A CEO Lives To Fight Another Day

productive work is a wonderful thing. cute kids too.

and how long before some moonbat forces a borderline politician to write a law or new regulation banning his process while handing it to a government subsidized donator's shell company to go bankrupt with ?? unless, of course, he makes the proper tithe to the church of the goreacle...I hate being cynical, but it's so easy these days.

The main thing you need to develop new commercial products is a persistence bordering on the pathological.

Persistance is seen by some as stubborn. Their loss.

Good luck to this fellow. That machine could come in real handy for a number of applications. However, I suspect that Bemused might be right.

Isn't it sad that we have become so cynical and that the leftist mindset has become so strong as to create this. This was not the case when I was this fellow's age. At least not that evident.

The money quote IMHO:

"Being thankful has been a bedrock during my ownership tenure.  I try to share that thankfulness is an expression of my heart.  When matters arise that are not so positive, I immediately name a few things I am thankful for.  I then realize I am well able think through and solve the problems I am confronted with.  Often times I re-ground my business mind by coming to such a simple understanding of what I am most thankful for". 

Thanks for this post Kate!

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This is fabulous. I have witnessed the attempts at tire recycling for years.

At first they used tires from poor asian countries to make rubber parts (no steel belts to get rid of). Then a friend's father and I'm sure many others tried to make a machine to remove those pesky steel belts.
An electrician friend worked on a place that used a freeze dry process and hammermill to break the tires into crumbs, the steel bolts would break away and into pieces so magnets could remove the steel. Quite inventive, but costly.

Now this seems to be the best method (least waste, most cost-efficent) I've seen to date. As was said above, Persistence, but not just his. His wife's, his investors and many others before him.

Not a government dime in site. This is the most satisfiying way.
To all of you others trying 'something' out there, keep it up!

I remember picking up at one of these places a number of years ago. They were starting to have some serious issues with tire anti-puncture foams. It would turn the big pile of recycled rubber into ball that they couldn't do anything with.

Yeah I fabricated some machines for this sorta enterprise....including a machine to rip the bead wire from a truck tire....about 8 lb of stainless steel wire each....problem was the beads..small steel cables were impregnated with rubber and the only outlet was in Ohio who would accept the stuff...free..FOB their dock...Ontariari-owe banned any recyling of the bead wires.

Side-walls made rubber parts....or holddowns for hyway cones...

Biggest problem was because the used tires at that point were picked up for a fee...a lot of flyby nighters collected the tires (and the tipping fees) then dumped them in a bush somewhere....then health and safety would denounce the machines as unsafe....demanding shields which preventing anything including the material from getting in or out....usually what an unemployed school teacher that couldn't tell a circuit breaker from a drive chain....

I once built a barrel crusher but it was denounced.....next I knew some political crony was building them at a huge profit for the gummint to send to the arctic....

I retired.......

In my past life as a commercial interior designer, I used "Dinosaur Tiles" at Kicking Horse Mountain Resort - made of recycled tires - they were the only thing that ski boots did not destroy - used in the cafeteria,Sushi Bar and the Ski Rental Shop. They are also used in a lot of exercise rooms in homes and under playground equipment - soft to land on and yet will take a beating from the winter elements!

There's a guy in Irma AB trying to sell shredded tires, as an absorption material for oil spills. I listened to a sales pitch, where he claimed the material has a bunch of uses. He uses it in a light weight concrete mix, as a downhole sealing agent, and in cleanup kits for oilfield operators. He claims to have a facility for recycling soiled material. I don't remember whether he grinds the material himself, or buys it from a third party. It all sounded well and good, but I have some doubts about his ability to properly dispose of contaminated material. I suspect he's taking it to traditional disposal facilities, and billing accordingly. I also have an issue with the fact shredded tires are actually as much of an environmental risk, as the oil he's claiming to be cleaning up.