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Finds on the farm
My hubby and I were walking around our new place yesterday and found some "interesting" things. I knew about the old car (earlier than 50s I think) but didn't know about the shed, tires, and concrete. We could really use the shed (as chicken house) but someone threw it down a steep hill and it's stuck in a couple of trees. What in the world do you do with old tires? It's obvious people used this as a dump but, grrr. I guess we'll have to slowly drag the old tires up and pay for someone to take them. I am just not sure how you get things like heavy concrete, a car, and a shed up a hill.
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09/20/09, 02:39 PM
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Sorry Joshie, some people are such slobs.
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09/20/09, 02:51 PM
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Bulldozer. Make a cut and bury it all, then reclaim the surface.
Quick, clean, and easy.
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09/20/09, 03:09 PM
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Bulldozer. Make a cut and bury it all, then reclaim the surface.
Quick, clean, and easy.
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Well, we'd have to HAVE a bulldozer for that to work...and the crud would have to be somewhere other than on the side of a hill/ravine.
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09/20/09, 03:44 PM
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A chain and sometning to pull it with. A tractior or a pickup.
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09/20/09, 05:29 PM
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Old tires are ok for stacking woodpiles on too keep the wood off the ground, if you can put something (old plywood? 2x4s? shed parts?) on top of them for rails to stack on.
They can make a decent stabilizer for a not-too-tall retaining wall. One of the things I like to have wherever I live is a moderately-sloped earth ramp that goes up to the height of the tailgate of the truck. Makes it easy to load and unload tillers, ATVs, livestock, cement blocks, a bog harrow, or whatever. (Well, maybe not the bog harrow.)
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09/20/09, 05:43 PM
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Planters in your garden is a use for the tires.Old car can make a good chicken coop? Door still on it, doors close well and has its glass use it as a hot house to start your seedlings.Before I bought our green house I was looking for a school bus to use as a green house. Just my .02
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09/20/09, 06:08 PM
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Old tires can be used around waterers in the winter to help them not freeze.
YOu can use them in the garden to get warm crops out there earlier by planting in them.
And if bad comes to worse, you could make a horse swing or one of these
http://www.ponyswings.com/tropical_bird_planters.htm
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09/20/09, 07:34 PM
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You can always use the old tires to breed your mosquitos in.
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09/20/09, 08:33 PM
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I found somting similar at my place. So far I have made a little over 1K from scrap metal. I plan on using the tires to plant potatoes in next year. Concrete makes good fill and then cover with dirt.
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09/20/09, 10:10 PM
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I figure we can use the concrete and sell the metal from car and such. The tires we'll have to pay to get rid of. Our daughter is allergic to latex and there's no way I'm going to use that stuff around the place.
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ever heard of a earthship, the walls are made of tires rammed with earth then plastered over (cement even) might be the start of your root cellar or tornado shelter you could build it right in the side of the ravine/hill even. I suggest winch or tow truck ( wich is a bigger winch) though for a couple hundred or less (used) you could buy a winch and use I am guessing you have a truck , the winch and truck to pull up much of it then bring in the pay guys and you still have a usefull tool to boot.
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09/21/09, 07:21 AM
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We don't have a truck. We cannot use the tires on the property. We'll have to take them to a recycler due to latex allergies. My dad has a small truck but our tractor is stronger than his tiny truck. We don't have a winch. I think the junk will stay down there for a while.
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09/21/09, 09:24 AM
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How do you deal with a latex allergy and the tires that are on the vehicles?
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Are car tires actually made of latex???
And I too wonder how you deal with this allergy and everyday life...
I would simply bury the tires myself.
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09/21/09, 10:08 AM
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You can move a lot of stuff with one of those $30 hand winches and a few 10' pieces of 4" diameter schedule 40 PVC for rollers. I've done everything by myself and by hand so I had to get creative.
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09/21/09, 10:49 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Joshie
My hubby and I were walking around our new place yesterday and found some "interesting" things. I knew about the old car (earlier than 50s I think) but didn't know about the shed, tires, and concrete. We could really use the shed (as chicken house) but someone threw it down a steep hill and it's stuck in a couple of trees. What in the world do you do with old tires? It's obvious people used this as a dump but, grrr. I guess we'll have to slowly drag the old tires up and pay for someone to take them. I am just not sure how you get things like heavy concrete, a car, and a shed up a hill.
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It really wasn't all that uncommon in the old days for farmers to have a trash area like that. Everything they couldn't burn went into it, because they simply didn't have trash service like we do now days. My Grandma had one on her farm when I was a kid. We used to go bottle hunting in some of the really old ones.
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09/21/09, 03:43 PM
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I would never bury tires, theywill always be settling unless you fill the inner side with dirt....
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09/21/09, 05:36 PM
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my inlaws had a similar dump on their property..we ended up having to pay to have most of it hauled away and the rest was buried when the pond was increased in size..tires generally are $3 each to take to the dump..around here in Mich.
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09/21/09, 06:40 PM
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Yes, tires are made of latex, especially old ones. We don't touch the ones on vehicles but if we used these tires for planting, etc, we'd touch them. I really don't want to bury them. I think we'd just be moving the problem, not fixing it. We'll either send them to the recycler or give them to my dad, I guess.
I know that old farmers used to just dump stuff around but it's irritating to find this junk...just venting, ya know?
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