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 whiney
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 puke
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 realcrazy tsk
Many ways to get hurt working on cars, trucks, airplane and motorcycles as well as boats, let alone racing them work
Be safe out there twocents

Last edited by Cab_Burge; 07/28/18 04:57 AM.
Mr.Cab Racing and winning with Mopars since 1964. (Old F--t, Huh)