I like it Al, great idea, I think it will work on a gasifier too.
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I’ve been watching this guy. Probably everybody has. He has 760K subscribers. A lot of useful stuff and some not so much.
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I hope you never need to use this trick cause it means your working on a ford, but after an hour of swinging a tire hammer the last resort came out to remove this stuck wheel
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I hear you, Been there done that! 
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Here I thought you just sprayed it with penetrating oil, put the wheel back on with hand tightened nuts and drove down a bumpy road.
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Personal rig yes I have done that before, company rig they frown upon activities like that specially Department of Transportation
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Perhaps to make it easier for next time a guy could drill and tap two holes through the rim? Perhaps weld on nuts if the rim is too thin? But it might look kinda weird.
Rindert
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Last fall I had to change the brakes on my wifes Nissan Rogue. Car only logs about 5-6 K a year and the wheels had never been off in 7 years. I guess they were glued on with some rust. Usually a couple of kicks to the tire will break a wheel loose. I beat on all of the tires, inside and out with a sledge to no avail. Finally had to heat them up to get them to break loose. I cut a piece of weed cloth to put between the wheel and the disk before I put the wheels back on.
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THAT sounds like a winner-of the week for kicks and tricks.There aint no shortage of salt up here in michigan-NICE ONE.
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The drive around with loosened lug nut as Marcus clearly said out on ROADS is dangerous. And Illegal.
Here’s how to do this.
Air down the tires for more rolling resistance drag.
Back off the lug nuts. Lightly retighten. Only then loosen a set amount like one-turn. Maybe two turns.
Slowly do your counter reversing circles turning in a driveway; on a frozen or drought dried lawn; a shop parking lot. Just as soon as the wheel does pop loose then you must STOP; re-tighten to get it back into the shop.
Any length of driving loose WILL damage your lug studs. Damage your wheel nuts. Damage your wheels nuts pocket holes.
Cussing the roads departments bowing to “the people” who insist on snow melted clear roads will at least let your anger out.
Now salty water coastal . . . gonna curse God?
Accept the fact if you do not have those wheels off-and on twice a year to be wire brushed and surfaces sprayed you-the-one who was slacked off.
Buying and using a good separate set of winter snow/ice wheels and tires give you this twice a year excuse.
Front and back wheels and tire rotation to keep the all-wheel-drive power systems happy is another good reason to twice a year on-and-off your wheels to clean and respray.
S.U.
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I toltally agree-That actually sounds safe enough to do without like said damage the wheels and studs- maybe a real short dirt road by my house one drive way over- then carry a lug wrench when the wheel pops loose from rusted on,THAT is much safer than the crazy police chase reckless driving episodes.
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MY wire feed welder quit on my old snap on- mig welder ya212 machine–The circuit board inside i think quit because i bypassed it with a 24 volt same as my wire feed motor-DC pwm type motor speed controler- and it seems to be working better and more steady than what my old controler was working before it quit working.
when i get a 24 volt gas vaulve solinoid in mail along with a 24 volt inverter- i will hook all back together without extra wire for mig gun trigge for the bypass i have hooked up to a battery charger running the wire feed motor.
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I have 180 feet of potatoes do dig this year and I’m getting too old and lazy to dig them by hand so I made this potatoe plow out of stuff in my scrap bin. I hope it works.
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I haven’t ever used one. It might work if you are in sandy soil, but generally I don’t think your tines are long enough. They are just there to let the dirt and taters separate so the taters end up on top of the ground. Rerod might work, but the protrusions on it might scrape the taters. You can prove me wrong, or someone else can correct me, I am certainly not an expert or trying to criticize.
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Wow that looks great. Your workmanship? I’m sure it will work.
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I’m right there with you on hating to dig out potatoes Don. This year I tried something new and dug a trench and lined it with weed cloth and then about six inches of soil on that, potato seed and then leaves. I’m hoping to be able to be able to discard the leaves and pull the weed cloth rolling up the potatoes. It’s only a 40 foot row for an experiment. I also have them stuck in every spare bucket, laundry basket and old tote I have.
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@madflower69 said “It might work if you are in sandy soil”
Nice work, Don! I bet where you live the soil IS on the sandy side! 
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You are right Mike. I plan to remove all the vines and wait until the soil is dry before trying it. I will try and video the results as long as the results don’t embarass
me too much. 
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That looks like something my great uncle made in Netherlands back in the 1920s. His grand children were still using it in 1981 when I was there. It worked great.
Rindert
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This is your next project. 
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