I beat "The Man".

[Kern Dog]

I make routine trips to the dump for many reasons. At my place I have lawn and tree maintenance, I buy derelict cars with junk in them, all sorts of reasons why junk finds me and I have to get rid of it.
Almost 3 years ago an old timer finally had enough and wanted to clear out all his car stuff. I got almost all of it. Yeah, I got the bad with the good. 273 and 318 heads, drum brake parts, AND about 20-25 tires on small bolt pattern wheels. I don't deal with the small bolt stuff and every one of the tires was 15 years past being roadworthy.
The dump allows 4 tires per visit, anything over 4 is $1.50 per tire to leave there. What to do?
I made a "tire lasagne".
The bed of the truck was first covered in 8 tires laid flat. I covered that with old blankets and junk plywood. THEN another load of tires covered with tree branches and leaves. I put another 8 tires on that along with some bags of grass, misc boxes and other junk. I have side boards on the truck allowing me to pile up to the top of the cab. I waited to go on a busy Saturday so the attendant was distracted. The tires were disposed of in an environmentally responsible manner. (Instead of leaving them on the side of a lonely 2 lane road)
I laughed about it on the way home. I beat "The MAN."

[Mytur Binsdirti]

Congrats, you saved 10 bucks.

[Lennard]

Congrats, you saved 10 bucks.

[DixieRestoParts]

Hey, 10 bucks is 10 bucks......

[crj1968]

Congrats, you saved 10 bucks.

 

Hey Kern now you can go eat some real lasagna.   

[Kern Dog]

Yeah I know....
This was more about trying to be sneaky rather than saving money. It would have taken 6 months of dump visits to dump all of the tires for free. They still require people to separate all tires to a dumpster where they shred them for use in road work.

[6spd68]

Believe it or not, they also use the shredding below artificial turf   

[skip68]

They should be free to dump because they recycle them and it keeps people from tossing them off the side of the road.      

[ODZKing]

In New York, any place that does tire sales will take them, same as oil. I believe it is a law.
Some will charge the fee of $2.50 per but others don't.

[Troy]

Believe it or not, they also use the shredding below artificial turf   

Really? That's those black chunks that are always following me home in my shoes and pockets.

Troy

[stripedelete]

Plain 'ole bad juju.

[472 R/T SE]

Believe it or not, they also use the shredding below artificial turf   

Really? That's those black chunks that are always following me home in my shoes and pockets.

Troy

They're hard on eyes too.  Our soccer playing daughter will have issues sometimes with her contacts from the rubber chunks getting in her eyes.

[Kern Dog]

Plain 'ole bad juju.

Maybe....I'm hoping that all my indiscretions will be offset by the nice things that I do for friends and family. The only perfect man I've ever heard of walked on water a few thousand years ago...

[crj1968]

You got that right Kern.

Thou shalt not make spare tire lasagna !

[68X426]

Congrats, you saved 10 bucks.

What?

4 times $1.50 is $6.00.

[68X426]

At first I thought that Kern was out-of-line and cheating (small cheat but still bad mojo).  

But then I remembered that we have a tire tax here in the People's Republic of Kalifornia.

http://www.boe.ca.gov/lawguides/business/current/btlg/vol4/ctfl/ctfl-all.html

Those tires already have been paid for to be recycled, $1.75 per tire at the time of purchase.  Assuming that they are not contraband tires from Nevada, etc.  We are already paying Sacramento for the recycling.  So therefore I approve that you stuck it to the Man on this occasion.

You are morally righteous in your conduct at the dump, comrade.

[ws23rt]

I've had a pyramid of tires in my back yard for many years because of the high cost of getting rid of them. Where I live (oregon) the cost to dispose is $5 ea without rims and $7.50 with rims.

It seems odd that they have such a negative value. And it's little wonder why people are moved to find another way to make then go away.

[Lighthorseman]

...Hold on a sec here...

"Congrats, you saved 10 bucks."

"What?  4 times $1.50 is $6.00."

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but the crafty Mr. KernDog actually put 24 tires in the back of his truck...

"The bed of the truck was first covered in 8 tires laid flat. I covered that with old blankets and junk plywood. THEN another load of tires covered with tree branches and leaves. I put another 8 tires on that along with..."

So, by MY math, if he got the first 4 for free, he snuck in 20 tires at 1.50 a pop, for a total of a whopping 30 BUCKS!   

Enough for three lasagnas!

[skip68]

In California, I think it's a civic duty to stick it to the man.  All of you that live there have been paying for it X10 one way or the other. 
$5 a tire here in Oregon?   Wow.   .

[Kern Dog]

Whoa! Has the tide turned?
Lighthorseman got it right. It was something like 24 tires total. I was wondering when someone would notice that. With the bad responses, I figured that if I reminded people of that, they'd just pile on more. I started a similar thread on Moparts and got my ass handed to me.

[stripedelete]

At first I thought that Kern was out-of-line and cheating (small cheat but still bad mojo). 

But then I remembered that we have a tire tax here in the People's Republic of Kalifornia.

http://www.boe.ca.gov/lawguides/business/current/btlg/vol4/ctfl/ctfl-all.html

Those tires already have been paid for to be recycled, $1.75 per tire at the time of purchase.  Assuming that they are not contraband tires from Nevada, etc.  We are already paying Sacramento for the recycling.  So therefore I approve that you stuck it to the Man on this occasion.

You are a morally righteous in your conduct at the dump, comrade.

Now wait just a damn minute!   You're way off!  You either have MoJo or you don't.   Juju on the other hand is good or bad.  
Or do I have it backwards?  

[68X426]

Whoa! Has the tide turned?
Lighthorseman got it right. It was something like 24 tires total. I was wondering when someone would notice that. With the bad responses, I figured that if I reminded people of that, they'd just pile on more. I started a similar thread on Moparts and got my ass handed to me.

Hit me with a tire iron.  I only did a quick look at the tires on that first layer.  Lighthorseman is absolutely correct with all the layers.

[68X426]

Now wait just a damn minute!   You're way off!  You either have MoJo or you don't.   Juju on the other hand is good or bad.  
Or do I have it backwards?  

I was taught that karma divided by juju equals mojo.  More or less. 

All of which you can put in your wanga bag and smoke. 

Or maybe I was asleep for that day's lesson.

[Mytur Binsdirti]

So, by MY math, if he got the first 4 for free, he snuck in 20 tires at 1.50 a pop, for a total of a whopping 30 BUCKS!   

Enough for three lasagnas!

Not at Olive Garden.

[crj1968]

C'mon Turbin we're talking about real food here.