What to do with old junk tires???

What are you suppose to do with old junk tires?
I always seem to manage to colect a few off of every old project I drag in,the local dump wont take them,if you buy a new set, the tire place charges 2 or 3 dollars to take your old ones but I dont know if they would take the ones you have at home for that???
I just gave about 10 away that had rims but I have about 10 more that dont....................Will I have to pay to get rid of these?

 

What I do is to buy an old, rusty pickup every once in a while and just throw my old tires in the bed. If after a while nobody steals them, then I sell the truck to someone else with the tires included!

Ha Ha...some of my old ones made it to Billetproof this past weekend under Danimal's son's truck!

 

I'm not really sure who you take them to,but a lot of places are grinding up the tires(non radial) and using them as a base in playground areas,under the mulch.

 

Do you have a local dirt track? Not necessarily for cars only, maybe even BMX bikes and motocross? Just a thought.

 

I made a coffee table outta the last two

 

Tire swings!

 

Grow potatoes in them.

Commonly done by home gardeners.

 

After they sat in my back yard still in the same truck!, than the truck got sold again to some S-10 Dude wanting an SBC for his project.
and Danimal needed some Mock Ups..Hey..Fat Hack..got any more Mock Ups? ..this time with out the ol rusty pick-up

 

Damn, that's the definition of ate up with cars right there!!!!!

 

The county landfill around here has tire amnesty days.
On a couple of days a year they take a certain number tires, per person, for free.
Huge fines here if they find tires in your dumpster or catch you dropping them at the green box site.

 

In our county every adult can send up to 4 tires a year to the landfill free. Any above that are $2 each. One year my 90 year old aunt sent a set on my behalf. And my wife also dumps a set every year.

 

If you have a lot of them ( pickup load ) find a tire recyler in your area that is where the tire dealers goes to get rid of them.
I know, I'm cleaning up the home farm, my dad never got rid of a tire, there are hundreds of them in the woods. It cost me $.80 each per car tire, tractor tires are per size.

 

Ha Ha...no way, Dude...you want any of MY mock-ups, you gotta buy the rustbucket I stuffed 'em in!! That's the deal...all sales final...no deposit, no return!!!

 

Most trash companies won't take a tire as part of your weekly pickup. But one went so far as to tell me "half a tire is not a tire". Got a sawzall? Done it in 4 states without ever having the trash man question it. Better for onsie twosie stuff than a whole set.

Ask your buddies that live in other cities. Often a county or semi-rural area will have a scrub week once a year and haul off anything that's put on the curb, including tires.

 

Lol..
you never..know. ..got any Rustbucket with a runnin V8 Flat head?
I didnt lose a dime on that deal, and was able to give those to Dan before it went out of my yard..Win Win, i say.every one got what they needed..love it when a plan works out.

 

If you have a favorite fishin' hole, tie them all together, sink them near a dock. They make a killer ****pie bed.........

 

lol

hay they couldnt have been that bad they held air all weekend and all the way home

lol

 

When I want to save a wheel from a junk tire, my local tire dealer charges me a couple of bucks to dismount the tire. He then throws the junk tire in a pile than someone comes around and picks up. I have no idea what the guy that picks them up, does with them, but at least the tire is out of my hair!

Rockettruck...

 

I live out in the country and my nearest neighbor has a huge burn pit. Since I'm moving in a few weeks I have quite a collection to dispose of. I dismounted all the old useless tires I had and through about 20 in his pit. The wheels either went in the s**** trailer of in a pile to take with me. He picks a day when the wind is right about once a year the burns it. Might not be 100% legal but the best deal I can find locally to dispose of them cost $2 a tire and being in west Texas there are not lakes to sink them in. Guess one could just stack them up and use them for a wind brake! Or you can find an eco-nut that wants to use them in the wall of his eco friendly earth-home.

 

I have been guilty of dropping a couple at a time off at the local tire stores tire pile when they werent lookin But hey... Better than droppin them in the Vacant lot !!

HOWEVER... The local trash man told me if i was to cut the tire in 1/4s, Then cut each 1/4 in 1/2 thru the tread it would bee OK for landfill.

See a tire, No matter how deep you plant it will rise back to the top eventually & they take up to much space.... But cut up they become smaller & not a problem.

 

Hey now thats a cool table, I was thinking about making one out of an old roundy round tire i got from MIS...thought it would look good down by my bar

 

I think the top one was on the right rear...

 

Many years ago Pep Boys really boned me good on some repair I had them do to a car before I taught myself to do it myself. I don't even remember what the infraction was but I decided about 20 years ago that they'd pay for it by becoming my disposer of old tires.

That's where mine go...

 

My son is a tire recycler, he used to shred them and then sold them to a landfill to line the bottom of their pit but he lost his lease and had to pay to get rid of the to a place that uses them to fuel and electric plant. He still has his customer base so he continues to get paid to take them ($1.50 a car tire) and stacks them in the 52 foot trailers which he pays out about $1500.00.
Picture of him and tires after loosing his lease, first one is the warehouse which had 15,000 tires in it and second picture shows him loading a trailer. Most guys get about 1700 tires in a trailer, he gets 2200, you pay for a trailer, not how many tires are in it.

 

Thats ez for you to say

 

That's what really burns me.

The powers-that-be make all kinds of laws and hand out fines for dumping things like tires, paint, oil, antifreeze, batteries, etc because they (very understandably) don't want it to go into the ground.

BUT, they do not provide a REAL SOLUTION for the average person to get rid of it properly.

Try to get rid of antifreeze - no one will take it. Some will if you bought from them and have a receipt, if you don't, they tell you to get lost.

There is a place here where you can take your old half-full paint cans - BUT they only accept latex. What about all the cans of other stuff? Where do they think that will end up?

Same with tires.

As a graphic designer, I get jobs from local authorities to lay out all these little publications that "educate" people about how just a tiny bit of oil will contaminate thousands of gallons of water, etc. etc., but no where in that publication does it give REAL alternatives on how to properly dispose of contaminates because no one else wants to get left with the responsibility of dealing with it. Sure, there's an 800 number to call for info, but then the messaage says "take your oil to...", "take you old - latex - paint to..." "take your old batteries to..." and all these places are 40 minutes away from one another so you would spend days running all this **** around to various places.

Realistically, how many people are going to take an 80 minute round trip to "properly dispose of" a flashlight battery, or pint of anti freeze?

It all needs to be accepted all in ONE location. With lots of those locations all around the city.

If THEY really expect to make a difference, they have to make it EASY for people to do the right thing, because we all know that the average person is not going to go much out of their way to do it right and it just ends up getting dumped down storm drains, on the ground and in the trash.

-end of rant-

 

thats a great idea, my thoughts exactly

 

This is so true. I have a greenie-hippie-homo type at work, and I told him I don't mind recycling alum. cans, because I have a retired friend who comes by my house and picks them up(even hangs around to help empty a few). But if I had to take them there myself, they'd end up in the trash; not worth my time for a few pennies a pound, and I honestly don't give a **** about the whole "Save the Planet" thing. The planet was here billions of years before us; it will be here billions of years after us.

 

Total 100% collection is more than good for the eviro, it's good for the cities too. Having lived in both areas with trash nazis, and areas that would haul away ANYTHING for a flat rate- The haul-anything cities were much nicer looking, especially in poor neighborhoods. Not to mention the vermin reduction. It's one thing I'd gladly absorb into the tax structure.

 

My local auto parts store (mom and pop store) will take my old car batteries no problem and the chain auto parts store (Murphys) will take used oil and antifreeze at no cost so will the quickie oil change place down the street (Valvoline).