That is a good helpful hint. Thank you. I will file that away in my McGyver file.

Years ago I purchased a small kit I carry in the truck. In the kit is a rasp file, a glue, and some rubber fat strings/plugs, and a tool to put them strings in the hole. You pull the nail or obstruction, take the file and ruff the edges of the hole, put a string in the tool, apply glue, and then push that through the tire, twist and pull the tool out, leaving the plug. Believe it or not that thing really does patch a tire.

A group of us were riding ATV back in the woods on private property. And I was climbing over a brush pile and pushed a balsam branch through the tire. We limped the wheeler to a road. One of the riders (a good friend) is a Certified Ford Motor Auto Mechanic as he likes to joke. Well he went back to his house (about a mile away) and came back with this same kit I described and a hand tire pump. He pushed four plugs into that hole with lots of glue... then he did something I would have never thought of.. he used a lighter and lite the back of the plug. As it burned, he used a stick and just kept flattening that plug out. That was over ten years ago, and I am still riding on that same plug and it has never let use. I purchased one of them kits the next week.

The kit is small and easy to carry. So I put that kit in my truck, behind the seat and a mini compressor that plugs into my power point.