several years ago i used old tyres as tree guards with variable results it slowed the rabbits ./hares up a little created a microclimatefor the tree as well as snails/rodents most got removed as trees got older is there an easy way of removing tyre if tree has gotten too big:rofl:
tyresw have steel wires imbedded in the rubber under the tread and around the bead and could never be cut with a razor blade the use of an angle grinder with a metal cutting disc is required and MUST be used with EXTREME CARE THE LARGE 9" units can be very powerful and can take your foot / hand off in an instant please be careful
Good advice but is this a possibility? [video=youtube;Q24JWKmgl1Q]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q24JWKmgl1Q[/video]
So Flintstone! :rofl: (on subject, second the metal cutting disc on the grinder ... and slow it down [alternate your cuts] so you don't melt the rubber [molten tyre rubber is about as much fun as hot asphalt] ... double-second the manual combo of saw [any sort] and bolt-cutters - either-orther will work, just depends on how much energy you want to consume/splat vs expend/crunch ) PS. If you go either, watch out for the spring in the the spring steel wires in the tyre. Those wires ... twoing! (Is that a word?, and don't ask me how I know lol)
My ex engineer father suggested either oxy acetylene (and a bucket of water) or a jack hammer with a wide blade Everything sounds potentially dangerous, in unskilled hands..
We did this with a hand hacksaw. The angle grinder stinks very much and it is surely not good for you. It is a pain.
I would go hacksaw or reciprocating saw if you can get one Maybe even aviation snip depending on how tough the wires are .
i was hoping for some sort of organic goop i could paint on and it would turn the tyre into fertalizer (repeated applications of oil over 20 years may have achieved this) perhaps the faireys are at it already;}
Plastic-Eating Bacteria by Michael Crichton from The Andromeda ... www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=1663Plastic-Eating Bacteria by Michael Crichton: Mutated bacteria able to 'eat' or dissolve rubber and plastic. (Text quote, book citation included.)