A safety message, about your tyres.

[bob10]

I must admit, I had no idea.

Wheels of Fire Training Video - YouTube (https://youtu.be/jBUVzgCHHuA)

[BMKal]

A reasonably well known occurrence in the mining industry Bob, with dump trucks, cranes etc coming into contact with overhead power lines. Has become less common in recent years as more have become aware of the dangers, and more care is taken NOT to place overhead powerlines above where any such equipment might possibly make contact (more common to place power lines below ground at road crossings etc these days).

A good video though, and one that I will pass on to some people who I believe will get some good value out of it. Thanks for posting.

[knares]

This happened in Perth a few years ago, a guy welded a crack in a tubeless wheel, walked away and sat down for lunch, the tire blew and the wheel and tire went through the roof

[rangieman]

And this is one reason why OH&S is so big [bigwhistle]

The problem being we get people that know a lot about a little and a little about a lot:bat:
What ever happened to commonsense :wallbash:

[ATH]

We had a tyre explode on a parked up little Cat dumper (35 tonner) at one site I worked at about 2 hours after it had stopped work. The explosion blew the fuel tank and hydraulics off the truck and damaged the one next to it as well.
Apparently the tyre laminated and heat build up continued after it stopped working. The bang was so loud and it caused glasses on the shelf in the pub about a kay away to rattle........ place swarmed with bosses about 5 mins later as they thought a digger (992C loader) may have dug into some unfired anfo. and set it off.
Another time I was following a loaded up oldish Tojo down south and you could see his rear tyres were very soggy and then BANG....bits flew everywhere! When a tyre explodes through heat build-up it goes big time.
AlanH.