The Locking Ring Split Rim - AKA Widowmaker - Why is it deadly? 

You have one Extra finger so you're Good without a Cage

Exactly! How can they be dangerous? There is a cute little puppy on them. =8

That is NOT a split rim. It is a split ring. They are completely different things. I am 71 yrs old and drove trucks for almost 40 yrs.

blipco5 it was uninflated

+adam baller ...I know. Cute puppy.

Puppies disarms all dangers.

split ring rim is bad boy

Awesome puppy, the breed in the video is bad ass. You can get them of Chuck Norris

Puppy power!! Flying through the air at 100mph.. my dog would do the same haha

Dang those rims have a lot of power.

SILENT KILLER'S 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾.... THEY LOOK SO INNOCENT

My 1985 AM General M923a1 has them and so far so good,There alot of heavy truck tire shops here in south Texas and some won't service them,but most do. Thanks

@@fredboat what part of south texas are you in man, i got a MV too, located in duval county :D

@@johndowe7003 77429

The center split are the ones that are called widow maker. These are not.

if you ever see one buried into a wall you change your tune it only take one death to make them dangerous i would not brag too much about it

@@frankdavidson9675 well if you had one shoot off into a wall it was probably because you didn't know what you were doing. I've worked on hundreds of them and never had a problem, you just have to know what you're doing.

Thanks for watching, I figured people would have heard of or seen them, but it would be well worth showing how they go together.

@@Aussie50 Thanks for the great video. Years ago a guy I used to know was hit in the head with one of these exploding rings and it put him in a coma. He was never the same after that and had permanent brain damage.

RODALCO2007 funny seeing you here :)

Are you gonna use a split rim to kill wasps?

RODALCO2007 ñ

haha yeh that dog of mine could burn the eyes out of a cat with her small discharges :p

Specially if said rectal gases have been contained under pressure for a while Adds some extra chemical reactions once released to the atmosphere

Exactly. I worked at a tire shop & what you're saying is what I learned.

@@JoelRSmith Yes, that's what I was taught was a split rim (widowmaker). The one in the video we called a split "ring", not nearly as dangerous.

Firestone RH-5. Yowza.

They're still used on heavy equipment, let the air out before even touching the hub bolts.

BillyNoMates1974 he is gone to never come back im afraid as the last i heard from him he is in india with a new wife.

if thats the case, his company is still trading

Stoned Savage I know he got married but hadn't heard from him since. With Indian electrics as they are he should have no shortage of capers.

I disliked your comment for correcting him

bensevrywere I noticed that when I lived there, now that I’m elsewhere 😬👍🏻

gun laws suck though

John Doe They're also good when you take into account our lack of mass shootings and massacres......

Bill Rowse y’all just had two in 2014, plus some other mass killing. Australia is great but get off your high horse dawg

John Doe Fuck mate, to be honest I don't give a shit what it is, but for whatever reason we seem to be doing a ton better than America. I think our gun laws are a bit fucked to be honest but if it's not broken then why fix it

Synystr7 he's easier to understand than AvE

Well for you maybe, but I can understand all the Canadianisms perfectly fine... being Canadian and all.

Im not Canadian, but his vernacular is easy to get used to. Fuckin hilarious.

this guys videos are older than aves, i remember aves first video that i know of is an anvil mounted to a stack of wood but this guy has been spinning chunks of metal in washing machines and working on motors and random stuff for longer than i can remember

counterfit5 not for me, I'm French canadian,, ave I understand but this dude not

hahaha puppy

Ouch!, stay warm mate!, its 42*c today, just as dangerous as -38, if not more so.!

Aussie50 surprisingly we only get up to 30÷ in the summer but I find some shade and a nice breeze makes it bearable, drink lots man I'm sure the temperature increasing is due to the ozone layer decreasing here hot 4 years ago was 22+ now the avg is 25-28+ and that doesn't sound like a lot but some days have hit +35 mid summer so I'm pretty sure that's a fine example global warming so to speak

AustinAutomotive going to be -40 with the wind in SK

AustinAutomotive lol ozone layer isnt decreasing, seperate issue to global warming. Ozone layer was getting really shitty until everyone got together decided to stop using the chemicals that contributed to it e.g. CFC's in aerosols. But youre right temperatures are generally, relatively increasing very rapidly every year with temperature records every year in some places. Luckily I think the 'market' may save us - getting say a 5kw solar panel system on your home is actually economical now especially with the crazy and continually rising power prices. Batteries to accompany it will be economical in ~3 years but the tech is already here look at tesla powerwall 2 but is a bit pricey.

Split rims are not prone to failure, they work just fine but can be dangerous if you do not know how to perform maintenance on them.

There's nothing dangerous about them when seated and they have advantages over "modern" tires since you can make the rubber a lot thicker for more load/wear capacity. It's the mounting bit that's a bit dicey unless you take precautions.

They are not prone to failure! Just need to do the job properly! They are the best design.

Absolutely, I loved the tire-tread chucker that simulated getting hit by a piece of tread at speed!

Del350K4 That was a great episode! And I felt the exact same way!

yep thats the reason, no weird big tools, tyre iron and effort, not exactly possible to be towing around a bead breaker then a thing to seat the bead and inflate it fast to seal it

T I R E

Wyatt Lewis Well go to sleep earlier then.

cjeam The rubber thing that goes on a wheel to support a vehicles weight and provide traction is called a tire. Not tyre.

Wyatt Lewis No it’s called a tyre. When you work all day changing tyres you start to tire and then you need a break. Tyres go on cars. Tire is getting worn out.

Thanks mate , same to you and your family !

Is it better than his face? :D

RWBHere LOL!

I have never seen or used a 3 piece, but I have heard the same story over and over again, those are true widowmakers!

Allan C

Good point. IF the need should ever arise (unlikely for me), I would wrap a chain or rope around the tire, through the rim, on two sides, then if the ring should pop, the force would be against the chain/rope and wouldn't go flying unless the chain/rope broke.

A lot of places put them in a welded steel cage for testing/inflation. This really is the safest option as it means all pieces are contained. There are a bunch of tutorials on them, like this old one at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xnyh78wjZ1o.html Ideally you'd want to have that setup outdoors and venting against angled steel plates a couple of feet from the cage which direct the blast harmlessly upwards - like the berms around explosive stores do.

oh yeh these things are no joke, the one I have in the video is the safer of the designs, some are worse, especially the non-split ring wheels where you push it over to one side and it just hangs in there. in good order with no rust they are not bad, but once you deal with worn and rusted old ones, they do not hold together as well and can fly apart.

I had a similar discussion with a friend about hydraulic pressure and the steel I was using, over a large area 5000psI would burst the steel I was using, but over 1/2" on the tube I was using, it was 1/4 of the bursting pressure, tires and other pressure vessels are no different, even a car tire bursting at 30psi is enough to ruin your day!.

I just googled that. it looks like a great little tuck!, not exactly sure if they run the same style of rims but would be close, either way, treat them with care :D

See them a lot on large equipment, dump trucks, loaders and the like. Not very common on over the road trucks anymore.

They are illegal to manufacture in the states on over the road vehicles.

Nighthawke70 aussie? More like EVERY life....dogs are literaly the best!

there are plenty of them in the military, i was in the marines and when i was sent to 29 palms california the small trailers towed behind hmmwv's and trucks had those wheels and i had to take them apart and re assemble them. halfway threw the 6 months i was there they told me to stop taking them apart because a guy got his head cut off by one

Thanks for your service, bergerk20.

Smitty Smithsonite no problem

Smitty Smithsonite lucky duck I see these quite a bit of these rims .

Most people won't see these anymore just for the simple fact that no shop will work on them anymore due to the danger.

It's a shit design

In a pinch ive used a lift or forklift forks as a safety cage (young and dumb at the time)

No one died at the shop. Jose the manager pulled through. Those wheel barrow tires are very dangerous. The split rim accidents at the shop did not result in death. The guy at Camp Pendleton? He very very died. He died before hitting the ceiling, which he did at tremendous velocity. The safety videos from General Tire show an 1100 series tire set underneath a 68 Ford Squire Station wagon which in itself is a Sherman tank. For demonstration purposes they aired it up with a warped lock ring. It lifted the car 12 feet. Next time you have a chance walk around one of those big tires and mentally try and count how many square inches of surface there are. Then imagine 120 pounds pushing out on every inch. That's a hellava cannon.

Cool story bro

They are a form of split rim, there are several and people will argue that these are not even called Widowmakers, but its what I hear in Australia.

the tires and rims we are using on m37 army trucks are apox 70 yrs old we keep rims but get new same size tires 900-16 8 ply-------- heavy---

haha yeh, I made the mistake as a kid, of removing the bolts from a hand truck tire, the tube blew between the 2 halves before I got it apart

All my wheelchair tyres are actually solid rubber, no air at all. Even on my powerchair, although they were an extra option on that. I really much prefer the solid tyres, over the older tubed pneumatic options. The compounds they use give an identical ride to a correctly inflated tubed tyre, but are completely maintenance free for the wear life of the tread. You would never get me to go back to pneumatic systems again. Given how good they are on the chair I really wonder why they haven't taken off for bicycles. You would think that for road racing in particular, where they tend to run at some pretty high pressures that the new solid tyres would be great. Tuning the compounds would allow you to fine tune the ride to suit conditions, just as I guess they do now by adjusting the pressure. The one thing you would be sure of is no more nasty surprises from a suddenly deflating tyre. I had a valve let go on me once when riding my motorbike. It happened while I was breaking to go round a roundabout, coming down from about 80 to 30 mph. A right brown trouser moment. Also back even further in time, in 1985, I had the experience of seeing a lorry tyre let go on the back end of an artic trailer, while it was doing about 55 mph on the M5. I was just passing the thing doing about 80 mph, and it was about 15 feet in front when it let go. Quite spectacular to see. Luckily it was the inside wheel of a twin wheel axel, which deflected a lot of the debris towards the nearside.

This one is an AN-APG 501 out of a Saber, around Korean war era. I am not sure if it has any radio function in this particular unit, this one is radar IFF etc, I also have the magnetron unit for it. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SLP1uuPLNzI.html