Way to remove tire rims? - Page 2

I have that exact same tire changer. Mine did not come with instructions, and I never got it to work. Will have to mount it and put it to use.

You can lay the tire flat on the ground & then use a car & drive over the edge of the tire to break the bead.
Line it up right, you don't want it flipping up & hitting the side of the car.

Otherwise, I'd use a grinder to cut a V chunk out of the rim & remove the tire thru that.
I found it difficult to cut thru the tire with the grinder, it kept grabbing & thats pretty **** dangerous, even for me.
Really really dangerous for everyone else.....

Hello to scrapman & all other Forum Memebers,
I think that the other Forum Members pretty much covered all of the basic ways to remove tires from the rim's. You can definitely do it by hand without a tire machine but without the actual tire bars it is somewhat hard, but it can be done. Last week our loader got a flat and we were able to pull the tubless tire off the rim and patch it, all by hand, however I do have the proper tire tool / bars.

As far as regular truck and car tires go these days, we now use a simplified method for tire removal (see photo's) It not only cuts the rubber tire right off, but also cuts the steel rim, but with bigger truck tires you have to turn it over and slice it a second time if you want to cut the rim in half.
The big draw back is safety issues, I realize that we need to fabricate a safety guard. I would venture to say that it is probably the most dangerous equipment we utilize.

I should also say that the vast majority of the Shear use is for cutting / prep- steel, it saves a tremendous amount of time & torching.

The following is the shear photo and our flat tire:

http://i1209.photobucket.com/albums/...11/Shear-1.jpg

Hello again,
I forgot to ad the flat tire fixing photo.

http://i1209.photobucket.com/albums/...oodorna005.jpg

Sweet old shear! Any idea of the age? I love old machinery!

I have a dewalt sawzall and use the thickest dewalt demolition blade available and cut straight through the tire down into the rim and through the steel belt.....I can do one every five minutes with this method and the blade lasts aprox 5 tires....Disposal of the tires is up to you....Good Luck

I agree with haulinheiny, I've owned 2 of the manual tire changers from harbor freight and they work pretty well. One pry rod did break, but i returned it for a new one. You can get it down to a few minutes per tire, depending on tire size. It's also nice to have around to change your own tires, I probably used mine hundreds of times to remove and mount tires on track and street cars, it pays for itself after a few uses if you take into consideration how much tire ships charge to mount and balance.

Originally Posted by Mick

Yes, they can and I looked into scrapping tires. There are large piles of tires around here and I was going to cash in. The problems are that the closest shredding plant is in (I think it was) Tennessee. The tires take up a lot of room for transport and they're worth so little per ton that a 72 foot trailer could not hold enough tires to even cover fuel.

You can buy balers for tires. They take a stack of tires, compress them, and then tie up the bale with wire. Al-Jon makes them, and I'm pretty sure other manufacturers do too. Makes shipping them feasible.

There's a plant fairly close where old tires are shredded and turned into stall mats and anti-fatigue mats, playground equipment, and a couple other uses I forget. A cement plant in the mountains here built one of their kilns specifically to burn shredded tires as fuel, but they had so many problems due to the wire in the shredded material always hanging up and causing fuel flow problems that they said screw it and went back to natural gas. I know old tires are also used as fuel for power plants, and I even remember reading about one power plant (believe it was in Texas??) that was built specifically to burn a literal mountain of tires that a guy had accumulated by allowing companies to dump old tires on his land (for a pretty healthy fee I'm sure) back when nobody else wanted or was even accepting old tires.

an log splitter works nicely also in canada any place that sells tires you can drop them off at for disposal for free thats what the tire tax is for when u purchase tires new

I hadn't thought of using the log splitter. Thanks for that suggestion!

we bought a manual tire changer from tsc (tractor supply) a few weeks ago. they did not have it in stock so they got it from another store. 54.99 pays for itself really fast

Petrol cutter through the side rim, cut the bead let air out of tire first. they drop off

$40 to Harbor freight for one of those cheapo manual tire machines. With a welder, and a few iron scraps to make a couple of mods to strengthen it, it has become a fast, effective method. Been a long time since I have paid someone else to fix my tires, too.

Thank you for your advice...HAH ...

I have clicked your link...HaHa,,,your picture is very good..

I aggre with you ...

agree with c4f5 .. go to harbor freight buy one of those manual ones and bolt that bad boy to a concrete bad bought mine 5 years ago i bet i have changed 500 tires on it . ( i have an electric balancer)