Getting rid of used tyres?

**Asher** · 30th August 2016, 11:55

So I have a rather large pile of used tyres that is taking up a large amount of room in my garage.
I could take them to the dump but that would cost several hundred dollars.
Does anyone know of anywhere that would take them that won't break the bank?

**Laava** · 30th August 2016, 12:11

I donate mine to a local cocky who uses them for silage wrap weights. Ask around?

**SVboy** · 30th August 2016, 12:53

See your local tyre shop and negotiate a lower rate, if you can. Contact CCC and check that the dump rate is the same for m/c vs car tyres. Hacksaw tyres in half or quarters. Fill red bin. repeat until gone.

**F5 Dave** · 30th August 2016, 13:09

Sponsor Some sort of mass Soweto style vigilante justice scheme?

**Voltaire** · 30th August 2016, 13:15

In this age of upcycling perhaps a garden, grow some Tomatoes...they will taste rubbery.

or spend hours and hours being creative

**Grumph** · 30th August 2016, 13:19

We used to use m/c tyres as shock absorbers on our keeler mooring lines - more give than car tyres.

I think I'd be doing the cut up and put in the bin method myself - most of the silage guys out here have more than enough tyres.

**Jeff Sichoe** · 30th August 2016, 13:31

just throw em down the back mate

**ellipsis** · 30th August 2016, 15:46

...trailer them to the top of Hackthorne Road and let them roll back down at around 4.30 in the afternoon. That would work...

**Grumph** · 30th August 2016, 16:12

Originally Posted by ellipsis

...trailer them to the top of Hackthorne Road and let them roll back down at around 4.30 in the afternoon. That would work...

I'd pay to watch that - from a safe distance...

**Kickaha** · 30th August 2016, 18:28

Originally Posted by SVboy

See your local tyre shop and negotiate a lower rate, if you can. Contact CCC and check that the dump rate is the same for m/c vs car tyres. Hacksaw tyres in half or quarters. Fill red bin. repeat until gone.

Probably about $3 per tyre

Cut in quarters it's normally by weight

**Taxythingy** · 30th August 2016, 18:39

Originally Posted by ellipsis

...trailer them to the top of Hackthorne Road and let them roll back down at around 4.30 in the afternoon. That would work...

Paint them yellow and proclaim Lyttelton's first annual cheese rolling competition. Advertise to Christchurch's hipsters. Light the diesel slick halfway down.

**jellywrestler** · 30th August 2016, 18:45

Originally Posted by Voltaire

In this age of upcycling perhaps a garden, grow some Tomatoes...they will taste rubbery.

or spend hours and hours being creative

don't grow anything in modern tyres , they're pretty toxic often being far from rubber....

**AllanB** · 30th August 2016, 18:52

Dump charged me $10 a car tyre in CHCH last year when I was moving house. I threw the others over the fence next door. Little fuck had kept us up too often with drug fueled parties at his shit-hole house in the past. Fucker was lucky they were not on fire when I heaved them over the fence.