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Hairyloon
Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 2086
Location: Today I are mostly being in Leeds.
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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. |
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 13800
Location: w yorks /earth
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i think they do but in industrial amounts tied with marine chain
as industrial things go old tyres to playground surface is quite good |
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Calli
Joined: 13 Mar 2009
Posts: 222
Location: Galway
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I use tractor tyres as raised beds and compost bins. |
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Rob R
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 16821
Location: York
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Bastions! |
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 13800
Location: w yorks /earth
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bahzeebo with a tarp on top ? |
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Gervase
Joined: 17 Nov 2004
Posts: 7005
Location: Ceredigion, West Wales
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Gabions! |
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 13800
Location: w yorks /earth
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my cornish/brittany hedge idea is a long gabion /bastion
wales and east york must be badlands
good backstop though |
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bring me sunshine
Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 1929
Location: Somerset
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Great for standing clumsy horses' water buckets in
Rope swings! |
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 13800
Location: w yorks /earth
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and moos mineral licks |
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bodger
Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 6704
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There's a company selling the shredded rubber bits minus the wire of course for manages. Big money. |
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Gervase
Joined: 17 Nov 2004
Posts: 7005
Location: Ceredigion, West Wales
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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. |
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Castle Farm
Joined: 17 Sep 2008
Posts: 173
Location: Powys/Hereford Border.Near Hay-on-Wye
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I'd bury them if I was you |
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Mutton
Joined: 09 May 2009
Posts: 452
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Cut around the circumference one tyre becomes two sheep troughs. BUT if they have radial wires in they can be harder to cut. We used a jigsaw in the end. Also would then have sharp wire ends sticking out of the rubber, which you need to round off - use an angle grinder.
Also can use a couple for wedging the car in place when it is jacked up.
Put them to one side as you are bound to find a use as soon as you bin them. |
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The.Grange
Joined: 13 Sep 2009
Posts: 956
Location: Derbyshire
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we've used them as buried retaining walls filled with earth to help terrace paths etc so far so great  |
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Bulgarianlily
Joined: 01 Jun 2008
Posts: 910
Location: South West Mountains of Bulgaria
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I used 86 car tyres and four tractor tyres filled with compacted earth and rocks to part fill in an overlarge foundation hole, (Bulgarian men LOVE driving earth moving equipment, couldn't stop him in time!) before casting a concrete beam on top. One medium earthquake so far and no sign of any movement. |
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