Mount trailer tires yourself at home?

Without an iron tireman (what we used to call a tire machine in the old days), and a balancer, I wouldn't dream of it. I grew up on my dad's Texaco service station driveway in the '60s. He had an employee who was a rather large fellow who had worked for Firestone before working for my dad. He could fasten the rim down on the tire machine, soap up the beads on a new Cadillac tire, and push the first, and then the second bead down over the rim by hand. The pneumatic cylinder(s) and power attachments were there for the rest of us...

Rob

I might bolt the wheel to the hub but the tire shop will have better tools for mounting the tire on the wheel. Would have to be desperate and difficult moment to actually mount a tire on a wheel with makeshift hand tools.

When a teenager with little money and little brains we used to mount tires using some bricks, pry bars, blocks of wood, and I seem to remember it involving another car that you had to drive over it at some point.

Why in the hell do you want to do it yourself lol? Some local tire shop might only charge you $10.

Mounting has always been part of the price of the tire when I bought.
No way any small amount saved would be worth wrestling with it myself.
And then there's the balancing thing.

I don’t have a balancer so I use a shop.