Breaking tires down that way is not fun. In the military, we had to do it that way many times in the field. Not fun at all, really not on a loader or grader tire. I learned to wear long pants no matter what from a piece of slag falling on my leg, not as bad as catching myself on fire but still a good lesson learned. LOL
A tire shop could have done it quicker and pretty cheap, but I wanted to try it once to see if I could do it.