Good post Olddude.
I have used this method on my mud truck tires many a time back in the day! To much money in fixing the truck all the time to spend it in on having tires broke down and remounted!Originally Posted by heeroyue2002
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Good post Olddude.
I have used this method on my mud truck tires many a time back in the day! To much money in fixing the truck all the time to spend it in on having tires broke down and remounted!
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WOW, that's one big toolbox,,I may have an excavator in my toolbox but I'm still a small scrapyard.
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I was just yanking your chain, myekem. I use a tractor for stuff and I imagine not everybody has one of those, either. Actually, I've thought about using my pallet forks for busting tires. Put the forks on the tire right by the rim and keep pushing till it lifts the front end of the 4000 pound tractor off the ground. Should get the job done.
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Nice call.I thought it maybe to help me get out of the hole.
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I find that the angle grinder 'grabs' badly when I cut thru the actual tread, so like he said 'Don't cut thru the tread'.
Someone said he smashes the Ali rim with a axe to remove a chunk & then rotates the tire off thru the gap. Works on a Ali rim.
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We used to have a portable bead blaster, you dont have to worry about the big fireball that way, lol.
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I like the sawzall approach. I cut down thru the sidewall a little and then run right through the bead and the rim. You dont have to break the bead and because of the slit in the sidewall the tire slides rite off. The demolition blades or metal blades work the best. A good blade will do 10 rims. You dont get the sparks and flying rubber that the grinder kicks out. The only drawback is sometimes youll just about vibrate your dam fillings out and you have to give the saw a break because it starts gettin warm after a dozen wheels or so.
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Worry? that was the best part and the big "BOOOOOM" when the beed would set.
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On some of those old split rings I wasnt crazy enough to be close enough to throw the match in,sometimes the fireball was to big to run from.
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We used a 5 foot rod with a zippo taped to the end for lighting them. We didnt deal with split rims at all. Wasnt worth the danger.
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I didn't mean to offend you olddude.I was saying that a sawzall is pretty easy.Or a manual tire machine which is $50.00.
But yeah not everyone can afford that.
I would like to use a concrete saw on one and see how it did lol.
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no offence taken, I have used the sawsall too I just like the grinder better.
}:<{ ) its really pretty hard to offend me, some times I get ticked or lose patience , but other then that its all good.
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Have to agree with you olddude. I have used both and the rubber grabs both the disc on the grinder and the blade on the sawzall, but it does not affect the grinder disc as bad. The down side I found with the angle grinder though was the smell of burnt rubber from the disc. A little aromatic.
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That's all I was *politely* saying. I could have scrapped your pedestal.... lol
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Your tire machine what size of air compressor do you have?
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Usually use my tire machine at work but have dismounted many tires with handy man jack under the bumper to break em down and a set of ken tool atv spoons. On alumium rims I often just sawzall the tire in half without breaking the bead, a 14 t blade, seems to work the best that way. Learned that trick at a junkyard use to work at, sawzalled bout 1000 rims or so that summer.
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My guys still use a construction saw on job sites. Well most time I am doing it because the caliber of help I can afford dont understand to stay away from the blade!!! Works great, we call it nipping the beads. I do usually have a skid steer on our jobsites, makes getting the tire off easier after the beads are nipped. Before it, we just nipped the bead and then ran a saws all across the treads!
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I use the sallsaw to cut the tire. Start up by the tread and cut down to the rim, then go back to the start of the cut and cut across the tread and dowm the rim on the other side. Then use the grinder with cut off blade to cut through the bead on both sides. Do all this before braking the tire bead from the rim, makes the cutting faster. Now you can brake the bead from the rim just by stepping on the tire. Grabe the tire with both hands were cut made the cut and bull the tire off. You can do this faster than it took me to type this post.
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My ladder was aluminum so it got scraped last year. Way to go olddud
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I'm allowed 5 rims with tires for each car I haul so that looks after the steel rims, for aluminum rims I use my skillsaw with a carbide blade to zip though the tire bead.
Carbide blades are much cheaper and faster than the abrasive cut off and no hot rubber spitting back at you or smoke to breath.
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