Mahoning Valley Forum

A new business has started on Mahoning Avenue in Youngstown.  These colorful flower pots are made by cutting old tires, turning them inside out , and then painting the tire.  The entire production is done by hand at this location.


Some Thoughts
I guess this is a form of tire recycling.
The business has low operating expenses. There's no water, electric, or heating bills.
;)

I remember seeing a few of these in a front yard on the South Side, but cannot
recall exactly where.... I think the people living in the house were older folks...


:)

  In the 70's I made able 100 of them. You need a really sharp knife. I sold them for $5. each

With all the unemployed people in the city maybe we should start a large business . We would be cleaning up the city and helping them make money   

Councilman, I'll donate the tires, they keep dumping them on the eastside.

   You can only use tires with rims, I;m sure people take the rims to the scrap yards.

Councilman, we have one convert.  I actually seem to be putting a green project together with Irishbob, you should google the "hydraulic ram pump" and see the great potential for all our streams, creeks, and rivers.  This old technology actually is vary afforadable and can bring attention to our area.  I still see no response from all the YTown renaissance people here, so I told Alden to hold off on a meeting with Cedars.

JRS, I forgot to thank you for coming to the store with Jo this morning, sorry about the funeral you were attending.  If we had time, I wanted to tell you about the calls I have been getting from the gas drillers today, I really think the city needs to come up with a strategy on it's landbank land for gas revenue, call me and we can talk.  This morning was such a nice day, at 8 Am I went to dig at the eastside farm and I was met by two geese and two mallards, the eastside is beautiful farm country.

I do not like these at all and would not promote such a thing. The recycling aspect is good; the appearance of the container is not.

Mary,

you just need to get in touch with your inner Fred Sanford.

Quote from: Mary_Krupa on March 23, 2010, 10:36:08 PM
I do not like these at all and would not promote such a thing. The recycling aspect is good; the appearance of the container is not.

I kind of agree.  They're like those plastic pink flamingos - but more useful.  ;D

I would consider using one if it were partially buried, though; so that only a small portion of the lip was exposed.  There's no way invasive roots would make it through that.

you can make a nice flowerbed out of the old tire using ivory, vines and climbing roses and such then you would not notice the tires. people uses them to plant pototoes too.

I personally would not plant anything that I was going to eat in a tire.  The tires when set out in the sun heat up and can emit toxins.  They are also saying that the rubber mulch made from recycled tires that has become popular during the last few years may not be good for kids play areas for the same reason.  I don't personally have any experience with this, but it is easy to google this topic.  There are lots of article out there about the hazards of tires. 

Yes, I probably need to get in touch with my inner (tube) Fred Sanford but I figure so many people in Youngstown run their own junk yards that mine would not be necessary.