Tire Removal and Disposal
Tires hauled off, whether it's four behind the shed or a stack behind the shop.
What this covers
- car and light truck tires
- a stack behind a shop, a barn or a rental
- tires dumped on a property you just bought
- tractor, trailer and equipment tires
- tires cleared alongside a bigger load
Not part of this job
We don't handle these, and we'll tell you who does:
- The vehicle the tires came off, because anything with a title goes through a salvage buyer
- Motor oil, antifreeze and other automotive fluids, which need a shop or a hazardous waste collection
What this job is actually like
Tires aren't hazardous and they aren't complicated. They're just handled their own way from start to finish. Tires are kept out of general waste and go into a stream of their own to be shredded and used for something else, which is why they get counted one at a time instead of weighed in with a load. That is the whole reason four tires behind a shed can't simply be thrown on top of a trailer of furniture and forgotten about. The rim is the other half of it. A tire on a rim is two materials bolted together, rubber and steel, and they part company before either one goes anywhere. Getting a tire off a rim takes a machine rather than a pry bar, so a stack that's still mounted is a different job than a stack that isn't, and it's the first thing worth saying on the phone. Size is the second. A car tire, a skid steer tire and a tractor tire are the same shape and nothing like the same problem, and one agricultural tire can outweigh a whole rack of car tires on its own.
Worth sorting out before the day
- Count them and note the sizes before you call. Tires get handled one at a time rather than by the load, and a tractor tire is nothing like a car tire to move.
- Say whether they're still on the rims. A tire on a rim has to be broken off it before it goes anywhere, and that's work on top of the hauling.
- Tip out any that have been lying open. A tire that has sat outside holds water, breeds mosquitoes, and gets heavy enough to need two people on it.
- If they came off a shop or a fleet, say so up front. A business stack is nearly always bigger than it looks from the doorway, and it prices differently than four out of a home garage.
How the job runs
Count them, tell us the sizes, and say whether they're on rims. Tires get counted separately even when they come out with everything else, because that's how they get charged at the other end.
What moves the price
- how many tires there are
- the size, since a tractor tire is not a car tire
- whether they're still on the rim
- weight, which climbs fast once equipment tires are involved
Estimates are free, and you get the number before anything starts.
Common questions
Does it matter if the tires are still on the rim?
It matters more than anything else about them. A mounted tire has to come off the rim before it goes anywhere, and that takes a machine. The rim itself is scrap steel and worth something. The tire isn't. So twenty on rims and twenty loose are two genuinely different jobs, and telling us which you have is the difference between one trip and two.
How does tire disposal get priced?
Per tire rather than per load, which catches out anybody expecting it to work the way furniture does. Size moves the number, since a tractor or equipment tire is several times the tire a car carries. Whether they're on rims moves it again, because that's work that has to happen before they can go anywhere. Count them, note the sizes, say whether they're mounted, and you get a real number on the phone instead of a range.
Where do old tires actually end up?
Shredded, for the most part, and then used for something else: crumb rubber, fuel, playground and track surfacing. That's why they're kept apart from everything else and counted rather than tipped in with the rest of a load. It also means a tire that has been half buried in a fence line for ten years is still a tire as far as this goes, and it leaves the same way a clean one does.
Where this is available
We cover tire disposal across the whole service area, from Floyd County out to about fifty miles. How quickly we can get to you depends mostly on the distance, so the closer towns tend to be same-day or next-day and the far edge gets scheduled.
Floyd County, GA
Bartow County, GA
Polk County, GA
Chattooga County, GA
Gordon County, GA
Paulding County, GA
Cobb County, GA
Haralson County, GA
Walker County, GA
Catoosa County, GA
Cherokee County, GA
Carroll County, GA
Whitfield County, GA
Pickens County, GA
Murray County, GA
Douglas County, GA
Cherokee County, AL
Calhoun County, AL
DeKalb County, AL
Ready when you are
Tell us what you've got. You'll get a straight answer and a price.