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jddeere

03-18-2007 18:26:12

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What do yall do with old tires around the farm. Are there places that you can take them or do you have to pay to do this. I am located in west tennessee

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cb in wisc

03-20-2007 19:31:13

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Re: old tires in reply to jddeere, 03-18-2007 18:26:12

Our local trash collectors take one or two tires with trash pickup. The odd thing is last year a tire recycler near Watertown Wisconsin just got inspected and was told he was over the limit of tires that he had on site. That same day the pile caught fire and you could see the smoke for many miles around the area. It burned for about three days.

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Kent in KC

03-20-2007 12:50:41

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Re: old tires in reply to jddeere, 03-18-2007 18:26:12

I saw recently where some folks make houses out of them. Mike make a decent tractor shed. Claim they work great. Stack them up, fill them with straw/adobe mud or cement, plaster for smooth walls.

They were retired (sorry). Must have had quite a few Goodyears together.

Hey, did ya hear? Firestone's having a Spring blowout sale!

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KeithF

03-19-2007 08:59:02

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Re: old tires in reply to jddeere, 03-18-2007 18:26:12

I live in East Tennessee. Whenever tires are bought there is a tire disposal fee added to the cost. It is by state mandate. Anyway, the local county dump takes the tires free. They collect them and wait for a truck from the state to pick them up. Your local municipal dump should do the same.

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Blue3992 (N Illinois)

03-18-2007 21:22:08

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Re: old tires in reply to jddeere, 03-18-2007 18:26:12

Here's what I've done in Illinois, your state may vary:

The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency has tire collections all throughout the state every year. You can bring up to 1000 (yup, a thousand) tires to these collections, at no charge. I've gotten rid of at least 2000 tires this way.

Before I knew about those free tire collections, I asked around at the local tire shops, and found out who the local tire recycler was. I had to pay him $1.00 a tire, I think that was like two years ago.

And if you just got a few, its probably easiest to take them over to your local tire shop and pay them to take them off your hands.

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iowa_tire_guy

03-18-2007 19:09:20

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Re: old tires in reply to jddeere, 03-18-2007 18:26:12

For me it is not a matter of what to do with them but how much am I willing to pay. Not many options. I was doing pretty good with a deal with a tire grinder who charged me $1200 per 48 foot trailer load. I was charging $2 per car and light truck tire, $6 per semi tire and about $15 per tractor tire and was breaking even on the deal. Then the grinder changed to everything across the scale and raised the tonnage so the net affect was to triple my cost per trailer load. I just didn't think I could pass on $6 per car tire on up to the customers.

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Ray

03-18-2007 20:02:14

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Re: old tires in reply to iowa_tire_guy, 03-18-2007 19:09:20

I've got to clean up around 3000 tires in a gully on an estate property.I called a tire
recycler who will pick them up for 1.25 each,
but they have to be up on level ground and out of the gully.

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iowa_tire-guy

03-19-2007 04:41:21

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Re: old tires in reply to Ray, 03-18-2007 20:02:14

I have cleaned up two tire dumps. One was in a gully that the local Goodyear store used for years on a property that was sold. The new owner wanted them out. The other was a packrat who bought and stole many things over the years that his widow had to deal with. We took 80 tires out of her house basement. Both times I was able to hire hard working boys to drag them out and load them up. I would inquire around about who worked loading small hay bales and found the workers.

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Rockyhawaii

03-18-2007 18:37:54

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Re: old tires in reply to jddeere, 03-18-2007 18:26:12

Our county takes two tires per day, , per person, but this is after a long court battle. Seems that for twenty-five years the state had been adding a hidden fee of $3.50 per tire to all tires sold, to cover disposal, and the polititians had been blowing the money on other things and then charging people again to dispose of their tires at the shredder. I'd first question whether you've also been paying for tire disposal all this time.

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paul

03-19-2007 09:42:23

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Re: old tires in reply to Rockyhawaii, 03-18-2007 18:37:54

Typical govt efficiency - one mostly changes 4 tires, so you have to make 2 trips on 2 different days to dispose of them..... D'oh.

Minnesota has the rather high disposal fee per tire you take to the disposal collection site too.

--->Paul

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