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    Quote Originally Posted by JohnC4X4 View Post
    The Glasses or the Bar or both?
    Just the bar...well, and the operator.

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    Interesting. On the really stubborn tires I used a "hammering" action with the bar against the tower, and it's holding up. Maybe when I get to the 40/50 tire mark it will fatigue. Time will tell. At $6 per tire the shop wants to charge me, it's already paid for itself.

    When I was looking around to buy one, I thought about getting the unit Northern Tool has. Some guy on youtube did a side by side comparison and says NT is a lot heavier, but both work "okay". So I figured I'd save $60 and give HF a try.

    Even thought about welding some scrap together and make one, but I figured at $38, my time was better spent just getting the thing.

    A few on youtube have reinforced their HF unit. If the tire iron is the only thing that is giving you an issue, you might see if you can find a solid piece of iron then heat up the end and hammer it into a spoon.

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    i have used the bumper jack method to remove tires also ,,,it works well on most tires ..it seems now and then youll find one too stuborn to get off this way though....there are laws in my state about the amount of car tires or batteries that you can haul....ive never heard of them being enforced though..if i was going to do it all the time id look into it....

    i actually have a place where i use alot of old tires...i stack them up on top of one another then fill them with dirt..then i tamp it down and just stagger the next layer and repeat the process...i haul them off for a couple semi repair shops around here...they pay me 5.50 per tire plus gas.....

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    I have a yard (not my primary) in Albany, NY that takes tires on rims. They have to be 16's and smaller. Last time I was there in December, they were paying about $40 a gross ton for these. Price may seem low, but unless you have a place to dispose of the tire, it's not bad.

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    Idaho...I think we were watching the same video's around the same time earlier in the week.

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    please take your emissions test back too, ontario adapted an emissions test off of cali's... here you can haul any amount of tires and dump them for free at the city dump as long as your only taking in tires at the time, car batteries are different here, you can only be hauling 12 at a time or it's a fine if you get stopped

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    Never would have imagined Bigburt...I don't think Colorado has any such laws but I will have to check.

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    we'll take back our laws, when you take back Bieber, an return that gangsta drake..(lol) to Degrassi.

    Millions of Americans would thank you for taking them back.

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    We just want our neighbors to breath a little easier, you know the winds for the most part "BLOWS EAST". As Just-IN time Bieber, I don't think our northern neighbors want him back! Parliamentary leaders in Canada called Bieber a "spoiled, self-important, talentless miscreant with an undeserved ego, whose continual misbehavior and abuse of status to violate public safety laws make him a better fit as a celebrity in America than in the land of pine and maple." LOL Aey!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sirscrapalot View Post
    we'll take back our laws, when you take back Bieber, an return that gangsta drake..(lol) to Degrassi.

    Millions of Americans would thank you for taking them back.

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    sorry, but I am sure that is one thing 99% of Canadians couldn't/wouldn't help out our American neighbors with... I think what we should do is collectively put him on a dingy and send him out to sea

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    I like the jack idea offered I never tried that. I have an old tire machine however certain tires just wont brake the bead. What I do is put some oil on the bead (anything slippery) then lay the tire flat in the driveway and run my truck tire over it as close to the rim as I dare. Once in a while (rarely) I will have to do this about every 30 degrees two or three times. But I always get the bead broke. Then flip the tire over and do the second side. The slippery or oil will also help greatly with your manual levers. This also works for those trailer and motorcycle tires that wont go on my machine.

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    LOL @ Burt. That's awesome. I saw the mayor of a town in Australia called him the princess of pop..lol.

    An Shaun...it was worth a shot. If you guys don't want him back, that says a lot.

    Sirscrapalot - You know your not liked very much when a country tries to get a petition going to have you removed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sirscrapalot View Post
    LOL @ Burt. That's awesome. I saw the mayor of a town in Australia called him the princess of pop..lol.

    An Shaun...it was worth a shot. If you guys don't want him back, that says a lot.

    Sirscrapalot - You know your not liked very much when a country tries to get a petition going to have you removed.
    We hold Canada liable for Beiber. Australia hereby demands that Canada take the Beiber thing back and dispose of it. Failure to comply will result in an Australian invasion of Canada. (If we can find sober troops)

    You have been warned.
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    Hey, there's lots of ideas on YouTube for tire removal from a rim. Using a 2x12 as a ramp (on the tire) and driving your vehicle up the ramp is a decent idea also. I've used the pallet fork from my skidsteer but not if I wanted to keep the tire......poked a hole in a nice tire one day. Laying a wheel/tire flat and driving over the side might work also.

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    there is a special hammer for breaking the bead. it looks kind of like a splitting maul turned sideways.
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    Not sure of the exact name for the hammer but we always called it a duckbill hammer at the shop I worked at. Used it for truck tires.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hartless View Post
    Not sure of the exact name for the hammer but we always called it a duckbill hammer at the shop I worked at. Used it for truck tires.
    Yes it looks like this
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    Quote Originally Posted by hartless View Post
    Not sure of the exact name for the hammer but we always called it a duckbill hammer at the shop I worked at. Used it for truck tires.
    Yeah it sure is. Don't use it very often, except for hammering the split ring back on a widow maker or on a tubeless semi tire, sometimes that last little bit of the bead doesn't want to cooperate, a few times with the blunt side of it does wonders.
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    Or you could try this
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    Quote Originally Posted by SuperDave View Post
    Or you could try this
    [IMG][/IMG]
    Never thought of using rachet straps, I will have to try that out.

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