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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire_recycling

Read this

Cheers Rockape, :)
Near choked on my coffee. (Bush Flies) LOL

Mark, I think you'll will find a large number of old tyres are recycled, the wire is pulled out of them, and the old rubber is shredded & used to make other produces like, Door mats, soft fall areas of kids playground and other such things.
The young fella was watching something a couple months back on Discovery Channel about it. I don't think they are allowed to go to land fill any more.

I think he's talking about the rubber that wears off the tyre as you drive.

Mikehzz

cheers mate.........your on the right track with the comment.

Mark,
hope I didn't offend, was just having a bit of fun. Give me a kick if I did.

Do it easy

Rockape

all in good fun mate........:-)

Kev

typical council worker.......get someone else to do ya job..........hahhahahhaha

hi all
i dare say if soil samples were taken in particular near each side of the roads on the approaches to sets of traffic lights for instance near old road intersections

one would get a high reading of rubber /soot and brake pad dust and possibly even lead that would have come from petrol before we changed to unleaded
could be rather interesting from an enviromental view point i wonder if the authorities have ever done this

but it could open a can of worms???????maybe they'll have us all riding bikes soon
just my 2 cents worth
cheers

Hi Willem,
This is nothing to do with this thread but about your tyres.
I have 8 ply splits and the lowest I have taken them is 12 psi.
Those 16 ply splits of yours - how low would you run them in an emergency?
8 ply splits - how low would you run them?

Hi Dennis

The 0psi photo is to show how hard 16ply tyres really are.

I delaminated one the other day. It was 45° outside of the wagon and very hot on the bitumen when the tube let go. I must have driven for at least 5km at 90kmh before feeling a vibration in the steering. On stopping the tyre was too hot to handle, even with gloves on...lol

I found out last year in the desert that the 16ply cannot operate without flexing the bead under 15psi. It lets sand granules in past the bead and then the inevitable flat tyre occurs.

Tyres seem to be a compromise with me. I bought the 16plies because they were cheap ($150 inc tube each). If all goes well I should get 50,000km out of them. I will definitely be going back to 12ply crossplies after this set. Have been down to 10psi with 12plies and down to 5psi with tubeless tyres (for a very short distance though).

This year I am off on another hard desert adventure and will persist with the 16plies because we will be over driving lots of Mulga country. I am also going to invest in another set of Speedie Rims and 265/75/16's when I have saved enough of me pension money...lol. I need those for a beach run planned for 2011.

Cheers

Thanks for the info Willem

But subtract the amount we owe the rest of the world to pay for those houses......

And that's why building new roads through established suburbs is so expensive. A massive slice of the total cost is just buying the property.

Ahh the cost of housing, Thats why I like living in the bush. My place is almost worth as much today as when I bought it 15 years ago lol.

Cheers Wilko

Reminds me about George W Bush when he visited Iraq once, he was told that there had been a terrible firefight the day before his visit adn two Brazillian soldiers were sadly killed.

A little while later GW asked his Aide, "Just how many IS a Brazillian?"


hmmmm


Maybe you would need a gazillion brazillion to buy all of Australia

:-O

And when rust sets in, where does all the metal go?

probably kept him out of trouble for the day!