Big chunk of scrap caught between the dual wheels

Just thought I'd throw this out there. It might save somebody some heartache somewhere down the line.

I drive a dually pickup. The other day, I took a little load to the yard. It was raining, and muddy, and that was probably a factor, because the piece of steel I backed over was down in the mud. It was a piece of pipe, but with a sort of triangular piece welded to one end. Luckily, I heard the telltale clunk, clunk, clunk as I drove back to the scale. I checked in back, and found that piece lodged between my driver's side tires.

I tried pulling on it by hand, and prying on it with a bar. Bad angle to work on it, and no results. I found a little piece of rebar that would fit in the open end of the pipe, and succeeded only in getting that end of it out to where it was going to keep me from going anywhere at all. The yard's forklift operator had stopped to lend a hand, and we talked about different possibilities. It seemed as if taking the outside tire off was the only way I was going to get it out of there without damaging the tires. I was just about to start into that, when what turned out to be a good idea popped into my head.

I let the air out of the outside tire.

The now flat tire had enough give in the sidewall that I was able to pry that piece of scrap out of there with the bar I'd been using earlier. Looking at it in my hand, it was obvious that, with both tires inflated, anything more aggressive would've probably damaged one or both sidewalls, and the tires are only a few months old. It was a simple matter to drive to the jobsite then, and air that tire back up.

Hopefully you won't find yourself in that situation, but if you do, maybe that'll help...

Oh gosh! I'm glad you got it fixed without any damage and that was a good idea about letting the air out!

did you fill the tire up before you left?

did you fill the tire up before you left?

No. In the past, I've found myself driving around on one flat tire for who knows how long, cause with duals, if you aren't really loaded, sometimes it's hard to notice a flat without actually checking. I knew it'd be no problem to drive back to my jobsite and air it up there.

Lucky week for me and tires (as far as finding the bad stuff before it does any real damage anyway.) I just got back from another yard. Got out to go in and get paid, and noticed something shiny sticking out of the tread of the driver's side front. I thought it was a piece of wire, but when I pulled it out, I saw it was a hypodermic needle. Came home and washed my hands real good....

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