Unwanted contribution - derelict tires

RayP(MI)

Well-known Member
Looks like someone backed into drive on back of my place. Unloaded 20 used tires in the tall grass around gate. Different sizes, brands, so most probably from some small time tire shop. Called the sheriff. State trooper called me back, took report over phone. We all know how far this is going from here. Said they would increase patrols in the area. Yeah, right! Haven't seen a police car out here in months.

Meanwhile, I have no method of disposal except hauling them to a recycler and paying to have them taken off my hands. Township trash disposal won't take them. Can't burn them. Township large trash (spring and fall] disposal charges to take them. Any suggestions?
 
Do you fish any lakes at night for cats or walleye? Tie 4 together for artificial "rockpiles". Make great fish attractors.
 

If I was closer, I would come and get them. They make a great backstop for a shooting range. Also, quite often, old tires are used for driving a crawler tractor across a hard surfaced road. Is anyone doing dozer work in your neighborhood?
 
Dumping trash and junk on other people's property still happens, but not as often as 50 years ago. Maybe there are just fewer people in rural areas now.

If it was a tire shop, they would have collected the disposal fee from their customers. Twenty tires sounds like too small a number to keep a tire store in business very long. More likely it was a hobbyist or small businessman who accumulated 20 old tires and didn't want to pay the $40 to $100 disposal fee.

I cringe to say it, if we added a disposal fee to the cost of buying a tire and and put a pre-paid disposal mark on those tires that is accepted everywhere, tire dumping would be drastically reduced. It worked with aluminum cans.
 
They just permanently closed our local dump on the 3rd of July and the next closest place to take them to is 40 miles away, tires are already appearing in ditches outside the town.
 
You can't get CAUGHT burning them. Pile some brush over them,wait for a real foggy morning and light it up. By the time the fog lifts,problem solved.
 
I just paid $3.00 each to my local tire shop to dispose of 20 tires,wish someone would start making mats out of them in this area and you could take them there for free.
 
(quoted from post at 15:23:56 07/16/18) You can't get CAUGHT burning them. Pile some brush over them,wait for a real foggy morning and light it up. By the time the fog lifts,problem solved.

Yep, tires don't smoke at night.
 
One neighbor digs a pit with his backhoe out on the backside of his property. Throws in old tires and backfills.
 
I may have to do that. Am told that they need to be cut in half to prevent them from floating up in a few years, especially in landfills.
 
A few years ago on our farm I put all the old tires we had laying around on a old 16' utility trailer. Put a add on craigslist "Free, old tires, not useable on vehicles, you must take the whole load of tires, you must unload them from the trailer, I will deliver them for free within a 50 mile radius of the city". Three days later got a call from a guy who wanted them all, I delivered them, and he had some people to unload them. He used them in sandy ground to put around fence posts, cut holes in the side walls, put them in the ground with the post in the middle, then covered them up. He said they work really good for that.
 
Thats Right!!! Do it all the time. Have rental properties and people leave them all the time.. Rough when you take out a $100 a tire out of their deposit to get rid of them
 
Our county has a "tire trailer" at one of the county offices each year. It is a tractor-trailer van, and residents can put their old tires in the trailer. When the trailer is full, it's gone until next year. I figure that's a trailer load of tires that they don't have to pick up from the ditches and creeks later.
 
(quoted from post at 12:52:22 07/16/18) Looks like someone backed into drive on back of my place. Unloaded 20 used tires in the tall grass around gate. Different sizes, brands, so most probably from some small time tire shop. Called the sheriff. State trooper called me back, took report over phone. We all know how far this is going from here. Said they would increase patrols in the area. Yeah, right! Haven't seen a police car out here in months.

Meanwhile, I have no method of disposal except hauling them to a recycler and paying to have them taken off my hands. Township trash disposal won't take them. Can't burn them. Township large trash (spring and fall] disposal charges to take them. Any suggestions?






I keep all areas around our place like that mowed, its a pain sometimes, but not as much of a pain of having to get rid of tires someone dumped on your place.
 
We had a small tire shop in a one horse town that did that, run by a guy that was known as preacher. Our county and at least 1 other county paid employees to carry them out of the ditches and dispose of them. Its no longer a problem, sheriff had a talk with preacher several years ago, preacher is out of a job. The owner closed up the shop rather than continually deal with the problem. Our county has a tire pickup day here once a year. Individuals are allowed to recycle a certain number of tires each year, good luck with your problem.
 
Alot of the big dairies cut holes in sidewall to drain water then use them to hold tarps on their silage piles. Where I am at the county transfer station allows you to get rid of 4 tires per month for free. After 4 I think its $5/tire.
Sod Buster
 
Same thing was happening once at the farm. Tires dumped from the side of a four-lane highway -- could have been rolled out the side of a box truck during daylight, and no one would seen it happening. Rolled down against the highway fence; not really on my property; just across the fence. Some of them floated down the stream during high-water on to my property.
Not my job to dispose of them, but did not want the mosquito problem that comes from a lot of water-filled tires.
Finally loaded them up in my trailer; must have been about fifty of them from car tire to truck tire size. Was much cheaper to pay to dispose of by weight than by paying the per-tire fee.
Have the picture of the trailer load somewhere -- pre-digital days.
Good luck with your tires.
 

Bury them if you have a way to dig a hole about 6'-8' deep. That or take them to a salvage yard late at night and throw them over the fence. Probably where they came from in the first place.
 
Someone dumped tires in a hole down the road from me. A month later they were on fire. Spontaneous combustion? We see many tire fires on the news.
 
Some crudball dumped about 70 of'em on me, off the side of the county road & into a deep holler. Luckily highway dept. came & dragged'em back up & hauled'en away free. I didn't even called'em to do it!
 
Someone dumped a bunch (and garbage) in the ditch on a property I own a few years back. I got a letter from code enforcement about garbage on the property and had to clean it up or be fined. I went to code enforcement and told him it was already cleaned up, I could have fought with them and said it was on the road right of way in their ditch but I am a builder and have to work with the building dept. all the time so just smiled and paid about $150 to dispose of everything.
 
Around here there is a program that the Boy Scouts collect them along the road and DOT pays them 50 cents a tire as a fund raiser.
 
I cringe to say it, if we added a disposal fee to the cost of buying a tire and and put a pre-paid disposal mark on those tires that is accepted everywhere, tire dumping would be drastically reduced.

They already DO. At least in NY. Every tire has a $5 "disposal fee" tacked on when you buy the tire. Yet, nobody will take them, unless you pay another $5 or $10 "disposal fee" per tire.

Someone tried to tell me that fee is for the disposal of the old tire. BS. They still tack it on if you keep the old tires, or if it's a new tire that is not replacing anything.
 
My waste hauler had no problem taking pieces of tires, car sized in two pieces , tractor rears in 3 or 4 pcs. its not a tire anymore I was told.
 
It could be like it is here; live on a dead end road known for dumping unwanted dogs. Have two nearly grown puppies running loose that I am feeding waiting for animal control to pick them up. Did I mention two calls and ten days ago.
 
Ray- check with Deerpath Recyclers, near here in Dowagiac. They grind tires into crumb rubber for playgrounds and landscaping, etc. Might be a nice day trip for you to check crops in Cass County.
 
(quoted from post at 18:00:22 07/16/18) Epa will fine you $12,000 if they find out you lit one.
an I burn as many as I want for that price...........or is that per tire? Just askin.
 
Here where I live it is ok to cut the bead out, and roll up the tire thread up and tie it.
Cut the bead out with a sharp blade, the tires cut very easy. Truck tires a different problem. It's a shame you need to deal with someone else's junk. Stan
 
I've burned them up, one at a time, didn't have many, in a pile of other debris from a downed tree limb. They burned up surprisingly quickly and not a lot of smoke.
 

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