Worlds largest tires
04-02-2008, 11:29 PM
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04-02-2008, 11:59 PM
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Pretty interesting... I enjoyed it
Pretty interesting... I enjoyed it
04-03-2008, 12:39 AM
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E92
Anyone see where they sent the different tires off that big ski jump? Then they sent one of those tires off it but it just smashed right through the ramp and kept going
edit: watch this, and now you have seen it
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edit: watch this, and now you have seen it
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04-03-2008, 01:39 PM
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what's pretty crazy is there is a huge waiting list for these things, they also sell for A LOT of money (20-30K in some cases). But many of todays large equipment are delivered to sites without tires because of the shortage. Many times they'll have to retrofit very old tires to new equipment.
04-03-2008, 03:18 PM
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Originally Posted by TommySalami
I want to sit in the giant tire and have them roll me down the ski jump
Years ago for one of my more fun summer jobs I worked in a Goodyear retread/tire rebuilding plant where we got in those huge tires ...not the largest shown, but the two sizes below that. We would mount the tires in a crazy lathe/mill that shaved off the old rubber down to the carcass, every now and then you'd have to stop the cutting and hand grind out a rock or boulder imbedded in the tread; once all the old rubber was cut we laid new rubber on, threw it into a big mold, and cured the new tread.
That summer the manager of the shop did me a favor (since I sometimes covered for him when he went down to the local "shoe shine parlor" where the bookies were playing big bucks pocker games and other betting) so as a return favor he let me take an inner tube from one of those huge tires. We would often roll it down hills or sand dunes with one of us standing in the center with arms and legs spread out to hold yourself in ...very fun tube. About 8 of my buddies and me had that tube about 1/2 mile off the Jersey coast when they all got scared and swam back leaving me and another guy to fight bringing it back to shore.
04-03-2008, 04:14 PM
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Originally Posted by TSXey
Years ago for one of my more fun summer jobs I worked in a Goodyear retread/tire rebuilding plant where we got in those huge tires ...not the largest shown, but the two sizes below that. We would mount the tires in a crazy lathe/mill that shaved off the old rubber down to the carcass, every now and then you'd have to stop the cutting and hand grind out a rock or boulder imbedded in the tread; once all the old rubber was cut we laid new rubber on, threw it into a big mold, and cured the new tread.
That summer the manager of the shop did me a favor (since I sometimes covered for him when he went down to the local "shoe shine parlor" where the bookies were playing big bucks pocker games and other betting) so as a return favor he let me take an inner tube from one of those huge tires. We would often roll it down hills or sand dunes with one of us standing in the center with arms and legs spread out to hold yourself in ...very fun tube. About 8 of my buddies and me had that tube about 1/2 mile off the Jersey coast when they all got scared and swam back leaving me and another guy to fight bringing it back to shore.
That summer the manager of the shop did me a favor (since I sometimes covered for him when he went down to the local "shoe shine parlor" where the bookies were playing big bucks pocker games and other betting) so as a return favor he let me take an inner tube from one of those huge tires. We would often roll it down hills or sand dunes with one of us standing in the center with arms and legs spread out to hold yourself in ...very fun tube. About 8 of my buddies and me had that tube about 1/2 mile off the Jersey coast when they all got scared and swam back leaving me and another guy to fight bringing it back to shore.
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