On 2 Oct 2003 13:07:42 -0700, (Kevin Brooks)
wrote:


Changing tires can be nasty business, and not (as Vkince seems to
believe) only in the military. Care and common sense are required--it
has long been the practice in the US Army to require use of a "tire
cage" (a stout steel frame/cage) during inflation of tires. In the
absence of a cage, while in the field and away from our parent unit, I
did authorize a field-expedient on one occasion; we were assembling a
truck tire (either deuce and a half or five ton, can't recall which),
so we removed the inner rear dual and placed the tire to be inflated
on that hub, then locked down the outer (good) tire in place before
inflation of the inner assembly (using the outer tire as protection in
the event the rim popped).

follow ups trimmed...

that's one way...another was to put the tire to be inflated/mounted
with the split rim *facing the ground* prior to inflating...

the approved method was to use an 'inflation cage' to hold the tire
while bringing it up to pressure..

and both the TMs and PM *strongly advocated* using a remote operated
inflator so that no tender pieces of flesh were any where near the
rims when the pressure was coming up.

ck
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