This "live action" video shows the OSHA Certification explosion testing of our latest tire inflation..
cage that is designed for large Earthmover and Agricultural tires.
The 29.5R25 L-3 Earthmover tire with its three piece steel wheel are inflated to 150-psi and then experiences a sudden release event inside the cage.
Watch the cage absorb the explosion and contain all of the tire and wheel components exactly as it was
designed to perform at regular speed and in slow motion.
New features of this inflation cage are "PATENT PENDING". Cage part number 36011.
Com: El guapo: I witnessed this happen on a tire about the same size. Scary as hell. Dude got up off the ground and first thing he did was look to see if he still had hands....He didn't. Just kidding. He did, but it was still scary and the cage was destroyed.
Com: Wordreath: Ho ly tihs!!!!!! I spent approx 8 years as a tyre fitter way back around the early 80s. And I'm thankful to say that I never experienced anything that severe!
If you look at the last images it looks like the steel ring has failed and released the tire from the left side of the wheel!! If that had been fixed to a vehicle, the whole tyre and the two or three steel retaining rings would have been fired away and would have killed anyone standing in the way! Plus they would have travelled probably 200 feet over open ground! I'm sitting here with a chill down my spine!