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It's no harder on the tires than using one of the duckbill wedges, or some of the other bead breakers (mechanical). It's a lot easier to hit them and miss the lockring than with a duckbill. They tend to slide and tuck under the ring so they don't gauge the tire or cut it. If you want to try a...

I'll add some photos from my website from where I had to replaced a bad tube last fall (1100r16, but same principle...). You don't get the captions for each photo, but you can get the idea...

There is a thread on here (or perhaps the old site) that shows the method that "Scounger" showed me a couple of years ago that I use almost exclusively to break down these tires... Use three large (four inch or so) pieces of angle iron, and a standard sledge. Much easier to hit a piece of...