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My son had a truck tire blow out in his shop today. No one hurt but a few guys shaken up. He services trucks for a local feed mill and had one in the shop for its scheduled service. Shop is about 60x100. One of the company drivers had some spare time so he was checking tire pressures. One of the outside trailer tires was a little low so he aired it up. My son was walking by and heard the popcorn sound and asked the guy how much pressure he put in the tire. He said 110 but he checked it again. Just when he put the gauge to the valve stem the inside sidewall blew out, BOOM! A big cloud of dust came out from under the trailer and the guy checking the pressure was wobbling around. My son asked him if he was OK and he said “yes but I can’t hear anything”. Everybody’s ears were ringing. A couple other guys were in the shop and their eyes were as big as dinner platters. Anyway, the important part was no one was hurt. Someone could have been carried out in a body bag if the tire wouldn’t have been bolted to the hub. All I can say is the good lord was looking down upon them today.
 
Scary stuff. My largest truck is Tom O's grain truck. He sold it to me a few years back now but the tires were nearly new so I have never had to mess with them. I top off the air in the Spring. That's all I am up for.
 
It is called a zipper,when you here that sound, all you can do is duck and run. Glad everyone is
alright.
 
I seen one let loose, in the a heavy duty pipe tire cage,i was about 75foot away what a bang, but the guy putting in the air had to go home and change clothes,so much dirt and dust came off the tire and rim, just covered him !
 
I had a car tire let go on the tire machine once.

I was airing it up, it blew on the bottom, opposite side from where I was standing.

Sure glad it didn't blow on my side, probably wouldn't have any kids or grand kids...

But when it blew, the blast went down and against the wall in front of me. The floor was covered in dirt, gravel, old wheel weights. I was immediately blinded by the dirt. Miraculously nothing big hit my eyes. But my face and arms were peppered with red welts and little bloody spots from the flying debris. My ears rang for days.

And that was just a car tire, under 30 PSI. I can't imagine what a big truck tire would do!
 
Glad no one was hurt Jim.

We think the cage will protect us, but one blew up in the cage at my son's shop and took the sheet metal off of the inside and outside of the outside wall, plus wrecked the inside wall of the shop 20' away from the cage. That thing would have killed someone if they had been in the line of fire.
 
people think oh well it?s only got 18 pounds of
pressure in it . No it has 18 pounds per square inch
a square inch Is about the size of a stamp do you
how many stamps it takes to make up the area of a
18.4.38 tractor tire that?s a lot of 18 pound forces
punching you in the face when it lets go
 
Had a 60 inch front deck mower tire blow on me last summer. Kid brought it over to me flat. I looked at the tire and seen no damage so tried to air it up with an air tank. It just started to raise off the ground and it blew. When the dust cleared i checked to see if my arms were still there. My ears rang and my arm was all blody. The blast sent particles of sand into my arm. It looked like buckshot holes. Everybody at work is a little afraid to put air in there tires now.
 
Glad everyone is OK!!

Never realized tires could blow up that way... until a young was killed airing-up a tire. However, it was a split-rim that blew off and killed him.
 
The refrigerator in the shop wasn't too far from the truck and the blast cleaned everything off the top of it. I have heard a truck tire blow from 1000 feet away rolling down the interstate and it was very loud. I can't imagine what it sounds like
Inside a steel lined building.
 
I was near the right front wheel of a Deere motor grader when the right rear front tandem tire blew out in downtown Cutler, Illinois. (New operator got the corner of the blade into it) It cleaned the dust and loose gravel off of the pavement and sidewalk in a big radius around the grader. It blew my glasses off and I found my cap 30' away - no scratches, but eyes full of debris.

Lots of stored energy there.

I don't like surprises like that.
 
That's what happens when they are run flat. In the years I
owned the tire shop, I have had them blow up on the tire
machine, in and out of the cage, on the vehicle. One truck tire
blew up laying on the ground waiting on the truck owner to pick
it up. It took the corner of roof off the building going up and
just missed one of my employees when it came down. That is
another treason you don't plug a tire. You need to look
insideto make sure there is no internal damage.
 
(quoted from post at 21:20:54 03/26/19) I seen one let loose, in the a heavy duty pipe tire cage,i was about 75foot away what a bang, but the guy putting in the air had to go home and change clothes,so much dirt and dust came off the tire and rim, just covered him !
Click to expand...

I didn't think dirt and dust gave off that kind of odor.
 
just 6 weeks ago young man working on tires at a recycle yard 5 miles from the house had a tire blow. People who had known him his whole life couldn't id him. 27 yrs old, wife and a baby. belonged to a little church just north of jays sporting goods in clare. 9 and 10 news reported over 600 folks at his funeral. I had met him once I believe. Those tires when they get tired can be a mess if not careful.
 
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