Built a super-ghetto bead breaker and started pulling tires off my spare wheels to refinish them.
It's a long 2x4 attached to a tree with a hinge, and a short 2x4 attached to the bottom of it about 1ft from the tree. put the tire under it, put the short 2x4 on the edge of the tire, lean on the end of the long 2x4 and presto, bead broken. After that a couple pry bars and I was done with the first one in about 5 minutes.