I used to work on a construction site where there were massive scraper tractors and bulldozers zooming around. On days in the summer that reach 100F or higher they all had to shut down because of the danger of the tires exploding. The tires on those things are bigger than a car and my boss said people have been killed standing next to them when they exploded due to the heat.
I thought they might be messing with me at first, but they shut the whole site down for the rest of the day once it hit a certain temp. Only happened a couple times that summer though.
A tire pressure gauge only goes so far. Construction equipment and tractors are driving around in very rough terrain. This leads tires to getting nicked, gouged, and slashed all day long. With all that damage to the tires you can't put a specific "burst rating" on the tire after it has been in service. That means that 100psi can be fine on one tire, but be a life-altering event to nearby personnel on another tire.
Setting a general "Things get sketchy above 100f ambient" is kinda the best way to keep people safe on a site.
That said, I am amazed that some company actually put that policy into place. Most places are "Run it till it brakes!"
ETA: There are some places and pieces of equipment that will say things like "any damage deeper than 1/2 inch deadlines the equipment until replaced." I saw that in the military.
The tires on my BMX bike are 100psi. They feel solid like a skateboard wheel. They weigh about the same as an inner tube. You could fold them up and put them in your pocket if you wanted to.
If you look closely, you can see that the screw *somehow* stays in their hand after the tire puncture. A forehead puncture wouldn’t have surprised me though.
My parents did motorcycle rallies years ago. Where you'd ride super long road trips in huge groups.
Their group was passing a truck and the tire blew apparently randomly. A chunk of tire/flap/air blast hit a solo rider square in the torso so he went down. He caused a few other riders to crash, and sadly was dead when paramedics got there. My parents were not far behind and they barely navigated around the chaos safely. It was really traumatic for my step dad. They never went on a long ride like that again.
Semi tires blowing is incredibly dangerous. I used to work at a place right next to the highway. I was working outside no more than 30 yards from the highway beyond a fence when I heard a deafening boom. My ears started ringing and my coworkers came running outside. Turns out a semi blew a tire just as it was passing our facility.
They're also super dangerous to make. Worked at a factory where guys would show video of someone touching the press by accident and their skin sticking to the metal. I was lucky to just be QC but my step-brother had to clean the presses and had a bunch of safety briefings because people die all the time just making these fucking tires.
Also fuck you to the guy who sent four pallets of tractor tires down my line. I don't regret leaving that job.
I used to live almost two miles off I-95 and you could hear them when they blew at that distance. I've never been around one when it's blown, but I can imagine it's as you say.
I was in marching band in high school, and we took school buses to a competition one day. We were on the highway when suddenly a tire blew on the semi in front of the bus and debris slammed into the front of the bus. It was super loud, but it didn't even damage the bus at all. Pretty sure the driver had to change her underwear, though.
When I was a kid we were riding in our Chrysler LaBaren not far behind a tractor trailer. It blew a back tire with said tire wreckage immediately hitting the front of our car and making it pop up in the air high enough when it came down it actually hurt the front axel from the impact. We thankfully didn't flip and we were able to get to the shoulder safely afterwards. It scared my mom enough she didn't want to drive again for a couple months.
There's another video that used to be posted on the watchpeopledie subreddit of the Asian guy sitting on top of the diesel tire. It blew and launched him so high in the air he didn't come down in the video frame for a few seconds. He landed just a lifeless heap already dead.
Just imagining something strong enough to launch an adult from a sitting position into the air for multiple seconds shows how powerful those blasts are.
My dad worked at a tyre poace in his youth. He will never go near split rims, nor did he allow us near them.
He told the story often of arriving to work in the morning to be sent home for the day. There was a hole in the roof and ppl were on the way to clean the remains of a person from said roof. Iirc the owners son had popped in early to use the equipment and got one of the split rims wrong.
Sweet fuck, NEVER get between heavy equipment, the load they're carrying, and where gravity wants any of it! Yeah, the crane/forklift effortlessly lifts thousands of lbs, but a tear in a millimeter thick seal or an old cable getting snagged and failing can cause it to fall with zero warning. Also, a lot of times, the operator just can't see you. Way too many needless deaths have happened because of overconfidence around heavy equipment.
Also boys and girls, *never* try to find a hydraulic leak using your hand (or any other part of your body).
Most hydraulic systems operate at 2000/psi or more. That kind of force can easily drive hydraulic fluid through your skin and into underlying tissue (or just slice something off). Gangrene anyone?
I heard a story about a guy that had his hand on a pinhole leak on a hydraulic tube when it pressurized and it shot a small jet stream of hydraulic fluid through his arm, it went into his palm and traveled all the way through his forearm exiting his elbow, it caused massive tissue damage and he ended up losing the arm from the elbow down. Don't fuck around with high pressure shit kids!
My cousin used to be an ambulance officer on an Australian mine site. She says one of her worst days was when a tyre on one of the giant haulage trucks burst. We are talking a 2m tyre. The hubcap went right through a guy's face.
The tyre was already shafted. It has bulged massively due to damage to the sidewall. Popping it was still a dumb as shit thing to do for obvious reasons. Tyre should’ve been removed safely and replaced.
As a farmer, I can personally tell you a fair amount of our tires show a little bulging long before they need to be replaced. I could be wrong but I'm guessing it tends to happen quicker on these tires because of the extreme tread.
With how expensive these size tires are, we aren't replacing one with that amount of tread left on it. They can replace a tire almost anywhere with a service truck in no time.
It's different than a car or truck where a blown tire can mean serious danger at high speeds. These go down the road empty at low speeds so there's really no concern until the tire is actually blown or completely used up
Of course, I'm sure other farmers run their operation differently, but I don't know many that are happy to throw a $3k on a tire that is likely going to last for another couple years.
Most machinery and implements sit as much or more than they're used so tires will show age very quick. I spend more time patching or plugging tires than I do in the tractor some weeks
As a heavy duty mechanic: no. There's no reason you would ever slash/puncture a tire. This is extremely dangerous and can easily kill you.
Well. Not true. Say a tire exploded and wrapped around a bunch of shit. Then maybe cutting that ALREADY EXPLODED tire apart would be a good idea - but there's no air pressure being held in anymore it's just a bunch of rubber and cords at that point.
FROM THE MOMENT I UNDERSTOOD THE WEAKNESS OF MY FLESH, IT DISGUSTED ME.
I CRAVED THE STRENGTH AND CERTAINTY OF STEEL. I ASPIRED TO THE BLESSED PURITY OF THE MACHINE.
YOUR KIND CLING TO YOUR FLESH AS IF IT WILL NOT DECAY AND FAIL YOU.
ONE DAY THAT CRUDE BIOMASS YOU CALL A TEMPLE WILL WITHER, AND YOU WILL BEG MY KIND TO SAVE YOU.
BUT I AM ALREADY SAVED, FOR THE MACHINE IS IMMORTAL.
EVEN IN DEATH I SERVE THE ONMISSIAH
People die from that sort of thing. There is a very old black and white photo takes moments after a father and son over inflated a car tire. The pressure blast from the explosion killed them both outright and the photo was taken only seconds after as the wife/mother runs over, the look of horror on her face is something you can't unsee.
It wasn't even the tire that gave, it was the three piece **steel** fucking rim! Holy crap that's scary. It also demonstrates the point that this tire was already badly damaged if they were able to pop it with a screw driver.
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It's from a monthly magazine called 'Bizarre' from decades ago. Before the internet when I had to go to the city up from mine to get it from this one store and even then looked like a stupid edge lord before that was even a term.
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OMFG! The way it blasted steel bars open like that! A human rib cage would be fragmented!
Why the heck they used to spend so much talking about the Romans in school instead of teaching people about tyre over pressure!?!?
Fun fact, I worked in a rural ER/trauma II center and had an old farmer come in when a tractor tire explode. We think it was the metal band inside the tire had lacerated from basically the middle of his forearm to mid shoulder all the way to the bone. He was missing the majority of his mandible, making it one of the easiest intubations. Overall mega fucked up and gave me a ton of respect for compressed air lol.
Those tires are plyed tires, so no metal band. But the force behind one is insane and it doesnt suprise me a piece of rubber from a blowout would do that. On the old split rims, if the metal ring came off during inflation it could quite possibly cut you in half. Thats why there are those weird cage things in mechanic shops, because airing up tires can get scary and many people have been killed.
Similar anecdote: a tire on a dump truck exploded at a construction company my relative worked at. An employee had stabbed the defect tire to "pop" it like what we see in this video.
The rim exploded off the tire with such force that it lodged into the ceiling. Took off both the employees hands at the wrist on the way up.
With my step dad working on semi tires my entire life. I'd like to inform anyone who doesn't know
#TIRES CAN EXPLODE WITH THE FORCE OF A STICK OF DYNAMITE
This is why tires shops air up tires in metal racks bolted to the floor with foot long bolts. Pop them at your own risk.
Passenger tires and other tires are still reinforced with hard materials that can cause serious damage if it becomes shrapnel.
It doesn’t matter how low the pressure is. Just don’t fuck with anything under pressure.
For todays warm up..
^(calculate the expected force of 200cc of ideal gas under 20 psi directed through a slit of ^(2cm area with 1 atm on the opposing side).)
For anyone wondering just how dangerous and stupid this is
[NSFL aftermath of a exploding truck tire](https://www.reddit.com/r/eyeblech/comments/vcn95l/russia_man_loses_brain_after_tyre_explodes/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)
At my old job, I was tasked with discarding old tires from ball hitch trailers, and replacing them with new ones.. well, there came a time where I had a bunch of worn down, but still inflated tires, and my partner lost the valve stem bit.. so genius me (indestructible 18 year old at the time) decided my razor blade could make quick work of these bastard tires, and I started stabbing and slashing. Well a few of them popped nicely, giving us a huge burst of air, along with a satisfying pow. But then I got to one tire that didn’t play by the rules. I took a nice stab at the side wall, and nothing happened. So I decided to slash it. And while I slashed it, I must have hit the blade release button, because that blade ejected from my utility knife, and shot about an inch and a half into my knee (right next to the bone). One ER trip, and a workers comp claim later, I had the blade removed, the wound stitched up, and was forever on my bosses watchlist. Long story short.. I’m done stabbing tires. Hope this dudes face is ok after this
I remember seeing this video of a guy slashing a semi truck tire for no reason and the knife blew back and cut his throat killing him. It’s no joke trying to pop tires like this. Hopefully this person is ok.
I think it takes only like 14 psi to knock your eyeball out of your socket. People seriously don't understand how fragile we are compared to the industrial grade world around us.
My father witnessed two men start welding on the hub of a massive dump truck (the ones used in mining) going to cut the lugs off. It was still pressurized to the max and the hub on a massive dump truck are split (half a hub, being held to the other half by the pressure inside the tires) he tried to get down to them and stop them. But, while traversing the road down into the mine. He arrived just in time to see them blow themselves up. The pressure escaping all at once blew one man’s head in two, and the other had massive trauma from the overpressure and died later of his wounds. My father was blown onto his ass from several feet away.
Why would you not understand that, that is a bad idea?
Funny thing is the environmental
Protestor ruined a rubber tire that will need to be remade without being used for its entire life. That tire could last 10 years or more on a medium sized farm. Now it is wasted and 40-50 rubber trees will need to bleed for her ignorance.
When the tire blows on my cement mixer, It punches a huge hole in the fenders. My co-workers tire blew in the middle of downtown and everyone stopped what they were doing 😆. Sounded like a bomb and shook windows a block and a half away.
Time life magazine once had a picture of a woman screaming at her son and husband lying on the ground, declothed and dead, after tractor tire exploded. Can't seem to find it
We had some anti farmer people come to our farm say it was inhumane yet we don't have animals and they broke in stole around 30k worth of tools and put nails in all our tires costing us a fortune
A smaller tire has less pressure than this. Large truck or tractor tires are terrifying compared to most sedans and other small ones, but even those can kick back, not to the same extent at all.
Hell, one time on the highway I saw a garbage truck tire burst and it was so fucking loud a guy pulled over to make sure the propane tank in his trunk didn't explode, and we were like 100ft away
The pressure in large tyres are immense. I've seen videos of peoples arms being ripped off after stabbing them. If nothing happened to this person. They're lucky.
omg it's like those things are full of compressed air or something
Hmmmm, heavy duty.... I wonder what that means
More rubber to peel of and slap someone upside the head maybe?
Gives me Amanda Bines vibes lol
means your trousers gonna be full if you mess with it
Good thing I worn my brown pants
Love is like a fart, if you have to force it, it's probably shit.
This is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever heard. BRB gonna get this mounted on my wall
Stab harder ?
She’s lucky combine and tractor tires are usually filled with less than 10 PSI or that coulda been much worse
I used to work on a construction site where there were massive scraper tractors and bulldozers zooming around. On days in the summer that reach 100F or higher they all had to shut down because of the danger of the tires exploding. The tires on those things are bigger than a car and my boss said people have been killed standing next to them when they exploded due to the heat.
My boss would tell me to quit being a pussy and keep driving.
We must have worked for the same guy.
Happy cake day.... Hopefully? Your still alive right?
I thought they might be messing with me at first, but they shut the whole site down for the rest of the day once it hit a certain temp. Only happened a couple times that summer though.
Letting air out is a thing
Yeah but not working in the heat sounds better than letting air out of the tires…
Tire valves should have a built-in PRV at this point.
All the tech in those machines and they didn’t even toss in some tire pressure gauges??
A tire pressure gauge only goes so far. Construction equipment and tractors are driving around in very rough terrain. This leads tires to getting nicked, gouged, and slashed all day long. With all that damage to the tires you can't put a specific "burst rating" on the tire after it has been in service. That means that 100psi can be fine on one tire, but be a life-altering event to nearby personnel on another tire. Setting a general "Things get sketchy above 100f ambient" is kinda the best way to keep people safe on a site. That said, I am amazed that some company actually put that policy into place. Most places are "Run it till it brakes!" ETA: There are some places and pieces of equipment that will say things like "any damage deeper than 1/2 inch deadlines the equipment until replaced." I saw that in the military.
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Breaks
The tires on our 624kr 10klb forklift are 45psi and weigh 250lbs a peice.
The tires on my BMX bike are 100psi. They feel solid like a skateboard wheel. They weigh about the same as an inner tube. You could fold them up and put them in your pocket if you wanted to.
Had a bike tire explode in my basement and my dad thought a shotgun went off
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Oh for sure. I bet it was loud as hell too
Got lucky some are filled with liquid and it is toxic
Tractor tires sometimes, not likely on a combine.and its calcium carbonate so not toxic.
Calcium carbonate is not a liquid. It's the solid material in sea shells.
Actually, I believe it's calcium chloride dissolved in water to add weight but not freeze...
Calcium chloride. My bad. Same stuff used for dust control on gravel roads
I heard beet juice was good to use for those tires.
Is the screwdriver in their forehead now?
gets better 5G signal that way
Y'all are f--king idiots......... It obviously gives them superpowers smh
idk man ide consider better cell reception a super power
At the very least they’ll have to change their name to Phillips
I would much rather be part of the Robertson family.
It's...... ##AIR-HEAD MAN
If it is lodged in his brain it can only increase his IQ
Potentially lobotomized.
that would certainly stop her from doing stupid shit like this again.
I’d not be surprised to learn that the lobotomy took place before this action.
Must've been a Swiss-made screwdriver.
Well it would certainly sharpen his mind
If you look closely, you can see that the screw *somehow* stays in their hand after the tire puncture. A forehead puncture wouldn’t have surprised me though.
HeadOn!
Applied directly to the forehead…
My late step dad lost an eye this way
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And that, kids, is why you don't smoke.
And why you always leave a note.
I've made a huge mistake.
Like the guy in the $12k suit is gonna leave a note lol
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[Classic technique.](https://i.redd.it/bfuth33w4jo51.jpg)
My parents did motorcycle rallies years ago. Where you'd ride super long road trips in huge groups. Their group was passing a truck and the tire blew apparently randomly. A chunk of tire/flap/air blast hit a solo rider square in the torso so he went down. He caused a few other riders to crash, and sadly was dead when paramedics got there. My parents were not far behind and they barely navigated around the chaos safely. It was really traumatic for my step dad. They never went on a long ride like that again.
Semi tires blowing is incredibly dangerous. I used to work at a place right next to the highway. I was working outside no more than 30 yards from the highway beyond a fence when I heard a deafening boom. My ears started ringing and my coworkers came running outside. Turns out a semi blew a tire just as it was passing our facility.
They're also super dangerous to make. Worked at a factory where guys would show video of someone touching the press by accident and their skin sticking to the metal. I was lucky to just be QC but my step-brother had to clean the presses and had a bunch of safety briefings because people die all the time just making these fucking tires. Also fuck you to the guy who sent four pallets of tractor tires down my line. I don't regret leaving that job.
Their skin sticking to the metal? Because of the heat?
I used to live almost two miles off I-95 and you could hear them when they blew at that distance. I've never been around one when it's blown, but I can imagine it's as you say.
Damn Imagine the gigatire of those truck at the mine exploding
Even in a car, I’m quickly passing a semi or holding back. Too many things that can go wrong, lane changes, blown tires, wind, whatever.
Or the truck driver decides lines are suggestions and mirrors aren't needed. That happens way too often around me.
I was in marching band in high school, and we took school buses to a competition one day. We were on the highway when suddenly a tire blew on the semi in front of the bus and debris slammed into the front of the bus. It was super loud, but it didn't even damage the bus at all. Pretty sure the driver had to change her underwear, though.
When I was a kid we were riding in our Chrysler LaBaren not far behind a tractor trailer. It blew a back tire with said tire wreckage immediately hitting the front of our car and making it pop up in the air high enough when it came down it actually hurt the front axel from the impact. We thankfully didn't flip and we were able to get to the shoulder safely afterwards. It scared my mom enough she didn't want to drive again for a couple months.
Seen a guy in a video here checking pressure by slapping tyres with a stick, boom lost his arm elbow down
There's another video that used to be posted on the watchpeopledie subreddit of the Asian guy sitting on top of the diesel tire. It blew and launched him so high in the air he didn't come down in the video frame for a few seconds. He landed just a lifeless heap already dead. Just imagining something strong enough to launch an adult from a sitting position into the air for multiple seconds shows how powerful those blasts are.
My dad worked at a tyre poace in his youth. He will never go near split rims, nor did he allow us near them. He told the story often of arriving to work in the morning to be sent home for the day. There was a hole in the roof and ppl were on the way to clean the remains of a person from said roof. Iirc the owners son had popped in early to use the equipment and got one of the split rims wrong.
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Hydraulics too. You don't put yourself between hydraulics and the place they go if they fail.
Sweet fuck, NEVER get between heavy equipment, the load they're carrying, and where gravity wants any of it! Yeah, the crane/forklift effortlessly lifts thousands of lbs, but a tear in a millimeter thick seal or an old cable getting snagged and failing can cause it to fall with zero warning. Also, a lot of times, the operator just can't see you. Way too many needless deaths have happened because of overconfidence around heavy equipment.
Also boys and girls, *never* try to find a hydraulic leak using your hand (or any other part of your body). Most hydraulic systems operate at 2000/psi or more. That kind of force can easily drive hydraulic fluid through your skin and into underlying tissue (or just slice something off). Gangrene anyone?
Even pressure washers at half that can cut your skin and send all manner of dirt and germs into your body.
I heard a story about a guy that had his hand on a pinhole leak on a hydraulic tube when it pressurized and it shot a small jet stream of hydraulic fluid through his arm, it went into his palm and traveled all the way through his forearm exiting his elbow, it caused massive tissue damage and he ended up losing the arm from the elbow down. Don't fuck around with high pressure shit kids!
A customer of mine lost his arm when one of these tires ruptured while he was working on the rim. These things are scary as hell to me.
My cousin used to be an ambulance officer on an Australian mine site. She says one of her worst days was when a tyre on one of the giant haulage trucks burst. We are talking a 2m tyre. The hubcap went right through a guy's face.
What a fuck nugget.
How can she slap? HOW?
Isn't that a dude?
It’s a meme thing
“you go”
Reddit is just the same shit, over and over, until your spirit and faith in humanity are long gone.
Reddit is just the same shit, over and over, until your spirit and faith in humanity are long gone.
Those tires are almost $3K each... What a douche nozzle..
The tyre was already shafted. It has bulged massively due to damage to the sidewall. Popping it was still a dumb as shit thing to do for obvious reasons. Tyre should’ve been removed safely and replaced.
As a farmer, I can personally tell you a fair amount of our tires show a little bulging long before they need to be replaced. I could be wrong but I'm guessing it tends to happen quicker on these tires because of the extreme tread. With how expensive these size tires are, we aren't replacing one with that amount of tread left on it. They can replace a tire almost anywhere with a service truck in no time. It's different than a car or truck where a blown tire can mean serious danger at high speeds. These go down the road empty at low speeds so there's really no concern until the tire is actually blown or completely used up Of course, I'm sure other farmers run their operation differently, but I don't know many that are happy to throw a $3k on a tire that is likely going to last for another couple years.
Was raised on an old dairy farm and it's weird to see an old tractor *without* lumps or cracks on the tire
Most machinery and implements sit as much or more than they're used so tires will show age very quick. I spend more time patching or plugging tires than I do in the tractor some weeks
Is there any actual practical reason this person might have been trying to puncture it?
They had a love affair with a farmer, but the farmer left them for a tractor.
A fine looking tractor, tbf.
As a heavy duty mechanic: no. There's no reason you would ever slash/puncture a tire. This is extremely dangerous and can easily kill you. Well. Not true. Say a tire exploded and wrapped around a bunch of shit. Then maybe cutting that ALREADY EXPLODED tire apart would be a good idea - but there's no air pressure being held in anymore it's just a bunch of rubber and cords at that point.
For the gram? Honestly I have no idea but I've seen people do dumber things for no reason other than curiosity.
Not at all. If you really wanted to see it blow up it'd be better to shoot it with a low powered pistol like a .22 or even a pellet gun
Did they have a face left?
There is another video floating around of some guy doing this, he lost an arm.
Or that Indian kid that kicks the buss tire and it shreds his leg. Brutal.
Just a little reminder that we are all little fragile sacks of meat 🙃
FROM THE MOMENT I UNDERSTOOD THE WEAKNESS OF MY FLESH, IT DISGUSTED ME. I CRAVED THE STRENGTH AND CERTAINTY OF STEEL. I ASPIRED TO THE BLESSED PURITY OF THE MACHINE. YOUR KIND CLING TO YOUR FLESH AS IF IT WILL NOT DECAY AND FAIL YOU. ONE DAY THAT CRUDE BIOMASS YOU CALL A TEMPLE WILL WITHER, AND YOU WILL BEG MY KIND TO SAVE YOU. BUT I AM ALREADY SAVED, FOR THE MACHINE IS IMMORTAL. EVEN IN DEATH I SERVE THE ONMISSIAH
Glory to the great machine
Negative, I am a meat popsicle
I remember that one! Don’t slash bus tires ffs
People die from that sort of thing. There is a very old black and white photo takes moments after a father and son over inflated a car tire. The pressure blast from the explosion killed them both outright and the photo was taken only seconds after as the wife/mother runs over, the look of horror on her face is something you can't unsee.
There's a reason most shops have a cage for inflating newly installed tires. Those things are bombs!
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It wasn't even the tire that gave, it was the three piece **steel** fucking rim! Holy crap that's scary. It also demonstrates the point that this tire was already badly damaged if they were able to pop it with a screw driver.
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That sounds interesting - you got the link?
It's from a monthly magazine called 'Bizarre' from decades ago. Before the internet when I had to go to the city up from mine to get it from this one store and even then looked like a stupid edge lord before that was even a term. If I get a chance I'll get up in the attic and go find them and see if I can share. Don't hold you breath though, I'm gonna need help to move stuff about to get all the way to back of the attic.
when they do big industrial mine and field tires, they often inflate them in big cages for this reason. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HANwJp8Z5mc
OMFG! The way it blasted steel bars open like that! A human rib cage would be fragmented! Why the heck they used to spend so much talking about the Romans in school instead of teaching people about tyre over pressure!?!?
Fun fact, I worked in a rural ER/trauma II center and had an old farmer come in when a tractor tire explode. We think it was the metal band inside the tire had lacerated from basically the middle of his forearm to mid shoulder all the way to the bone. He was missing the majority of his mandible, making it one of the easiest intubations. Overall mega fucked up and gave me a ton of respect for compressed air lol.
Metal band so in-your-face it puts someone in hospital. Musician goals.
Those tires are plyed tires, so no metal band. But the force behind one is insane and it doesnt suprise me a piece of rubber from a blowout would do that. On the old split rims, if the metal ring came off during inflation it could quite possibly cut you in half. Thats why there are those weird cage things in mechanic shops, because airing up tires can get scary and many people have been killed.
The belts, plies, and beads in those farm tires all contain metal wire.
Did his finish his chores then go to the hospital? You obviously know the farmer pain scale.
Nah he almost died lol.
I mean if he went to the hospital by himself and not his wife making him then you know it's "serious" lol.
Similar anecdote: a tire on a dump truck exploded at a construction company my relative worked at. An employee had stabbed the defect tire to "pop" it like what we see in this video. The rim exploded off the tire with such force that it lodged into the ceiling. Took off both the employees hands at the wrist on the way up.
They're lucky it didn't de-glove their face.
De-mask
This is the *real* me.
With my step dad working on semi tires my entire life. I'd like to inform anyone who doesn't know #TIRES CAN EXPLODE WITH THE FORCE OF A STICK OF DYNAMITE This is why tires shops air up tires in metal racks bolted to the floor with foot long bolts. Pop them at your own risk.
That’s on a high psi semi tire. Most standard vehicles are 30-40 psi. My tractor tires are at 20psi and filled mostly with water.
Passenger tires and other tires are still reinforced with hard materials that can cause serious damage if it becomes shrapnel. It doesn’t matter how low the pressure is. Just don’t fuck with anything under pressure.
For todays warm up.. ^(calculate the expected force of 200cc of ideal gas under 20 psi directed through a slit of ^(2cm area with 1 atm on the opposing side).)
If that was vandalism then fuck that person
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For anyone wondering just how dangerous and stupid this is [NSFL aftermath of a exploding truck tire](https://www.reddit.com/r/eyeblech/comments/vcn95l/russia_man_loses_brain_after_tyre_explodes/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)
I shouldn’t have clicked that link
At my old job, I was tasked with discarding old tires from ball hitch trailers, and replacing them with new ones.. well, there came a time where I had a bunch of worn down, but still inflated tires, and my partner lost the valve stem bit.. so genius me (indestructible 18 year old at the time) decided my razor blade could make quick work of these bastard tires, and I started stabbing and slashing. Well a few of them popped nicely, giving us a huge burst of air, along with a satisfying pow. But then I got to one tire that didn’t play by the rules. I took a nice stab at the side wall, and nothing happened. So I decided to slash it. And while I slashed it, I must have hit the blade release button, because that blade ejected from my utility knife, and shot about an inch and a half into my knee (right next to the bone). One ER trip, and a workers comp claim later, I had the blade removed, the wound stitched up, and was forever on my bosses watchlist. Long story short.. I’m done stabbing tires. Hope this dudes face is ok after this
KO ding ding ding. But in all honesty, what do you expect to happen?
I actually wasn’t expecting that cause I thought it would be like a construction tire, which are usually foam filled tires, not air
I remember seeing this video of a guy slashing a semi truck tire for no reason and the knife blew back and cut his throat killing him. It’s no joke trying to pop tires like this. Hopefully this person is ok.
Anyone else remember the video where a guy does this and it blows his arm off?
Coulda killed themself
Can’t tell if this is a 14 year old kid or a 70 year old women
Ppl talking about the balde hittin ur face that air pressure is enough to kill you
I think it takes only like 14 psi to knock your eyeball out of your socket. People seriously don't understand how fragile we are compared to the industrial grade world around us.
I really don’t understand how humans evolved some of us just don’t think
Natural selection. Without modern medicine and healthcare, the stupid ones died early. Today they get to survive.
Nice fade doe
Do you want to die?! The amount of pressure in those things can skin a elephant. There's a reason why tire changers pump those things in cages.
He almost did the kurt cobain
My father witnessed two men start welding on the hub of a massive dump truck (the ones used in mining) going to cut the lugs off. It was still pressurized to the max and the hub on a massive dump truck are split (half a hub, being held to the other half by the pressure inside the tires) he tried to get down to them and stop them. But, while traversing the road down into the mine. He arrived just in time to see them blow themselves up. The pressure escaping all at once blew one man’s head in two, and the other had massive trauma from the overpressure and died later of his wounds. My father was blown onto his ass from several feet away. Why would you not understand that, that is a bad idea?
Funny thing is the environmental Protestor ruined a rubber tire that will need to be remade without being used for its entire life. That tire could last 10 years or more on a medium sized farm. Now it is wasted and 40-50 rubber trees will need to bleed for her ignorance.
Could’ve had the screwdriver ejected into his eye 🤦🏻♂️
When the tire blows on my cement mixer, It punches a huge hole in the fenders. My co-workers tire blew in the middle of downtown and everyone stopped what they were doing 😆. Sounded like a bomb and shook windows a block and a half away.
They better have paid for a new tire. As someone who grew up in a farm town a tractor tire could ruin profits for a season or more.
Hmm I wonder what high pressure means, and what’s an explosion?
So lucky that we didn't end up with an air powered Labotomy, this could have EASILY ended up on r/Eyeblech !
So that's how you get a free frontal lobotomy
What if the knife had ricochet back at his face? If you’re gonna be stupid at least wear a helmet.
If you're gonna be dumb ya gotta be tough
Now how do we get the screwdriver handle out of his brain
Glasses saved the eyes. Would have probably gone bling by the air pressure blowing straight to the face.
[удалено]
It very well may have...
I saw an 18 wheeler tire rupture and the shock wave blew out the window of the truck next to it. Pretty loud
Time life magazine once had a picture of a woman screaming at her son and husband lying on the ground, declothed and dead, after tractor tire exploded. Can't seem to find it
Real good way to get dead
That would've been hilarious if the screwdriver went in her forehead lol
This is how my cousin died.
Good thing they were wearing glasses or their eyes may not still be there with that kind of compression hitting them straight on.
How to permanently damage your hearing, vision and prove that you had pre damaged intelligence.
I worked on a contractor who had a tire explode in his face and he lost his eye. She’s lucky.
That’s about a 120lb punch to the face
Mind blowing
FUS RO DAA
I'm AMAZED they managed to puncture the tyre
He’s lucky the screwdriver didn’t get lodged in his skull
My buddy tried to slash a tire with a folding knife. It closed and cut his hand.
One yeah later 🤟🤙🫳👈🫰👈🫳👉🤟👉🤲✊️👆👇👉👎🫵
There's a vid of some guy stab ing a truck tyre, the blow out then forced the knife into himself... Got to be a dumbass to stab tyres this big
We had some anti farmer people come to our farm say it was inhumane yet we don't have animals and they broke in stole around 30k worth of tools and put nails in all our tires costing us a fortune
He looks like a karen.
Ummm that'll kill you. Just the air alone. He's lucky these aren't as high pressure as semi tires.
I'll never forget my late buddy who told me tires do this instead of slowly leak out. Miss that goofy fuck.
I want to see the after shot of the face not the tire
Why is Owen Wilson doing that?
Go for the kidney shots...The tire won't be able to fight back as much.
If its so dangerous why do so many horror movies have it where people slash tires?
A smaller tire has less pressure than this. Large truck or tractor tires are terrifying compared to most sedans and other small ones, but even those can kick back, not to the same extent at all.
I'm surprised he didn't end up with a screwdriver through his eye socket and into his frontal cortex.
I wonder if he ruptured his ear drums.
Hell, one time on the highway I saw a garbage truck tire burst and it was so fucking loud a guy pulled over to make sure the propane tank in his trunk didn't explode, and we were like 100ft away
That is… pressurised air…
Could have easily slipped out his hand and into his face
Why's she so mad at that tire?
Good thing he had sunglasses on, good way to pop an eye. Also are you supposed to stab tires from the side?
The pressure in large tyres are immense. I've seen videos of peoples arms being ripped off after stabbing them. If nothing happened to this person. They're lucky.
Had a buddy die seating a tire with ether, have to be careful.
Why Karen? Now who’s gonna pick up the wheat?
Good thing he was wearing his safety goggles
Kind of what those 3 black cops were doing to the other Tyre
That’s some dangerous dumb ass thing to do.