Any firewood splitters here?

I'm sure that everyone knows that with all these log splitter machines ""everything goes great"......until one tiny thing goes wrong then your permanently crippled or dead. Kind like when I had the 68 Dodge 4 X 4 Power wagon (3/4 ton military vehicle) ....I had some very large "balloon" air plane tires mounted on the 16 inch split rims. Later on I had to remove the airplane tires. I removed all the air and removed the spit rim but still couldn't budge the tire off the rim. So I had a great idea....I simply added air to the tire so it would pop off the rim. I had carried the tires and rims in the bed of the power wagon and was sitting in the bed of the truck as I aired up the tires to get them to break loose. I pumped air into the tires until all of a sudden the bead busted loose. Most people have no idea how much energy is stored in a big balloon air plane tire when it's pressurized. Either way when the bead broke loose I found myself on the concrete outside of the truck bed with my ears ringing. The tire had broke loose and the volume of air and pressure had blown me out of the truck bed onto the ground. I don't remember being thrown out of the truck bed but I now have a lot of respect for an aired up tire!!!!
"everything goes great"......until one tiny thing goes wrong then your permanently crippled or dead.
Treblig

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Yea they call them things "suicide" rims for a reason. I'm glad you lived thru it. Most ppl won't touch one of those things now. There was one shop around here with a cage that would do them but it burnt down. Idk of anyone that does them now.