Sure wish I'd had a video camera today......We fought this tire all day that wouldn't seat.....tried inflating it as high as we felt safe...no go. We tried ratchet straps/etc.....no go. We chamfered the rim's inner edge.....no go. We coated the rim & tire bead with vasoline....no go. We chamfered the tire's bead-edge.....no go. We tried a little more of all.....no go. Finally ran out of ideas......took it outside and gave it about a hundred + lbs of air while watching from behind the door................................BOOOOM!!!
That mf'er went off like a stick of dynomite...knocked shit off the walls inside....knocked the hat off my head and I was 30 ft back and peering out the hinge-side crack in the door.... .No-shit the tire flew 30 yards down into a creek behind the shop....took us a long time to figure out where it went!
I've always heard how dangerous overinflating a tire can be....now I've seen for myself it's no joke! If a man had been anywhere near that sucker it'd have killed him! Our tire guy said the last time he'd heard of a similar situation it actually did kill the installer...He was standing right over it while over-filling and it blew him off his feet and left his body-print indented in the sheetrock ceiling (along with some of his brains).
Sure wish I had video....it was exciting. lol.
That mf'er went off like a stick of dynomite...knocked shit off the walls inside....knocked the hat off my head and I was 30 ft back and peering out the hinge-side crack in the door.... .No-shit the tire flew 30 yards down into a creek behind the shop....took us a long time to figure out where it went!
I've always heard how dangerous overinflating a tire can be....now I've seen for myself it's no joke! If a man had been anywhere near that sucker it'd have killed him! Our tire guy said the last time he'd heard of a similar situation it actually did kill the installer...He was standing right over it while over-filling and it blew him off his feet and left his body-print indented in the sheetrock ceiling (along with some of his brains).
Sure wish I had video....it was exciting. lol.

