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Tire changing apron
- Thread starter dalehsc
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JJThrasher
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Never let the tire touch you. Pick it up with your hands and hold it up using the muscles in your arms. The people that get real dirty doing tires are usually leaning or resting them against themselves.
mnoeltne
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Never let the tire touch you. Pick it up with your hands and hold it up using the muscles in your arms. The people that get real dirty doing tires are usually leaning or resting them against themselves.
This.
Although, on larger tires I sometimes sit on a bench and use my feet to help position them.
Or, get a set these.
Bill Bowman
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I was wondering....what do techs use when changing tires to keep clean/dry?
I always seem to get dirty/wet while changing them,regardless how careful I am.
Thinking of the upcoming spring tire season.
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Dale:
If that's you in the photo, I would think you would be able to talk someone else into doing the tire changes, while you sat in the office.
Richard Cranium
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All I know is I look at the tire jocks wearing white shirts and think they will not be white long.
I am going to go against the general concensus here and say that if cleanliness is a concern, you may want to try an apron. I would absolutely not suggest that you hold the tire, or worse, a mounted wheel/tire assembly away from your body.
I don't do tire work as much as I used to, but I have done an obscene amount of tires at work in the past. If you are doing them what I would consider to be the right way, you are going to end up dirty. When you take a wheel off of a car, hang onto the wheel and pull it in close. If it is heavy, don't feel bad about supporting the wheel on your leg. Trust me, I am strong enough that I could hold a wheel away from my body, but I don't. Here's why.
There is only so much punishment that your back is able to take. Pulling a wheel into your body and supporting it on a leg if necessary takes a great deal of strain off of your back. Sure, you may get dirty, but dirt washes off. There have been a great many people who have washed out of a career in automotive repair because their bodies couldn't take the abuse any more. Earning a living slinging tires is hard, dirty work, and that is assuming you do everything the easy way. There is no need to make your job harder than it needs to be.
Now, I'm also not saying that every greasy looking guy is somehow a better tech than you because he managed to get covered in dirt today. All I'm saying is.... take care of your body, you only get one.
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I don't do tire work as much as I used to, but I have done an obscene amount of tires at work in the past. If you are doing them what I would consider to be the right way, you are going to end up dirty. When you take a wheel off of a car, hang onto the wheel and pull it in close. If it is heavy, don't feel bad about supporting the wheel on your leg. Trust me, I am strong enough that I could hold a wheel away from my body, but I don't. Here's why.
There is only so much punishment that your back is able to take. Pulling a wheel into your body and supporting it on a leg if necessary takes a great deal of strain off of your back. Sure, you may get dirty, but dirt washes off. There have been a great many people who have washed out of a career in automotive repair because their bodies couldn't take the abuse any more. Earning a living slinging tires is hard, dirty work, and that is assuming you do everything the easy way. There is no need to make your job harder than it needs to be.
Now, I'm also not saying that every greasy looking guy is somehow a better tech than you because he managed to get covered in dirt today. All I'm saying is.... take care of your body, you only get one.
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Never let the tire touch you. Pick it up with your hands and hold it up using the muscles in your arms. The people that get real dirty doing tires are usually leaning or resting them against themselves.
If I do this with BFG K02's,20" I won't look like the pic in my first post!
BTW that is not me!!
JJThrasher
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Aprons are a bad idea because of the strings attached and the moving parts of the machine.
Tire machines have a dead man's style switch, and they lack the speed and torque needed for this to be a serious issue.