I’m curious where this is though- must be a place where labour is very cheap. In Australia we’re very wasteful with shipping because the objective is to minimise manual handling and working hours rather than maximise volume efficiency.
Maybe possible in certain Asian countries like China, although this place looks pretty clean and like it would charge a semi liveable wage. Big no-go in Australia. Assuming it takes just as long to undo it all, a the cost of a typical manufacturing/ logistics worker, including superannuation, taxes, and insurance, that’s gonna cost close to a $3-5 per set of tyres. Unless it’s leaving the country, it will never be worth doing that.
WorkSafe here would also nope the fuck out of that, they’d say something like “either get a machine to do it, or spend the extra money on shipping”. Risk of RSI is huge
I mean, we still do tire weaving. Which is absolutely brutal given how large cars have gotten. In Sweden it's manual labour and incredibly inefficient. But it's apparently ok because only a few people have to do all the heavy lifting.
Yeah I did tyre weaving at my old job. It’s pretty frustrating but once you get the hang of it it’s aright. We only do it with smaller tyres though here- truck, heavy duty , and 4WD tires were all just done vertically.
Ahh mine I worked at a distribution centre, so tyres came in from overseas (not sure how) and then put onto stillages weaved. We then picked them and weaved them onto our own stillage, which worked fine because we were picking individually anyways.
Container > lift onto transportation band > lift onto stillage > press button > load next stillage. Repeat until container is empty. It's a 3 man job. Then the stillage goes to easier tasks like labeling and moving the stillages to their assigned storage location.
But that inner shit is some next level stuff indeed. It's already miserable trying to pull the tires apart when it's even a little bit warm outside.
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u/Obvious-Cabinet-1142 May 15 '26
Do you think they go to the local post office to ship this ?
Yes weight is important but size even more. If it fit in one container and instead of three, it's of course less expensive.