Date:         Sat, 25 May 2013 19:02:38 -0700
Reply-To:     Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Tires
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  Just south of the border, they use tire-burning as a way to get the
bitumen out of the tires,  to re-use to pave their asphaly roads.
  You will see large pits dug below hillsides where trucks can back up and
dump tires into burning pits.   They configure the pit with a spout and
back the ashphalt paving trucks right under that spout, to fill as the
tires burn and the melted goo runs out of the spout....then off to the road
with it.   I've seen large trucks full of old tires moving south...

  Another interesting use of old tires is they are made into Stall Mats.
Rubber mats that are used in horse barns and paddocks.  We have them in our
horse stalls, they keep the horses from slipping.   I also use this horse
mat as mat inside my Vanagon.   The first time I cut some to fit, I
discovered, by seeing sparks coming off my band saw blade, it must have
ground-up steel belts and beads cast right into the rubber mats.   It's a
great durable product for the floors and over the engine lid area, for mats
under foot in your garage area, etc etc...Cheap, too.....


On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 5:59 PM, raceingcajun
<raceingcajun@communicomm.com>wrote:

>    I was selling tires at my shop when this first started taking place in
> Louisiana. A State Trouper came around and set us up with all the
> bureaucracy required paper work, signage, etc. His expiation was, the old
> tires needed to have a value placed on them to keep them out of the ditches
> etc, as he said; "kind of like the old pop bottle deposit". Where the
> amount of $2.00 per tire came from I'm not sure. Anyway, as a dealer I had
> to pay the $2.00 per, up front when I bought the tires from my wholesale
> supplier. That was shown on the invoice as a State mandated environmental
> fee. So I passed it on to the customer. Ok, $2.00 isn't much when you sell
> a set of tires at $300.00, plus any front end/brake work you may get.
> (which BTW you don't get much of from tire sales. Seems most folks think of
> tires as a necessary evil only and any spin off work is gouging)! Another
> thing, we had to pay $00.50 per to dispose of them. No one was buying them
> at that time, I don't know about now.
>    Anyway Don I don't know your State laws, but you might make an
> anonymous call and ask permission to do this Heinous act you are
> perpetrating :^)
>    Also, be damn sure to not get caught burning a tire in Louisiana. I
> think it can get you a $20.000.00 per tire fine!!! That will keep them out
> of the ditches for sure.
>
>
> Subject: Re: [VANAGON] Tires
>
>
>  They have a semi-trailer there that they put customer's take-offs
>> in, probably when it gets  full,  they haul it away and sell em to someone
>> who reclaims the rubber for something...Anyhow, Sundays the tire store is
>> closed but the tire trailer sits there, open with lots and lots of dead
>> tires in it...So, thinking I probably have given them thousands in profits
>> anyhow, I don't feel bad about sticking one or two more in that Take-off
>> trailer  on a Sunday when nobody is around.  If I got caught I'd probably
>> do more jail time than the head of Bear-Stearns Derivitive fault swap
>>
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