Heard this one on the way to work this morning!

Can someone explain to be the split ring tire?

I wear flip flops too all the time, in the summer I wear them to work. I walk around peoples yards, do you walk around your yard in Flip flops? Then I can too.

It changes your attitude on a hot 100°+ heat index day.

I keep a pair of boots in the truck for construction sites, then again, in some cases I end up standing in the road locating formboards with an instrument, I never step off the pavement. I have had a few construction supers remark out loud how jealous of me for being able to wear them.

On really hot days I wear baggies too, and a tank top.

A guy from Pennsylvania comments on men wearing Flip Flops. LOL!! In Florida, it is a requisite piece of wardrobe.

When I was a kid we had a pickup with split rims - it was hard to find a tire shop willing to work on it.

If one of our subcontractor's guys came to my job site wearing flip flops, I'd send him home to change.

If he refused, then he'd not be allowed back until he had safety boots. Sorry but that is just the way the cookie crumbles.

Yes, and that is why there are a pair of work shoes in my truck. I am not required to wear safety boots I wear a nice pair of low ankle Merrill hiking shoes.

When I am on construction sites which in my case are residential homes being built then I put on my work shoes.

Back in the 90's I was hired as a fill in subcontractor to lay out a section of I95 for widening in West Palm Beach. The construction company crew was on vacation for 2 weeks and they needed someone to cover for them. I was told I was laying out the road at 3X the pace of the company crew. This landed me a 3 day a week gig to stay on. I did not want to gig but reluctantly took it.

I wore baggies and a tank top since I was 100% of the time all alone out there with no equipment around or construction going on, I was the first step before they started. They would be working behind me not along side me. Typical day the heat index was in excess of 100° it was boiling hot.

There was a change of supers, the old one loved me because I was getting him way ahead of schedule, the other crew was holding him up. So he let my wardrobe slide. I was supposed to be wearing steel tip boots, long jeans and t-shirt with sleeves. The new super did not understand my value, and started riding my ass over the dress code.

I came in the next day dressed to code, by the end of the day, I quit off the job never to return. My helper and I were dying in this unnecessary dress.

I was just starting my own business back then, I really did not want to be tied up in this gig anyway, that super helped me move along and concentrate on my company.

Great posts, Jim.

The majority of the time for work I wear either Crocs or my Cushe slippers. I also wear muck shoes and variations of same during certain activities. But there are times when flip flops are OK to wear too. Every day is different for me and I will change back and forth as I desire. I've gotten away from commercial work - never relished having to work on the same job site as other contractors anyway so no big loss there :). So dress code not really a factor. It's what I deem appropriate.

U guys are not worried about smashing a toe, or ripping a toe nail off? I worked with a guy who dropped an intake manifold on his foot wearing tennis shoes, and he only has 3 digits now .
I get that they would be comfy near the shore, or where it is hot out.

I accidentally ruined a perfectly good pair of steel toed work boots with a chain saw once.

Way better than ruining your foot. I cannot imagine how many times boots have saved my feet.
I get it , warmer places , they would be super comfy, and more appropriate .
We have to wear boots 6 months out of the year just to keep our tosies warm here.

Fred: As far as I know - all here who said they wore flip flops never said they wore them while doing work that would put their feet in any danger, because of wearing flip flops. I wear other types of foot wear as I deem appropriate.

It's not just about the weather...it's mostly about our sense of style and comfort and having options.

As Russ pointed out - no one is allowed on his job sites wearing them. I agree with that sentiment. But that doesn't pertain to me.

In all the years I have been working in my industry (landscaping/irrigation) I have never once had to visit a medical facility for an injury. Not even while working on my property "after hours".

The main reason is because I am careful and try to be smart and use a strategy on everything I do before doing it. I give things a lot of thought. And I have years of experience. That doesn't make me special - it just equates to a low % of injuries...no matter how I am dressed.

Now, being in the business that I am, I routinely have scrapes and small cuts on my appendages.

At age 63, I have never been hospitalized for anything. Only had stitches once when I was around 10 years old. Cut my arm on a broken soda pop bottle laying in a ditch I jumped into while playing army.

I have seen many workers in my business wearing all kinds of variations of work boots and that does nothing to stop them from getting injured. Usually not their feet though...:)

I recently had the headlight lenses (not P car) polished at a local Tint World. I should have known I was possibly not getting the most knowledgeable technician when the owner couldn't move my car because it had a manual transmission. You are in the fix-up-your-car business and can't drive a stick - really?

Also - years ago I was using gloves cutting off the top of 4x4 fence posts with a Skill saw. I cutup one of the glove fingers as the blade teeth caught the glove finger and pulled my human finger into the blade. Finger made a full recovery after some stitches and a few years of the cells growing back there they are supposed to be. I learned the lesson of don't use gloves in certain situations. The interesting thing about the whole incident.... about 2 months later I got a call from United Health asking how many stitches it took to close up the wound. Apparently if the stitch count is low I should have made it to the official emergency room instead of going into the drop-in clinic near the incident. At the time all I could see is blood and a deep cut - how am I supposed to know how bad the cut is?

Pics of me from my business website....

No flip flops! :)

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I have only had 1 foot injury and I was wearing my boots when it happened. I stepped on a roofing nail that went right through my boot and into my foot. I was not on a construction site, I was on a residential home site they had just had a new roof installed. In other words, this could have happened to me in my own yard after my roof was replaced.

I am not stupid. If I pull up to a crap show construction site I take a couple of minutes swapping over to shoes. Then will switch out after I am done. :D


Being self employed, I get to pick and choose the level of BS I want to deal with, I have passed on jobs just because I could sense the guy in charge was going to be a major PITA and I am not in the mood anymore for dealing with Aholes intent on making sure everyone around them knows they are the Alpha.

That construction job was anomaly for me, something in my head told me to get out of there, more for my business than for the dress code.

I put up with a lot of crap working for the man before going self employed and then ate my share of crap getting established.

Now? I can pick and choose who I want to work with or what kind of job I want. I prefer to stay away from commercial construction, I do not want to step into swamps anymore. I prefer to just cater to the home sales business. Mortgage company / Title company home sales. I go out and look for other surveyors mistakes.

I have very few builders anymore, more work and liability than I can rightfully charge for. Let someone take the risks I will follow behind and find the mistakes.

Back on topic, Mrs5543 wanted me to show her how to change a flat on our FJ Cruiser before she left on a road trip. The plan was to have her pull the spare, break the lugs, then jack and change the tire in the driveway. Found out the tire shop had king kong put the lugs on, I broke all of them loose then torqued them so they would come off when we needed them to.

Each tire weighs 75lbs on a steel rim, it was funny seeing her try to womanhandle them. She is a tough chick but these tires were beating her up.

She manged, I was impressed.

Fathers day last year the back tire on my E30 blew out on the way back from a road trip. Instead of being like my dad and turning into a temper tantrum crap show. I had my then 12 yo son do the tire change with me helping. It was a fun experience, although stressful because (shame on me) the spare was almost flat. We limped it to a gas station and topped the spare off.

The sense of pride on the kids part was almost worth the tire blowing out.

Love the crocs LMAO!!

Pic is titled, "Summer is officialy here back in my Field Flops!

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BTW I just bought two new pairs of flip flops, starting to break in the first pair right now.
i wear steel toe shoes (and nomex) at work, but flip-flops everywhere else.

You have nice feet Mr Dudly

and a broken toe.

Im just gonna leave this here, and not say anything, in good fun.
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I get my son and daughter involved when I change tires. We get lots of practice changing out studs for summer tires and vice versa every fall and spring.

I had a good friend of mine lose his arm from a split ring truck tire.. It popped and completely shattered it... No way to save it.. horrible..

I can change a tire but my man card is fading.

Went to change a tire for a good customer late one night two weeks ago. Hot tenderoni (54) so I said ok.

2005 Lexus RX330. Hole in sidewall at a gas station.

So I can't find how to let the spare down and her daughter looks it up on google and advises. Spinny thing was covered by an Arby's bag.

Spare tire out. Find the jack but then two dudes from Canton towing come over with one of those aluminum racing jacks and say "You need some help". Yep, I say, but let me bust these lug nuts first. The handle on the factory wrench is so short this old man ain't got the stones to turn it.

I find a big four lug wrench in the back of my Tayota. I am bustin' them loose like a boss. Car goes in air in a couple of seconds with the fancy floor jack.

While I am spinning lug nuts off the younger guys are chatting up the the babes in the car.

I can't pull the wheel off just like any of them Jap cars and one of the young dudes just kicks it and it it comes loose.

I finish the job and put everything away and the girls take the younger guy's phone numbers.

Ain't no country for old men.

A few weeks ago I had a flat on a muddy back road in the rain. Off the grid...no mobile phone coverage. The factory 'Fold Up' lug wrench kept slipping of the nuts that had worn/rounded edges on the hex flats. (thank you tire shops with the impact drivers) The leak was slow enough that I was able to pump the tire up enough with a hand pump to get back to my folk old ranch property where I had a proper 4 lug X wrench.

I usually just take the wheel someplace to have them change the tire. My “bead breaker” is a piece of 2x6 that I lay on the tire and run my truck over. The whole process is just a pain in the ass.

You are talking removing rubber from the wheel? No way would I think of doing that.

How about 4 College men stuck on the side of the road
 

My friends son, Jesse......and his friends were driving home from Vegas and got a flat. None of them knew how to change it. Then they found no cell service.......serves them right, Someone stopped to help them. What is really surprising is that Jesse told me about it!

That's changing a tire.

I use this to break the beads works great can get nice and close to the rim. The fat tahoe bent the ramp but it still works fine

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My gradmother broke her toe like that on a chair leg. I was a few hours till she looked down and saw that it was not in its rightful place

You guys are hardcore, changing tires like that at home !!! In my whole life, I have only done , maybe one or 2 passenger car tires like that . How do you seat the beads once you get the new tire on?
that is a lot of work to save $20.00

Thats funny because my brother is a mechanic and he can do them for free right down the street but I still do them at home. the hard part is breaking the beads the rest is pretty easy. to seat the beads just pump it up. If you have a tire thats too skinny for the wheel there are a number of tricks. The pros use a bead blaster which is just a big shot of air that works like the starting fluid and lighter trick. The newer machines have the bead blaster built into the tire machine. But I usually soap up one side and hammer it on from the other side with the tire iron. then i can pull up on it to seat the top bead while putting air to it. sometimes a ratchet strap works but usually not. Another thing i do alot is just spread the beads out with some wood and let it sit for a few days but i often dont have the time for that. One time I absolutely couldnt get them seated so i put a tube in and let it sit a while. Then it took the shape long enough that I was able to pull the tube out and pump it up normally. The scarriest ones are the low pressure atv tires that have a big bead lock. It sucks having to pump them wayy past their intended pressure but they always pop on eventually. Ricers with the stretched tires actually put a tube on the outside of the tire to fill the gap then pump up the tire and the tube pops off. I tried that once without success but I could see it working in some cases

I've never had anyone change a tire for me on the side of the road. I will change a tire like a pit crew. Get out, get it done, go. It can be precarious in traffic. I would rather scrape up a wheel and drive a short distance than change a flat on some of LAs traffic corridors. Get it done. Carry some road flares, people will move over for fire.

Those short single shaft lug wenches on modern automobiles are short for a reason. They were designed to break lug nuts and studs free with foot pressure. Most people do not know this. Snug by hand, tighten with foot pressure. A proper spinner is designed for two hands and comes in 16 and 20 inches. Like a cheap force multiplier pull with one hand push with the other.

On the bad side of tire changing I watched a friend of mine changing a flat on a soft dirt road when we were teens. We were about 100 yards from asphalt on dirt Mulholland. Proudly he cracked the lugs loose with the car down like you should, jacked up the car, removed the wheel and tire...I told him to grab a big rock to chock the front tire and asked if he set the parking brake? He opened the drivers door reached in, pulled up on the brake lever and WHAM. Car inched forward, jack folded underneath the car and the drip rail came down on his head. Knocked him clean out cold. I actually though he was dead for a second.

When he came to he was so pissed off he picked up the back by the bumper just high enough and yelled at me to "put the frickn spare on now". (he was a big boy back then) So I did and off we went. Now he drives a Mini and I know why. He frequents this board too and knows who he is. He is a real life rocket scientist.

Jacks are another story. Those wind up thin sheet metal jack screws with the dongle that slips into a rocker panel slot. Like the ones that come with fine German, Italian and Asian cars are sketchy. They always have been. Never trust them. They are best served as elevators for a Barbie Doll. Carry a decent small floor jack or even a bottle jack.

I watched a guy once jack up a BMW in Big Bear in the snow to install chains using "as equipped Barbie elevator ". I watched him cry when the car was one leg down on its belly after the Barbie Jack tipped on him. The humiliation really set in when he went to use his cell phone and had no reception. He would not ask for help. My friends and I were yards away in multiple vehicles so we offered him some assistance and got him on his way. We even straightened out the bent backing plate so it would not rub the rotor.

Run flats. This is a great invention. Its as simple as those solid tires on Radio Flyer wagons and skateboards. Would someone please tell people when a run flat goes flat you are supposed to change the tire really soon like a regular pneumatic tire. Ok you made it home great. Run flats do not mean you get to drive to work and back for six months after you got the flat. (Quote: "Those run flats are really cool, get ya home. How much was the replacement? Responds with serious face " they are run flats". Ok pal!

I have had so many females ask to teach them how to change a spare just in case. In my mind I think after they have driven so far on a flat the carcass flies off the rim and becomes a road alligator , "just in case" they succumb to the pressure, noise, smells and stop the car and address the issue by finally getting the AAA card out forgetting any skill they previously learned.

If a chick can change a spare out men should be able to do it without hesitation. Its not a difficult task. Personally changing a water heater out is easier then changing a flat. Its two less fasteners.

How about a $60,000 tire change? One of those tires is yes $60k.



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My wife has changed a tire, so now I don’t have to except when I change out the snow tires.

Pure Gold, Bob! ^^ The whole event is a corollary to the concept that "old men" are invisible to young women.

funny, but so true. I like to think I'm pretty good at many things most people have little interest in. :)

Back 40 years ago when my brother was first married. He insisted she know how to change a flat. So he showed her, then had her do it, and was happy. A few months later she called him crying. That makes any husbands heart race when a wife calls crying. She had a flat, and was so proud that she knew how to change the tire. She jacked it up, removed the old tire, put the new one on, and lowered the jack, and put the spare away. She drove about a foot and the tire fell off. She had not put one lug nut back on. She had to walk a half a mile to a gas station to call him. After that, he just told her to call him if she has a flat and they got one of the old bag phones when they first came out in the late 1980s.

My father in law taught my wife to change a tire and drive a stick shift car before she was allowed to get a driver's license. She knows the theory of how to do it, and she has helped a lady friend of hers do it once. She would never try now days.

I have been super lucky in the last few flats I have had. I go ot to my garage and the tire is flat. It is handy to have the impact wrench and air compressor and all my tools right there. The last flat was a screw right at the sidewall tread area. I just aired it up, and drove to a tire store. As expected, I had to buy a new tire. First tire ruined in over 40 years for me.

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