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Post by illinoisfisherman on Aug 9, 2024 18:37:40 GMT -5
Aluminum/alloy wheels are big money
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Post by stc1993 on Aug 10, 2024 6:49:12 GMT -5
I remember the battery mart in Albany. They would pay $5 for old car batteries back when I was young. Sold a few of them. $5 was worth a lot more back then.
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Post by toldya on Aug 10, 2024 18:05:49 GMT -5
Got the tires cleaned off a little and loaded in the truck today. 3 had water in them so I had to saw a slit in them to drain. Gonna jump on the Discount Tire deal on Monday . Nice to have these out of the pile. Getting to be like work sometimes but moving in the right direction.
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Aug 10, 2024 18:17:47 GMT -5
When we had a scrap yard we had a guy that would come in and take all of our trash tires and rims. He made money on old steel wheels
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Post by toldya on Aug 10, 2024 19:03:26 GMT -5
When we had a scrap yard we had a guy that would come in and take all of our trash tires and rims. He made money on old steel wheels Tires are a liability though. You gotta pay to get rid of them .Worth it for aluminum wheels but a loser for steel wheels.
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Aug 10, 2024 21:00:50 GMT -5
That was 1977. Tires were easily tossed out
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Post by cadman on Aug 11, 2024 12:13:44 GMT -5
There used to be guys who would pick them up from the service stations for the recap guys. Sometimes they just burned them.
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Post by Crkr 23 on Aug 11, 2024 12:30:08 GMT -5
About 20 yrs ago there was a business in Hawthorne that accepted used tires. I think they shredded them to add to an asphalt mixture. Seems like I remember the steel in the tires becoming a problem.
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Post by cadman on Aug 11, 2024 12:39:25 GMT -5
About 20 yrs ago there was a business in Hawthorne that accepted used tires. I think they shredded them to add to an asphalt mixture. Seems like I remember the steel in the tires becoming a problem. They could shred the old bias ply tires but I think you are correct, when they introduced steel belted radials, the steel was a problem.
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Aug 11, 2024 14:05:15 GMT -5
They built a multi million dollar incinerator/ electric generator to burn tires in Robbins Illinois. It only was running for a few months and the tree huggers shut it down
That was about 35 years ago. It still sits silent
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Post by ferris1248 on Aug 11, 2024 14:22:09 GMT -5
I have no problem with that. I can only imagine what kind of shit it spewed into the air back then.
Today is another matter. Technology exists to make the discharge acceptable. I would guess local politics prevent it from reopening.
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Aug 11, 2024 14:25:18 GMT -5
It’s a huge development. You would think that they could retrofit it
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Aug 11, 2024 14:25:51 GMT -5
The municipality wants it opened badly
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