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Farmers around here occasionally use old tires to hold down the plastic covers on silage piles. I've never heard of the EPA cracking down on tire piles, didn't even know they get involved in local jurisdictional stuff. Maybe because we don't have many people in this state and I don't have such issues on my property or know people who do, so wouldn't have heard about it. I think the biggest issue with piles of old tires, besides being skeeters breeding grounds in the summer, although a natural duck slough is probably worse for producing mosquitoes, is if the tires catch on fire, its a big deal. So maybe there's fed laws on the books to keep tire piles low unless they are in an improved place that can handle them correct such as grinding them up.

I think it's the fire risk they get annoyed over.

Lots of places re-use tires for many things. Playground ground, playground equipment, build stuff around them, etc.

An of course on boats..as bumpers! Or whatever you call them to protect your boat from hitting the dock.

Craigslist is a funny place. When I have a bad day, I just go read their best of, or visit various cities/states an see the sillyness flow.

Sirscrapalot - Sometimes..it's ok to be a little silly. - Me, someone else, gotta love a good mystery.

Neat article alloy2!

A friend of mine did his master thesis on early West Nile outbreaks in South Dakota. It ended up that the skeeter that carried it at least here, breeds in low spots of grasslands. Sort of surprising results, counties that had a greater proportion of grasslands in them had more disease cases than the counties with lots of wetlands. I think a lot of people have become immune to W. Nile. If I had some extra cash, I'd have a blood titer drawn on me just to find for grins if I was immune. That would be second after going a dna draw on my dog to find out his other breed half.

I didn't mean it was the only concern. lol.

I got mosquitoes here...they don't come from tires tho. Same with those accursed black flies.

An of course I still stand by the reuse of them. When they are shredded an turned into a rubber mat for kids to play on, I don't their their quite the skeeter' magnet. Must not get to bad for the boats..an docks.


Or others way their reused...




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I'm more worried over the skeeters that birth in standing water, and other locations. thankfully..I don't live surrounded by piles of tires so really not a concern for me. They naturally occur here on my sandbar, we have no need to create additional ways for them to.

An honestly...I'm surrounded by water. All four sides. The black flies are worse. lol.

Sirscrapalot - If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful of ants. - Douglas Hofstadter

Agreed used tires can be re-purposed, a guy in Greendale used his backhoe to turn a tractor tire inside out then mounted it on a pair of drive rollers, loaded the tire to capacity to tumble parts he was making to de-bur the parts.

Would also make a great rock tumbler.

Originally Posted by mikeinreco

I don't think it is against EPA regulations to give away free tires to be re-purposed.......I have seen in some places they are building houses out of old tires.........Oh well at least they are trying to re-purpose and not dumping them in the local rivers and streams (that we know of)........

Leave the Feds out of this Tennessee has a disposal fee on tires if the tires are not being "disposed" of someone is pocketing the money and the the Tennessee department of environment and conservation might be interested.

it may all be completely legitimate but none of us here are informed enough to make that decision.

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