why is there a giant goodyear tire on my front lawn.?
923541
The goodyear blimp took a dump and his owner neglected to clean it up.
1147724
The tempered safety glass in windshields is designed to break up into small pieces with fewer sharp edges.  Try picking some of it up -- do you see any long shards that could manage to puncture the thick rubber of your tire treads?  Any that could cut you deeply?\n\nThat's why he wasn't too concerned about it.
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I don't think you're going to get the recourse that you're hoping for from the construction company.  However, I would call them and let them know that it has happened so that, in the future, they will be more aware and hopefully prevent it from happening again to you or someone else.  I'm sure the next worse thing to happen would be for you to buy new tires and then find those punctured as well.  And hey, if you're nice about it (and ask to speak the the manager or the owner of the construction company ... someone with authority), they may just feel bad enough to pay for a portion of your new tires.  PS - maybe you could see if having the tires patched instead of replaced would be an option.  Having them patched will cost you much, much less!
71436
i think i saw it crossing the street earlier today, it was hanging around with a black and white stripe sock, sound familiar??
1061704
Types of tires with differing construction methods.\n\nReal long to explain here.   Here's a link you may find useful.
456815
Take a Lincoln penney head down and stick it into the tread. If you can see the top of Lincolns head they need to be replaced. Or is they are cracking, or have bumps/knots on them they need to be replaced. My son had a blow out in his CRV because the on of his tires had slipped a belt (had a bump on it) and he didn't know it.
380479
run and don't look back.  It could have been any dog, so don't claim it, don't hang around to clean it up.  Consider it a fertilizer gift.
267186
A good site is kaltire.com. No WWW.  They are a Canadian tire chain but have good info.  I am not connected in any way to them
274032
If you are parked illegally . they put a mark on your tire and then go about their rounds, when they come back and the car with the marked tire is still there, they ticket it.\n  The police are actually giving the owner of the car a break, and it gives the owner time to move the vehicle to avoid being ticketed.
61551
Over 99% air, surrounded by a rubbery bouncey material, similar to what's used in B-52 Bomber tires.
626175
They're the left-overs from injection molding.\n\nThey use lots of tiny tubes that they inject moulten rubber into the tire mold. The little dinguses are the leftover excess rubber from the injection process.\n\nOr else, they're tiny antennas for extra-terestrial communications.
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Not because they are hauling gravel But they have this sign because the back tires (despite the mud flaps) can act like a canon for loose stones/gravel on the road.\n\nThese are launched from the back tires.\n\n100 feet is a good distance to save your windsheild being hit by one of these.
144233
you can find sources at www.rubber.com/tires/ and Tire business.com also. I work for a Wholesale co here in the states...what are you looking for?
1132714
Buy a big bag of cress seed or similar and write WANKER in his front lawn with it. When he cuts the lawn the white stalks of the cress will show through, revealing what you have written. The best thing is that it keeps growing!
955164
The simplest explanation I know is in terms of the instant center.  We all think of a wheel as rotating about its axis.  That is true, relative to the tricycle frame.  However, relative to the ground, the axle moves forward.  The point where the tire touches the ground is stationary.  It does not move with respect to the ground.  An instant later, another part of the tire is touching the ground and again, for an instant, that point on the tire is stationary.  \n\nOn any rotating body, the spot that does not move (it may rotatebut not translate) is the center.  At any instant, the part of the tire touching the ground is not moving and is, by definition, the instant center.  The wheel is rotating about this instant center.  SInce the pedal is above the instant center, your forward horizontal force rotates the wheel forward.\n\nYou can prove this all to yourself by trying a few things with the string on the pedal.  Instead of pulling horizontally, raise the angle of the string.  When the line of action of the string passes through the contact point between the tire and the road, you will find that pulling on the string will not rotate the wheel.  If you pull hard enough the trike will move but the front wheel just skids.  Since the line of action of the applied force is passing through the center of rotation, there is no torque to spin the wheel.\n\nRaise the string higher and the trike will roll backwards because the force is acting on the other side of the center creating a torque in the opposite direction causing the wheel to turn the other way.   \n\nIf you don't have a trike handy, you can do this with a spool and a string.  Just wrap the string sround the spool with the end coming off the bottom of the spool.
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You might be applying too much pressure to one side. The only reason the wheels should lift off the ground is if your making a sharp turn. If you are, then disreguard the "too much pressure" thing. Its just fine.
486607
puting moters on blades of grass? crazy