Old tire disposal

Denise Flores · Jan 25, 2009

What do you do to get rid of old tires on the Farm. My uncle does not want to pay the disposal rates when he gets new tires so I am left with about 100 tires of various sizes and shapes.

Do you know of anyone that buys tires for shredding or recycling ?
We are Located outside of Laredo, Texas. just north of the border.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 25, 2009

I thought the disposal fee was automatically included in the tire? In any case I use old tires to stop washes up and hold dirt, erosion control is the ticket!

Anonymous-0 · Jan 25, 2009

Sears wanted $2 per tire to get rid of light truck and car tires. Perhaps it would be more if not buying a new set from them though. I just put a new set of snow tires on the pickup.

plow hand · Jan 25, 2009

Give the county a call sometimes they have once a year drop offs usualy in the spring it is generaly free. Get there early or you could wait all day in line..

Kevin G · Jan 25, 2009

Not saying I have done this, but there are guys that burn "Black Oak" in the shop wood stove after cutting them into manageable "logs"

jdiesel · Jan 25, 2009

there are several uses for them including shop
heat, stump grinders, camp fires, brush control, bug control, alternative light source, either way, it includes the cover of night and a match. the cheapest way to get rid of them is when the new ones are purchased, then the epa fees are reduced. if you take them home it will cost an arm and a leg to legally get rid of them.

1936 · Jan 25, 2009

Kevin G In the dark of the moon only.

Big Mike · Jan 25, 2009

The County usually has "Tire Amnesty" at least once a year,where you can drop your old tires off at the County Highway Garage for FREE, providing they are not mounted, and there's a limit also, after which you have to pay so much per tire.......

Chris in MO · Jan 25, 2009

We live in very hilly terrain. The only truly flat spots on our property are the ones we've made. All other areas have a little to a lot of slope.

Soooooo, I've been using old tires to build retaining walls where I really need them. Pack dirt and rock into them, make sure you've got drainage, backfill and you're in business. It ain't pretty, but where I've used them pretty is not all that important. And WAY cheaper than concrete blocks for retaining walls.

Christopher

glennster · Jan 25, 2009

check with your county extension office or farm service. ours has a tire drive once a year where you can bring in old tires and they take them for free. they have a shredder set up on site and grind them right up.

Clint Youse MO · Jan 25, 2009

check local laws but around here if you cut the sidewalls out you can throw them in the dumpster even some of the tire shops do it this way on car and light truck tires. The side walls are not that hard to cut out use a razor knife and make swift cuts dont saw.

RayP(MI) · Jan 25, 2009

We have a recycler near here. He has a machine like a giant paper shredder. Works on exactly the same principal. Shreaded tires come out the bottom into a dump truck. He has a pile thirty feet high, covering about 20 acres. Heaven help us if that thing ever catches fire! Incoming tires were visually sorted, and those that "looked" OK were loaded in a semi, and sold to trailer manufacturers for use on utility trailers, etc. Owner spent some time in the slammer for recycling Firestone tires that were banned from use a few years back.

Ryan - WI · Jan 25, 2009

My community garbage pick up allows us to put out 8 per year with no more than 2 per week. No one keeps track of the 8 though so I imagine if you aren't a tire shop no one would no the difference. Got any friends that live in communities like mine?

BobinKS · Jan 25, 2009

In Kansas the tire sellers are required to take any old tire at no cost. I"ve dropped off 3 or 4 rear tractor tires at my local goodyear dealer, that only sells car and truck tires. Very few people even here seem to know about this requirement.

snoop-nc · Jan 25, 2009

There are commercial recycler facilities around the country that "chip" up tires. I drive 18 wheeler and have hauled many, many loads of chips to International Paper mills. Chips are burned for energy...w/o seeing black smoke!!

Alternate answer: Int. Paper has developed a new kind of paper for the banking industry...rubber cheques.

Check around your larger cities...I've hauled a lot from Atlanta as well as Phila. area.

fixerupper · Jan 25, 2009

There's been a rumor going around the neighborhood for several years, about how a neighbor's foggy day tire burning was spotted by a satellite. Legend has it he was fined a certain amount. I doubt it ever happened but it made good coffee shop talk. Jim

ericlb · Jan 25, 2009

around here the tire store will take passenger car and suv tires for about 3 bucks each the dump wants 5 the real problem for me is nobody will take tires from a semi or heavy equipment at all, the large loader tires are usually used to make water tanks for livestock, but the semi tires just pile up i got ten here right now occasionaly some dissapear, but nobody knows what happened to them or who did it

Anonymous-0 · Jan 25, 2009

I heard of a guy that would take any tire for a real cheap price. Once he had his mountian of tire and cash he let the bank reposess the acerage.

We live in very rough land near the Mississippi river. If you look over the very steep roadside ditches and in the bottom of almost any bluff you can see lots of tires and appliances.

The county tries to clean them up, but they can't keep ahead of it as there are so many roads to chose from.

It costs lots of money to hook cables, load junk and then they have to pay to get rid of the junk anyway. Seems it would be less costly to have a dump site for free.

A friend has a large dairy with pit silos that he covers, then adds tires over the top. He now cuts the tires so they don't hold water and are easy to handle. He still has lots of midnight tire delivery services all the time.

We also have a silica sand mine, that used to haul tires into the mine and store them out of site and out of mind. I can't imagine how many semi loads are in there and there is no plan to remove them. They maybe in for some DNR troubles I have heard, but no facts.

Don-Wi · Jan 25, 2009

About 15 years ago our town had a free tire disposal day, all we had to do was load them up and haul them to the town hall. They had a roll off box, and didn't car if the tires had rims or not, just no farm tires. We made 3 trips wit our farm truck, and 8' box with a cap on so we could really pack them in there.

The next year they changed it to limit 4 tires per house, and they changed the time of year they did it so most farmers were too busy to bring any in. We only had a few laying around by then, so it wasn't a very big deal. Now when I get new tires on the truck or anything else that has a tire we can use on wagons, we keep those tires and give them 4 other junk ones to dispose of. Only a handfull left anymore, but that first year I'd say we got rid of atleats 100 tires, about 15-20 had rims on them.

Donovan from Wisconsin

buickddeere · Jan 25, 2009

Pack a tire or two into the middle of a brush pile made of thorn trees and ignite tire after dark.
Win win situation.

Fawteen · Jan 26, 2009

Gee, for a guy that's so fierce about proper, correct, to code and by licensed professionals on everything else, that's a pretty irresponsible attitude.

Not to mention illegal.

super99 · Jan 26, 2009

I have heard of doing this with old tires. Do you cut 1 sidewall out? Got any pictures? I have a few washes and a big pile of old tires my brother left here before I bought the place. Chris

Anonymous-0 · Jan 26, 2009

Where I live, AA County, MD, its 4 tires per week at the county dump. They can be mounted, unmounted, any size except rear tractor. If you go to dumps around here its free if you use a small pickup, but they charge you if you put sides on it!

Dave2N · Jan 26, 2009

Nice idea but if I did that around here, all of the environmentalists in the state would be down my throat.

ohiojim · Jan 26, 2009

remember guys that burning tires is a felony, be carefull....

Anonymous-0 · Jan 26, 2009

backhoe, out of site out of mind,

Steven f/AZ · Jan 26, 2009

The neighbor's pile gets struck by lightening now and then...

Bob Kerr · Jan 27, 2009

Sawzall with metal cutting blade and cut them into 4 peices (quarters) and put them in regular trash cans. I hear that spraying water on the blade while cutting helps them to last longer before they overheat and break, but sounds like a shock hazard waiting to happen to me. Personally I just pay the money since I don't have a sawzall.

Chris in MO · Jan 27, 2009

Don't cut out the sidewall. Shovel the dirt/rocks in and pack tight with a sledge hammer.

A neighbor of ours closed off the top of a big gully with old tires and old fence(both woven and barbed) mixed together. Stopped any further erosion.

Christopher

Sammy in Kansas · Jan 28, 2009

I would like pictures, How did you stack them to tie them all together. Would sure like to see a picture of how they were stacked, as I would like to do one in an area I need about a 4 foot high retaining wall.

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