So sad to hear of someone losing their life (especially a youngster) to such stupidity. We have a neighbor that was hit by a split rim in the head many years ago. He survived and recovered but has a large dent in his forehead that his hat never fit right afterward. It's often been said that the only way he survived it was "it just wasn't his time". With that lesson in mind, I worked in a truck garage in my Jr year of high school when there wasn't farming to do. One day Dad gave me a 6' hose whip that clipped on a tire valve and had a standard Schrader valve on the other end. I was instructed to keep it in my tool box and when I worked on a tire whether caged or not to inflate it from one side out of line with the rim or sidewall. I was changing out the 10.00-20 steers on an Astro 95 one afternoon and was rolling one of the tires to the cage to bring it up to pressure with my whip in my back pocket and was intercepted by old mean a$$ Bob one of the worst I've ever worked with. He slammed the tire split rim down one the floor and grabbed my whip and threw it out the door, ' YOU F&%^$* PUNK KIDS TAKE TOO LONG DOING THIS WORK!' and he shoved me out of the way. He got on top of the tire and reached down and started putting air to it. I went out the door and picked up my whip hose. When I turned around there was an incredible boom that launched Bob and the tire about 3 feet off the floor and Bob went all of 350+ pounds. I was about 30' away and felt the concussion. Bob was laying about 6' away and the tire landed back on the launch pad. The front ring of the split rim blew off. I walked over and stood the tire up to roll it out of the way. Bob layed there dazed but apparently only suffering a very bruised ego (and possably a$$). I stated "I'll just stick to the way I was taught,Thanks". Funny how Bob just left me alone after that.
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