What nobody seems to be thinking about when it comes to the locking rings is that most of the large heavy equipment (ie loaders, graders, scrapers, etc) still use them. The thing is the tires typically have to be changed in the field. With them being as heavily built as they are it isn"t feasible to have a mobile machine to spread the bead over the rim like you"d do with a "normal" size tire so they use a rim that the tire can be slipped over easily and then retained with the lock ring. They"ve been doing this for alot of years and will probably still be doing it for alot more unless someone comes up with something different. Wether or not their safe never seems to be an issue unless someone is lax about treating them with respect and does what they know they shouldn"t or simply doesn"t know what their doing to begin with. I"ll bet in this instance the tire was flat to the point that it had set the rim on the ground and dislodged the ring and the guy never paid attention to that fact before he started filling it up. I noticed on of the other replys talking about the tire on a loader being filled to 100 psi. Many of the larger tires fill to at least 100 psi with some going as high as 150psi so unless it was a lower rated tire there had to have been something else to go wrong for that incident to have happened. Don"t get me wrong here, I agree that anytime someone gets killed like this it is a tradgedy. Problem is more often than not the blame is put on the inanimate object that "caused" their death and not attributed to the person that didn"t know what they were doing, screwed up and actually caused their own death. But that"s just my .02 based on a lifetime of working on heavy equipment and seeing how many stupid lever pullers there are and the kinds of things they routinely do because they don"t know, don"t ask, really don"t want to know, or are simply too stupid to care....
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