Back in the day , I JUST HATED messing with these dumb things

He,s lucky he didn,t get his "Head" taken off......where was this?????? 3rd world country????

Looks like Laos , or Vietnam to me

I'm thinking that kid is dead.

Look at the ring in the concrete from the rim coming apart.

Danm....

Our 75 w250 had splits...if the shop didn't have a cage they would set the hoist on them.

Ed

I started working in service stations in the early 1960s, I was warn many times about spilt rims hurting people when inflating them. I was taught from day one to always point the split ring away from me and lower the hoist onto them when inflating them.
The safety cages came many years later
I heard about a older black guy getting his head cut off by a split ring in a truck stop in Indio, CA in the mid 1960s, that ring went through the roof of the repair shop also
I have had a standard rim blow the outer edge off almost halfway around that rim from seating the tubeless 6 ply pickup tire without soaping the tire and rim first
Many ways to get hurt working on cars, trucks, airplane and motorcycles as well as boats, let alone racing them
Be safe out there

Many years ago a farmer acquaintance of mine, and his son, were fixing a flat on a manure spreader. Read that as, rusty, nasty, and used tire.

When the ring blew off, it basically took a part of his head from his hairline with it.

It didn't kill him, but it sure did ruin him as a strapping hard working middle aged man.

Ever since I won't even be in the same area when one of these (from 15" to semi size) is being inflated.

Dang! At the very minimum, he lost his teeth.....if he had any! That rim hit him right in the face on the way up!

When I started in the truck maintenance business, over 1/2 our fleet still had split rims. First thing I was taught about split rims is to let the air out first thing.

Then the last thing we did was put the air back in after the wheel/tire was mounted on the truck with a long hose and clip chuck.

We did not have a cage, never did get one. Glad those things(split rims) are mostly gone now except for on industrial equipment.

I still mount tubeless tires on big trucks at work and at home on my own RV.

Took a few seconds for his cigarette to land, too!
Looks like he's pretty lucky to have survived that one, but I bet he chipped a few teeth!

He was lucky ring was on the down side.

The dude in the vid had no idea what hit him!

Same here I started as a young lad in the 70's working on cement trucks. flat beds, tractor trailer, doing split rims and brake service, we had no cages either, all it took was the first time a ring came off inflating a tire to scare the living $h1t out of you! to handle those things like live grenades...I still see a few old dumps nowadays still running splits, no way Jose! that I'd touch one today

We wrapped chains around and thru them, never had one come apart but I knew how dangerous it was. Put a little air in, hit with a hammer, make sure it seats good, cross your fingers.

Did it in the late 70s at a service station. You would break the bead with a hammer that was designed for that, demount, mount, and pray. I always filled them under the lift arms of the hoist. Had only one blow, it bent the pins that held the arms on the lift, and threw me against the wall, no, I wasn't using a locking air chuck, I was on top of it. Those things scare the sh*t out of me to this day.

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The dude in the vid had no idea what hit him!

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Naw...I've handled plenty of live grenades. Ain't no way I'm risking my life inflating a tire on a split rim without a cage.

I used to have a super nice 70 D200 that had 16" factory split rims on it. I had to put tires on it twice while I owned it, and wrapped log chains all the way around while inflating them. The split rims, and the push me - pull me power steering are the only 2 things I don't miss about that truck.

I ran the midnight shift when I was deployed in the Air Force for Desert Shield/Desert Storm on Diego Garcia, a coral atoll in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Our shop was in the middle of tent city. We'd replaced a tire on a Rough Terrain forklift (like a W24 Case Loader), and had it in the cage where one of my guys was airing it up when the split ring came off, around 3:00 am. Deformed the shape of the cage, pulled all 8 concrete anchors out of the floor, and pressed the shape of the ring in one side of the cage. I stopped whatever I was doing and looked down the length of the shop where the guy gave me a thumbs-up that he was ok. Started walking down there, when HUNDREDS of guys started streaming into the wide open doors of the shop. Everybody that got woken up from a sound sleep thought a bomb had gone off; not an unreasonable thought, since we were only about a mile from the flightline full of B52's coming and going 24-7. Got chewed up one side and down the other by a Chief Master Sergeant wearing nothing but tighty-whities...

did the master seargent have stripes on his tighty whities??LOL

Did them but always used a cage.Once you actually see one come apart you will never do them without a cage.Had a kid at work that was going to play with some once.I told him no way would we touch them.Didnt have a cage so off they went.Rocky