you do ALWAYS PUT SAFETY FIRST!!!!
@Womb Raider Yes I have when I worked at the bus garage for Olmsted Falls schools Several buses had those split rim wheels but the boss walked me through it But I didn't like messing with those rims to begin with
If you have flat tire on anything you may be driving car, truck etc etc, and you drive on that flat for any distance at all. Never and i mean never try to save that tire and air it up. It goes in garbage pile. This is a big no no, just trust me.
Firestone and Goodyear make tires, not rims. When you make tires, like a rubber product producer, you don't question the type of engines, drivelines, axles, wheel ends, or the mounting methods required. You make what the vehicle builder asks you to build, and then you start building other similar products that you hope to sell en masse after the OEM products wear out. As long as there was demand for 10.00 - 20 tires, or 11.00 - 20 tires, you cranked them out. When orders slowed for bias ply tires, you started taking orders for 24.5 inch radials, then 22.5's, 19.5's, etc. It all hinges on the designs of the builders. What GMC, FORD, DODGE, Kenworth, Mack, Peterbilt, etc wanted to equip their trucks with, is what the axle builders, rim makers, etc. fell over themselves to produce for the builders. The eventual phasing out of bias-ply tires came with the improvements and better quality that radial designs offered, and with that came different sizing, different styles of mounting the wheels on the axles, and different methods of mounting the rubber on the wheels or rims. It is not impossible to still find older technology still sitting around on older equipment, but it became illegal at some point to put split rims on newly-built equipment, as the dangers were already well known. Laws had to be created and passed to hasten the phasing out of that stuff as OEM, but there is still some manufacturers who do small runs of the older bias-ply style tires for the holdouts who keep on running their now-antique equipment and haven't bothered to adapt newer wheel-end mounting systems to accommodate newer, safer wheels and rims. The old hands who are still with us, learned to respect the designs of the older times. Using a cage might be considered "wussy" by some, but for those who would like to live out their days intact, using a tire cage and other safety equipment designed to save lives in the event of a mis-mount, or tire failure while being inflated, is a worthwhile investment that just might pay off handsomely.
@@stanpatterson5033 they still make and sell bias ply and nylon tires. I just bought a set for my ford dump truck with dayton hubs. it has locking band wheels and I like them because they are easier to service in the field, not everyone has a 1 inch impact and air compressor sitting around for the occasional wheel or tire change. not to mention the cost to convert my truck to new wheels with radial tires is just over $6000 no labor. My new nylon tires cost just over $2000.
Let’s go back to 1979 and apprenticeships, then get shown *paper* photos of what happens when you don’t follow the book. Bodies in steel rafters blowing up plant tyres without cages. That’s how you learn * not to*
@@servicetrucker5564 'steel belted radial' tires run cooler and have less rolling resistance than nylon tires. but nylon tires are more durable and stronger which is why they are still in use and use on all heavy and light equipment.
Jean-Sébastien prior to the development of the " drop center wheel " it was impossible to work the bead of the tire over the rim . With the development of the drop center you effectively reduce the diameter of the wheel and allow for the bead of the tire to slip over the rim of the wheel .
I had heard it was because it would be easier (read: more cost-effective for the trucking companies) for a driver to fix a flat tire on the road with Dayton-style wheels. If you look at pictures of old trucks and trailers with multi-piece wheels, it already has the split rim mounted to the tire on the spare.
