Uses for dumped tyres?

I have a friend who has found 100 or so dumped tyres half buried in pasture land - she has got them out of the ground but now we are stuck with what to do with them. Getting them taken away here in Spain is not possible (we think but will explore)

Someone suggested using them for a shelter/store building - any suggestions welcomed - they vary in size from tractor to car. We want to use them responsibly as she doesn't have the money to pay for their disposal.

Rob R

Bound together they make good retaining walls for earthworks etc. They used some to block the hole in the river flood banks when they burst a couple of years ago.

vegplot

raised fish pond using the tyres as a ring mound packed with earth and stones (doesn't need to be rammed of compacted) then just add liner and water (and fish/plants etc.).

RichardW

There must be a system for getting rid of them. Ask at the local tyre fitters they might be able to shift them. But it might cost. I thing the environmental disposal charge here is 50p - £1 per tyre.

bodger

I saw an eco build on the box where they painstakingly stuffed them with soil to make walls.

vegplot

bodger wrote:

I saw an eco build on the box where they painstakingly stuffed them with soil to make walls.

Not to be recommended unless you have lots of time and you're very fit or can get lots of fit volunteers who won't get disheartened after their first tyre stuffing.

dpack

filled with earth ace walls or cornish style hedge
good for weighting down big tarps
cut into bits they are standard third world shoe soles
planters ,place fill plant or turn em inside out on one side of the wheel if still on metal
reuse is nice

dpack

a hundred isnt that many for a building

Hairyloon

I've got it in my head that tires can make good artificial reefs: provide shelter for fish, etc.

Not a DIY job though.

I'm told they are very good for growing potatoes in: add tyres & fill as the plant grows.

dpack

i think they do but in industrial amounts tied with marine chain
as industrial things go old tyres to playground surface is quite good

Calli

I use tractor tyres as raised beds and compost bins.

Rob R

Bastions!

dpack

bahzeebo with a tarp on top ?

Gervase

Gabions!

dpack

my cornish/brittany hedge idea is a long gabion /bastion
wales and east york must be badlands Laughing

good backstop though

bring me sunshine

Great for standing clumsy horses' water buckets in

Rope swings!

dpack

and moos mineral licks

bodger

There's a company selling the shredded rubber bits minus the wire of course for manages. Big money.

Gervase

Cutting tyres is an absolute pain. Short of using an industrial shear, about the best thing I've seen for the job is a carbide cluster blade like a Terrasaur. They're not cheap (you may find them cheaper on ebay), but for sleepers, tyres and roots they're ideal.

Castle Farm

I'd bury them if I was you Laughing

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