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make a turkey house out of tyres?

Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 10:02 pm
by Mrs H
Random question I know, however we need a turkey house and we have no money and r landlord sells cars and loads of old tyres......and so the thought process begun!! I know in houses they fill the tyres but we havnt got anything to fill them with so all ideas r gratefully received. It doesn't need to be overly tall really and we have a couple of spare wooden doors that someone gave us. To be honest I'm struggling with ideas for the roof!! Xx

Re: make a turkey house out of tyres?

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 9:42 am
by Davie Crockett
you could make rammed earth walls with the tyres. Stack them layer by layer filling them with earth and ramming it in hard with a post/lump hammer. Overlap your next layer as in brickwork. use smaller tyres to infill at the door. if you make a circular building, you won't need to worry about corners. The roof could be covered with a Tarpaulin and pole arrangement (Like a shallow teepee).