Guy shooting tire and it explodes

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Wow I have got to try that!
It is hard to tell how far away these guys are but by the looks of the slab of rubber flying back and to the right they were not far enough. I would like to try this at long range like 300+ yards minimum.
 
See how being stupid brought him within feet of being seriously injured?

It Mighta been just air. A truck tire can explode with some pretty awesome force. Guys have been killed by them during the remounting process.
 
A truck tire can explode with some pretty awesome force. Guys have been killed by them during the remounting process.
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Yes. Truck tires failing on the road have literally destroyed cars alongside them, and a video is out there of one made to fail with a human-simulating dummy next to it. The dummy came down in pieces. :eek:
 
Yep, pieces. I recall at least one decapitation while mounting a truck tire in the article I read. They actually are supposed to put them in some kind of safety cage while inflating them in case they blow to conain the pieces but, you know, some guys like to cut corners.
 
Tire go Boom.

I am willing to bet there was a Tannerite target in it some how. Dont ask me how I know.
 
I've been driving an armored truck before when it had a blow out. Sounded like a friggin cannon.
 
These guys are window-lickers.


It would have been a better video if that slab of rubber going 100mph would have knocked out the prone shooter. Then this video would be a great learning tool of what not to do (on many levels). Instead, there are probably 1,000's of people who've seen this and now have an urge in their pants to go try something stupid like this for themselves. All because it has a happy ending.


natural selection I guess....
 
I knew of a guy in WA who spent his summer shooting dynamite shacks out in the woods. One of them took off part of his leg, so he sued the logging company and won. He claimed he had no idea there was dynamite in there. He probably fits into the window licker categort too.
 
I've seen a few people (on another forum) swearing up and down that tannerite had to have been involved.


I'm not so sure - it could very well have been a split rim wheel that got hit just right - those son of guns release one heck of a lot of energy when they go :-(
 
BTDT

Was on my bike on the way home and about 1/4 mile ahead of me saw a truck tire explode on the back of a trailer. It looked like something out of a movie, entire trailer dissapeared in a cloud with rubber flying all over like shrap metal arching all over the place, cars dodgeing, brake lights on, no one was hurt, it was awsome and I was real glad that I was a 1/4 mile away.:what:
 
I've heard that some of the older "Fix-a-Flat" cans contained volatile gases. I've also heard of (morons) who would shoot a little starting fluid (ether) on/in to a tire that wouldn't seat the bead on the rim, then ignite it with a tossed match. Seemed to make things all-better (!) Maybe this is the result of some of that thinking?

If that piece of flying tire carcass had hit the shooter, he'd be graveyard dead, right there:what:
 
Man, being an auto tech I have seen a couple people thrown into the air putting a tire on a new wheel. It probably is just air. You dont have to fill them with anything special to do that. The PSI in those things with all the cubic inches in the tire itself is a mixture for boom. Acetylene at 15lbs turns into nitroglycerin. I bet that would be an even bigger boom if it was acetylene.

A small enough puncture can cause a tire to do that. I have seen it first hand. I still refuse to put a retread on a tire machine. No matter what. A small enough puncture in a full inflated tire can kill a man.
 
Thanks for the link!
I forgot to mention that WMP crashes my browser before I can do anything...so even if there's a link there I can't use it.

Crazy video.
I wouldn't want to do it.
 
Boys, just because there's a link to another site doesn't mean diddly. Unless someone that was actually there says they used tannerite don't jump to that conclusion. Remember the errornet is mostly gossip with pictures.

It is easier for many of you to believe that some explosive compound was used than to accept that the energy of a large tire under pressure is literally explosive, but do a little reading about the hazards of industrial tires.
 
we use nitrogen in our aircraft tires!

they had a saftey stand down and they where showing us pictures of mishaps that happen and showed a tire that exploded while a guy was airing it up and it split the guy in half! :eek:
 
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