Does anyone know how to turn a car tire insideout?

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I was wondering if anyone knows how to turn a car tire inside out. I want to put my herbs in them so the herbs won't spread and take over the garden.

-- miller (smillers@snowcrest.net), December 10, 2001

Answers

Go find a very well anchored vise, drop one of the tires sidewall into it, the sidewall away from you, clamp it down and call the neighbor that most resembles a gorilla.

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), December 10, 2001.

LOL

-- miller (smillers@snowcrest.net), December 10, 2001.

Why not just cut the tire in half. Then turning it inside out will be a lot easier. Give you a long rubber trough to plant in.

-- Gary (gws@columbus.rr.com), December 10, 2001.

Pick the worst looking sidewall. Now right where the tread meets the sidewall, use a sharp utility knife and cut the one sidewall completely off. You can make triangles, or scallops, etc along the cut that will show decoratively when you turn tire inside out which should be easy at this point assuming you used normal soft sidewalled car tire. Truck tires are harder to turn inside out since they have much stiffer sidewalls. Cutting the sidewall off also gives you lot more planting room and if you made the zigzags or scallops when cutting sidewall out they now stick out in nice decorative pattern. Now bolt a piece of sheet metal or plastic over the hole in remaining sidewall and you have a feed trough. Might even seal the sheetmetal to the sidewall with silicone and you'd have a water pan.

-- HermitJohn (hermit@hilltop_homestead.zzn.com), December 10, 2001.

I just saw how to do this on TV the other day. How to make planters and such. I think it was a Christopher Llowell show. Very neat. I think it will be a struggle but was pretty cool to see the finished product. The fellow doing it made it look really easy. We know better.

-- Gailann Schrader (gtschrader@aol.com), December 10, 2001.


Hermit: Is it really possible to slice up a tire sidewall with even the toughest utility knife?

A Sawzall would be my weapon of choice.

Nice suggestions, though.

-- Audie (paxtours@alaska.net), December 10, 2001.


I've cut one with a power jig saw (big teeth on the blade) then put it cut side down stand on the rim edge, smash down the hump,[I have to use a cinder block(s)] flip the cut edge with a wrench [that is in place to start with] when one spot goes keep your foot (blocks) on it and slide and flip the edge all the way around,

or.... if you have a stump that is the right size, put the rim edge down on the stump, have alot of people sit, stand push or what ever on the cut side until it rolls out, [this way seems like alot of fun to drunk people]

or if your doing alot, make a turning jig, it is made of welded iron that has a slot as long as the width of the tread on the tires, you then cut off the desired amount of sidewall, and work rhe cut edge down into the slot, then you can flip the whole tire over and the tool holds it, forcing the turn, hold the turn with a large wrench and 'walk the turn around in the slot, volla.........

-- Thumper (slrldr@yahoo.com), December 10, 2001.


Put it on a Ford Explorer?

-- Earthmama (earthmama48@yahoo.com), December 10, 2001.

:-) take your car to a city....where they will slit your tires for you......

-- Mary R. (cntryfolk@ime.net), December 10, 2001.

Answer to the original question>>>>>

VERY CAREFULLY!

-- Jim-mi (hartalteng@voyager.net), December 10, 2001.



Here is where to find a good article on the subject. Go to www.kurtsaxon.com/ Then click on ths subject "survival foods" (in the column on the left) Then click on the title "making & selling tire gardens".

-- Ed Copp (OH) (edcopp@yahoo.com), December 10, 2001.

Audie, for sure it is possible to cut tire sidewall with sharp utility knife. The trick is to press down and in on tire bead as you cut so knife blade doesnt bind. I havent made one of these planters for a while. (use to make them to get rid of my excess tires at local junk auction until it got so I couldnt even give them away) However I still occasionally need to cut rectangle of tire sidewall to make my own exhaust hanger for vehicles. Again no problem cutting if you pay attention to not bind the knife blade.

-- HermitJohn (Hermit@hilltop_homestead.zzn.com), December 11, 2001.

Ed Copp, that KurtSaxon website has very well written articles on survival food. I couldnt agree more with his commentary of hunger in America. I like his thermos idea for cooking grain. As to his drawings showing how to turn tire inside out, not sure its too helpful, but dont know that I could do anybetter. Just need to experiment and find own technique to use. Really not hard with average soft sidewall car tire.

-- HermitJohn (Hermit@hilltop_homestead.zzn.com), December 11, 2001.

Again a normal question brings out all the 'nuts'. Their is a machine made to turn tires inside out. Also there is a person that will bring the machine to your farm and do it for you if you have a large number to do. I think he is from KS or NE they turn tractor tires inside out and use them to feed hay and silage to cattle. Check in the High Plains Journal (www.hpj.com) he used to run an ad buzz

-- buzz (smhamp@yahoo.com), December 12, 2001.

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