Damn mine won't even take tires. I have no idea how to get rid of them. How the hell is that harder here than California
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Damn mine won't even take tires. I have no idea how to get rid of them. How the hell is that harder here than California
You pay twice here for tire disposal here if you mount your own tires once when you buy them and once when you take them to the dump. They will only take 6 tires at a time at my local dump. I change my own trailer tires and have several trailers so I usually have tires to get rid of. The good thing is I buy online and they don’t charge the initial disposal fee. Also Assholes dump tires in my family’s orange and avocado groves and I have to deal with. Luckily my dump is 15 min away.
Another use for a sawzall
My friend always tell me to do that instead of going to the dump. He says he did his own roof and threw the shingles away 1 grocery bag at a time in his bin for like a year lol
Car battery in a garbage bag, deer leftovers on a garbage bag......... them big construction grade garbage bags will get rid of most anything
Car battery in a garbage bag, deer leftovers on a garbage bag......... them big construction grade garbage bags will get rid of most anything
car batteries net me $10 ea when I go to the metal recyclers.
Auto parts stores will give you a credit for them too
It would cost me more in gas to haul one off........
maybe I just need to save some up then haul them off. Yep, but sometimes I have batteries out of farm tractors, and I get them from Chattanooga and don't pay a core, local auto parts stores won't give credit if I don't buy from them.
Car battery in a garbage bag, deer leftovers on a garbage bag......... them big construction grade garbage bags will get rid of most anything
Ha, you guys use bags?
It would cost me more in gas to haul one off........
Yep, but sometimes I have batteries out of farm tractors, and I get them from Chattanooga and don't pay a core, local auto parts stores won't give credit if I don't buy from them.
I have 4-5 places within 2 blocks of my shop.
Closest I have is 40 miles away. I'm country as can be. They pump sunshine, water, rain and wind to us, the only thing we can get locally is moonshine...........
I guess I'm lucky. Dump fees are $20/ton. $20 minimum. Leaves, tree branches, wood scrap is free from dump fees. They also run a recycling center, 5 minutes from my house, for batteries, used oil, paper (anything goes), plastic and cardboard. Tires are $5 each, and 3 motorcycle tires count as 1.
With recycling so close and easy, I'm down to one trash can picked up every other week. Trash pick up is by a private hauler, and paid directly by me. Every other week pick up costs a lot less.
With recycling so close and easy, I'm down to one trash can picked up every other week. Trash pick up is by a private hauler, and paid directly by me. Every other week pick up costs a lot less.
We have a special brush and bulky program where the city picks up twice a year at the curb for free up to 10 cubic yards each time. If you want an additional pickup that is not on the schedule they do it for $55 up to 10 cubic yards. It doesn't pay to have a trailer or make trips to the landfill.
Another use for a sawzall
I'm guessing you've never actually tried to cut up a tire with a sawzall, Ryan. I have - because our transfer station will take them as normal trash if they are cut up. It's not easy to cut a tire up. Those steel belts don't cut well. In fact, I gave up and paid the tire disposal fee. I'm cheap and live in the boonies. I burn all paper in a burn barrel, recycle everything I can recycle (cause it's free at our transfer station), and haul my own trash because it costs me about $5 every six to eight weeks at the same transfer station. I could use a private trash collector, but their pickup location is a mile from my house. If I have to haul my trash 25 miles to the transfer station or a mile to the pickup location, it's just about as inconvenient, so why pay $40 per month for pickup service?
It would cost me more in gas to haul one off........
Yep, but sometimes I have batteries out of farm tractors, and I get them from Chattanooga and don't pay a core, local auto parts stores won't give credit if I don't buy from them.
That's where half of mine came from. PO of the house used them as planter rings, looked like shit. Some of them were even whitewalls.
I remember those being all the rage in the 70s!
All it cost us was some spray paint and it was amazing how easy they sold for $15 which was a lot of money in the 70's. We also made them with mounted tires, the bottom part would hold the rim up off the ground and they looked surprisingly good with some bright spray paint on them. One sale could fill your gas tank and buy beer.
Were they bias-ply tires? After trying to cut up radials a few years ago, if those were radials you were cutting, color me impressed!
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