I am looking for old tires. As long as it will hold in dirt if put on its side, it is good to go. Dry rotted, full of holes, sidewall ripped off, still good to go.

Using these to build a wall out of tires filled with dirt set over posts for a project. getting new tires soon? save a disposal fee, let me have the old ones, not the tire place.

3/20/2009 10:47:57 PM

i got about 12 or so tires, bunch of different sizes, come get em

3/21/2009 6:23:46 PM

wish i had known about this earlier. i had 4 ready to go.

3/22/2009 3:17:27 AM

I have some! Where are you located? Trying to get rid of them asap.
Can you use motorcycle sized tires as well?

3/22/2009 11:39:38 AM

I will take any that folks are willing to drop off here, called it a no fee tire disposal spot. Once I get those, one of the junkyards in nash county has agreed to let me haul all all I want if I pick them up.

3/22/2009 1:00:16 PM

Redneck bomb shelter?

3/22/2009 1:32:13 PM

nah. The current shooting range we have is 125 and 250 yard distances. 125 yard backstop is in a valley with a built up berm, so no matter how badly you miss, it still goes into the hill on the other side. 250 yard backstop is a berm further down the valley at an angle to the first range.

Currently the pistol range is 2-3 portable target frames set up 10-25 yards from the bench on the 125 yard range.

We have a new pistol range marked out on another section of the property, that will be a 3 lane 25 yard range, backstop will be tires set around a post and backfilled with clay. Backstop will be 10 foot high, 15 wide, 5 foot thick, with wings of tires along the sides of the lane to help contain shots that miss to the side.

Got the first rough clearing down on the range done this weekend, and the metal frames for the shooting benches built. Gotta get all the tires in place and filled, and have a sawblade equipped trimmer on loan next weekend to clear off the saplings and stumps in the lane. Planning to have at least 1 lane set up with an overhead cable and a sliding target frame.

3/22/2009 3:08:51 PM

aren't you setting yourself up for the fail w/ ricochets here?

3/23/2009 12:04:15 AM

from rubber tires?

Most of the professional bullet traps, other than the classic sand bank type, are Steel plates, with or without a deceleration area and a trap to make collecting the powdered bullets faster, or rubber, or both. The big ones are shredded rubber under a rubber sheet, the thin ones are rubber bricks made from recycled tire.

I get bounce back on a regular basis, low velocity of course, on ranges with metal plate stop systems. I have never had a bounce back from a dirt bank backstop, or from a tire backstop.

3/23/2009 12:10:23 AM

the surface is gonna be tough to penetrate and they'll be hard once you've filled them with earth--seems like a good candidate for bounce back to me

3/23/2009 12:30:55 AM

I have never seen a tire stop a 22LR round, much less any larger pistol rounds.

3/23/2009 1:26:08 AM

It'll be fine.^.

I was planning on using tires & railroad ties.

3/23/2009 2:46:10 AM

just make sure not to have railroad ties close tot he face of the berm, as they soak up lead over the years, they start to bounce the occasional round. Low velocity bounce back, but still.

3/23/2009 5:59:18 PM

Quote :

"I have never seen a tire stop a 22LR round, much less any larger pistol rounds."

.22LR rounds just splatter

3/23/2009 6:05:48 PM