What to do with old junk tires???

I expected more from you

 

Wow, a parts store that takes antifreeze, that's unusual. S****yards typically pay a couple bucks for batteries too if some of you are hoarding them.


Littering- it's the original recycling. Item has been returned directly to nature.

 

If i buy a battery and dont have one to bring them I get charged..(no Pun intended)..so I see them as Core charge items. I save um till i need a new one for something. Tires..I give them back to who I bought them from originally..Belle Tire. Oil goes to Murrays, same as Antifreeze

 

I just had to get rid of some, what a PITA... they make you fill out a manifest if you take more than 8, anymore than that you are considered a "dealer" and get charged more... I think they charged me $8 bucks to dump 8 tires. I had 3 carbonelss receipts by the time I was done, and the guy that took my money had something to do for 10 minutes. I think they have to charge you just so they can pay the guy that makes you fill out the paperwork.

The landfills grind them up into pellets get PAID by the plants that burn tires as fuel, like cement plants. then you PAY them to dump them. What's wrong with this picture?

From now on, I'm going to drive behind a tire store late at night, and throw them in back.

Until I do that, I have a mosquito farm, malaria anyone?

 

just cut them around the tread, you know sperate the side wall from the tread, see when you bury whole tires they float up through the landfill to the top or so they say.Anyway around here if you cut them you can throw them in the dumpster, a carpet knife works best.

 

sawzall, cut them in 6 to 8 inch length wise sections and put them in the trash. Been doing it since I got the recip saw, put them in with the household garbage. Only takes about 5 min a tire

 

Throw some bleach in a spray bottle. One squirt inside each tire. Mosquito farm gone.

 

I have a friend with a tire store. He charges me a buck a tire to get rid of them because thats what he pays. I just show up, tell him how many I have, and toss them into his tire dumpster.

I have a couple 55 gallon drums at the shop for used antifreeze and oil. We get them pumped out when they get full bt Safety Kleen. It wasn't very expensive last time they did it.

I do have a pile of dead batteries however that I have to take in....

 

to get rid of paint cans with paint or cans of other stuff just let it dry out then throw it away, if there half full it may take awile so pour a little in a pan at a time so it dries in layers then throw away

 

I did a impromptu clean up of a few old tires from the marsh behind my place and now i have to pay to get rid of the friggin tires - just a bunch of old rotted bias plies.

my green contribution

 

LOL...I have actually ate off that table! BTW what was that stuff you fixed in the oven that we were dipping those chips in...GOD Denise that stuff was GOOOOOOOD!

 

yeah just drop them off at your local tire shop when they are closed..ha!

 

Batteries?? Dosent the s**** man want them? We used to sell them by the Kg with all the old br*** and copper radiator cores from my old mans shop.

 

Pretty much you just have to cut the tire so it won't hold water, a guy with a junkyard was doing that with thousands of them so he could just take them to the dump. He'd cut then in two down the middle of the tread.

I sold a wheel on eBay a couple years ago and had to get the '70's wide oval off it. Ended up cutting it into about three pieces and putting them out with the garbage, they took the pieces no problem.

One thing, a cutoff wheel makes cutting the bead area a lot easier than a sawzall - it's just like trying to saw through a cable, because a lot of them have a cable buried in there to reinforce them.


If there's a farm nearby some use them as weights to hold tarps down covering who knows what, maybe they can use some more.


Like everything else, the price on batteries has gone up, I think right now you can get more s****ping it yourself than you do as a core charge (which makes sense, the places who take cores want to profit too). I have about 10 saved up to take in and junk.

 

alot of the used tire stores around here do that. It takes a few minutes each,and they fill an entire dumpster with them. they go out as regular trash.
As for car batteries, we were getting $10 each for s****, now I think it is $8 or $9.
If you happen to know a guy with a junk yard, they might take your wheels and tires and stuff them in the cars getting crushed to add weight. Most metal places will allow 5 tires per vehicle.

 

I get about $10 a battery also at the local recycler.

 

I haven't figure out what to do with the tires yet. I have them stashed in a couple of old ryder truck boxes out back but need to do something soon because they're almost full. I thought about trying to build my own shredding machine for them.

Batteries I took to a battery factory(excide) instead of the s****yard around here because they paid more. 30 batteries and got $475.00. $8.00 for car batteries $4.00 for lawn mower, $1.00 for motorcycle but then I had some tractor batteries that paid $16.00 each and construction equipment batteries that pd. $24.00 each.

Used drain oil I just burn in my firepit which is a old freezer(yes, I live in the country).

 

Deer hunters can incorporate them into their target range just past the shooting bench. String 20 or so together to form a long tube. Barrel sticks inside first tire. They work as a sound suppressor of sorts.

 

Wow- this thread actually made me -slightly; veerryy slightly- less disgruntled over my local tax bill. My township will pickup up to 4 unmounted tires at the end of my driveway with a phone call- I'm sure I could do this once a month with no issue. County has spring & fall HazMat Day- about 5 minute drive where I drop off all my oil, antifreeze, batteries, identified chemicals, tons of nasty stuff.... all "free".

 

I take mine to the tire store at night. I figure if they didn't want you dumping tires there they would lock the gate by where the tires go. also I asked the guy at the tire stor that i go to if they sell used tires, he replied that all the useable used tires get taken at night, so leaving your tire evens it all out.

one day I looked in the bed of my truck and there was 2 tires that did not belong to me. I rolled them down the street and in a few days they were gone.

 

Oh no! It cost a whole ****ing $2 to properly get rid of a tire. Give me a ****ing break. We all spend hundreds of dollars on a set of new skins and won't spend $8 to do the right thing? That is very disappointing. A big part of hot rodding to me is recycling the past and using things most people just discard in this disposable society.
As for the ****s that say they won't recycle cause it is just too much work, send me all your old car parts because that is a form of recycling.
Dammit! Ignorant people piss me off. It IS possible to be a hot rod hoodlum and still give a **** about doing the right thing.

 

Did you read the thread? Some of the "recycler" tire shops are just cutting em up and tossing em out too. Undoubtedly some cities that collect em are doing the same thing. What difference does it make if you're doing it at home?

Thinking that the need for tire disposal only comes with "new skins" at the local tire center is the mark of a noob. I know guys that haven't bought a new tire in 20 years and typically need to dispose of 3-4 sets a year. There's a lot of those guys out there, and they're the ORIGINAL recyclers cause they're using tires that others have discarded. Looking down on them for being wasteful is a very superficial take on the situation

 

look into this closer in your area right now the yard my son deal;s with is paying 8$ per car battery!

 

Load em' up in the pickup with your buddy in back. Drive down the interstate at 2 AM and throw one out at every mile marker. Let those tolls work for you!

Theres a spot down on the back 40 that we always changed our oil and dumped the antifreeze. Just pull the plug and dump new in. There is a housing development there now. Gr*** looks great!

 

When i get rid of them i just find a local dumpster and i throw them i there because the dumpsters by the construction sites go straight to the recycling place. Or if you want you could stick a few in your recycling bin.

 

Find the cheapest Speedi Dry or Kitty Litter you can and and pour the paint in that use as much as you need to absorb the paint then it can be tossed with your regular trash wood finishes in the liquid state are considered hazardous not in a dry form however.This comes from the people running my recycling center/transfer station

 

I might have got a little off track with my rant, but the point is to do the right thing. Not burn them in a pit, not whatever.
And I am far from a noob.

 

I know guys that haven't bought a new tire in 20 years and typically need to dispose of 3-4 sets a year. There's a lot of those guys out there[/quote]


I'm one of them!

I bought 2 new tires over 22 years ago, with road hazard. A few weeks later, I hit something or a deep pothole. that tore the sidewall and ruined the tire. They wouldn't honor the roadhazard, so I was out my $150 or whatever it was.

I have never bought a new tire since, except for my tow truck. I buy used for the rear when ever possible, though.

The county does do tire roundups a few times a year too. I just stuff them in the cars that are getting crushed. they all get recycled properly.

The guys that throw them into the desert piss me off.

 

Thre pages and I'm the only one to think of a Haitian neck tie?

 

My wife (hotrodchick) set these up just this past weekend.