nikkinutshop wrote: The sudden and rapid explosion of air, at high pressure, will cause injury or death even when the assembly is in a certified cage.
A coupla quick thoughts in addition to Nikki's.
A cage is a single use item, in that it is destroyed when it is used to contain a catastrophic failure! It does its job by deforming and slowing the flying metal. For this reason "make do" things like wrapping chains and other things like placing a loader bucket over tires is counter-productive. A chain is not designed to stretch, in fact it has very little deformation before it too fails and turn in shrapnel.
Any vessel that contains as much compressed air as a truck tire all must be handled with care, a compressor tank is an often overlooked danger. A tubeless tire on a single piece rim poses the same danger.
Far better to KNOW it is together correctly, and still treat it with caution. It comes down to know what to look for, good inspections on every step of the process, and rigidly following good practices.
I'm not good a calculus, but figure out how many square inches are in a tire and multiply that by 100, and you'll get how many tons of force can be released
I change countless truck and bus tires and never had a failure, I am careful and inspect at every step, so I know it will stay together.