How can I put a dozen or so old tyres to use?

[Phil Pascoe]

Doesn't help the OP, but I have a couple of old tyres still on rims, and people seem to cut round one sidewall and turn the main part inside out to use them like decorative urns as planters. Keep meaning to try, but like others, not sure about cutting. Fine tooth blade in a jigsaw?

No, the reinforcing wires are too hard even for a metal cutting blade.

 

[Dave Moore]

Someone had dumped them up the road and I instinctively thought I would make a use for them but now I cannot think of a good use for them.

What could they be used for?

Only possibles I have read which may suite from online so far are making a roof or for composting receptacles. For a roof I might be concerned about the toxins they put into making the tyres as they are not recommended for planting vegetables due to off-gassing these toxins so wonder of the same would be the case with a roof?

I feel these tyres are kind of toxic compared to my aim for green and natural stuff on my land! I was a bit hasty in taking them and would not be simple to get rid of them now so would be good to find a use for them that I deem acceptable and useful.

Hmm, I actually have some gravel on order to drop down on the mud to be able to park. Would they be useful as a ground barrier around the area to slow the grass and other weeds in the surrounding area from coming over to the gravel parking space?

Or, since the land is boggy and they are a waterproof barrier, can they be used to shore up channels for irrigation?

Grow potatoes in them. Stack up one at a time as the leaves reach the surface, add another tyre and top up with soil. When time for harvesting remove each tyre as you pick the potatoes.

 

[Rewound]

you could strap them around the outside of your car (like they do with fishing boats) then you could be less careful when in the supermarket car park

 

[Jake]

You could, like Kris Harbour, whose Youtube you referenced on your other thread, try to use them as foundations for your hut.

 

[throbscottle]

I actually used to obtain old tyres to re-sole my boots!

You have to remove the outer layer with the tread from the steel. Cut across and under a cut edge until you can get hold of it. Takes a lot of effort to get it started. Then you have to pull it whilst keeping going across with a knife to part the rubber underneath, which stretches a bit.
(I eventually made a tool to make it easier)

The thick part by the rim can be used to make wedges for where the heels have gone down.

You can also get some fairly nice soft rubber from the inside of the tyre, though it's hard to get a reasonable sized piece

Also, another use, I saw a YouTube video where someone used them as plant pot protectors in front of their house where they kept getting knocked by vehicles.

 

[woodlearner9810182]

Potatoes! Rather than earthing up as they grow, add another tyre and fill with soil. To harvest, just kick them over.

As an aside, I don’t think there are many punishments harsh enough for fly tipping.

I read that you should not grow vegetables in them due to toxic leeching of some nasty stuff that is in the tyres that can go into the soil.

 

[woodlearner9810182]

Are you suggesting @woodlearner9810182 should start building The Great Wall of Wales twixt England and Wales?

That exists already, called offa's dyke. No need to reinvent the tyre.

 

[dickm]

No, the reinforcing wires are too hard even for a metal cutting blade.

Interesting. So how ARE these things done? Does it only work with crossplies?

 

[woodlearner9810182]

You could, like Kris Harbour, whose Youtube you referenced on your other thread, try to use them as foundations for your hut.

I have just been reminded of this post you made. Do you have a link to the video where he attempts this?

 

[Jake]

I have just been reminded of this post you made. Do you have a link to the video where he attempts this?

It's his roundhouse build, and will be one of the first (unsuprisingly).

 

[duke]

If you have a lot of tires they make great retaining walls when filled with gravel.
I'm sure you already know that!

 

[woodlearner9810182]

and will be one of the first (unsuprisingly).

Why it was not a good idea?

 

[Stuart Moffat]

Make a go-kart track in your garden?

 

[okeydokey]

And the trouble is that you're stuck with them now. Our local rubbish dump aka recycling centre charge £6 each for disposal

 

[Jake]

Why it was not a good idea?

No, it's simpler than that, it's because they were used as the foundations.

 

[Seascaper]

Someone had dumped them up the road and I instinctively thought I would make a use for them but now I cannot think of a good use for them.

What could they be used for?

Only possibles I have read which may suite from online so far are making a roof or for composting receptacles. For a roof I might be concerned about the toxins they put into making the tyres as they are not recommended for planting vegetables due to off-gassing these toxins so wonder of the same would be the case with a roof?

I feel these tyres are kind of toxic compared to my aim for green and natural stuff on my land! I was a bit hasty in taking them and would not be simple to get rid of them now so would be good to find a use for them that I deem acceptable and useful.

Hmm, I actually have some gravel on order to drop down on the mud to be able to park. Would they be useful as a ground barrier around the area to slow the grass and other weeds in the surrounding area from coming over to the gravel parking space?

Or, since the land is boggy and they are a waterproof barrier, can they be used to shore up channels for irrigation?

If you need to make a silage heap you can use the tyres to keep the plastic sheeting down when the wind blows. A lot of workboats use tyres as fenders so perhaps look out for a tug needing a new home. Then there is the countryman’s way of starting a fire what ever the weather, use a tyre to get it started. Forcing rhubarb works, stack the tyres over your root. Get a rope and hang from a branch for a good swing. Create an interesting garden feature by half burying the tyres in the ground in a line to make a Loch Ness monster..........

 

[woodlearner9810182]

No, it's simpler than that, it's because they were used as the foundations.

Ok, so they did work then.

 

[John Brown]

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