I spent most of yesterday with my head buried in my Advanced Wastewater Treatment book. Suddenly, I hear a snap/pop sounding explosion from my backyard.



One of the rear tires on the '91.5 committed suicide . I'm guessing it's due to the tire being so old and well-worn. Not to mention, it's seen the sun daily for almost the past year. Luckily, it's not my daily driver. Regardless, I have a few spares but they're not a matching size. Thought you guys would get a good laugh out of this like I did.

 

Wow!!!

 

judging all the debris you see on the roadways, most would go ahead and run that

 

Thats crazy, a friend and me had one blow like that on a fuel trailer last year. Backed it in the shed and went back an hour later, it looked just like yours.....

 

That is crazy.
I trust that used to be a steering tire?


Advanced Wastewater Treatment

Is this going to be your occupation or do you just like to read anything technical like I do?

Jim

 

Hey Jimbo looks a lot like the one the exploded in my back yard last year.






This was a spare tire, and it decided to blow while I was on vacation. Talking with my neighbor when I got back he told me of a weird explosion that rocked the house....a day or so later I came across this and we figured this must have been the explosion they heard.

 

tires will do some crazy stuff, i went 1 1/2 hours from home to pick up a back-hoe for my boss, after we got it loaded i kept seeing something in the mirror on the trailer tire.

after about 30 min or so i pulled over, there was a baseball size bubble sticking out of the trailer tire, i just got back in and gently trudged on.

we stoped for fuel 30 min from home, it was softball sized now and back out on the road people were scooting way over when they passed.

unbelievably we made it and i got home with the trailer, a week later i was mowing around it and it was vollyball sized ( it looked like a black ball glued to the tire, the next week it blew, now here is the weared part, the tire did not go flat, as a mater of fact i hauled many loads of hay from the field to the barn on it.

i guess air had got between the layers of rubber and made it do that.


Jim...i'm just glad that wasn't on your truck going down the road.

Dar

 

This wasn't sitting, it was on a trailer doing 65 loaded with one of out tractors.

 

I'm assuming so also, Jim. The front-end on the '91.5 is pretty loose. Alignment certainly isn't right either. Both existing steer tires have abnormal wear. One looking similar to the one that blew.

I've been studying Wastewater Treatment Operations for the past 3 years trying to work my way into the industry with the ultimate goal being Operations. I took 4 other courses prior to the 2 Advanced Wastewater Treatment courses I'm currently taking. 2 courses at Rio Hondo College in Whittier and 2 at-home courses from Cal State University, Sacramento under their Office of Water Programs. All of those in 2009. The courses I'm currently taking are also at Rio Hondo and through Cal State University, Sacramento. I worked as an Operations Intern for 7 months last year for LA County Sanitation District at one of their plants in Carson. All the while, applying for any positions posting to the public just to get into the district and eventually transfer into Operations. Applied for all and turned down for all.

In June 2010, I submitted an application for an Operator-In-Training position for Orange County Sanitation District. Out of 3,000-4,000 applicants, 87 were finally selected to move on and take an exam in late February of this year (only 43 actually showed up). Yes, that's almost 2 years! I took and passed that exam as well as about 18 others. The 18 of us were then selected to interview for the 4-5 vacancies they had. I'm happy say, I was offered one of the positions with them. My schooling and persistence has finally paid-off. I'll be starting at $25.40/hr on 3 - 12hr shifts, 6am-6pm for 4 months while training. After that, I get moved to graveyard, 6pm-6am with an additional $2.50/hr, pushing me to $27.90/hr. After 12 months of probation, I can bid to move back to day shift but those with the most seniority get it, of course. I'm beyond thrilled right now! This will certainly be a great career!

Sorry to get a little sidetracked and ramble on.

Which is exactly why I'm in good spirits and laughing about this. However, I did drive that truck to the scrapyard to have the utility bed removed shortly after I acquired it. Luckily, it didn't happen on my way to and from the yard then.

 

Good for you Jimbo...Congrats!!!

My father worked in the waste water treatment industry for 23 years before he retired this January. I'm a trucker, but have operated sewage/vacuum trucks for a number of years in the past. People used to ask how I could stand the smell...I always told them, "To me it's the smell of money!!"

 

It's those dang pep boys futura tires!

glad you weren't going down the road when it happened

 

Back in the good old days, those side blisters happened once in awhile. We'd usually ***** a tiny hole in them and go on. The tires usually had other defects, but usually run a ways before a cap flew off or something.

We never bought new tires. They were junkyard 20's anyway. Checking tire pressure was a daily task.

 

We had a call in a leather tanning business years ago and the smell was as bad as any I had ever smelled, instantly nauseating. I asked the patient how he could work in the smell and he said "what smell". Olfactory fatigue is a blessing, sometimes, although it can get you killed in other situations...Mark

 

Futura's they are!

Not to mention, the gases given off by septic sewage, hydrogen sulfide (H2S), will actually dull your sense of smell in very small amounts and ultimately affect the respiratory system if over-exposed. The gas actually reacts with the water which creates sulfuric acid and erodes the concrete pipes and such. But if it's going septic, you've got some other issues to look for. Optimum velocity in a sewer is 2ft/sec. to keep solids from settling as well as prevent a stagnant and eventually septic situation.

 

Thats what my Grandpa used to say when some farmers came into his hardware/ IH dealership I believe it still rings true! and man that tire look severely worn on the inside or is that just me