raised beds for said garden

not so good for the vege patch if you intend on eating things from it…they leach out horrid toxins into the soil.

Stack them on top of each other, fill them with soil, and use them to grow potatoes. Add a couple of tyres and pile them up as the potatoes start to develop leaves. And then as they flow pull the stack apart tyre by tyre and collect the spuds.

It is good not only for potatoes, but for flowers and fruit as well. I once saw a planter like this - they stacked the tires onto each other and made wholes in the sides of the tires, then filled it with earth and planted strawberries in every whole - different types, and a tomato plant on the top - it looked good. You can then paint tyres in different colours!

Add a bit of leather, and you have a few pairs of rugged sandals:

http://www.hollowtop.com/sandals.htm

I know a guy who takes his docs to a shoe repair place for re-soling every 3 years or so. The repair man uses tyres for it, because they apparently wear so well and are very comfy. My friend has had the same pair of docs for about 20 years, and swears that the re-soled boots are comfier than they were with their original sole intact.

You could use it to make a tyre swing.

If you have a boatyard nearby offer them there, when I used to live on a boat we were always losing them off of our bumpers and found it quite hard to find replacements.

you could make a den out of the tyres insted of useing them for growing vegatables

how?

Earthships are self-contained buildings capable of sustaining an environment for human habitation made primarily from recycled materials including used car tyres and aluminium cans. http://www.cat.org.uk/search/simplesearchx.tmpl

or the C.A.T center in Wales use tyres to re roof there new alternative buildings. So if your roof needs re-tiling you could be a busy person. however the tyres where processed into flat tiles so maybe get in touch with them and ask if possible to do at home!

I use old tyres in the spring to force rhubarb. When it just starts to push through the earth pile up two or three tyres over it and
cover the top with a piece of wood(or an old black sack tucked under the top tyre). This makes the rhubarb grow long and a pretty shade of pink!

I have made some of the sandals from the hollowtop website, but with steel radials (the website given says steel belts make it next to impossible).

I also give tips on how to go about it that are a bit beyond the article.

www.junkcreation.com

make mini green houses

just add a sheet of clear polythene and there we are great for propagating

i have about six alternating between green houses and composters

motor cycle tyres are best especialy the 17 inch wide ones

I know the Remarkable company use them to make pencil cases etc. so maybe you could contact them and see if they are interested in them.

I’ve spent a bit of time and trouble making planters out of tires, maybe this is an option for those with ’spare tires’ pardon the pun.

http://www.wuvie.net/tireplanter.htm

Karen Marie

My father use to fill a couple with concrete (put a piece of plywood or other filler on one side) and used them in the back of his truck for extra weight/traction in the snow.

Our elementary school when I was growing up used the large tractor tires as sandboxes.

Along the lines of a planter, use it to water your plants while your away. Punch a few holes on one broad side of the tire. Scoop/shovel a ring around the plant, then center the tire around a plant with the punched side on the ground. fill the tire as much as possible, and let the water slowly drip into the earth while you’re away

Does anybody know where I can buy thick sheets of rubber (around 0.5 inches thick)made from recycled tyres??

Cheers

Don’t recycle the tires… fuck the world… kkk

Is it poss that anyone can point me in the right direction for making the 4 tyres that i have in the garden into a wormery?

burn the fukers !!!

cut them down and use them as shoes !!

cut the tyres up to form roof shingles for your garden shed.

alrite so my emails arnt that great doesnt mean im not smart or being serious about this, ANYWAY.
right well maybe it would be good ive been searching all day for a manual step - by - step on how to recycle a tyre and give the machines that are used in this process.
because the internet and all of you are soo annoying and lazy i cant believe how hard it is to get some info these days so yeah not to be rude but god i mean you just go round in circles :)
so thankss.
and it would be good to come on here in maybe a week and see one up here, and if things are a little slow perhaps a month . aightt byeeeeee

you can make rubber bands that are really strong out of the tubes. we use old tires for animal food bins screw woood under neath a tire and you got a food bin

In Morocco, they make strong buckets out of old tires and also sandals.

Does any company “chop up” old tyres into small pieces to be used for a path in the garden?

is there a firm that buys used tyres from nigeria or that recycles in nigeria

Where Can Tyres Be Put In west dumbartonshire

You Can Make Park Ground And Astroturf

u cood make a tyre swing wif tht

i was inspired by all this and have begun working out how to recycle tyres
http://www.ecoutlet.co.uk/blog/index.php?id=145
definately go for the old tyres….i managed to cut through the steel cables in a modern tyre, but it took 3 hrs! and my arms are woobly now :)