Can a Hippie Out-Tool a Trucker in a Tyre Changing Contest?

[OCR]

Looks like hobbles, to me...?

 

[houlahound]

Correct, see above post.

Well done, I'm out for a while.

 

[OCR]

Its mostly worn around a human waist but when its not it is worn on a horse but not around the horse's waist.

Ah, the rider more or less stores the hobbles as a belt around his waist, and takes it off to use as hobbles...?

 

[Averagesupernova]

I will have a go. I had to blur out what is cast into the tool as I am afraid it would give it away.

 

[gmax137]

Some kind of toe jack?

 

[Averagesupernova]

Well I don't think it would be a risk of giving it away if I say that it is in fact meant to move two items apart as a jack of course would. However, this device was engineered for a specific purpose and from experience I will say that it does it quite well. Its intended purpose was not to lift things.

 

[Nidum]

Pinch bar used for moving railway locomotives and trucks short distances during maintenance ?

 

[Averagesupernova]

Pinch bar used for moving railway locomotives and trucks short distances during maintenance ?

Nope. I will give another clue. I am sure someone on this forum has done the task that this tool is meant to do, only done it the hard way. I will tag my favorite member again. LOL. @jim hardy The tool in the very first image in this thread has likely been used many times to do what this tool is designed for. Not as a chopping operation though.

 

[OCR]

Ahhh!...

...it is in fact meant to move two items apart...
I am sure someone on this forum has done the task that this tool is meant to do...
The tool in the very first image in this thread has likely been used many times to do what this tool is designed for.

It's a bead breaker! ?

 

[OCR]

http://www.dlokka.hommboi.lokka.com/img/photos/1244962657-Beadcheater2.jpg​

 

[Averagesupernova]

Ding ding ding! We have the correct answer.
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Bead buster is actually cast into the tool so I had to blur it out.

 

[OCR]

Ding ding ding! We have the correct answer.
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Bead buster is actually cast into the tool so I had to blur it out.

Lol.....

 

[houlahound]

would never have got that one.

 

[Averagesupernova]

What gave it away @OCR ?

 

[Bystander]

What gave it away

The pinched fingers, skinned knuckles, ...

 

[houlahound]

real men don't use a gadget to break the bead.

you either use two tyre levers or put the tyre flat on the ground and run over it with another vehicle a few times.

= real men would never have seen such a device...disqualified.

 

[Averagesupernova]

real men don't use a gadget to break the bead.

you either use two tyre levers or put the tyre flat on the ground and run over it with another vehicle a few times.

= real men would never have seen such a device...disqualified.

Try that with these: https://www.google.com/search?q=30....ved=0ahUKEwiDwM_BzMDQAhUk0YMKHZKcCtsQ_AUICSgD

 

[houlahound]

good point.

 

[OCR]

What gave it away @OCR ?

I've used a device like that on big tractor tires, where you don't remove the rim from the tractor... just the tire off the rim.

The breaker I used was powered by air, so your picture wasn't a dead give away... the design of the "foot" in the upper right, picture two helped, so did your clues...

...it is in fact meant to move two items apart...
I am sure someone on this forum has done the task that this tool is meant to do...
The tool in the very first image in this thread has likely been used many times to do what this tool is designed for.

I googled "bead breaker", and found the image I posted...

Tires I used the tool on...

 

[OCR]

Try that with these:

Lol... yup, they're 30.5-32 radials...

 

[houlahound]

Reminds me of a stand off I was in loggers versus environmentalists. It was tense and aggressive. One night the hippie's challenged the truckers to a tyre changing contest on a logging truck.

The truckers thought they would win easy. This hippy apparently worked in a previous life as a mechanic assistant.

He beat all the truckers at changing tyres, they couldn't believe it.

Both groups respected each other after that and prolly defused the seething violence that was brewing.