Yeah, I heard it on the local news when it happened, but all they said was the he got rushed to the hospital - I didn't know he died. Another guy got killed here last year filling a tire on a Deere 4WD loader - and it did NOT have split rims - the tire got way over inflated and blew up. He wasn't using a pressure-gauge they think it put almost a 100 PSI into it.
When I drove a big truck, we carried tools and had to fix our own flats - all split rims - back 1960s- 1970s. The last Deere dealership I worked at - up to 1991 - the truck driver there was still required to fix his own flats on our old IH tilt-bed with split-rims.
One of my farm pickup trucks still has them - a 1969 Dodge W200 Power Wagon. I tried to get a flat fixed recenty - and not a single local tire shop would touch it. Confinement cages are reguired (as told to me) and they don't have them anymore.
So, back home, did it myself again with two saftety chains wrapped around the rim. Yeah, they're time-bombs and death-traps unless you work on them correctly. They also tend to blow up after they get rusty - when driving down the road and not being worked on. I've gotten so I hate even standing next to one.
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