Tires?

[Carly Rae]

I have a HEAP of tires here, just wanted to know if anyone has any good uses to put them to? I have piles of them down the back paddock that aren't usable anymore for the road. Is there anything horse related that I could use them for as well?

Thanks

 

[NewToMini's]

Jumps or a round pen

 

[amysue]

I live on a dairy farm and we have thousands of tires stock piled for covering the corn silos filled with feed silage. We do all kinds of things with tires, you just have to check the tire for steel belting as the little metal wires will poke and cut you if the tire is real worn or rotted. I have built fish ponds and planter gardens out of them, we had a sand box as kids made out of a tractor tire. I put the rubber feed dishes in them to prevent the horses from tipping them over. My husband built a retaining wall out of them once! I feed round bales out of a giant tractor tire to my beef cows, I gave the goats a few to play with and they sleep curled up inside of them. You can build horse jumps as already mentioned, we used to ride our horses through tires on the ground as kids (like foot ball players run through them lifting their feet real high) but I do not think a lot of people still incorporate those obstacles into their trail courses, but you still can. Stack them up like barrels and have a barrel race, make obstacles or weave poles, or bury them half way into the ground and make a garden fence. The possibilities are endless. You just cannot throw them away, as its real costly, its like, 3 dollars per car tire here to throw them away at the dump!

 

[Carly Rae]

Thanks!

Some of the ones we have were half buried put in two lines to make a 'path' for our driveway, they were there when we bought our house and my mum wanted them taken out so we have heaps of tires half painted white

I like the sound of the round pen, but how exactly would you make one??

 

[Rocklone Miniature Horses]

dig a big circle, put the tires half in just like the driveway had them

 

[NewToMini's]

To make the round pen, you can stack the tires straight up, putting t-posts in the middle of each stack to help hold it. Or kind of stagger them, but you'd probably have to fill them with sand to stabilize them. Or maybe stagger them with t-posts (make a circle with the tires, put a t-post in the middle of each one, make another circle on top, but put the tires between the posts, then make another circle with the tires around the t-posts, and keep alternating until it's high enough.