Tractor tire Bead breaker

[Frank S]

OH NO! not another bead breaker. There are probably no less than 25 bead breakers published Here on Homemade tools.net, but I didn't have one.
Which is hard to believe as many of my own tractor and semi tires I've replaced or repaired in the past several years. Until now I mostly just used the backhoe, but sometimes it is just not convenient to use. I had a flat on my case tractor and decided it was past time to replace the old dry rotted rear tires with new ones. Time to make a bead breaker. SO IO cut a length of 2 1/2" sq. tubing and a piece of 2" sq tubing both having 1/4" wall thickness, this meant I was either going to have to grind a deep grove in 1 side of the 2" tube or remove the weld seam from the inside of the larger tube. I chucked it in my 4 jaw then with a 12" long boring bar I removed the weld




Then sanded the paint off of the 2" tubing to get it to fit inside

Since it looked like I was going to spend way too much time on something I could probably buy for under 100 dollars I torched the holes in the cap plates that the forcing bolt was going to pass through, and the weld the nut on the ram foot

The pipe sleeve is just to protect the threads while welding


I used my hose crimper to squeeze a nut onto the forcing bolt for it to be able to force the ram out against the tire


I wasn't going to spend anymore time one it until I was sure it was going to work


It works just fine awkward with the c clamp so now that I know it works I will refine it with a pressure screw to secure it to the rim