At work they had a heavy equipment guy scrape the yard with an old grader and added some gravel. The grader blew a tire and they sent someone out to fix it yesterday. It was a 14x24 with a 3 piece rim. The local guy wouldn?t touch it and they call this guy to handle the split rim jobs. The guy had us press the rim together with a 2x6 and the loader bucket while he pounded it together with the tire maul. After that was done he put the ring on and flipped it over by himself as I was putting the tractor back. He just aired it up ,no chain or safety cage of any type whatsoever. Great big guy covered in tattoos,didn?t look like a fella to mess with. I heard many stories of people being killed by those old split rims,I think our local guys pretty smart to not touch them if he knows someone else who will.