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I was driving on a gravel road less taken yesterday and saw a half dozen tires someone had tossed in a creek.   I wasn’t in my truck, so they stayed there. My question is, if I do retrieve them, how can I put them to use?  My initial thought is to used them to hold feed and water dishes for the goats and pigs.  Any other ideas?

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I had quite a lot of old tires when I purchased my property as well as tons of of trash / junk. Between me and my neighbor we used a few for different things. I put a couple out in the brush for snake habitat here and there. He made a pyramid for a fish hideout in his pond. I didn’t want them in my pond so that was a no for me.

Another thing we did was stack and tie them together then fill with dirt for a handgun backstop to mount targets and such too.

I had a lot so we also took some to the tire place to recycle although they charge a couple dollars to dispose of them. I couldn’t think of anything else so I paid it to have them gone.

I’ve heard of people using as potato planters but that doesn’t seem like the greatest idea to me.

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I'd put them in a row where I wanted them, fill them with rocks, and make an elevated stepping stone type path that is mud free.

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hi,

in the Philippines, a neighbor and friend made a septic tank out of stacked tires for me. Another neighbor used tires as a well lining, but then again you only need to dig about 9 ft to get well water over there
 
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I ended up with a few, and threw a couple in for a goat playground. A bored goat is an escaping goat... I've seen folks cut them in half, mount the halves side by side, turn them cut side down, and rest a board on top, to give the goats a 'teeter-totter'; hang one horizontally from a tree as a bouncy goat swing; make haphazard piles, as a climbing mountain, bolt several of them together in a little play-in & on 'fort'...

A good size stack, well-placed, curved in, on the sides & mounded over with dirt makes a good firing range backstop.

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I think pulling them out of the creek would be a good start.
I use tyres to build walls about 3 ft high to slow down the winter breeze out of the forest here.
I lay them in a row at the bottom and then add tyres of the same size and type in each stack, screwing them together sideways so they stay positioned.
I used to fill them with old bottles.

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John C Daley wrote:I think pulling them out of the creek would be a god start.
I use tyres to build walls about 3 ft high to slow down the winter breeze out of the forest here.
I lay them in a row at the bottom and then add tyres of the same size and type in each stack, screwing them together sideways so they stay positioned.
I used to fill them with old bottles.

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I separate all the tyres into columns of the same tyres.
I start at one end of the wall and lay one tyre on the ground like a donut with a hole in the centre.
Then another net to it along the line I want, In always shift it off line since a straight wall of tures may blow over.
I use self drilling screws [ one] between the tyres where they touch.
Then I progress along the wall.
I let the wall get about 3 tyres high before I start filling them with empty bottles, rocks soil etc.
Then stat lifting the wall again.

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Maybe not haul them off at all but rather see if the stream is eroding close by and use the tires to stabilize the bank. That saves you from moving the tires, and puts them to good use.
 
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I use them to hold tarps down in the wind.

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Steve, I imagine tyres in a watercourse would cause potentially more damage than good.
The shape of them encourages twirling of the water which can shift the flow patterns, thus creating erosion.

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