New Use for Old Tires
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New Use for Old Tires
I was at Canadian Tire today and while walking (limping) through the Automotive section I came upon a brand new product on the market.
Apparently they now have another use for Old Tires.
After grinding them up (right here in Calgary),they form the rubber pellets into Car ramps.
The spec on them are 7000 lb vehicle weight load per pair.
So now we have Playgrounds,Roadways,amoung other things & now car ramps.
Anyone else ever see things made from Ground-up Old Tires ?
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Apparently they now have another use for Old Tires.
After grinding them up (right here in Calgary),they form the rubber pellets into Car ramps.
The spec on them are 7000 lb vehicle weight load per pair.
So now we have Playgrounds,Roadways,amoung other things & now car ramps.
Anyone else ever see things made from Ground-up Old Tires ?
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From: South Dakota
New Use for Old Tires
>I was at Canadian Tire today and while walking (limping)
>through the Automotive section I came upon a brand new
>product on the market.
>Apparently they now have another use for Old Tires.
>After grinding them up (right here in Calgary),they form the
>rubber pellets into Car ramps.
>The spec on them are 7000 lb vehicle weight load per pair.
>
>So now we have Playgrounds,Roadways,amoung other things &
>now car ramps.
>
>Anyone else ever see things made from Ground-up Old Tires ?
>
I've been told that they also use them on new live football fields also, supposed to make falls less hurtful or something to that effect.
super
>through the Automotive section I came upon a brand new
>product on the market.
>Apparently they now have another use for Old Tires.
>After grinding them up (right here in Calgary),they form the
>rubber pellets into Car ramps.
>The spec on them are 7000 lb vehicle weight load per pair.
>
>So now we have Playgrounds,Roadways,amoung other things &
>now car ramps.
>
>Anyone else ever see things made from Ground-up Old Tires ?
>
I've been told that they also use them on new live football fields also, supposed to make falls less hurtful or something to that effect.
super
Cargo Master
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From: northern kentucky
New Use for Old Tires
Sometime last year I was flipping channels and started watching a show on travel channel. It was the one where the lady host (Samantha??) goes to popular vacation spots or homes. Well someone on Arizona was building an Eco-house out in the desert. Had windmills to generate power and all that type of Eco abilities. Well they used old tires from the junkyard packed with dirt and sand to build retaining walls and windbrakes. Your post brought that to mind...anyone else.
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New Use for Old Tires
>I was at Canadian Tire today and while walking (limping)
>through the Automotive section I came upon a brand new
>product on the market.
>Apparently they now have another use for Old Tires.
>After grinding them up (right here in Calgary),they form the
>rubber pellets into Car ramps.
>The spec on them are 7000 lb vehicle weight load per pair.
>
>So now we have Playgrounds,Roadways,amoung other things &
>now car ramps.
>
>Anyone else ever see things made from Ground-up Old Tires ?
>
>
They are now grinding them up and dying them differnt colors. A very popular color and use starting to take off is a redish brown color and it is being used for mulch. works great. No bugs, rot, doesnt float away, or fade..
>through the Automotive section I came upon a brand new
>product on the market.
>Apparently they now have another use for Old Tires.
>After grinding them up (right here in Calgary),they form the
>rubber pellets into Car ramps.
>The spec on them are 7000 lb vehicle weight load per pair.
>
>So now we have Playgrounds,Roadways,amoung other things &
>now car ramps.
>
>Anyone else ever see things made from Ground-up Old Tires ?
>
>
They are now grinding them up and dying them differnt colors. A very popular color and use starting to take off is a redish brown color and it is being used for mulch. works great. No bugs, rot, doesnt float away, or fade..
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New Use for Old Tires
I don't know exactly what they are doing, or how it is holding, but they are using the chunks of tires to do something with new septic tanks. I don't know if they are using it around the tanks themselves or putting them in the fill lines, but they are using it for something.
They are building a new subdivision acros the road from me. We drove through it the other night, and I stopped to see what the dumpload of black rubber was. They had it sitting next to the septic tank and hole they had done to finish the install.
Next chance I get, I am going to stop and ask them what they are using it for...
They are building a new subdivision acros the road from me. We drove through it the other night, and I stopped to see what the dumpload of black rubber was. They had it sitting next to the septic tank and hole they had done to finish the install.
Next chance I get, I am going to stop and ask them what they are using it for...
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New Use for Old Tires
I seen them used for a poor mans flower planter.
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New Use for Old Tires
Ground tires are being used as a replacement for gravel in septic leaching fields. Heard of a few instances in Georgia where homeowners have had there leaching fields catch on fire after installation - How do you put out a burning leaching field -flush * 1000 times? How the heck does it ignite?(has to be more to it than the heat generated during composting/decomposition?)
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From: Kansas, USA
New Use for Old Tires
Not that this will solve the waste tire problem, I cut some of mine like a bagel half and keep them filled with water for the wildlife. All kinds of birds and small animals get a cool drink or dip here in the dry Kansas summer. A single tire makes a good link when towing out a stuck truck or car. It absorbs the shock of the chain.
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From: North of Tulsa, Oklahoma
New Use for Old Tires
I remember my highschool track being made of recycled bits of old tire. Awesome gripping and cushy surface for running. I still wonder to this day how they didn't add the pieces of radial steel?
Also here are some uses for them in Oklahoma:
-holding down the roof of the homes in the trailer parks.(I really don't know why they put them on the roofs, but they do.)
-decorations by hanging them on fence posts along country roads.
-alternative to dirt for filling ditches.(lazy slobs dumping their tires on the side of the road.)
Also here are some uses for them in Oklahoma:
-holding down the roof of the homes in the trailer parks.(I really don't know why they put them on the roofs, but they do.)
-decorations by hanging them on fence posts along country roads.
-alternative to dirt for filling ditches.(lazy slobs dumping their tires on the side of the road.)
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New Use for Old Tires
>-holding down the roof of the homes in the trailer parks.(I
>really don't know why they put them on the roofs, but they
>do.)
>
Older trailer homes have aluminum roofs that rumble terribly in wind. By adding a few old tires you can shut up the rumbles very nicely.
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From: Billings, MT
New Use for Old Tires
Had this thought a couple weeks ago. What if you were to pull the sole off an old boot and somehow affix a shoe-shaped section of worn down A/T? I can't get a pair of boots to last more than 8-9 months before holes show up in the sole, and I figure that the rubber in a tire would take the pounding pretty well. What do you folks think?
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1989 F-250 HD 4x4
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