Tire disposal in Golden Valley, AZ

Brandon Woodhouse hauls old tires out of yards and garages in Golden Valley, and he works the whole Mohave County. He prices the job off a picture before he drives anywhere. Text a photo to (559) 479-1199. Tires are not like the rest of the junk on this site. They don't crush down and they don't come apart. One tire weighs more than it looks, and a stack of them weighs a lot more. They also collect quietly, two off a brake job here and four off an old trailer there, until there is a pile nobody wants to touch.

The calls are usually short ones. Four tires behind the garage door, or a dozen somebody left when they moved out of a rental. Landlords and shop managers call about tires dumped at the back of a lot, and that side of the work runs through his hauling for businesses and rental properties. Rims are fine either way. If the tires are still mounted, the steel leaves with them and gets treated like the rest of his scrap metal hauling.

What goes on the truck

• Passenger car tires
• Truck and SUV tires
• Tires still on rims
• The stack behind the shed
• Loose tires in a side yard
• Tires left on a vacant lot
• Trailer and utility tires
• Tires out of a garage corner

Text a photo of yours to (559) 479-1199.

From the full list of what goes on the truck: metal, tires and electronics.

What's usually in a tire pile

Most tire piles sit in a garage corner or against a back fence. The photo shows four passenger tires off a car, or a mixed pile where somebody emptied a truck bed and drove off. Some are bare. Some are still on rims, with the valve stems and the wheel weights in them. The ones that have sat a few seasons are full of dirt and dead weeds, and they come out heavier than they look. Homeowners call after a tire change they never cleaned up. A manager calls when a tenant leaves a row of them against a wall. Brandon reads the photo and gives one number for the whole pile.

Where the tires end up

A tire with tread left on it is still a useful tire. When the sidewall looks sound, Brandon takes it to a donation center first, since somebody fixing up a utility trailer can put it back to work. The rubber that is past that gets recycled where it can be. What is only trash goes to the landfill. Rims follow the metal path. Brandon sorts that out after the load is on the trailer, which is the part most people would rather not handle themselves. He won't promise where a particular tire lands, because that depends on what the tire turns out to be once it is off the stack and in his hands.

What stays behind on a tire job

The tires themselves are fine. Brandon has to leave what gets mixed into the stack. Car batteries stay, along with anything still holding liquid. Motor oil, antifreeze and fuel cans stay too, and that comes up often on tire jobs because they end up in the same corner of the garage. Paint, solvents, thinners and household chemicals are out. Propane tanks and any pressurized cylinder are out as well, patio and camping cylinders included. Pool and spa chemicals count as household hazardous waste and need their own handling. Anything that may contain asbestos calls for a licensed abatement contractor instead. If the transfer station won't take an item, Brandon can't take it either, so ask him about the odd thing in the pile and he'll check.

How Brandon gets them on the trailer

Nothing has to be out front. Brandon walks back to where the tires sit and carries them out. That might be the back of a garage, or a side yard behind a locked gate. Tires roll, so he takes them one at a time on stairs rather than carrying an armload down. On the trailer he stacks them flat so nothing shifts on the drive. The walk out matters more than the count does on these jobs, so a photo of the gate or the driveway helps as much as a photo of the pile. On a managed property he sorts access with the manager, including where to park and which unit the tires came from. Brandon does the loading himself, so there is one person to talk to about it.

What a tire job costs

The minimum is $250, and that is where a tire job starts. Brandon prices it from the photo and sends back one number for the whole pile. If a photo is hard to read, he'll ask for another angle rather than guess at it. He reads the picture himself and he answers the phone himself, so the number comes from the man who will be carrying the tires out. A photo can also go to bhjunk2011@gmail.com if texting one isn't handy. The quote itself is free. Text a photo to (559) 479-1199.

Hauling tires across Mohave County

Mohave County is spread out, and tire piles turn up at both ends of it. Brandon is based in Golden Valley and runs the whole county, from Kingman and Valle Vista across to Bullhead City, Fort Mohave, Mohave Valley, out to Lake Havasu City, and up through Dolan Springs, Chloride, Oatman, Yucca and White Hills. Laughlin in Nevada is on that run too. He keeps every town on his run listed in one place, so a reader can check an address against it before texting a photo. Distance is the reason the photo comes first out here. A count of tires at an address well outside Golden Valley tells him what the trip is before anyone commits to it. His hours run Monday through Saturday, 7 to 5, with Sunday closed, so the week has six days in it for a load of tires.

How the price works

Text a photo of what needs to go to (559) 479-1199. Brandon texts back one number for the whole job. No hourly rate. Jobs start at $250. More on how pricing works.

Where Brandon does this

All of Mohave County. See every town Brandon covers for tire disposal.