Old Tires Stacked up to Make Composters

Hey there. I wanted to ask about an idea I had to make a composter on our property. Does this sound totally out there or to do you think it has potential? We have about 10 old tires on our property from vehicles now gone and I was wondering if they could be stacked up to make two composters. Right now, I am just using plastic bins and I don't have the materials to make the big ones out of pallets.

I did research on whether tires are okay to plant in, and I think it's okay for flowers but wouldn't do it for vegetables.
From my research, the planters are probably okay and there is no poisonous leaching into the soil. The best video I watched on the topic is by David the Good and he presents a very balanced explanation of both sides of the debate.



But I haven't seen much about using it as a composter, and I really tried to find something. I found one video where a man tried it but it was very brief and he didn't follow up with how it worked for him.

I would love to hear anyone's thoughts on this idea before I go ahead. The local tire place says they will charge $5/tire to remove the rims. We have to remove them, anyway, for the dump to accept them, so it's worth it, either way, but I love the idea of trying to use up some waste product rather than to just throw them out.

Well, the only reason to make composters vertical is so they fit into the tiny footprint of an urban lot. If you don't suffer from that artifical constraint, why not go with a simple compost pile? Larger volumes tend to give better results.

Everything degrades. Everything decomposes. Everything breaks down. Rocks become sand. Everything.

Those tires you want to use to make compost/soil, are made of lots of exotic chemicals. Those chemicals will inevitably find their way into your soil and water. If that is what you want to eat somewhere down the line, have at it. But you might be better off seeing to it that those tires are recycled properly in a facility that handles those toxic materials. Your home and land is not that place.