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I remember my very first car (Mk2 Ford Consul) getting my very first puncture.....a set of house keys with the Yale stuck right through the tread. It didn't go down fast but made a strange noise as it hit the road.
I also remember the night on the Mitchell Freeway heading north around Lake Monger area before they put the railway down the middle...a truck going south lost a box of screws/bolts which spread over all lanes causing about 30 vehicles to come to a quick halt and gave the RACWA a few hours work fixing them.:p
AlanH.
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Jockey wheel assembly from a trailer, I saw it on the road near the Dig Tree, clipped it with the front tyre it spun around and the handle went through the sidewall of the back tyre. :mad::mad:
Martyn
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I once had a Yamaha motorcycle key go into the inner rear sidewall of a new tyre the day and 150km after fitting.
Unrepairable, and brassed me off no end to need to spend another $300.
And, no, I did not run into, over or even see a motorbike......
Gumnut
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worst Ive seen (not my tyre so doesnt really count) was a mobile phone inside a RAAF unimog 1750 tyre.
These things are tubeless and we had the day chaging about 8 tyres, on 2 vehicles. end of the day he couldnt find his phone.
about a month later we had a mog come in with a tyre going flat, inside the trye was the remains of a phone and a heap of rubber abraded from the airtight lining inside the tyre
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Not a tyre,but a mate of mine clipped a piece of broken axle on the road to Karumba,late in the day,it went through the sump of the Tojo diesel.Oil light was on in seconds,shut it down,towed to the next small town and the local mechanic had an old sump and new gasket,all fitted,on his way the next day.:)
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Having had a rear tyre change on a 70 tonne dump truck, driver returned to workshop saying there is banging noise from rear of truck. After a lengthy investigation, a sledge hammer was found inside said tyre:eek:
Hammer was hung on the wall as momento to the tyre fitter:D
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Some years ago my father got a 7/16 combination spanner (with the ring end partially broken off) completely inside the passenger side rear tyre, it went down very quick.
Theorising it we decided that it was probably lying on the road, and was flicked up by the front wheel running over it so as to be able to penetrate the rear tyre.
I've still got it on my book shelf at home, dad reckons it's the most expensive spanner he's ever bought :o
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Not a tyre story but interesting. My father had a Reo lorry for carrying cases of bananas to the train at Coff's Harbour. One day the clutch went and the local mechanic stripped out the gearbox and replaced the clutch and reassembled. Went for a test drive to find gearbox oil everywhere. Problem was that a rivet from the old clutch had flown out and punched a perfectly round hole of rivet head size through the gearbox case. The gearbox had to come out again so the hole could be welded up. Mechanic wasn't impressed.
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I've found a hypodermic needle in the tyre of a farm Land Rover. Not so strange as the owner had been out with the Vet vaccinating cattle, but an interesting find nonetheless.
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That pic of the board with screws in it reminds me of the staking devices being used around the Mt Jackson area in WA. Lengths of metal about 30mm wide and 250 long with bolts welded on and ground down to a rough point then hidden just under the track surface.
Some nasty git around there wants to stop anyone encroaching on his mining leases regardless of how dangerous it is.
AlanH.
