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I really don't know, but if I recall we only had to cut the sidewalls. I used a sharp hunting knife and I remember it was quite easy. I was just barely out of high school. An old mechanic I was working for part time showed me how to do it.
Well, I'd love tips on how to do it because my M18 Super Sawzall with every blade type I could find couldn't do it very efficiently. I started at the bead and figured it'd be easy to make a radial cut to the other side. Oof! I don't think I even made it through the bead before saying, "I guess that $5 fee is worth it!"
I don't know on those, I know at the commercial tire store i worked at, we took a sawzall with a bimetal blade and cut a radial super single in half.
Took 4 us all day taking turns, but Michelin super singles are a weird tire design.
Well, I'd love tips on how to do it because my M18 Super Sawzall with every blade type I could find couldn't do it very efficiently. I started at the bead and figured it'd be easy to make a radial cut to the other side. Oof! I don't think I even made it through the bead before saying, "I guess that $5 fee is worth it!"
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That makes sense, when you see a big truck tire blow, all that's normally left is 2 sidewalls, everything else is left all over the highway.
The landfill does a free tire drop off every year, up to 5 tires for free, but I'm always out of town
I have and it is a PITA. I've tried multiple methods. Squeeze the sidewalls together in a vice (motorcycle tire) helps, but those steel belts are tough. Like you, I usually pay to drop them off.
Well he made that look easy, but in fast-forwarding through it, I may have missed it, but I didn't see him cut the bead, which is where I started and gave up... I'm such a quitter!
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...........
Now that I can't get....too bad for me
Is it just that it's hard to brace and the rubber just moves with the saw absorbing the abrasion instead of letting the saw cut?
That was definitely a big part of it. I watched that video with no sound, so I missed all the commentary. I'm guessing he mentioned that when he showed the clamp being used?
Oh I didn't watch it - I was just cutting up an old treadmill to slip into my trash for tomorrow and vibration was making it more of a pain since it was hard to brace.
I'll have to return to that video the next time I have tires to dispose of. Here at the sab household, we're pretty good at cutting up big things (queen-size mattress, appliances, even a couch) to make them easy to transport to a the transfer station for disposal. Even bodies, most of which gets used/eaten. Deer bodies, that is. We're not psychopaths...
Speaking of transfer stations, the recycling center inside ours used to have a tire shear. It was a trailer that had a hydraulic guillotine-like contraption that would shear the tire into four quadrants. They'd take the tires that you paid them $4 (at the time) to dispose of, pile them up, and once the pile got big enough, a few employees would fire it up and shear tires. Once sheared into four pieces, they went in the landfill. Apparently, that was the minimum requirement to prevent them from "floating" to the surface, which is why whole tires can't be place in landfills, from what someone explained to me some time ago.
That machine went missing, along with the pile of tires. I've never asked why they stopped that practice, but I've been curious. Danger? Storage space? Private enterprise doing it cheaper?
That machine went missing, along with the pile of tires. I've never asked why they stopped that practice, but I've been curious. Danger? Storage space? Private enterprise doing it cheaper?
Back in high school our FFA chapter would do a yearly free tire turn in. IIRC we lined up a company who would bring in a semi or two and then we'd have a day where the community would bring in their tires and we'd stack them in the semi's for this company.
My understanding was the company would turn them into crumb rubber and sell their services to schools and resurface their running tracks.
I'm no environmentalist by any stretch, but I do consider myself a conservationist, since I hunt and understand the importance of sustainability in that context. I love solutions like this. We do definitely have a trash-generation problem in this country, and recycling is a fascinating subject to me. I've been feeling guilty about all the waste plastics I've generated with this new 3D printer I've acquired. Mrs. sab told me last weekend that she's been researching the subject of recycling that stuff. It'd be nice to figure out something to do with it, rather then have it end up in a landfill, or worse - the rivers, lakes, and oceans (which means in our bodies, eventually, I fear).
It can be recycled, but requires a specialty recycler with high temperature equipment. My guess is that those places are few and far between.
I did see a reference somewhere about being able to do it oneself to create new filament, but I've not looked further.
Liberty Tire Recycling is one i know of. And you have to pay them to take the tires.
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