How to remove a tire from a wood chipper?

milli...@yahoo.com

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Aug 3, 2021, 11:22:17 PM8/3/21

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Hi,
I borrowed a small gas powered wood chipper from a neighbor. The valve stem on one of the wheels cracked off and the tire went flat. I ordered the same exact wheel (10" hand truck wheel by Arnold Parts). I'm kinda confused because it's not super-apparent (to me) how to remove the existing wheel.

Photos here:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/5izmSkwQMg445cUA7

Your advice appreciated.
Regards,
Theodore.

rbowman

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Aug 3, 2021, 11:33:10 PM8/3/21

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Cut the push nut off. They're a one-shot deal and a hardware store
should have a replacement.

Jim Joyce

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Aug 4, 2021, 12:55:07 AM8/4/21

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I don't necessarily know the 'right way' to remove that kind of retaining
clip, (6th photo), but what I do is simply destroy it with the idea that
I'm going to replace it with a new clip during reassembly.

milli...@yahoo.com

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Aug 4, 2021, 8:42:59 AM8/4/21

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Ok, thanks for responses. I'm used to cotter pins through the shaft, not these retaining clips/push nuts. So, I just measure the diameter of the shaft and go to hardware store asking for a "push nut" of that size?

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Aug 4, 2021, 9:15:38 AM8/4/21

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On 8/4/21 8:42 AM, milli...@yahoo.com wrote:
> Ok, thanks for responses. I'm used to cotter pins through the shaft, not these >retaining clips/push nuts. So, I just measure the diameter of the shaft and go to >hardware store asking for a "push nut" of that size?

if not available locally, you can on-line order here

https://www.mcmaster.com/retaining-rings/push-on-external-retaining-rings-6/

Package quantities do vary from 5 to 100, depending on size and material.

rbowman

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Aug 4, 2021, 9:55:07 AM8/4/21

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On 08/04/2021 06:42 AM, milli...@yahoo.com wrote:
> Ok, thanks for responses. I'm used to cotter pins through the shaft, not these retaining clips/push nuts. So, I just measure the diameter of the shaft and go to hardware store asking for a "push nut" of that size?
>

Yes. Around here I'd go to Tractor Supply or Murdoch's Ranch but Ace
Hardware should have them in the aisle with the slide out boxes for
onesie-twosie odd hardware.

Theoretically you can get them off but I've never had much luck except
for the real small ones.

micky

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Aug 4, 2021, 11:17:45 AM8/4/21

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In alt.home.repair, on Tue, 3 Aug 2021 20:22:12 -0700 (PDT),

"milli...@yahoo.com" <milli...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>I borrowed a small gas powered wood chipper from a neighbor. The valve stem on one of the wheels cracked off and the tire went flat. I ordered the same exact wheel (10" hand truck wheel by Arnold Parts). I'm kinda confused because it's not super-apparent (to me) how to remove the existing wheel.

I thought someone fed a tire into the wood chipper.

Maybe to make shredded rubber for a highway.

You never know what someone will do.

milli...@yahoo.com

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Aug 4, 2021, 4:41:16 PM8/4/21

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> I thought someone fed a tire into the wood chipper.

Haha!... you're 100% right. And I even TRIED to be clear and still ended up with a double-meaning/ridiculous title.

rbowman

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Aug 4, 2021, 11:28:16 PM8/4/21

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On 08/04/2021 02:41 PM, milli...@yahoo.com wrote:
>> I thought someone fed a tire into the wood chipper.
>
> Haha!... you're 100% right. And I even TRIED to be clear and still ended up with a double-meaning/ridiculous title.
>

That's better than having a human femur jammed in a chipper. That takes
some 'splaining.

Ed Pawlowski

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Aug 4, 2021, 11:54:37 PM8/4/21

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Just ask the CT state police. Not a good idea to put your wife through
the chipper, you go to jail.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/green-beret-indicted-for-murder
Thawing the snow and sifting the soil, detectives found 2,660 hairs, one
fingernail, one toe nail, two teeth, one tooth cap and five droplets of
blood. From this microscopic evidence, doctors were able to prove that
Richard Crafts had disposed of his wife’s body with a wood chipper near
the river. The most important evidence was that the tooth cap matched
Helle’s dental records.

Thomas

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Aug 5, 2021, 5:48:53 PM8/5/21

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ND

Tekkie©

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Aug 6, 2021, 3:29:36 PM8/6/21

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On Wed, 4 Aug 2021 21:28:06 -0600, rbowman posted for all of us to digest...

Sopranos? There was a case in Connecticut where the body was disposed of in
this manner...

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Tekkie

Tekkie©

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Aug 6, 2021, 3:30:56 PM8/6/21

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On Wed, 4 Aug 2021 23:54:29 -0400, Ed Pawlowski posted for all of us to
digest...

>

> On 8/4/2021 11:28 PM, rbowman wrote:
> > On 08/04/2021 02:41 PM, milli...@yahoo.com wrote:
> >>> I thought someone fed a tire into the wood chipper.
> >>
> >> Haha!... you're 100% right. And I even TRIED to be clear and still
> >> ended up with a double-meaning/ridiculous title.
> >>
> >
> > That's better than having a human femur jammed in a chipper. That takes
> > some 'splaining.
>
> Just ask the CT state police. Not a good idea to put your wife through
> the chipper, you go to jail.
>
> https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/green-beret-indicted-for-murder
> Thawing the snow and sifting the soil, detectives found 2,660 hairs, one
> fingernail, one toe nail, two teeth, one tooth cap and five droplets of
> blood. From this microscopic evidence, doctors were able to prove that

> Richard Crafts had disposed of his wife?s body with a wood chipper near

> the river. The most important evidence was that the tooth cap matched

> Helle?s dental records.

Sorry Ed, hadn't read this for when I made my post. Chop chop...

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Tekkie

gfre...@aol.com

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Aug 6, 2021, 3:55:12 PM8/6/21

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On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 15:29:30 -0400, Tekkie© <Tek...@comcast.net> wrote:

>
>On Wed, 4 Aug 2021 21:28:06 -0600, rbowman posted for all of us to digest...
>
>>
>> On 08/04/2021 02:41 PM, milli...@yahoo.com wrote:
>> >> I thought someone fed a tire into the wood chipper.
>> >
>> > Haha!... you're 100% right. And I even TRIED to be clear and still ended up with a double-meaning/ridiculous title.
>> >
>>
>> That's better than having a human femur jammed in a chipper. That takes
>> some 'splaining.
>
>Sopranos?

When Tony got rid of Big Pussy he did it the old fashioned way,
concrete blocks, chain and deep water.
Far less evidence you have to hide.

"\"Re...@home.com

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Aug 6, 2021, 5:28:46 PM8/6/21

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In the movie "Fargo", the character played by Steve Buscemi is run thru
a chipper by the character played by Peter Stormare.

Peter is shown pushing Steve's foot and shin into the chipper when the
lady cop stops him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fargo_(1996_film)

rbowman

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Aug 6, 2021, 7:29:01 PM8/6/21

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I was thinking 'Fargo'. The movie, not the spinoff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bA6RmsV6R0

Peeler

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Aug 7, 2021, 3:43:51 AM8/7/21

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On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 17:28:50 -0600, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

>> Sopranos? There was a case in Connecticut where the body was disposed of in
>> this manner...
>>
>
> I was thinking 'Fargo'. The movie, not the spinoff.

Wanna tell us more about it? I KNOW you want to, blabbermouth... <G>