Sunday morning tire inflation video

April 19, 2009 7:07 AM

Off road vehicle gets a tire inflated without a pump (SLYT) 23 seconds of "huh?".
posted by zerobyproxy (46 comments total)

You can't drop that on me pre-coffee without an explanation...you just can't. My inner physicist hurts now.
posted by Shutter at 7:12 AM on April 19, 2009

Shutter - they spray butane in and around the tyre, then ignite it, causing expansion and thus popping the tyre back on the rim. Old trick now, surely?
posted by opsin at 7:15 AM on April 19, 2009

(Or maybe I just hang around the wrong people! Not that I've seen it done in real life... But you know.)
posted by opsin at 7:16 AM on April 19, 2009

I know it's a pretty standard trick among the off-road enthusiasts here in Iceland. Haven't actually seen it done, though, either.
posted by Zero Gravitas at 7:20 AM on April 19, 2009

You guys don't get out of the city much, do you? Here's about 50 better videos of the same thing.
posted by 445supermag at 7:22 AM on April 19, 2009 [3 favorites]

I've done this, albeit with a wheelbarrow tyre. Works a treat. I think I used hair spray or WD-40 or something, but any inflammable aerosol will work pretty well. It's really just for sealing the bead. You come back at it with a regular pump to go up to the proper pressure.
posted by seanmpuckett at 7:52 AM on April 19, 2009

Remembering them demonstrating this on Top Gear
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 8:00 AM on April 19, 2009

As a derail, I must say that watching videos of rednecks on youtube is a great time waster at work. Sure, rednecks have their downside, but their exploits do make amusing videos. Like the fact that someone noticed that the inside diameter of a cylinder made to hold compressed oxygen for an oxy-acetylene torch is the same size as bowling ball. Next thing you know, youtube is full of rednecks firing bowling balls out of homemade cannons.
posted by 445supermag at 8:11 AM on April 19, 2009 [2 favorites]

'ROUND THE WHOLE THING DING BING!
posted by jimmythefish at 8:12 AM on April 19, 2009 [1 favorite]

From 445supermag's link, a demonstration that moderation is key.
posted by oaf at 8:21 AM on April 19, 2009 [7 favorites]

The bowling ball cannon link is awesome. The jeep parked almost in the line of fire was great, as were the old experienced guys dicking around. I can see their spiritual forebears on top of the almost-completed pyramid at Giza. "How deep you think this 30 ton block will bury itself in the sand if'n I push it off?" "Naw, it won't go nowhere." "Wanna bet?"
posted by DU at 8:51 AM on April 19, 2009 [1 favorite]

if'n I push it off

I love the term 'if'n' as the dichotomy of 'if' and 'when'. It implies a certain inevitability; as if a fatalistic nature surrounds the events which states there is no choice in the matter and the universe will play out as it must.
posted by jimmythefish at 9:02 AM on April 19, 2009 [13 favorites]

Commercially to seat beads on large tires, say highway tractor and up, you pressurize a large tank (called a bead seater). The nozzle part of the tank has a ~2" quarter turn valve that lets you dump 5-10 gallons of air at up to 125psi through a 2" pipe as fast as you can turn the handle. Makes a very impressive double boom sound; first from the air being released then from the bead seating. The sound isn't really captured in this video but they are also using relatively low pressure into a small tire.
posted by Mitheral at 9:35 AM on April 19, 2009 [3 favorites]

I love the term 'if'n' as the dichotomy of 'if' and 'when'.

Whoa, I never thought of it that way. I always considered it a semi-verb. As in "If-ing I do this" meaning "hypothesizing that I do this".
posted by DU at 9:41 AM on April 19, 2009 [2 favorites]

You guys don't get out of the city much, do you? Here's about 50 better videos of the same thing.

About 50, sure. Better? I don't know. The example in the post is simple and slick, and he does it with the wheel on the vehicle for extra cool. No dicking around, no tires that don't take, no burnt eyebrows, just a whole lot of getting the job done.
posted by abc123xyzinfinity at 9:45 AM on April 19, 2009

"a demonstration that moderation is key."

Oh my god I can't stop laughing.

"is full of rednecks firing bowling balls out of homemade cannons."

1) How much does a bowling ball cost?
2) Could you imagine hiking the other side of that hill and seeing bowling balls embedded in the ground all over the place? You'd never figure it out.
posted by Mitheral at 9:46 AM on April 19, 2009 [1 favorite]

No dicking around, no tires that don't take, no burnt eyebrows,

I guess it depends on your definition of better... remember, "Ya ain't have'n fun, til ya hafta dial 9-1-1"
posted by 445supermag at 9:57 AM on April 19, 2009

moderation is key.

The results don't even look that interesting. Just knowing how much the successful attempts use, and watching him dump more and more in. Hilarity!
posted by Chuckles at 10:07 AM on April 19, 2009

"Ya ain't have'n fun, til ya hafta dial 9-1-1"

Ya.. I was taught "There's a fine line between having a good time and going to jail. It is hard to have a good time in jail." Clearly I've just never been invited to the right kind of party :P
posted by Chuckles at 10:09 AM on April 19, 2009

The right kind of party (keep watching till you see the guys parking on the economy car, while the driver is still inside).
posted by 445supermag at 10:16 AM on April 19, 2009

The bowling ball cannon link is awesome.

Previously.
posted by Tube at 10:23 AM on April 19, 2009

the 1st guy to do this said HEY, HOLD MY BEER, WATCH THIS! one of the few times it has actually worked out.
posted by kitchenrat at 10:48 AM on April 19, 2009

I love the term 'if'n' as the dichotomy of 'if' and 'when'.

Whoa, I never thought of it that way. I always considered it a semi-verb. As in "If-ing I do this" meaning "hypothesizing that I do this".

Having cut my teeth (back then I had more than one) in the hills of Tennessee and Alabama, I'm afraid I have to concur with Dr. Du on this one. However I might could use a little more book larnin' on the subject.
posted by Pollomacho at 10:57 AM on April 19, 2009

I love the term 'if'n' as the dichotomy of 'if' and 'when'.

Whoa, I never thought of it that way. I always considered it a semi-verb. As in "If-ing I do this" meaning "hypothesizing that I do this".

Y'know, I think "if'n" is more likely a contraction of "if then." However on restating the usage above with both "if then" and "if when," either works.
posted by mwhybark at 10:57 AM on April 19, 2009

Could you imagine hiking the other side of that hill and seeing bowling balls embedded in the ground all over the place? You'd never figure it out.

Figure it out? If I see bowling balls embedded in the ground all around me, I'm gonna get the hell out of there.
posted by msalt at 11:08 AM on April 19, 2009 [2 favorites]

Also on Snapbuzz with the exact same headline, and also on Reddit with the exact same headline.

Something is fishy, and it's not just me.
posted by five fresh fish at 11:09 AM on April 19, 2009

Very interesting. Something or someone must be scraping the Blue for content--or--they just liked my headline. Flattery?
posted by zerobyproxy at 11:47 AM on April 19, 2009

This user has decided to repost three FPPs to reddit in the last 3 hours (including this one), copying text word for word:

Why Minds are Not Like Computers: an in-depth analysis.

On April 25th at Higgs Farm in Maryland. Steve Eves will launch the largest model rocket ever, a 1/10 scale model of the Saturn V that sent men to the moon. The launch will be open to the public.

And that was just because I remember those FPP's from here, there may be more.
posted by mrzarquon at 12:14 PM on April 19, 2009

It went to war to preserve the country as a whole, at best it was some distant ancillary goal.

Nothing to figure out. Everyone knows you don't fuck with the Jesus.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 12:16 PM on April 19, 2009

Spiffy. Here's a good slow-motion view of the process.
posted by musicinmybrain at 2:18 PM on April 19, 2009

Well, I fired off a Reddit mail to the thieving scientologist2, telling him to write his own headlines.
posted by five fresh fish at 2:25 PM on April 19, 2009

I first saw this on a show about an Antarctic expedition. So, "redneck tire mounting" is a poor choice of wording.
posted by tomplus2 at 2:32 PM on April 19, 2009

The Arctic footage of this "Icelandic mechanic's trick" from Top Gear.
posted by the latin mouse at 3:03 PM on April 19, 2009

The joy of setting stuff on fire and blowing shit up is universal. When it accomplishes a task, it just gives you a good reason to do it more often.
posted by Foam Pants at 4:04 PM on April 19, 2009

I first saw this on a show about an Antarctic expedition. So, "redneck tire mounting" is a poor choice of wording.

If you're holding a beer and standing right in front of it, it's a redneck tire mounting. If you take cover, and/or light it with some kind of fuse or long stick you can call it a geek tire mounting. Similarly, if you are doing the same exact thing as a pyrotechnics expert would do, but you have less than ten fingers on your hands, it's referred to as "blowin' shit up" rather than pyrotechnics.
posted by BrotherCaine at 4:19 PM on April 19, 2009 [1 favorite]

It would be cool if the tire blew up and killed, well, all "off-roaders."
posted by kenlayne at 10:10 PM on April 19, 2009

You stay classy, kenlayne.
posted by five fresh fish at 7:28 AM on April 20, 2009 [1 favorite]

Oh man, did anyone here see Transporter 2?

That bit where he uses the air in the tires (or does he have tyres?) to inflate a bag to lift his previously sinking car is just hilarious.
posted by ODiV at 7:37 AM on April 20, 2009

Why? If the air in the lift bag is at a lower psi than in the tires, it will displace more water and create more "lift" than the tires did.

That's a big if.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 8:30 AM on April 20, 2009

Why? If the air in the lift bag is at a lower psi than in the tires, it will displace more water and create more "lift" than the tires did.

Paging asavage.
posted by BrotherCaine at 10:04 AM on April 20, 2009

I guess I shouldn't be too hard on the movie for issues of realism (it is a Transporter after all), but if you saw the scene, you'd think it was pretty unrealistic too. Maybe it would work in theory, but him alternating inhaling air bubbles and filling up the bag was pretty damn funny.

Also, the female lead is holding a gun on the poster, but never touches one in the movie. I am annoyed.
posted by ODiV at 10:51 AM on April 20, 2009

if'n = supposing
posted by GeekAnimator at 11:52 AM on April 20, 2009 [1 favorite]

thank you, GeekAnimator. i was startin to get pissed.
posted by Baby_Balrog at 12:38 PM on April 20, 2009

oaf : moderation is key.

You know what made this great? After dumping in what is clearly waaay too much flammable material, and you, the viewer, just know this about to go very, very wrong, at 19 seconds in, you see the guy pop back in frame for just one more hit. Just to push it over the top.

After have experienced similar stupidity first hand, I have to wonder how strong the smell of combustible gas was before they struck the match, and if they had any kind of clue as to what sort of warning that might be.
posted by quin at 1:19 PM on April 20, 2009

Bowling ball cannon! Bowling ball cannon! When did that start???

See, I was up in Indiana in January 2008, and I found two bowling balls in the middle of nowhere, one broken in half. I had thought somebody had a really bad day of bowling and chucked the bowling balls off into the gorge where we found them, but this cannon thing explains it all!!!

So the answer is: if you're walking along and find a bunch of bowling balls embedded in the ground, I can testify from personal experience that you will very much say "WTF?!?"
posted by Michael Roberts at 3:53 PM on April 20, 2009

The first thing you should do when you find a bunch of bowling balls embedded in the ground is get the hell out of the way.
posted by five fresh fish at 6:55 PM on April 20, 2009