One in a million shot - twice!

RatLabGuy

RatLabGuy

You look like a monkey and smell like one too
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Churchville, MD
Spent the at Rauch Creek, PA, at the ADA fundraiser run by the MAryland Rock Raiders.

Great time, great folks.

Sat afternoon, I happen to look down at my driver's front tire, and saw this:
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Some random piece of tree chunk sticking BETWEEN the rim lip and tire bead.
Sucker was really embedded in there, way up under the tire.
No clue how it happened; we'd been running trhough some thick stuff w/ misc vegetation, black PA gung and some limbs etc in the way. I had my tires around 11 psi, I can only guess I scraped past one and it snagged it off into it just right as rolling past.
Tried deflating the tire, then yanked it out; unf there was still soem crap (little pieces) left and THEN it started leaking, it kept the bead from re-seating. So, had to break it off (took 2 heavy vehicles, lol), clean it out, and re-do it via CO2 cannister. Hit the trails again.
Tire was perfectly fine!

Then, Sun afternoon, look down and, OMFG - same thing AGAIN, SAME TIRE. It's like a stick magnet!! Pics of that one will come later, had to take via cell phone (camera dead).
That time... I just left it in there... reinflated it, drove 120 mi home... still sitting that way in my garage, lol.

I guess the most amazing thing is how it not only got stuck in there, but stayed perfectly sealed.

These are good ol 32" BFG ATs. I have a real appreciation for these tires, holy cow.
 
ive had that happen a number of times on fourwheelers, same thing, had to break the bead to get it all cleaned out and reseat, funny how it always seems to seal with the stick in there, but if you yank it out down it goes, glad the tires were fine, never had one damage a tire other than cosmetic, but i did bend a wheel once where the stick went in, whacked it with a hammer and the tire is sealed to this day
 
RatLabGuy said:
Spent the at Rauch Creek, PA, at the ADA fundraiser run by the MAryland Rock Raiders.
Great time, great folks.
Sat afternoon, I happen to look down at my driver's front tire, and saw this:
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That exact same thing happened to me last January. I hit a spot of black ice and ended up in some brush. Got out and had a chunk of a tree in between the rim/tire. No air loss and no leakage. took it to my local shop and they pulled it out for me; i wanted to make sure the tire wasn't screwed up anyhow. BFG's rock! :bounce:
 
Dude, youre lucky as heck if thats the first time youve ever done that. I used to have to break the beads EVERY TIRE/ EVERY TRIP when I ran non-beadlocks. Ask Justjeepin86, hes got my old setup and we had to fix his twice last trip to URE. Seems to be rollunder during a turn and opens that gap.
 
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