Woke up with a BANG! this morning

[Spooled-up]

About 8:30 this morning I heard a bang loud enough to think it was dynamite. Sounded like it was just out in the street. I get up and see this cement truck parked in the street across from my house. It's one of those rear engined ones that has the large single tires four in the back and the two small helper tires on a rack in the rear. I take the phone out to let the guy use and to see what happened. Turns out he blew a tire. He had his own phone and said someone was on the way. Couldn't move the truck as it would damage the aluminum wheels. So I start walking back toward the house and I see a piece of rubber on my front lawn. The tire that blew was on the other side of the truck! I start back into the house and happen to look down by the garage and see another piece of tire down there. This is a good 50 feet away from the truck!!



I would hate to have been walking the dog on the side of the road when that thing went. Might've been killed.

 

[XcumminsX]

a couple days ago i saw a semi coming to a stop and all of a sudden you see one of his tires fly about 30 feet up in the air all ripped apart, It then landed on some guys car and put a HUGE dent on his hood... . I couldnt believe it, The guy is lucky it didnt hit the windsheild, i bet it would have gone threw. .



Nick

 

[Cowboy Medic]

My Brother was standing right next to a guy when a split rim tire blew apart and killed him. That was about 9 years ago now, back when he was still a grunt at the truck stop instead of one of the managers. He has refused ever since to work on those types of setups. I thought he said something about them being illegal now, or at least very rarely used, not really sure.

 

[Truckie]

After driving big rigs for 8 years have seen and had many of tries blow. One that comes to mind is when I was coming down this 2 lane road about 40mph I had a right rear trailer tire blow. The side wall blew out and then a few feet latter the cap came blowing off in servile pieces. I looked in the side mirror and saw a piece fly off and take out some ladies mailbox. She had just steeped away from getting her mail. A few more pieces went flying in her yard to.

MIKE

 

[klenger]

The last time I woke up with a "bang" (late 1970's) was because an oil refinery exploded a couple of miles from our house in Denver.

 

[outlawram]

sometimes i wake up with a bang if she is in the mood.

 

[The patriot]

Yea... me too.



I was an owner operator for many years. Whenever my wife (or anyone I'm driving with for that matter) drives along side truck tires I tell them to poop or get off the pot. This version is G rated.

Eric

 

[Mille4212]

I couldn't agree with you more patriot. Try it on a bike talk about making you a little nervous lol. I know I don't screw around get past them and get on down the road. With riding the bikes I really don't like to ride or drive side by side another vehicle big or small.

 

[C. Harlan]

my most memorable bang was on Memorial Day weekend, 2001. My boss had somehow gotten me to take a load from San Antonio to George West, when I already had plans to take off early the day before. I was mad, and was running about 95 in my Pete 379 with 42,000 lbs of old railroad rails chained on the back. 2 days before I had 47,000 lbs of lumber going to Laredo and had blown a tire. They had paid to replace it, and since it had more tread than its neighbor next to it, there was more weight on it. going 95 mph, being hot outside, and having a load on there made for one hellacious awesome blowout! I felt a little jerk(Didnt hear anything, as the stereo was cranked as always), looked back, and saw tread and tire shooting into orbit, 10-15 feet in the air!! I didnt even miss a beat though. I kept on truckin', got the rails unloaded [by hand], and finally got to indulge on my Memorial Day alcohol consumption. I do know they are quite loud to hear when they do blow out, and would not wish to be near a heavy truck tire when one decides to let go. .



-Chris-

 

[michigandon]

TWICE I have had semis blow tires along side of me when I was either passing them or they were passing me on the interstate.



'Tis NOT a pleasant experience. :--) :{

 

[Andy Perreault]

I've had two of them blow. The first one sounded like an explosion and scared the cr-- out of me. Even though it was on the trailer, it sounded like it was right behind me. The second one was the opposite. I never heard a thing, but I happened to be looking in the mirror at the time it blew and I saw an instant of fog and pieces of tire flying out in the light of the car headlights behind me. The thing that scared me was after I had stopped and called dispatch for a service truck. I realized that it was midnight and I was right smack in the middle of the worst part of south central L. A. , and this was not too long after the riots. The freeway was above ground there, and I could look down and see baggy-clothed gang banger types walking around in front of a public housing project and staring up at me. Luckily, the tire service truck got there pretty quick.

Andy

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

This is why when I'm riding my bike I hang way back from trucks and then get past them as fast as I can. I was about 150 feet behind a truck once when he had a blowout and the tread came flying right at my head. I ducked and it went right over me. If it had hit me in the chest or head it would have been uuuugly.

 

[gitchesum]

Originally posted by Steve St. Laurent

If it had hit me in the head it would have been uuuugly.

Could it get any uglier? :-laf



Just kiddin ya Steve. I try my best to stay out of everyone's way when I'm on the bike. Especially rigs. Those treads ain't light.

 

[Doc Tinker]

The best bang I ever got was the time a kid walked his bike to the gas station where I worked. While he was infating the tire, my co-worker cranked up the air pressure, from within the garage. The tire went bang and the kid stood there with eyes as big a saucers. I still wonder if he heard us laughing.



Doc

 

[Extreme1]

Doc - you owe me a tube!!