THE ILLEGAL dumping of tyres on private land in Loch has shocked and dismayed the landowner, who found the trailer load of rubber on his farm last week.
The landholder suspects the tyres, about 25 of them, were deliberately offloaded between last Monday afternoon and when he returned on Tuesday to do some fencing.
It is an area that is off the main road and isn’t overlooked by houses, so most activity would go unseen.
“It’s an old dairy. So there's a bit of a roundabout type thing off the road, surrounded by trees with two entrances, it’s very secluded and right on the road,” said the man.
While the land owner does not have anyone specific in mind about who might have dumped the tyres he suspects it may be a business rather than an individual.
“If you get tyres replaced on your car, tyre services will charge you for disposal, so they now cost money to get rid of, and I assume that's why they're getting dumped,” he said.
“But the curious thing is that every single tyre has been cut in half so you can't reuse them. They're all second-hand tyres, but every one of them has been cut straight through with a professional machine-type thing. There's no burn marks and that makes me a little bit concerned that it's possibly come from a tyre centre.”
“It's a bit ordinary,” he added.
The man has been in contact with the shire and is going through the process of getting them picked up and removed.
He has only recently purchased the paddock and wasn’t expecting to have these sorts of issues in Loch and hopes that it won’t happen again to him or anyone else.
“I just think it's a low act. I don't want to come here and find problems all the time. We've only taken over the paddock in July, and this is what we find, it’s not nice,” he said.
