How much will this tire hold

[justen]

Don't try this at home.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hEUeRFQL9A

[Daniel Wood]

Now those people (if you can call them that) give the human race a bad name.

That was pure stupidity! I know this guy that was airing a tractor tire up and was talking to someone else not paying attention to what he was doing and the tire eventually exploded breaking his arm in several places and bruised the whole side of his face and head.

[justen]

Oh it's dangerous, When I got my new air compressor and it was pumping up to 160 PSI, I had a beer and stood on the other side of the garage til it was done pumping. LOL I was hoping when they built it, they did alot of testing on it. Just last week I seen another air compressor that pumped up to 200 psi. Thats almost a crazy pressure. I thought 160 was overboard.

[vetteonr]

A guy I knew back in high school was working part time at a gas station and overfilled a tire and it exploded. Killed him instantly. This is not something to mess around with.

[Porcupine]

I guess we've all heard stories at one time or another.

Many years ago I was getting a tire fixed in a truck tire center. There was a picture hanging on the wall and the tech was too willing to tell about it. In another tire shop he said a young kid was doing the same to a full size truck tire. There was a tire on that changer machine and when it expoded it took him with it and an imprint of his body was still on the ceiling, including the blood stain and left over guts...killed instantly.

In this case we can all drink lots of beer and still maintain some sort of "presence of mind" But some people don't have that for starters. The beer only reduced the fear factor and added to the stupid factor, which was already in gear. JMO