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Found this next to a tree in my yard that I ripped down after hurricane beryl. No telling how long it's been there. Did this tire blow up, or did someone cut it up to look like that?
How did this tire get like this?
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Looks to me like somebodies attempt to make a planter.
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That is a tire planter. A fine southern tradition from my childhood. Cut the bead off in the scalloped design shown and then turn the tire inside out and it makes an attractive? planter by the driveway. Rim not required. We had one on each side of our driveway until about 1970.
When I saw those planters, well north of the Mason-Dixon Line, I always wondered how the craftspeople cut the zig-zag pattern in the tires' sidewall. That's the toughest material in the world.
How many "dull knife mishaps" occur during the work?
Gotta use a Saw-Zall and have the work clamped securely.
Just between you and me, the resulting planter lacks any delicacy. Even when painted white, they're too heavy looking.
How many "dull knife mishaps" occur during the work?
Gotta use a Saw-Zall and have the work clamped securely.
Just between you and me, the resulting planter lacks any delicacy. Even when painted white, they're too heavy looking.
Done right, a piston from a train engine would look good.
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Probably been out there since 1970 lol
People where I grew up in the 70's and 80's used to do that for flower planters as well. They would also paint them bright colors; I suppose to look like a flower. We even had them in the city park of our little town of 1,500 in rural SW Kansas.
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Seems kind of ugly. Were times tough back then? Guess they had the gas crisis back then supposedly. Emphasis on supposedly
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LOL. Well, I don't know how old you are, but a lot of things we thought were "cool" back then would probably be considered ugly today. Cars, telephones and appliances were Avocado green, Harvest Gold, or burnt brown/orange, shag carpet was thick enough you could break a toe if you didn't pick up your feet, and your Sunday go to church leisure suit could catch on fire from friction rubbing on the the 6 inch wide point collars of your dress shirt only to be fueled by your Hai Karate aftershave.
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Well, that sounds like the days when people were expected to be smart and have some common sense. Now we just keep all the idiots alive
I find myself wishing I could go back more and more every day when I watch the news or have to observe and endure the cross-section of humanity as I stand in the line at WalMart with my oil and filters.
Times were tough and they were spartan.. Money was not terribly plentiful, but even if you had money there was no place to buy anything but essentials in small towns. The big box stores with their infinite selections of everything didn't start appearing in every little town until the 80's
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Should be a full tire. Someone's going to back into one and it's going to fall over
