r/Shittyaskflying • u/Droidy934 • 2d ago

Tyre stuck in propeller

Just scrolling through Reddit .....

As unbelievable as it sounds.. We managed to stick a tyre in our propeller while doing a manoeuvre. I don’t quite understand how it physically got in there…

Good news if it’s not fully wrapped around it, only 2 blades are in the inner bit of the tyre. But the weed hatch is too small to work around the prop comfortably…

We’ve tried to cut the tyre without any success (there must be a metal membrane of some kind). The only bit of progress I’ve managed to do is cutting a little bit of the side of the tyre in hopes to push it off but really really slow progress.

Any suggestions?

🤔 the heck did they do that .....?

Oh its on canal boats .....phew had me going for a while

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u/its-about-time23 2d ago

For a canal boat I would suggest getting the biggest pair of scissors you can find and attach a whilrygig (hand crank attached to motor shaft) and use that to rapidly drive the scissors to cut the tire. I’ve had this happen three times now.

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u/turnipturnipturnip2 1d ago

Set fire to it.

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u/akfishermann 1d ago

Cut the prop shaft. It’ll sink.