Re: How To Inflate A Tire
Hmmm.... this reminds me of some of the stories my uncle used to tell. He used to be a driver/machinist for Banter Bros. Super Modified Tractor pulling team. This is how they seated beads sometimes. Then they would hook the air compressor up and let it go for a while. Which leads to a story of a friend of theirs (probably another pulling team) that went to town for lunch and forgot the compressor was hooked up. Came back and walked in the shop to be surprised by a very over-inflated tire. So one guy crawled across the floor to the air hose and cut it with his knife. A tire that big will do some serious damage.
Which leads to the next story.
Dad was cleaning up some trash around the farm one night and got tired of look at an old combine tire. So he told my brother to roll it out to the burn pile. ***I don't care what you think about this, its common practice on farms. If you don't like it complaining to me will do you no good*** Anyways, he then lit it the pile with a little used motor oil and they were watching. Well, dad look over and asked my brother if he took the valve stem out, he said no. So they decided to back up a little bit. Eventually the tire let go. He said it wasn't that impressive, just blew chunks of rubber up a few feet and blew a little trash out of the fire. He was quite disappointed. Pretty soon my cousin came over on his mule (he lives 1/2 mile across the field) and said WTH was that? Dad asked what, he honestly didn't even realize that he was referring to the tire. Well, my cousin said he was in his shop and felt and heard the building shake. My dad thought he was kidding; it was just a loud "puufffff" sound near the fire. Pretty soon the neighbor a mile north came down (he's a volunteer firefighter). He asked if everything was ok and what was going on. Dad was shocked said yeah, why? He said the FD is on their way, it was called in as an explosion with possible fire. Dad didn't want them to know it was a tire so he said it must've been a big aerosol can, and the neighbor called the FD off. But they came anyways. About 5 cop cars and 3 fire trucks came tearing in through the yard and driveway. The cops were douches about the whole thing (they must've been excited and thought they were going to catch somebody making a homemade bomb or something) and the firefighters were trying to put the fire out. Dad told them to leave because they'd been called off before they arrived and they weren't welcome there. One of the cops got snippy about it (he's a douche, even other officers say so) but it was all resolved.
To this day we can't figure out who it was. The nearest neighbor that was home is my cousin, and next to him is the County Prosecuting Attorney, but they didn't have clear view to even see that there was a fire so how they would've known is beyond me. They're just city-slickers that don't belong in the country anyways.
Sorry, I digress, story-time is over.