waste tires?

irishlostboy

would anyone here have any idea where i could get my hands on dead car tires? lots of them. i am messing with various building methods, and am curious about the viability of using car tires a la the earthship type constructions.
at the moment it is all late night daydreaming. well, just tonight actually.
also, if this is in the wrong boards area, sorry.

Run_to_da_hills

Try some of the tire centers, I'm sure they would be delighted to get rid of them. These are a fire hazard to these companies particularly the smaller places that have them lying about outside the premises. You could also post on the motoring forum where there would be some guys working in the trade.

Del2005

Check to see if your allowed store large quantities of tyres on your premises. They are an environmental hazard and you don't want to get into trouble with the EPA when trying to be good for the environment.

Tyre centres will be able to supply you with tyres. But again you'll have to get approval to collect tyres, as the tyre centre has to prove that they disposed of the tyres in an environmental way.

Nukem

Read somewhere recently that they are chipping old tires and using it in the construction of new roads

irishlostboy

thanks for the feedback people. most appreciated. hadn't gotten to the epa end of the thinking yet. thinking bout that stuff is always a let down lol.

kinda topic unrelated, but totally too beautiful to not share;
http://www.simondale.net/house/index.htm

again, thanks folks.