What Can I Do with Old Tires?

[Tango]

Along with a lot of other things, I've come onto probably 2 - 3 dozen tires of different sizes- some still have rims but mostly just the tires. I can take them to the landfill and pay $1 each which is alright and I listed them on CL for free without any takers yet. Was wondering if anyone had some ideas for their use? I saw some goat furniture on the goat forum which will be great for my does- when they're here - but I got way more tires left over. Anyone?

[MoonShadows]

I saw someone who used old tires to terrace a hill.

[mnn2501]

Tater Towers (planting potatoes)
retaining wall
bumpers for a boat dock
flower beds
Tire Swings

[logbuilder]

You can plant potatoes in them.

[Tango]

there's no safety concern with growing food inside tires?
maybe nest boxes for turkeys or ducks?

[VERN in IL]

Tire swings, cut it so you can sit in it.

[MoonShadows]

VERN,

I see a very dark cloud on America's horizon,
and that cloud is coming from Rome.
- Abraham Lincoln

I find your signature intriguing. Can you explain it a bit further?

[watcher]

Do a google search on "horse tire swings". Make them on rainy days and sell them.

[Tabitha]

We had some washed out ravines on our place, and we built 'dams' and filled in behind with rotten and old logs, brush, etc. covered with chips and manure and soil and now that is a beautiful garden. I did not like the look of the tires, so in the cracks I planted peppermint and thyme.

[VERN in IL]

Originally Posted by MoonShadows

VERN,



I find your signature intriguing. Can you explain it a bit further?

Abraham Lincoln stated, "As long as God gives me a heart to feel, a brain to think, or a hand to execute my will, I will devote it against that power which has attempted to use the machinery of the courts to destroy the rights and character of an American citizen. But there is a thing which is very certain; it is, that if the American people could learn what I know of the fierce hatred of the generality of the priests of Rome against our institutions, our schools, our most sacred rights, and our so dearly bought liberties, they would drive them away, tomorrow, from among us, or would shoot them as traitors.... The history of the last thousand years tells us that wherever the Church of Rome is not a dagger to pierce the bosom of a free nation, she is a stone to her neck, and a ball to her feet, to paralyze her and prevent her advance in the ways of civilization, science, intelligence, happiness, and liberty.... I do not pretend to be a prophet. But though not a prophet, I see a very dark cloud on our horizon. And that dark cloud is coming from Rome. It is filled with tears of blood. It will rise and increase, till its flanks will be torn by a flash of lightening, followed by a fearful peal of thunder. Then a cyclone such as the world has never seen, will pass over this country, spreading ruin and desolation from north to south. After it is over, there will be long days of peace and prosperity; for popery, with its Jesuits and merciless Inquisition, will have been forever swept away from our country. Neither I nor you, but our children, will see those things." Lincoln made the statement just given at the conclusion of the trial of Mr. Chiniquy, author of the book, Fifty Years in the Church of Rome.

This is the quote origination, it explains it very good. NO REPLY to this post.

[M5farm]

Turn them inside out to make feed troughs or planters

[homstdr74]

Originally Posted by Tango

Along with a lot of other things, I've come onto probably 2 - 3 dozen tires of different sizes- some still have rims but mostly just the tires. I can take them to the landfill and pay $1 each which is alright and I listed them on CL for free without any takers yet. Was wondering if anyone had some ideas for their use? I saw some goat furniture on the goat forum which will be great for my does- when they're here - but I got way more tires left over. Anyone?

You are referencing mosquito hotels. They make great breeding grounds if left out where they can accumulate water.

Other than that, you can toss them on a pile of brush you want burned to get a hotter fire.

Or in Mexico some people used to cut the tread out to the shape of a foot, staple rawhide to the top edges and make sandals out of them. Those tread-sandals would last for years.

[Michael W. Smith]

As has been said - potato towers. Get some good soil and dump inside two or three tires. Plant your spuds and then as they grow taller, stack another tire on, add more dirt and when they grow some more - continue.

Once the potato plants have died, take off the tower one tower at a time harvesting your crop as you go.

I've also heard that this works well for tomatoes as well - they like the heat the tires absorb as well as growing a good root system for the bountiful harvest. Tires would even be big enough to use a wire tomato cage to keep your plants upright.

[Shoestringer]

You can compost in them if you stack them up. Use compost from the bottom tire first, if you can pull the rest of the stack off without disaster. Just something I have heard of. Never tried it.

Cut the sidewalls off and use the treads (cut into thirds or quarters) as shingles for a shed.

If you hunt on your property, look up how to make goose decoys from tires. They are hard to move around but work if you can keep them on site.

Hang one by a chain as a pig toy.

[MichaelZ]

Besides potatoes (which work great in tires), you can also plant pole beans in them. Just stack up two or three and fill with soil. Plant your beans and tether a climbing tripod overhead. Works nice!

[Awnry Abe]

They will stop a ditch in its tracks. If you put them at the head of a gully, they will eventually fill with mud/dirt and back fill the ditch. Mind you, in the decades in between they will be an eyesore, and the occasional stray tire will hide in the grass waiting for your brush hog, whence it will wiz past your nose and make you proclaim, "Whoa! What a day to be alive!"

[rustyshacklefor]

After a pond burst above my house it washed away a good piece of my yard. Took tires filled them with concrete stacked them up, no problems since.

[DEKE01]

You probably saw this in a school yard as a kid. Fill tire with concrete and a tall pole. On the playground, those poles were mobile bases for volleyball nets and such. If you have an area you want to temp fence and need something heavier than step in posts, this could be a solution.

I have collected a dozen+ loader tires so far; they are about 16 inches wide. Filling them with excavated clay to make a platform for a horse climb and jump off.

[scubacoz]

If you plant in them be sure and line them with plastic. Tires have chemicals in them and they could leach into your food. The same goes for railroad ties.

[Kasota]

Check out these ideas!

http://www.topdreamer.com/17-amazing...use-old-tires/

http://www.architectureartdesigns.co...use-old-tires/

http://www.pinterest.com/taketentire...ith-old-tires/