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This is really just an idea that I been beating around a while... well a few weeks, ok maybe a few days..
Anybody will do but I spect BunkerBob to jump in first...
I like the EarthShip concept, old tires are everywhere and most tire shops will give you all you want to avoid paying to get rid of them... but I ain't into packing and pounding them with dirt, all well and good and very "green" but not my cuppa..
So, anybody got any idea how to figure the math on taking say a standard 15" pickup tire and filling it with concrete , like how much would it take or..how may tires would a yard of mud fill?
I been thinking about a wall say stair stepping...with the bottom two rows high of tires stacked in an over lapped pattern and 3 deep then filled with concrete then two rows two deep and filled etc up to a height of say 9 ft all interlocked and filled with rebar stuffed in anyplace you can get it..
Anyway I think yawl get the picture..I was thinking that with laminated beams supported in the middle spanning across then decked over and sealed and then some concrete over that and earth covering the whole mess..with the front being tires up to about half way to the roof ... then framed... stud out the inside run some wiring as needed and good to go...
Is this something that would work? I'm thinking that with tires and concrete it would be cheaper in the long run then poured walls only 8" thick...
be hell for stout and no tornado will move it an inch!... cool in summer and easy to heat in winter..
anyway just an idea but I don't have the math to figure the amount of concrete it would take.... so any help??
HB
Anybody will do but I spect BunkerBob to jump in first...
I like the EarthShip concept, old tires are everywhere and most tire shops will give you all you want to avoid paying to get rid of them... but I ain't into packing and pounding them with dirt, all well and good and very "green" but not my cuppa..
So, anybody got any idea how to figure the math on taking say a standard 15" pickup tire and filling it with concrete , like how much would it take or..how may tires would a yard of mud fill?
I been thinking about a wall say stair stepping...with the bottom two rows high of tires stacked in an over lapped pattern and 3 deep then filled with concrete then two rows two deep and filled etc up to a height of say 9 ft all interlocked and filled with rebar stuffed in anyplace you can get it..
Anyway I think yawl get the picture..I was thinking that with laminated beams supported in the middle spanning across then decked over and sealed and then some concrete over that and earth covering the whole mess..with the front being tires up to about half way to the roof ... then framed... stud out the inside run some wiring as needed and good to go...
Is this something that would work? I'm thinking that with tires and concrete it would be cheaper in the long run then poured walls only 8" thick...
be hell for stout and no tornado will move it an inch!... cool in summer and easy to heat in winter..
anyway just an idea but I don't have the math to figure the amount of concrete it would take.... so any help??
HB