Dismounting junk tires

Does anyone have a good low tech way to get junk tires off the rims? I need to do this to junk them around here, ruining the tires and rims is not a problem. Burning them off has been suggested, but that's too gross for me. Can tires be cut with a sawsall?

I've seen junkyards use what basically looks like a log splitter to crush the rim enough that the tire will come right off.

I have cut some off before just to save rare rims. sawsall worked gets tough at the bead area as you have to get clearance in there to cut the heavy wire. I had the beads pushed down but due to old hard tires and thin rims due to rust prying them off the rim was a no go as it just bent the rim.

I have used a chainsaw, sawzall, and fire.

I used to scrap a lot. we burned the center out then cut rim in three pieces and it was apart. With experience and a 36" torch it goes pretty fast. We can scrap mounted wheels here now.
Jay

you can cut the with a sawzall and fine blade. go to the dollar store and get a cheap jug of laundry soap (liquid) to lube the blade. or go to harbor freight and get a cheap tire machine, manual type i'll post a link they are about 38 dollars.
poke here

That shouldn't be too hard to fab up, with a big remote cylinder, and some scrap metal. That was a heck of an Idea!

The only time I've ever done that was on a steel belted tire. I used an angle grinder to cut it off.

I've used my neighbor's 350 quick hitch with down pressure break the beads on Many
old tires I wanted to scrap the rims from.. But it took a couple people.. And have
used 4 bottem semi mount plows & the tire laid down in the right place @ the plow
points works quick too.. still hafta remove them by hand but no smoke or fire..

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rim crusher

Can tires be cut with a sawsall? I tried that once on a small lawn mower tire. Very difficult to do.

I use stabilizer on backhoe to break tire off rim.

I know it's not recommended to burn tires. I found that putting one under a brush pile seems to burn very cleanly when it passes over burning branches. EPA may not think so. I think places that make portland cement burns ground up tires.

Fastest way I've found is to cut a hole with a sawzall close to the bead and then grind through bead with an angle grinder. The bead wires are pretty good steel and tough on sawzall blades.

Log splitter works pretty well, but it dulls the wedge if you do a lot of them.

I just did 10 tire/wheel tonite. Cut close to rim with chainsaw, scrapping rims anyway so leave bead on them. if saving use cutoff wheel on angle grinder

Chainsaw works great as long as there are no steel belts. I use a gas powered abrasive saw to cut through the beads, but an angle grinder should work also, just be very careful not to nick the wheel if you need to save it.

A few years ago I cut a couple big tires off with my recip saw, then cut the bead with a whack or two with a cold chisel. Super quick and easy.

I done a lot of them. I use a sawsall. Usually I break them down with the tire machine. I had too many tires around so I cut the rings off of the tread. Below the tread wire with a bimetal blade. It takes about a minute per side, then I have a shear that I cut the tread ring with. it makes a tread ring into a tread snake. Still have not got around to making my tread snake fence. The rings I bundle into at least 5 to 8 depending on the wheight of them. Then I take heavy plastic hay string to tie the bundle together. I then take 2 bundles and more hay string and "saddle" them over tarps that I don't want to blow away when I cover hay rounds or other things. I have also just put the single bundles on tarps randomly to keep them down ie larger machinery with large flat areas. I get a lot of used pontoon shrink wrap covers, free 4 the hauling, that I use instead of the tarps they don't seem to make as big of a mess as the stringy tarps and they last a lot longer as they are made with UV protected Plastic .I have had some nasty tractor or just rotted on to the rim tires That I just cut below the bead if I was going to scrap the rim anyway. My tire machine wont break the dummy spares down. I just leave the bead on them and scrap them. Scrap yard never complained about that little bit. The three R's reduce-reuse-recycle... in that order... MTP

I've used a matabo on a bead before it works, but I'll try a cold chisel someday... Thanks MTP...