That's sorta the point. These building methods are supremely cost-efficient in those locations and situations where labor is cheap and sophisticated materials are expensive.
I dunno... Tires are fully recyclable so they have scrap value. I did a brief search and found one site saying they'd pay $1.16 for passenger car tires. That's pretty cheap building material but looks like I could probably only set about 2 tires an hour. Someone in better shape than me might be able to do 4 an hour.
That pretty well describes me.
I dunno... Tires are fully recyclable so they have scrap value. I did a brief search and found one site saying they'd pay $1.16 for passenger car tires. That's pretty cheap building material but looks like I could probably only set about 2 tires an hour. Someone in better shape than me might be able to do 4 an hour.
That pretty well describes me.
I'm rather cost conscience with my labor these days, tho. I can see how it could be worth it with essentially free labor. It would depend a lot on what the wall is for, too. I could see using a dirt filled tire wall to hold up the back side of a shooting berm.
I've seen pneumatic dirt tampers used on graves.
yeah... about that
Yeah, if you could get a foot for a vibratory compactor that would fit inside the tire it would make quick work of it. I was also theorizing in my head how I could attach something to the front loader of my tractor and compact like three tires at once. Not sure if that would adequately fill the sidewalls, tho. It looks like the dirt really needs to be squeezed in there.
Is it one of those pneumatic units that jump up with each impact?
