Just unloaded a truck full of crap at my local landfill. I was at the scales paying out and staring at the pile of tires nearby.... when I noticed some pie crusts in the pile. Sure enough two VERY Good conditioned Firestone 15x7.5 Pie crust slicks on Ford 5 x 4.5 steelies. My lucky day.... going to play lotto.
Do all new tires have that date code on the back? Just wondering if he can tell how old they are that way. Don
I don't think that the stones have been around loing enough to worry about. They are real easy to spot, they look like the ones that they only made about a dozen or so sets of back in the early '60s.
back when I still lived at home my Mum used to hate saturday afternoons when we would take the rubbish to the landfill/tip. we would always drag home more car stuff than garden rubbish she was throwing out LOL Repowered an old english car that way and the engine did about 40000miles before needing a rering and then it went on for another 10,000 miles before we sold the car. We are not allowed to do that now - what a shame - part of growing up in my book
I can almost hear the conversation the night before! "Look, Grampa's old snow tires are still hanging in the back of the garage! He was soooo frugal. Kept'em even after all the tread was gone!"
awesome...I'm supprised they let you take em out! I had the guy at our local dump got all Hittler on me for trying to take a little coy pond from a guy one day! He was talking some shit about how once it his the ground its property of the city dump! The guy that was giving it to me was so mad that he told the dude to piss off and took it with him and waited on me to leave so he could give it to me!
Super score dude, boy folks called yer ass right out for peoof. Proving it is not a good idea to b.s. folks on the hot rod hiway!! ~sololobo~
Lots of places are getting pretty hinky about scavanging at the dump. For some reason they think that once someone pays them to leave something on their property it belongs to them. Go figure. I used to love going to the dump, always found neat chit. Once when I was a kid I brought home a kat. My mom threw a fit, but I just put it out in the goat barn. It kept the rats out of the feed. Damned good kat, it was used to getting by on what t could find at the dump. All I ever had to do was give it a little goat milk and it thought that I was like the emperor or a reasonable facsimile there of.
Seeing as 35desoto is a KIWI they probably have all sorts of laws regarding engine swaps that make it impossible to do the job as a backyarder in mums garage.
Nice score to brighten up a trip to the dump, Tacoma will not allow any removal of anything from the dump like cops!
My buddies work at the local waste transfer site. I get to take what I want and they always keep stuff aside for me.I love the old oil cans that come in during hazardous waste collection. Mine,mine....ITS ALL MINE!!!
They dont want you taking stuff in Tucson either. HECK, When it rains and the mud is all slick and gooey they get all upset and escort you out for doin donuts. Does getting escorted outta the dump for doin donuts make me a redneck???? I wear it with pride.
At most city landills you can't remove anything BUT if you get it from the guy who was dropping it off...well.
i got a bitchen cragar that was laying on the ground where i was dumping steel. brand new looking! weird. threw it in the back of the truck before i went back across the scales, so technically i did pay for it lol
I ran an old OT axle out to the scrap yard tonight and noticed what looked like an old dropped front axle with a set of wide 5 steel wheels. I asked the guy at the scales if I could buy it. I'm not even sure why I wanted it other than to think it could make some cool yard art or possibly be repurposed by a hot rodder some day. I even offered to pay 2x scrap weight and he refused so I asked the guy that runs the place, and still no dice! Oh well saved me from myself I guess! My wife would have been pissed anyway!
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