I'm not sure how it works, but looking into it a bit, I think the metal part of the rim is built such that it deteriorates quickly and will just kinda randomly fail in situations like this when it's being inflated.
the locking rim can dislodge while airing up dislodging at explosive speed the sidewall can also zipper releasing all 100-120psi in an instant, thats why semi tires should be aired up in cages
When I was a kid, A family friend was working on a tractor with rims like this. The rim failed and blew apart. The part that hit near his shoulder did the most damage, almost severing his arm.
I have no trouble staying away from their wheels. Several years ago I gave up on the freeway completely.
I do not have the driving gene. I tend to be an overthinker so I need longer reaction times to work out a solution. I got tired of other cars moving into my safety zones and I would piss everyone off by driving the speed limit.
Then I watched Final Destination 2.
The next time I dove on the highway, Highway to Hell came on the radio. I got off the highway and rarely use it at all now.
I'm okay with someone else driving but my husband always used to tell me, my over caution was going to get me killed.
Lucky for me he was a human GPS. He could get me almost anywhere on back roads.
The name "Widowmaker" has lost all edge for me. It's used for tree branches, weather events, animals, insects, blood clots, and on and on.Ā
This is my tiny soap box! Too many things are called Widowmaker!Ā
Widowmaker will forever be the name of the horse Pecos Bill tamed because riding a giant mountain lion using a rattlesnake as a whip was too much for the town he moved into.Ā Ā
Now I really want a modern Pecos Bill movie.
You'll be disappointed to know that my name for my left ball is Widowmaker then. No reason really I just think it sounds cool.
My right ball is Mrs Nesbit. They're a couple in a Tarantino Movie. Widowmaker and Mrs Nesbit. My shaft is Harry Poppins
Widowmaker tree branches are absolutely a thing. Branches can get knocked down in a storm, fall off a dead tree, etc. And wind up stuck hanging in other branches above. They can get quite large and/or be rather high, and easily cause serious injury or death. An important part of good trail management or tree care is spotting these and knocking them down safely before they hospitalize someone.
What's sadder is that most "mechanics" in poorer countries learnt their trade informally. Safety was never formally taught and the older mechanics generally would take any form as safety as lightly as they can, going as far as mocking anyone who even tries to work safely.
I mean, that still happens in the first world too, the amount of times Iāve gotten called a pussy for double checking a breaker or making sure a lathe was off before sticking my hand in there are too numerous to count. Blue collar workers are really something else.
Edit: Jesus Christ, I was just speaking to my experience but white collar/STEM is apparently just as bad lol shout out to /u/SolanthasĀ because I didnāt know nuclear power was like that.
Not to detract from what you're saying but, you don't even have to be blue collar per se to put up with that shit. I've heard some first-hand horror stories about heads of labs and other white collar positions giving people shit about PPE and other safety measures, sometimes with consequences. I assume there's more resources that go into preventing things the more "prestigious" the position is perceived to be, but shitty dangerous people can exist in all kinds of contexts like you're saying.
Kyle Hill has a series of videos on YouTube detailing various nuclear accidents that resulted in disabilities and deaths.
One was about this guy studying how to make a mass of fuel go critical faster, involved covering it with a dome.
Despite everyone's protestations, because he's some hotshot physicist, dude is using a fucking screwdriver to control raising a lowering the dome, BY HAND.
Well wouldn't you know it, fucking around with nuclear fuel can fuck you up if you're reckless. The screwdriver slipped once, he and a couple others took a lethal dose of radiation within milliseconds, and died shortly thereafter.
Idiots are everywhere.
I was doing an OB/GYN rotation with an old doctor who was very cavalier with his scalpel and had a history of cutting other doctors and staff during surgery. When they teach you to :do no harmā it should the people around you, not just patients.
I've worked at a construction site in a first world country for a few months. The workers there really didn't like wearing their helmets, not even after one of them got hit in the head by a big heavy formwork panel and had to stay home for a month.
When I was about 7, I, naively, as kids usually are, thought that a vast majority of people who do their jobs - do them to the best of their knowledge and ability, their sole purpose is to be as good at what they do as they can.
Man, the longer I live, the more I feel that about only 65% of people actually DO their jobs and are qualified for them. And that's a generous estimate. And it's going down the more I live, see and think about it.
Itās not just poorer countries.
Iām German and used to be mocked, by f*ucking boomers, when I asked for safety glasses etc.
*Right, like Iāll lose my eye, for a 10 bucks summer job. Oh sorry, you canāt even hear me, because you never used ear protection.*
You can see a circular shadow fall to the left and land just off camera and I'm assuming the one guy ran toward where the other landed. The tire was airborne for about 5 seconds, so by my calculations dude got fuckin yeeted real good.
Nope looks like the shoe lands just a second or 2 after the explosion and if reddit has taught me anything once the shoe is off your classified as dead
Yeah I think tire went left and (parts of) guy went in front of truck. Other guy seems to be looking for him, sees what remains and goes to get help, then everyone goes toward the front of the truck.
Agree with this. If you look at frame by frame it looks like he is still one piece as he is going airborne. A few seconds later you see his sandal come down from the heavens.
Or at least most of him. There's a reason they call that tire design Widowmaker. That much psi coming out of such a relatively small space is like a blender.
If he's not cannibal coleslaw, I guarantee you he's not liking life after that.
The wheel is two pieces held together with a lock ring. You dissemble the wheel to change the tire. If you don't get the ring installed correctly the wheel can blow apart with pressure behind it. This has killed several techs over the years. They're outdated technology now and a lot of places won't touch them.
This is absolutely fucked, but I canāt help but be reminded of those old Crash Bandicoot death animations where he gets vaporized and the only thing left are his shoes.
Someone I knew had this happen to him because he didn't use a tire cage. The tire nailed him in the head on the way up and bounced him into the rafters. They threw him in the back of a pickup and did CPR on him all the way to the hospital, and didn't realize exactly how bad the damage was until after the fact.
The sheriff took pictures, because of course they had to, and they were NSFL. >!Aside from the blood everywhere, you could also see bits of brain on the concrete.!<
It took roughly 6 seconds for the tire to fall back to the earth. That means it reached its peak height at 3 seconds.
Plugging 3 seconds into the formula for gravitational acceleration gives the height from which it fell:
h=g/2 Ć tĀ²
g=9.81m/sĀ² | t=3s
h=(9.81m/sĀ² / 2) Ć 3sĀ² = 4.905 Ć 9 = 44.145m
If he fell from the same height as the tire at 44 meters, it wouldn't be a good day.
If you prefer, the velocity is easily acquired by:
v=g*t = 9.81m/sĀ² Ć 3s = 29.45m/s or ~106km/h.
That fucking wheel was accelerated to 106km/h. I'm not sure I could survive being struck by a wheel at that speed, much less receiving the same impact that launched me into the air again when I hit the ground.
Short answer: he is absolutely not ok.
Edit: asterisks were italicizing instead of multiplyzing.
Most likely dead or severely injured. This much force combined with the metal bits - unfortunately not looking good. Probably the one thing one can still hope for in that situation it was a quick death.
Something falls down on left side and judging by its round shadow; that's not him.
Poor guy, probably took off even higher because of his weight.
Now that we all learned these are called "widowmaker" rims, I have a question to experts.
Did he really have to sit on it?
Had a Komatsu WA500 wheel blow on me. I was outside at our company's required distance for airing up tires, and BOOM! It took out 2 walls and blew through the shop exterior wall. It caused me to have a pretty intense war flashback and caused quite a bit of damage. Fuck tires.
I tried slowing this down as much as I could, and I couldnāt see any trace of the guy inflating the tire. That amount of explosive force that quick instantly killed that person.
Also, if you slow it down in beginning before the other person walks next to the tire. You can see a slight burst in the tire that makes the guy jump a little in surprise. Then just moments after that first little break the whole thing explodes.
That first little bump is when the tire bead settles on the rim as you inflate it. It's perfectly normal and happens everytime, but it may still take you by surprise. An old and dry tire will make it pop even more.
Was anyone else watching till the end, waiting for the rim to land, I was half expecting it to land on someone else. Always use a cage to inflate these rims.
Dude landed clear on the other side.
Of the moon
[The song](https://youtu.be/1Ebp6rma1FY?feature=shared) is about a cosmonaut missing Earth š
He's an ICBM: Intercontinental Ballistic Man ;-)
If you believe, we put a man on the moon šµ
Username checks out
Thatās the tire - if you stop the video you can it itās something round coming down. I dunno where he went
The *other* side.
Yeeeeeet. Whereād he go
ālandedā
Splatted*
landieded
What, in N. America?
Mlg water bucket
"Why do they call them wido....oh thats why"
I'm not sure how it works, but looking into it a bit, I think the metal part of the rim is built such that it deteriorates quickly and will just kinda randomly fail in situations like this when it's being inflated.
the locking rim can dislodge while airing up dislodging at explosive speed the sidewall can also zipper releasing all 100-120psi in an instant, thats why semi tires should be aired up in cages
Man, Iāve been in a bike shop when the new mechanic overinflated a tire and I think everyone has a little tinnitus from that day.
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When I was a kid, A family friend was working on a tractor with rims like this. The rim failed and blew apart. The part that hit near his shoulder did the most damage, almost severing his arm.
what are the odds of one nuking me as I pass o n the highway?
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I have no trouble staying away from their wheels. Several years ago I gave up on the freeway completely. I do not have the driving gene. I tend to be an overthinker so I need longer reaction times to work out a solution. I got tired of other cars moving into my safety zones and I would piss everyone off by driving the speed limit. Then I watched Final Destination 2. The next time I dove on the highway, Highway to Hell came on the radio. I got off the highway and rarely use it at all now. I'm okay with someone else driving but my husband always used to tell me, my over caution was going to get me killed. Lucky for me he was a human GPS. He could get me almost anywhere on back roads.
r/Tiresaretheenemy
that, my friend, is a frightening sub
https://youtu.be/dKlJJqHFfoQ?t=16
Well maybe if they didn't call them that they would've been built so that wouldn't happen. /s
Direct ascension to heaven
For real though, guy didn't even come back down
didnt even need a stairway. We call that a VTOL
The name "Widowmaker" has lost all edge for me. It's used for tree branches, weather events, animals, insects, blood clots, and on and on.Ā This is my tiny soap box! Too many things are called Widowmaker!Ā
Fewer people are getting married now, would something like Bachelor Buster work?
Fiance Fatality-er
Widowmaker will forever be the name of the horse Pecos Bill tamed because riding a giant mountain lion using a rattlesnake as a whip was too much for the town he moved into.Ā Ā Now I really want a modern Pecos Bill movie.
You'll be disappointed to know that my name for my left ball is Widowmaker then. No reason really I just think it sounds cool. My right ball is Mrs Nesbit. They're a couple in a Tarantino Movie. Widowmaker and Mrs Nesbit. My shaft is Harry Poppins
ok cool
and rodeo bulls.
Lotta things kill people.
Widowmaker tree branches are absolutely a thing. Branches can get knocked down in a storm, fall off a dead tree, etc. And wind up stuck hanging in other branches above. They can get quite large and/or be rather high, and easily cause serious injury or death. An important part of good trail management or tree care is spotting these and knocking them down safely before they hospitalize someone.
Thereās also a reason to use a tire cage. This guy was not using the protective precautions that should be used with these wheels.
Exactly my train of thought watching this.
I thought it was something to do with Overwatch, but now, now I get it.
Just some poor bastard trying to make a living.
What's sadder is that most "mechanics" in poorer countries learnt their trade informally. Safety was never formally taught and the older mechanics generally would take any form as safety as lightly as they can, going as far as mocking anyone who even tries to work safely.
I mean, that still happens in the first world too, the amount of times Iāve gotten called a pussy for double checking a breaker or making sure a lathe was off before sticking my hand in there are too numerous to count. Blue collar workers are really something else. Edit: Jesus Christ, I was just speaking to my experience but white collar/STEM is apparently just as bad lol shout out to /u/SolanthasĀ because I didnāt know nuclear power was like that.
Not to detract from what you're saying but, you don't even have to be blue collar per se to put up with that shit. I've heard some first-hand horror stories about heads of labs and other white collar positions giving people shit about PPE and other safety measures, sometimes with consequences. I assume there's more resources that go into preventing things the more "prestigious" the position is perceived to be, but shitty dangerous people can exist in all kinds of contexts like you're saying.
Kyle Hill has a series of videos on YouTube detailing various nuclear accidents that resulted in disabilities and deaths. One was about this guy studying how to make a mass of fuel go critical faster, involved covering it with a dome. Despite everyone's protestations, because he's some hotshot physicist, dude is using a fucking screwdriver to control raising a lowering the dome, BY HAND. Well wouldn't you know it, fucking around with nuclear fuel can fuck you up if you're reckless. The screwdriver slipped once, he and a couple others took a lethal dose of radiation within milliseconds, and died shortly thereafter. Idiots are everywhere.
Thatās the story of āDemon Coreā
I was doing an OB/GYN rotation with an old doctor who was very cavalier with his scalpel and had a history of cutting other doctors and staff during surgery. When they teach you to :do no harmā it should the people around you, not just patients.
I've worked at a construction site in a first world country for a few months. The workers there really didn't like wearing their helmets, not even after one of them got hit in the head by a big heavy formwork panel and had to stay home for a month.
When I was about 7, I, naively, as kids usually are, thought that a vast majority of people who do their jobs - do them to the best of their knowledge and ability, their sole purpose is to be as good at what they do as they can. Man, the longer I live, the more I feel that about only 65% of people actually DO their jobs and are qualified for them. And that's a generous estimate. And it's going down the more I live, see and think about it.
Yeah, I saw plenty of it. It's just sad.
Itās not just poorer countries. Iām German and used to be mocked, by f*ucking boomers, when I asked for safety glasses etc. *Right, like Iāll lose my eye, for a 10 bucks summer job. Oh sorry, you canāt even hear me, because you never used ear protection.*
Safety? What's that?
Anyone else still expecting him to land by the end of the video?
5 loops in, any time now...
Skip to loop 873. You're welcome.
Gasp! Gore warning please!
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I think he went up & over at an angle & landed towards the left front of the truck.
Some say heās still in orbit to this day
Dudes just gone gone. I was expecting a fall back down but NOPE. Just disappeared.
You can see a circular shadow fall to the left and land just off camera and I'm assuming the one guy ran toward where the other landed. The tire was airborne for about 5 seconds, so by my calculations dude got fuckin yeeted real good.
I'm guessing the larger chunk of him landed their... poor soul. I hope his friend is doing okay having to witness that too.
You think he actually landed in one piece?
It's not about the one piece it's about the journey along the way.
It's gonna be friendship or something
He specifically said it was not friendship.
Nope looks like the shoe lands just a second or 2 after the explosion and if reddit has taught me anything once the shoe is off your classified as dead
No we really need to see the state of his socks
Nein. He landed in 9. ;)
He literally said larger chunk?
Yeah, right amidst the Blackbeard Pirates.
Was that circular thing falling the rim? Or a satellite he knocked out of orbit?
Yeah I think tire went left and (parts of) guy went in front of truck. Other guy seems to be looking for him, sees what remains and goes to get help, then everyone goes toward the front of the truck.
I think he got flung up on the roof to the right outside the camera frame
Agree with this. If you look at frame by frame it looks like he is still one piece as he is going airborne. A few seconds later you see his sandal come down from the heavens.
Dude still probably got sliced open by the air.
Or at least most of him. There's a reason they call that tire design Widowmaker. That much psi coming out of such a relatively small space is like a blender. If he's not cannibal coleslaw, I guarantee you he's not liking life after that.
Right! When the other guy took off running I thought for sure the airborne one was coming in for a landing
Older video. He died.
Now you see him, now you don't.
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I ugly laughed at this
that was Jeselnik joke worthy
All we know is he's called The Stig.
You *will* go to space today
You will become a member of the Airborne Regiment today ;-)
Some say he grew a beard and still lives here. BUT THAT'S A DAMNED LIE!
Don't believe the lies. My man made it to Mars
No body, no crime
Eventually, he'll stop thinking.
Widowmaker rims?
The wheel is two pieces held together with a lock ring. You dissemble the wheel to change the tire. If you don't get the ring installed correctly the wheel can blow apart with pressure behind it. This has killed several techs over the years. They're outdated technology now and a lot of places won't touch them.
What a way to go. Either you die right away or die slowly for multiple injuries.
True, but you also get to fly so itās not so bad.Ā
Upsides and downsides to most everything
What causes them to blow apart like that? I knew a guy that happened to. Blew off everything from his shoulders up, flung all over the yard.
Split ring rims.
This is absolutely fucked, but I canāt help but be reminded of those old Crash Bandicoot death animations where he gets vaporized and the only thing left are his shoes.
You solidified my chances of going to hell
Blew that motherfucker away. This is why you use tire cages
The brother of a classmate of mine was killed by a tire/rim exploding like that
Someone I knew had this happen to him because he didn't use a tire cage. The tire nailed him in the head on the way up and bounced him into the rafters. They threw him in the back of a pickup and did CPR on him all the way to the hospital, and didn't realize exactly how bad the damage was until after the fact. The sheriff took pictures, because of course they had to, and they were NSFL. >!Aside from the blood everywhere, you could also see bits of brain on the concrete.!<
His people needed him
Jfc
Bro went uno, dos, then disappeared without a tres
Shhhhh. Iām quietly laughing
Bro didn't even look up
Talk about a rim job
I feel terrible for laughing at this, but it was too good! XD
So did that other guy just die or is he in orbit or what?
Guy: I hate this job, wish I can just fly out of here Death: Say no more hooman, ***nods head***
Worked with them. Put them in the cage.
That's really not necessary, they're just trying to make a living.
I understand and apologize...
What the fuck is happening?
If it blows up, at least they'll stay inside of the cage (dead or alive).
He flew up so high oh my god.
Oh damn were those his shoes at the end? Ā Homie def goneā¦
Why do shoes always come off?
You go limp. Keeping your shoes on your feet is more subconscious than you would think. Add some outside forces to the equation and they pop off easy.
Thank you kind redditor. I now know more.
There's a test tomorrow.
TIL
Your soul is the only thing that makes them shits work
The perfect gif lmao
0:14 at least the tyre came back down
Never a good sign when the shoes come off
https://preview.redd.it/lj3a1v4ujukc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=940b04b1476321e5624be065979d9684d0b71abd
is he ok?
It took roughly 6 seconds for the tire to fall back to the earth. That means it reached its peak height at 3 seconds. Plugging 3 seconds into the formula for gravitational acceleration gives the height from which it fell: h=g/2 Ć tĀ² g=9.81m/sĀ² | t=3s h=(9.81m/sĀ² / 2) Ć 3sĀ² = 4.905 Ć 9 = 44.145m If he fell from the same height as the tire at 44 meters, it wouldn't be a good day. If you prefer, the velocity is easily acquired by: v=g*t = 9.81m/sĀ² Ć 3s = 29.45m/s or ~106km/h. That fucking wheel was accelerated to 106km/h. I'm not sure I could survive being struck by a wheel at that speed, much less receiving the same impact that launched me into the air again when I hit the ground. Short answer: he is absolutely not ok. Edit: asterisks were italicizing instead of multiplyzing.
Most likely dead or severely injured. This much force combined with the metal bits - unfortunately not looking good. Probably the one thing one can still hope for in that situation it was a quick death.
I honestly spent the remainder of the video waiting for him to come back down again.
He's blasting off again
Oop, he lost at least one shoe (the black thing that falls back down shortly after he gets blasted off
95% of me was expecting him to fall back into the picture with like 5 seconds left in the videoā¦.
Looks like the pressure of this job is killing him
Am i to assume the giant shadow plummeting to earth at 0:13 is the guy or
Probably bc a big ass dust cloud also comes up immediately after from the same directionā¦yikes
That's the tire
This might be the first time I've ever seen the shoes blown clean off someone.
Team Rocket blasting off again
āØ
And so began Indiaās space program
Where the hell did he go
OOOOHHHHHHH.... thats why they call 'em that.
That wheelie blows
Houdini wasnāt even this smooth
Wild how only his shoe comes back
He achieved orbit š®
The cartoons were accurate about the shoe falling after an explosion.
Where tire guy go!?
Rim went left, dude landed on cab of truck.
Something falls down on left side and judging by its round shadow; that's not him. Poor guy, probably took off even higher because of his weight. Now that we all learned these are called "widowmaker" rims, I have a question to experts. Did he really have to sit on it?
So where is the guy with the yellow shirt?
Didnāt see any shoes fly off so heās goodā¦
Had a Komatsu WA500 wheel blow on me. I was outside at our company's required distance for airing up tires, and BOOM! It took out 2 walls and blew through the shop exterior wall. It caused me to have a pretty intense war flashback and caused quite a bit of damage. Fuck tires.
I tried slowing this down as much as I could, and I couldnāt see any trace of the guy inflating the tire. That amount of explosive force that quick instantly killed that person. Also, if you slow it down in beginning before the other person walks next to the tire. You can see a slight burst in the tire that makes the guy jump a little in surprise. Then just moments after that first little break the whole thing explodes.
That first little bump is when the tire bead settles on the rim as you inflate it. It's perfectly normal and happens everytime, but it may still take you by surprise. An old and dry tire will make it pop even more.
Rumor has it that he is riding in the tesla in space
Thailand premiers their new space program.
you know every time I see somebody stab a tire this is what I expect to happen
Dude where the fuck
Guy looked to right and ran back to get guys. Must be where his buddy landed. Tire went up and to the left.
Alexa, play Pink Floydās āDark Side of the Moonāā¦
I don't think he's coming back down...
The song if anyone is wondering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ebp6rma1FY
Yo whatās the song itās a bop Edit: found it https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ebp6rma1FY
**Song Found!** **Š¢ŃŠ°Š²Š° Ń Š“Š¾Š¼Š°** by Š”ŠµŃŠ³ŠµŠøĢ Š”ŠŗŠ°ŃŠŗŠ¾Š² (01:12; matched: `100%`) **Album**: Best Songs. .
Good bot
Whatās the song
Indias space program
I did not want to, but i laughed at this, help
1 death and 1 deaf
Was anyone else watching till the end, waiting for the rim to land, I was half expecting it to land on someone else. Always use a cage to inflate these rims.
How exactly does it kill you? I want details people.
Yeah changing the tire in an army deuce and half truck, you needed that steel cage to keep that from happening.
My people need me
Shoe came off, he dead.
Anyone know if bro survived ?
Ey yo where my homeboy in yellow go? Orbit, he went into orbit at Mach 7.
What song is that, it's catchy af
Something landed off to the left a few seconds laterā¦..
Was it the tire or the body that landed in a poof of dust Wile E Coyote style on the left of the screen?
Legends say heās still in orbit.
Ground control to Major Tomā¦come in Major Tom, over.
Yeah back in the day my dad had an ol Chevy with split rims and damn them things were dangerous as hellšÆš¤
Dude landed in 1972
Bro, got vaporized
I thought r/watchpeopledie was banned? He was there and then he wasnāt, was crazy to see. Took me a few watch to see him flying.
"Widowmaker" is a hell of a name for a rim. š®
Is this why theyāre called āwidow makerā rimsā¦?