Date:         Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:54:17 -0500
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From:         Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject:      Re: Re: [VANAGON] More about tires...somewhat early ..sort of
              Friday
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---- "tstone8359@aol.com" <tstone8359@AOL.COM> wrote:
> I went to one of my grandkids' soccer game at a school in a different city.  The area around the school's playground swings had a thick layer of small rubber pieces protecting the kids from falls.  I picked a piece up and could see that it used to be a tire.  There was no steel belt material evident in any of the pieces.  And they had all been dyed a pleasing brown color.

That stuff is widely used by landscaping contractors, and can be bought at big box stores and landscape supply stores alike.  Landscape and garden supply stores near me have big mounds of it for loading into a truck or trailer, and also sell it in bags.  It is promoted as non-decaying mulch.  My neighbor is a landscaping contractor, and he has the stuff in all his beds and around his trees.

mcneely

mcneely

Tom

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----- Reply message -----
From: "Kim Brennan" <kimbrennan@MAC.COM>
Date: Fri, Oct 14, 2011 10:32
Subject: [VANAGON] More about tires...somewhat early ..sort of Friday
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>

One of the more innovative ways to dispose of old tires that I have heard of, was to freeze them in liquid nitrogen. After dipping they are shattered, this releases the steel from the "rubber". The steel can be recycled, and the "rubber" was then used in road paving.

On Oct 14, 2011, at 6:12 AM, Dennis Haynes wrote:
> ...
> As for hand mounting and balancing the main advantage of the balancing
> machines is speed and consistency. How long did you spend installing those
> tires? Do you want to pay $100/hour for that? Also the bubble balance does
> not compensate for side to side variations.
>
> It's hard to believe that in a state with so many environmental initiatives
> that they allow simply burning tires to get the rubber. What a mess.
>
> ...
> Dennis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> Don Hanson
> Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 12:23 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: More about tires...somewhat early ..sort of Friday
> ...
>  So why do tire shops try to charge us to 'dispose' of used tires when they
> obviously have value and are re-constituted into more tires to sell us
> again?
...


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David McNeely