What to do with old junk tires???

Do you have carpet on your driveway???

 

i put my old tires behind firestone after they close.

as far as antifreeze, ya its messed up they make it so hard to properly dispose of it. Luckily Montgomery county takes all that stuff, problem is I'm a Greene county resident so I have to lie because they wont take stuff from other countys, again making it a lot easier to just dump it in the ground or throw it in a dumpster.

 

here where i live we can take 4 tires a day for free to the dump, with rims or without.

 

No, that's regular old blacktop. It probably looks like that 'cause it's in the shade.

 

they also take used oil, batteries, oil containers, all for free, and we have whats called the free store, anything you think someone might be able to use you put in the free store, i get lots from there, old exercise equipment is a good source of metal tubing, and i find auto manuals, a couple sets of gauges, one set new, on and on.

 

Local dumpsters when no one's around at night.

 

I currently live in an apartment and from time to time there ends up being a couple in the dumpster.

 

Give em to the dog to play with.........

Terry

 

Since my local s**** yard started taking cars with tires (gas tanks too!) I just pile a few extra in whatever is going to the crusher.. makes it weigh more too!


Brian

 

a few years ago a friend(now p***ed away)took his van load of used tires to dump em at a construction site where he had seen a few tires layin there the day before... so he's tossin the tires on the pile when the local police pull up .... they say
" NOW I KNOW THEM TIRES IS OLD ONES BUT THEY ARE NOT HERE FOR THE TAKIN...SO YOU JUST UNLOAD THEM YA GOT IN THE VAN AND PUT EM BACK ON THE GROUND THERE AND I WON'T GIVE YA CITATION...AND HURRY UP!
The officer waited in his squad for the rest of the load to be spread on the ground like the rest ... honked when the deed was done and then he left..
true story so he said..

so just go ahead pay to give them up and make room for something good ... before the city cites ya for having them eyesores layin around breeding mosquitos
small price we pay for dealing with old cars..

 

Hell yeah, they'll take the old ones, they're worth $5-6 s**** here.

 

Many years ago I built my daughter a play area; pea gravel, swing set, play house, and a huge implement tire I found in a field and drug home (it took 4 guys to get it in the back of my truck). Then 2 years ago it's time to get rid of everything when she turned 15. I put an ad on Craigs List for "Free Implement Tire + $50.00", got lots of calls, two serious ones, and one who would'nt quit calling to check if I still had it. She finally showed up with a truck and several friends; they wanted it to sit on in their back yard. The Tulalip Indian Reservation is north of me, and at one time they built a beach wall using old tires. Now it's gotten old and beaten up by the surf, and the tires are ****tering over the beaches. There was also a huge tire fire here several years ago involving millions of tires, it had to burn itself out. Yeah, old tires can really be a problem, and not just for the average Joe to git rid of.

Another use; the local sheriffs department has a "tire house" for live ammo practice fire, stacked tires to make a "house" and filled with sand. They may have lost it however as it was at the airport and there have been a lot of improvements/changes there.

 

My Grandpa would re-sole his boots with the tread. They lasted forever. He started doing it in the 30's when he worked the mines, and still did it into the 90's.

they make Huaraches in Mexico (those are flip flops, jap flaps, etc..)..

They do the job as well.

 

Stack up 2 or 3 tires and plant spuds in them then just pull off one tire at a time as you make your hash browns

 

make a sculpture...



or a garden like was shown earlier..


or a retaining wall in your back yard...

 

The funny thing is, they had demonstrations in Mexico a couple of years ago because they'd started making those tire-tread sandals in China.

 

What the hell isn't made in China anymore???
once again, For **** Sakes!!!!

Maybe they should make gas and sell it at Walmart for .99 a gallon..

AAARGH!!!

 

Now that is interesting!

 

True, at one time I worked at a chemical plant. If we put liquid in a drum it had to be labeled Hazardous and it took extra monies to dispose of, whereas the same liquid could be absorbed into a drum of Speedy Dry and disposed of at the local landfill. Absorbed in Speedy Dry doesn't make it safer just makes it legal, go figure.

 

Keeping in mind that anti-freeze is poisonous and your dogs may drink it if they get a chance, setting an open container in a safe non-acessible area and letting it evaporate is a good way out.

Walmart here is good about taking oil.
Used to be a ***** to get rid of oil in Visalia, California where I used to live.
The oil recyle drum at Pep Boys was always 'full.'

The guy would grin at me cuz he knew I knew he was lying and a couple times, during the conversation another worker would be pouring oil into the drum.
Pretty much quit shopping at Pep Boys.

I understand that California law says if you sell oil you have to have a dump station for the old oil.

And then there's oiled roads.
Doesn't seem to be allowed for private citizens, but I note, in Sunny California and here in Sunnier Arizona, road crews will coat asphalt roads with oil and then spray sand on it.
A minimal amount of drying and they allow you to drive on it which drives the sand into the oil and the road is considered 're-sealed."

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Did California ever take MTBE out of the gasoline or are they still contaminating ground water with it?

 

I paint no hunting or no tresp***ing on them and randomly disperse them on fence posts.

 

when I was younger my pops made me build a retaining wall in the back yard, 5 feet high, 90 feet long, dug it out with a backhoe, built the wall...


Got in trouble


stacked individually filled with dirt tires in the back fill area and back filled the entire friggen thing by hand...

200 tires later....

Pops said the tires would stabalize the dirt so it wouldnt kick the bottom of the wall out....I think I got took....

took me a whole friggen summer to pay repentance for that little screw up...

(somethin bout 140 in a 40 or somethin...)

 

put em on a car with balls, and burn em up into powder.

seriously tho, i know alot of cement plants actually burn old tires for power.

 

i throw mine at spotted owls.or sink them into a clear stream out in the middle of nowhere.sometimes i burn them with all the left over oil/batterys .i try to do this when its extra dry and windy out... but mostly i take them to a tire shop and leave them there.the shop i used to work at has a big pile and few of mine wont hurt.

 

"take them to a tire shop and leave them there."

hell yeah, just dump em there in the middle of the night when they're closed, but stack em nicely and don't just throw them all over the place.