Plate Loadable Tire Flip

[Corey DuCharme]

Recently I got a 500lb forestry equipment tire. It's quite tall at about 60" and a good weight for cardio flipping. However, I want to be able to train on a heavier tire for contest purposes.

After thinking about it for a while I figured out how to make the tire plate loadable. I'm sure it's been done before, I just don't recall seeing it, so I thought I would share.

As the pictures show, it's a couple of boards bolted to each side of the tire with a hole drilled in the middle of them. The loading pin is 2" black pipe threaded on each end to accept a floor mount flange to lock it in place.

Pictured is the tire loaded with two 45's held in place by a PVC sleeve so they don't bang around. When I want to load more plates, I'll cut the PVC down accordingly and then save the pieces so they may be used in any combination later. The 45's were a little tricky to load, but not too bad.

The cheater blocks on top and bottom allow me to get my hands under the tire.

Like most of my projects, I tried to do this one as hillbilly as possible to save money. There are numerous ways to make this set up even better, but for now this should do.

[Paul Neuhaus]

I tried to do this one as hillbilly as possible
I think you achieved your goal! ;)

[kenneth nowicki]

Thats Awesome! :mag:

[Jared Enderton]

that's a pretty sweet set up!!!!

[Matthew White]

You sir, are gangsta! I LOVE IT!

[Kurt Hessenbruch]

You just had to wait to finish before you showed us, huh? You know, I could have already stolen your idea and done this to my tire if you hadn't held out on me. Really good idea! Nice work!

[Todd Malone]

Cool idea. I've been trying to think of different ways to add weight to my tire since I saw this picture.

[Lance Foster]

I'm no engineer, but my 'outside the box' thinking tells me to put sandbags into the tire, (at least at the "north" and "south" compass points, if not all the way around the circumference), and secure the bags with some type of straps and short screws.

[GregMonfredo]

Elliot storey's friend Vin attached two chains inside his tire on opposite ends and would load plates in it that way.

[steve Barkley]

Or you could have just gotten a heavier tire :T:

[Corey DuCharme]

Or you could have just gotten a heavier tire :T:

I was waiting for that one. If you stop over to train sometime, you may talk to my wife about that. :D

[Barney Shannon]

Like most of my projects, I tried to do this one as hillbilly as possible to save money.

It's not truely "hillbilly" unless you use duct tape somewhere. :rolleyes:

[Matt Brouse]

We bumped at 450lber to 900 but drilling holes for plates at four point on the interior wall of it.

Works nicely, doesn't impeed the movement at all.

[Kurt Hessenbruch]

We bumped at 450lber to 900 but drilling holes for plates at four point on the interior wall of it.

Works nicely, doesn't impeed the movement at all.

pics or work.

[James Whisman]

Cool idea. I've been trying to think of different ways to add weight to my tire since I saw this picture.


That is the Air Force Academy

USAF Academy (http://goairforcefalcons.cstv.com/ot/afa-strength-conditioning.html#facilities)

Watch the video at 2:10

[Anthony LaMarca]

I have been wanting to do that too. What was in the tires at Hawaii's strongest man? Tire (http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b87/grrantoo/Hawaiis%20Strongest%20Man%202008/IMG_0932.jpg)

[Kurt Hessenbruch]

I have been wanting to do that too. What was in the tires at Hawaii's strongest man? Tire (http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b87/grrantoo/Hawaiis%20Strongest%20Man%202008/IMG_0932.jpg)

Looks like inner tubes stuffed around the inside.

[Corey DuCharme]

We bumped at 450lber to 900 but drilling holes for plates at four point on the interior wall of it.

Works nicely, doesn't impeed the movement at all.

Watch your step Brouse or I'll impeed your movement!!! :T:

[Benjamin Kieren]

I've heard of adding weight to a tire, but I've never seen it done like that. It looks pretty durable.

Does anyone know if having the weights in the center of the tire, as opposed to the outside, change the weight distribution in any way?

[Matt Brouse]

Watch your step Brouse or I'll impeed your movement!!! :T:
I will slap you in the mouth, I'm Neil Diamond!

I've heard of adding weight to a tire, but I've never seen it done like that. It looks pretty durable.

Does anyone know if having the weights in the center of the tire, as opposed to the outside, change the weight distribution in any way?

Having weight on the outside will make it more difficult as more weigh wil lbe distributed to the hands and higher off the ground. But, honestly, heavy is heavy and the tire is a leverage event anyway.

[steve Barkley]

I will talk to the wife... You might have to sleep on the couch for a couple of days after :eek:

[James Deffinbaugh]

pics or work.
I don't have pics, but it was 4 bolts (1/2" by like 3.5"?) with progressively bigger washers and some 1lb(ish) standard (1" hole) plate. So from outside to inside of the tire, it went something like:
bolt -> small washer -> big washer -> tire wall -> 45lb (or 100lb) plate -> 1lb standard plate -> large washer -> small washer -> nut. It didn't take long to put together at all, and was just a few dollars worth of parts.

With the four plates on the tire it felt pretty natural. The biggest difference is it didn't have the bounce it used to. The tire just needs to be big enough for the weight plates to fit inside.


Does anyone know if having the weights in the center of the tire, as opposed to the outside, change the weight distribution in any way?

It does change the physics of the movement, but probably not too much. Holding the tire at any point would feel the same if 400lbs were spread around the outside of the tire or if it was in the center, but it would take more energy to accelerate the tire. The faster the tire flip, the bigger the difference would be. In the end though I don't think it's really all that significant.... the majority of the force you exert on the tire is fighting gravity, not in fighting the inertia of the tire.

[Corey DuCharme]

I will slap you in the mouth, I'm Neil Diamond!

You wouldn't be the Brouse without a comment like that. Forever in blue jeans babe................

I will talk to the wife... You might have to sleep on the couch for a couple of days after.

It may be worth it, besides, we have a comfy spare bed, forget the couch.