Tires
Disreputable emergency goat shelter. Or play house. or outpost for a fort.
These are a lot more work, and I don't have one of my own, but they sure are pretty.
Tire swing, of course. Which could then be used in engagement pictures that we're not showing. Sorry. But trust me, very, very cute. Incidentally, the tire retaining wall also makes great playground equipment- our Boy and his friends love to climb up and down ours.
Also here (see the FAQ for a discussion on their safety as planters for food crops)
Incidentally, all our tires were free. It's hard for garages and tire shops to get rid of their old tires. In our case, even though we live ten miles outside of town, the tire shop in town delivered them all on different days and even unloaded the truck and stacked the tires up neatly in one corner of the yard for us.
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5 Responses to “Tires”
July 11th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
What an awesome way to recycle, love the planters.
July 11th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
I can’t see the pictures, just the code. Am I the only one?
July 12th, 2008 at 10:23 am
No Cindee the pictures didn’t come through on my email either.
July 13th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
The thing you have to be really careful about is the way tires hold a little bit of water which is enough to breed mosquitoes. I worked for the mosquito commission when I was in college and we had to go to tire places and spray them, trying to get into every tire so that mosquitoes wouldn’t breed in the standing water.
June 29th, 2011 at 12:25 am
Why not take the tires to a nearby recycling center. Nowadays tires can be recycled and used as a base in pavement or even in playground foundations. Not that a goat shelter isn’t important.
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