Hi Brad,
Welcome! Tire shingles is a great project. I added your username to the bottom, as the author (so readers would understand who was meant by I and me). Hope that's okay. I also did a little bit of linking, and added a category. --Singkong2005 · talk 18:10, 20 November 2006 (PST)
Cheers Brad and Tire shingles,
Thanks for sharing information on your Tire shingles engagements and hopes. Caught a note off the link:https://www.appropedia.org/Tire_shingles , about your outlooks on further tire recycling methods. Sharing the possibility of applying magnetic balls with ferromagnetic arrangements ( learnt from some previous work referenced to Tellegen ). Rubber tire burning in addition to tires collecting water for mosquito breeding is equally a serious Health, Safety and Environment issue. Looking forward to getting around the facts and figures starting from Nigeria as an operational and observational field. Very encouraged by the rubber roof tiling project you did for the coop. The pictures from the rubber roof tiling project made some previous ideas about using rubber cuts for solar-panel frames visible. Thanks and looking forward to learning and sharing more with you.
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A followup on rubber tire roof would be interesting[edit source]
I'm in the deep South and would be interested in a followup on this article concerning the long term durability of this roof. With our heat and humidity, I wonder about condensation under the shingles as well as UV durability of the roof. There are a lot of racetracks around here and I'm sure I could find plenty of free tires.
On another note, I've often thought about roofing a shed with corrugated plastic signs. The UV would probably kill them pretty quick, but maybe you could coat them with an elastomeric coating like you put on the roofs of mobile homes or some other roof coating to stop the UV rays. Corrugated plastic signs might be a good material for a starter strip for the rubber tire roof also as they're less than a 1/4" thick.
At any rate, great article. I know it's old and you might not see this, but appreciate your efforts!
Sam
P.S. I saw a video somewhere where people were using a log splitter to cut tires up. They ran the splitter wedge against a wood block and it cut right through the tire clean.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Farmer Sam, 10:16, 2 July 2023
- @Farmer Sam I'm not User:Brad Thompson but I did see this comment and thought it was super insightful. This was an old project, probably led by User:Lonny a while ago, maybe he might be interested in a new student project considering this idea? —Emilio (talk) 19:31, 3 July 2023 (UTC)