bgsengine wrote:Yeah - actually I have a homemade tire changer built from scrap pieces or metal laying around the shop.. it bolts to the wall and folds up out of the way. works better than any "store bought" tire changer I have ever used in my 30-plus years of being in this business.
As for those tiny 4" tires, I have been looking into possibly doing foam filled - eliminate flats altogether.
Me too thinking about foam filled. I seen some front tires awhile back on a Kubota 4x4 tractor that were foam filled and I told the guy he needs to think about replacing those front tires because I can see the air inside.
I also have a
homemade redneck tire changer for the small garden tractor tires that works easily and saves a lot of sweat and grief breaking down the small tires. I have several different sizes of steel pipe that is just little bit larger in diameter than the steel rim, set the pipe over the rim on the tire, jack it down in a press and use liquid soap around the bead if it don't break down just let it sit for few minutes with pressure and it will give up. The pipe is just long enough that when the tire breaks down the upper end of the pipe cross piece does not contact the upper part of the rim.
I have a piece of heavy flat bar steel laid on top of the press pipe that the jack sits on so as I can see to center the pipe centered onto the rim as pressure is applied and also allows applying soap as the tire compresses.
Works great but not OSHA approved.