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rvrev2
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Dec 19, 2015

One killed, another injured due to tire explosion

I just read that at least one man was killed at a Sear's Auto Center in Salem, NH, when a large tire exploded while being aired up. Very sad. I know that some of us run with large tires that operate...
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C_Schomer
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Dec 23, 2015
I just watched Modern Marvels and saw how the 70/70 heavy equipment tires are made. They said that tire at 120 psi has enough energy to blow a 200 lb man 10000 in the air. If that didn't kill a person... the fall would!

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