I've amassed a pretty big pile (say 20 or more) of old, useless tires that are either worn out or aged out. Is there some sort of place/service I should be looking for to get rid of these, or do I have to just eat the $5ea to get rid of them at a dump or scrapyard?
Rent a wood chipper and make mulch with them.
Make them into rocking horse swings and sell them at farmer's markets :)
Contact your local racetrack and see if they need any for making bundles.
In reply to JesseWolfe :
If I could actually get them turned into tire mulch, we have a gravel parking area it could be mixed in with. I'm thinking a regular wood chipper might have some difficulties with belts and cords and rubber and stuff, though.
Make a wall or a bunch of planters.
Attach some eye bolts and sell them as tire swings
If you have access to a shredder, that would make mulch much easier than a wood chipper.
If you have any neighbors you hate, put them near the edge of their property. They breed mosquitos like crazy.
Alternatively, make mosquito traps out of them (and possibly sell?)
If you've got some time on your hands, people seem to be asking the better part of $100 for these--
My township allowed me to put 1 by the curb every week for trash day. Was it a coincidence that 8 of my neighbors had tires out for two weeks?
In reply to Andy Neuman :
We're allowed to throw out four per year with the trash- I have considered being the tire fairy late one night and hoping for early trash pickup the next day.
Just toss them in a pile, add some skunked gas and yard debris. Toss a match. 
(Don't do this. I just felt like being a dick)
I give them to Michael and Stampie.
In reply to wvumtnbkr :
And we say thank you!!!
Related: Tires should have a $10 charge up front, and you get back $5 when you turn in your used tire in for disposal.
Change my mind.
Used to be my neighbor would pile them in his boat lashed together. Then he would motor miles offshore and place on the bottom. Over a period of time he deposited 100s. Had his own private artificial reef.
That was life in the 70s, probably not good to attempt now. Although modern GPS makes it easier to accurately stack them in 60' of water compared to Loran back then...
Keith Tanner said:Contact your local racetrack and see if they need any for making bundles.
This is what I was going to say. There's a semi local SCCA party every year where they go and bolt together a bunch of tires into new tire walls for the track.
Alternatively you could sell them on fb marketplace?
Honestly though I'd probably just pay the fee to dispose. And I'm likely to have to do that soon since I also have a large stack that needs to go.
My neighborhood isn't rough, per se, but I've left a bent wheel with tire out in my driveway once and it was gone in 10 minutes. I forgot to take the center cap off to transfer to my new wheels.
Now it might be difficult with 20 tires, but I'm willing to bet you could begin leaving a stack of 4 out every couple days. Someone will take them. I recommend putting right at the edge of your property line, between your driveway and sidewalk so anybody who would take it would technically be trespassing, so the city can't give you grief for leaving trash on city property.
More realistically I would eat the $100 to just get rid of them easily.
Or you could do both!
In reply to hunter47 :
Wheels go easily, they have scrap value- tires have negative scrap value and don't leave on their own, I've tried!
The tire wall thing is interesting, maybe I'll try and find a track that wants them. I like the idea of donating a crash barrier.
All the tire shops here take the old ones for recycling for free, that's how I get rid of all of mine.
In reply to hunter47 :
If you put something out on the curb for free and nobody bites, stick a sign on it that says $50 and someone is sure to take it.
I might turn a few old race tires into planters in front of my shop...
Otherwise, go to the dump
We have "convenience sites" where we can take as many tires as we want to dispose of for free.
Anything like that in your area?
In reply to ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :
Knowing what you have been through maybe you should have your own tire wall in front of your cement wall.
Locally our city dump has a tire week each year where you can turn in up to 8 for free. Any past that however were $8 each. When I mentioned to the lady that no way was I gonna pay them $80 for my remaining 10 tires she agreed and clued me in that WalMart takes them for $1 each. I'm ok with that price so WalMart gets all my old tires now.
In reply to ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :
Keith's idea is better than mine, which is to go to a tire shop and pay the tire disposal fee.
In reply to KyAllroad :
dang, i've been paying Belle Tire $6 apiece to dispose of old tires. Sounds like i need to contact my local WalMart.
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