Things made from tyres

It has become a bit of a running joke with Joe to find tasteful, useful and creative things you can make with tyres.  We are still trying to find anything that qualifies on all three categories at once…

Meanwhile I’ll put any interesting photos in this thread.  Latest photos first, so come back here for Exciting Updates later… (I’ll also put a new date on the whole post if I add another picture, whoo-hoo how thoughtful I am.)

Last one in France is supporting (or being) a goat’s food supply.

Stopping a goat from knocking its water/food bowl over.  Although I am surprised that the goat hasn’t yet tried converting the tyre into a tasty afternoon snack – maybe it has only just been put there.

A very traditional use for a tyre, but a marvellous collection and tastefully laid out too.  And partly I took this because I didn’t want the next photo to be the last in this chain.

Hmm.  Biker vs Give Way Sign.

OK this one needs a bit of explanation. As you can see, there are various frames sticking out of this derelict mill building, and someone has thoughtfully put tyres on them so that you don’t… what?  It won’t stop you bumping into them.  The result of a large-scale game of hoopla perhaps?

But the reason I took this is that I failed to take a picture of a garage forecourt just before Bazas where someone had installed a set of truncated-pyramid concrete bollards and someone else had put a motorcycle front tyre round each one.
“Pierre.”
“Yes, Henri?”
“You know those bollards you have put up to stop the customers driving into our nice shiny shopfront?”
“Yes, very effective aren’t they?”
“Hmm yes, but now the customers are driving into the bollards instead.”
“Ha yes I know that is exactly the point, and look at the fine collection of different colour paints we are collecting on them.”
“Yes but the customers’ wives are getting very cross and saying they must go to another garage, it is too expensive for them to come here because they scrape their car every time.”
“Zut alors, that was not the idea at all.  Let me ask Guillaume, our young apprentice who also races motorcycles, if he has any thoughts on how to fix it.”
It is possible that that dialogue needs a bit more creative work.

Here we are having a small but necessary snack in a grassy area in the centre of a village, and there is a tyre, upright and unexplained, on the grass.  We eventually decided it was there in order to frame a creative photograph of one of the houses.  The photograph would have been more creative and better framed if the photographer (me) had not been unwilling to lie on the ground to take it.

An attractive and practical seat.  Simply paint your tyre in the pastel colour of your choice, weave some string across to support a cushion, add a cushion (not shown in exhibit) and bingo! A seat!  At least, that’s what we think it is.  All other views very welcome.

Fenders!  Mainly interesting because it reminds you that tyres come in different sizes.  These, I think, are kart tyres.  Joe says that the swan has inspired him to commission a group-noun (flock, bunch, ballet…) of them in different sizes – here is a possible cygnet-size.

Snow White and the Five Dwarfs garden ornament in Petra, Lesvos (there were actually two of these, one either side of the path, but Snow Whites and the Ten Dwarfs seems a bit excessive I am sure you will agree).

Archaeologists’ buckets in the Troy excavations: