One of the little goodies in our modern society is we have so much waste.

Presently, the only use I know of for tires is they burn them to make road asphat - if you've ever driven by a road construction site and closed up the windows because of the billowing smoke - that's tires they are burning and in any other place - it would illegal.

But one man's waste is another's treasure. So it is with us and used tires. We found though we can not build a house out of them here up north (humidity becomes a problem when warm summer air condenses on the cool earth filled walls) but we can use them for building permanent walls for:

Animal Shelters -with a southern face open to allow warm sun in over winter. Outbuildings like root cellars, ice houses, picnic shelter areas, gazebo, wild life shelters, storage shelters. Greenhouse bases, retaining walls, corners for securing fencing, landscape bordering, they hold watering pails and can keep them from being tipped over by the animals, . . . Garages, Wood Storage areas, Hay storage area, Tornado Shelter, Riding Arena for the horses and whatever above ground building needed. Underground uses - window wells, pond edges, swimming pool edge, cold open storage as in mass sugar beets that get covered with a tarp and hay then are processed over winter - making them accessible with a bucket on the tractor, . . . the list could go on. But you get the idea.

See EarthShips for more details about building with tires. The state we live in may not allow homes built from recycled materials but you can easily build all those listed above with nothing more than a permit. . .so what if your barn can be covered one day to a house - they do that to old barns . . don't they?

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