I think it will be clear from the picture: why cut the tire. Indeed, they do not rot and do not creep from the sun-frost. Accidental blows, unlike asbestos-cement sheet, do not harm them. After all, there are many applications for rubber strips. Even if you don’t edging, like mine, the beds. Even if not cut a tire on the tape, the hoops obtained from it, can be used as a compost bin or vertical bed. Yes, I have to hear a lot that, they say, it is harmful and terrible and all that ... I do not know. But my ants, just near the rubber, arrange their summer incubator masonry where they keep their pupae. If rubber had been harmful, I don't think they would have worked that way. And if they are not afraid, then it’s somehow not good for me either.
OK. Everyone decides this question for himself. But who decided to cut the tire for their needs - here are some tips:
You need to start cutting the tire with a boot knife. We carry out several times one and the same cut, pressing on the board, so that the cut diverges and cut through. Now we insert a good knife into the incision, sharpen it towards us (I made a special cutter from an industrial hacksaw blade) and cut it with an upward movement, simultaneously bending the cut to the side. Cut the tire how bread is cut - no need. Rip up the rubber. And it is not necessary for the knife to be razor-sharp: a slight sawtooth burr is only beneficial. 
You can cut hoops into ribbons with an ordinary, small grinder. Just take care that the wind is not on the neighbors, otherwise you cannot avoid an untranslatable pun (in one of the local dialects) because this is a smelly business. BUT! The rubber is nicely cut with a grinder, the metal cord is also striped with it and ... In general, cutting a tire is a quick matter, if you see how once.
As an example, why do we need cut tires, I can bring to your attention
It's always nice to make something useful out of a junk thing, and if the craft is also beautiful, it's a double pleasure. One example is tire crafts. They make decorations for a summer cottage or garden plot, various flowerpots and flower beds, build children's attractions and even make country furniture - tables and armchairs.
Beds and flower beds made of tires
Let's start with the most, perhaps, simple flower beds and flower beds. Do you think it is difficult to make a multi-tiered one? Maybe, but not from tires. Take several pieces of different sizes, paint in bright colors and fold them in a slide - one on top of the other. To prevent your slide from falling apart, fasten the tires from the inside with a screwdriver and self-tapping screws. Two for one connection will suffice. You fill up the soil inside, plant the plants. To prevent the soil from spilling out, you can cover the tire inside with a piece. It will remove excess water, but will not let the earth get enough sleep. A beautiful tiered flower garden is ready.
If you like flower beds of the correct shape, you can make these. For example, by folding a flower bed in the shape of a chamomile from tires. First, the tires are laid out and fastened together in the lower tier. Fill the middle of the tires with earth, as well as the free space inside the circle. Broken brick or other construction waste can be placed there for better drainage, sprinkled with earth a little on top and tamped. The second tier is laid out on the prepared surface, stepping back from the edge by more than half the diameter of the tire. They are also fastened together, the middle is covered with soil, and the core is placed on top. Tall flowers can be planted at the very top, and curb or low-growing flowers on the lower tiers.
Another option for a flower bed made of tires in the form of chamomile is in one tier. To complete it, you will have to cut the tires.
How to cut tires
In general, when making crafts from tires, they often need to be cut. This is far from easy. It is more or less easy to cut the side surface from the tread. People with strong hands and good knives do it by hand. A good workout, by the way, for the hands and the entire shoulder girdle. If you are going to cut with a knife, lubricate the blade with grease: rubber constantly "wedges" the metal, and the blade covered with grease slips well.
You can also cut off the sidewall with a jigsaw or a grinder. Cutting with a grinder is relatively quick, but the stench is wild. Therefore, with a grinder, even if there is one, only the first cut is made so that the jigsaw file can be inserted. Then they work with this tool. For cutting rubber, take a reverse tooth blade made of good steel.
If you have to cut the protector, doing it with a jigsaw, or even more so with a knife, is useless. Anyway, with an ordinary knife. Blades made of special steel can cut even an iron cord, but hardly anyone wants to disfigure such a tool on an old tire. Therefore, they work most often with a grinder. To avoid trouble, the protector is fixed: always think about safety. If the sidewalls have already been cut off, the tread band is quite elastic and can be squeezed with a clamp. When cut, it will not spring back.
Flowerpot from the wheel: turn out the tires
If you have a tire with an old rim, you can make a flowerpot with a leg out of it.
To do this, cut one sidewall along the tread. And they turn it inside out. This is not an easy matter: considerable physical strength and perseverance are required. Rubber is elastic and you can't turn it out the first time. If nothing at all, notches are made on the outside across the tread. They should be quite deep, but not cross-cutting. It will also help if you make cuts along the edge with a depth of at least 5-7 centimeters. They will look like a fringe on an inverted tire.
Why do they turn it out? The inner surface is smoother, and the shape can turn out to be more interesting, especially if the edge is not linear, but jagged. You will get a gracefully bent decoration.
For details on how to turn the tire out, see the video.
Likewise, you can turn out a tire without a rim. The sequence of actions is the same. First, cut off one of the sidewalls - straight or zigzag. To make the "petals" even, it is advisable to mark them. It is convenient to do this with chalk. At the mark, they are then cut with a jigsaw or a knife (if the cord is synthetic).
They turn it out like this: they step on the inside of the tire, grab the edge with their hands and pull up and towards themselves. It is important to achieve the first result: when at least some part bends. If the tire looks like the photo below, it is already a success. It is developed by sequentially turning the edge inside out and standing on the already turned out part - so that it does not turn out back.
Watch the process again in the video. This time, the tire is turned inside out without a wheel (cut, by the way, with a knife).
Even in itself, such a tire turned inside out looks good. If you paint it, it gets even better. If desired, they can be combined - different colors, sizes, differently set: on the bus or on the legs.
A high flower bed always looks beautiful. Especially with ampelous plants. It can also be made from tires, and there are several possibilities. In the photo below, there are two ways to secure the trimmed tires at different levels. The first is to use hemp for this, to which the flowerpots are attached with nails or self-tapping screws. The second is to use fittings - three four rods, on which to put on rubber. Having set the tier at the required level, it must be fixed; on metal, this can only be done with the help of clamps.
It is not always possible to put a flowerpot on the ground: some areas are so developed that it is problematic to single out one square meter. For this case, the people came up with various hanging flowerpots, and also - from old tires. Only a small part of the whole tire remains, so you have to cut a lot ... be patient. For example, you can make hanging pots in the shape of a dolphin, parrot, rooster and other outlandish birds. See not a photo for a few ideas.
Tire cache-pot - parrot, rooster and dolphin
All these crafts are made from tires. Only a small part of them - the heads - are often made of dense foam. Having cut and polished a part of the desired shape, it is fastened with self-tapping screws, smeared with glue (this is a secret, remember), and then paint. How to make a parrot out of a tire, see the video.
Below are laid out step-by-step photos, which capture the main stages of creating a table or ottoman from a tire. You will need two more circles of plywood or fiberboard of a suitable diameter; hemp rope is used for finishing. From the materials at hand, you will need glue and a glue gun, as well as varnish and a brush for applying it. To connect the circles with the tire, you will also need self-tapping screws - 8-10 pieces on each side.
Next, we take a glue gun and heat up the glue, apply it to the sidewall. If there is no such luxury in the household, take glue, which is in a larger tube, such as "liquid nails". It is easier for them to work with an assembly gun. Apply a strip to the sidewall, glue on the hemp rope. So - to the very top.
Using the same technology, we decorate the table cover (ottoman). You need to start laying from the middle: apply glue, lay the rope.
Finishing work - applying varnish. We do it slowly, soaking well. This is what you should get as a result. If you made a table, you can put glass on top - a rope, even varnished, is not the best covering for a table, although it is beautiful ...
Variety can be achieved with the cover. It can be sewn from a dense material you like.
Nice ottoman ...
Can be knitted - large knitting looks interesting.
Large knit knitted cover - looks interesting
If you don't feel like sewing and knitting, you can use old knitwear cut into strips. They are cut into long strips 3-5 cm thick, wound into balls and then wrapped around an ottoman. It turns out interesting, especially if several colors are combined.
If you need a taller ottoman, twist the two tires together with self-tapping screws, and work with them in this form.
See another option in the video.
The modern industry produces many different types of rubbers that are used in the most unexpected industries. Quite simply and quickly, you can find the necessary rubber gaskets or the necessary rubber blanks at the nearest bazaar. However, if you still need to make a rubber product with your own hands, then you will need a couple of simple tips on how to cut the rubber simply and neatly.
How to cut rubber with a knife:
Rubber can be quite varied in its properties, ranging from a very elastic and rather pliable material and ending with elastic durable rubber plates. The use of rubber can be found in a variety of ways, for example, cutting out a suitable sized water pad, a heel for boots, or a non-slip support for a glass surface. Many people cut all kinds of animals, swings, or make interior items from car tires. You can make flower beds from car tires, but for this you need to know how and with what to cut a car tire.
The secret is very simple, in order to neatly and simply cut a piece of rubber, you need a sharp knife, of course 🙂, and ordinary water.
A piece of elastic rubber, a sharp knife, and water. First, you need to outline the cut line (it was enough for me to just align the knife blade).
We begin to cut the rubber with a knife. Cutting thick rubber with a knife becomes rather difficult as the blade deepens into the thickness. The rubber begins to become viscous, and if you overdo it, the rubber can even melt. Whatever this happens, and the knife went through the rubber like clockwork, it must be moistened with water (and not oil, in no case moistened with oil).
We moisten the rubber with water and cut with a knife. When wet, the rubber becomes slippery, and the knife blade will not get stuck or melt the rubber, thereby you get a smooth and high-quality cut without much effort.
Water-cut rubber block. How to make a round hole in rubber:
Sometimes there is a need to cut rubber circles, for example, for non-slip legs under a stool, heels, or for spacers between two glasses. In order to cut smooth rubber mugs, you need to choose a metal pipe of a suitable diameter, you also need a piston suitable for the diameter of the tube.
A - metal tube, B - piston You need to sharpen the edge of the iron tube with a sharpener or file.
Honed iron tube After you sharpen the tube, you need to insert it into the drill chuck, moisten the rubber with water and just start drilling the holes, having previously laid a piece of wood.
We drill round rubber gaskets With the help of such a simple device and water, you can drill as many smooth, neat rubber rounds as you like (I use them to make non-slip feet for devices). A sharpened tube acts on the principle of a drill, but as the circles are drilled, it is filled with them, and in order to pull them out, a special piston is needed. You then simply push the rubber rounds out of the sharpened tube.
We squeeze the rubber bands out of the tube with a piston The main thing is not to forget to wet the rubber with water when drilling or cutting. It should be noted that it is much easier and more convenient to cut a circle using a sharpened tube than in the classical way - using a drill. However, if you need to drill through the rubber with a drill, this is also quite easy to do by sharpening it first, and periodically dipping the drill into water.
You need to drill rubber at low speeds and periodically wetting the cutting edge. However, if you need to drill a large block of rubber at high RPM, you want to submerge it completely in the water.
Drilling rubber in water with a drill. In the most extreme case, holes in thin rubber, as in plastic, can be melted by heating a drill shank or an iron tube with a lighter.
Rubber melted holes The main thing is to be careful when working with hot metal. Also remember that when overheated, rubber can emit toxic substances, therefore, melt holes under the hood or in a well-ventilated area. Observe all safety precautions even when drilling rubber.
It's always nice to make something useful out of a junk thing, and if the craft is also beautiful, it's a double pleasure. One example is tire crafts. They make decorations for a summer cottage or garden plot, various flowerpots and flower beds, build children's attractions and even make country furniture - tables and armchairs.
Beds and flower beds made of tires
Let's start with the most, perhaps, simple flower beds and flower beds. Do you think making a multi-tiered flower bed is difficult? Maybe, but not from tires. Take several pieces of different sizes, paint in bright colors and fold them in a slide - one on top of the other. To prevent your slide from falling apart, fasten the tires from the inside with a screwdriver and self-tapping screws. Two for one connection will suffice. You fill up the soil inside, plant the plants. To prevent the soil from spilling out, you can cover the tire inside with a piece of geotextile. It will remove excess water, but will not let the earth get enough sleep. A beautiful tiered flower garden is ready.
Tiered tire bed
If you like flower beds of the correct shape, you can make these. For example, by folding a flower bed in the shape of a chamomile from tires. First, the tires are laid out and fastened together in the lower tier. Fill the middle of the tires with earth, as well as the free space inside the circle. Broken brick or other construction waste can be placed there for better drainage, sprinkled with earth a little on top and tamped. The second tier is laid out on the prepared surface, stepping back from the edge by more than half the diameter of the tire. They are also fastened together, the middle is covered with soil, and the core is placed on top. Tall flowers can be planted at the very top, and curb or low-growing flowers on the lower tiers.
Another way to make a tiered flower bed from tires
Another option for a flower bed made of tires in the form of chamomile is in one tier. To complete it, you will have to cut the tires.
Flowerbed-chamomile from tires
How to cut tires
In general, when making crafts from tires, they often need to be cut. This is far from easy. It is more or less easy to cut the side surface from the tread. People with strong hands and good knives do it by hand. A good workout, by the way, for the hands and the entire shoulder girdle. If you are going to cut with a knife, lubricate the blade with grease: rubber constantly "wedges" the metal, and the blade covered with grease slips well.
You can also cut off the sidewall with a jigsaw or a grinder. Cutting with a grinder is relatively quick, but the stench is wild. Therefore, with a grinder, even if there is one, only the first cut is made so that the jigsaw file can be inserted. Then they work with this tool. For cutting rubber, take a reverse tooth blade made of good steel.
Tires with cut edges can be used to make a tall strawberry bed
If you have to cut the protector, doing it with a jigsaw, or even more so with a knife, is useless. Anyway, with an ordinary knife. Blades made of special steel can cut even an iron cord, but hardly anyone wants to disfigure such a tool on an old tire. Therefore, they work most often with a grinder. To avoid trouble, the protector is fixed: always think about safety. If the sidewalls have already been cut off, the tread band is quite elastic and can be squeezed with a clamp. When cut, it will not spring back.
Read about how to make a small body of water out of a tire.
Flowerpot from the wheel: turn out the tires
If you have a tire with an old rim, you can make a flowerpot with a leg out of it.
Flowerpot from an old car wheel
To do this, cut one sidewall along the tread. And they turn it inside out. This is not an easy matter: considerable physical strength and perseverance are required. Rubber is elastic and you can't turn it out the first time. If nothing at all, notches are made on the outside across the tread. They should be quite deep, but not cross-cutting. It will also help if you make cuts along the edge with a depth of at least 5-7 centimeters. They will look like a fringe on an inverted tire.
Why do they turn it out? The inner surface is smoother, and the shape can turn out to be more interesting, especially if the edge is not linear, but jagged. You will get a gracefully bent decoration.
Another option for a flowerpot from a tire
For details on how to turn the tire out, see the video.
Likewise, you can turn out a tire without a rim. The sequence of actions is the same. First, cut off one of the sidewalls - straight or zigzag. To make the "petals" even, it is advisable to mark them. It is convenient to do this with chalk. At the mark, they are then cut with a jigsaw or a knife (if the cord is synthetic).
The process of turning an old tire into a flower garden
They turn it out like this: they step on the inside of the tire, grab the edge with their hands and pull up and towards themselves. It is important to achieve the first result: when at least some part bends. If the tire looks like the photo below, it is already a success. It is developed by sequentially turning the edge inside out and standing on the already turned out part - so that it does not turn out back.
Turning out a tire without a rim
Watch the process again in the video. This time, the tire is turned inside out without a wheel (cut, by the way, with a knife).
Even in itself, such a tire turned inside out looks good. If you paint it, it gets even better. If desired, they can be combined - different colors, sizes, differently set: on the bus or on the legs.
Installation options
A high flower bed always looks beautiful. Especially with ampelous plants. It can also be made from tires, and there are several possibilities. In the photo below, there are two ways to secure the trimmed tires at different levels. The first is to use hemp for this, to which the flowerpots are attached with nails or self-tapping screws. The second is to use fittings - three four rods, on which to put on rubber. Having set the tier at the required level, it must be fixed; on metal, this can only be done with the help of clamps.
Multi-tiered high tire beds
It is not always possible to put a flowerpot on the ground: some areas are so developed that it is problematic to single out one square meter. For this case, the people came up with various hanging flowerpots, and also - from old tires. Only a small part of the whole tire remains, so you have to cut a lot ... be patient. For example, you can make hanging pots in the shape of a dolphin, parrot, rooster and other outlandish birds. See not a photo for a few ideas.
Tire cache-pot - parrot, rooster and dolphin
All these crafts are made from tires. Only a small part of them - the heads - are often made of dense foam. Having cut and polished a part of the desired shape, it is fastened with self-tapping screws, smeared with glue (this is a secret, remember), and then paint. How to make a parrot out of a tire, see the video.
A cut tire can be used to make a garden path that will last for many years.
Garden Tire Crafts
The imagination of people is limitless and they make amazing decorations from old car tires. The most common crafts are figures of birds and animals. And perhaps the most beloved character is the swan. It turns out to be graceful and similar, especially if you know some tricks.
Tire swans
The main task in the manufacture of figures for the garden from tires is the correct marking. For example, those swans in the photo above do not have their heads cut out quite correctly. It can be made more believable by making a sharp beak. An example of a tire cut is shown in the photo below. Cutting such lines is certainly harder, but the result is impressive.
How to carve a swan out of an old tire
Along the lines drawn, the tire is cut, then the wings are turned outward. In this case, the neck bends quite steeply. In order to be able to change this bend, a metal plate can be screwed to it with self-tapping screws. When everything is covered with paint, nothing will be visible, and the tilt of the head can be changed, which is also quite relevant. Often a swan is "put" in a nest from another tire. Then it must be attached with self-tapping screws: the figure must hold well and be stable.
There is one more improvement - the wings. They can be left as they are, you can cut feathers out of rubber, or you can make feathers from white plastic bottles (6 feathers are obtained from one liter bottle), attach them to the net. Then such a bird will turn out ...
The body of these decorative swans is made of tires, and all parts are made of scrap materials.
How to make a swan from a tire - from cutting to finishing - see the video.
Using a similar technology, numerous figures can be made to decorate a plot or garden. The easiest way is to make a frog: the body is one or two tires painted green, the legs can be made from scraps of sidewalls or some other materials, the eyes - who will come up with what - someone even made from plastic cups or small tires, apparently from a baby carriage ...
Tire frog
They also make bears, flamingos, dragons, crocodiles, giraffes, zebras, donkeys ... it's easier to say who they don't. See some of the tire crafts in the photo gallery.
It's very easy to make a bear out of old tires Bears out of tires with your own hands are very easy to make Outlandish palm trees turn green even in winter A donkey from a half of a tire - a muzzle made of a piece of wood A stork made of tires - is rare ... ))) Dragon from tires - kids will love Zebra and giraffe are made according to a similar principle - the difference in neck length and color
You can make rides for a playground out of tires. Especially a lot of fascinating crafts are obtained for boys: self-propelled guns, cannons, cars, tractors ... they will definitely like it.
A children's racing car made of tires is also suitable for a kindergarten playground Tractor will cause no less delight Multi-seat sports car A motorcycle with a sidecar made of old tires ... perhaps not only kids
Garden and country furniture made of tires
It's hard to believe, but even furniture is made of tires: ottomans, tables, armchairs. all this can be done from an old tire. The easiest way is to make ottomans: put several tires of the same diameter (or not) one on top of the other, fasten them from the inside with self-tapping screws. Fill the top with dense furniture foam rubber, sew and put on a cover. If you wish, you can attach the legs: at least screw the furniture wheels: it is easier to move and the floor does not stain, the second way is to fix the felt from below (on staples from the stapler).
Below are laid out step-by-step photos, which capture the main stages of creating a table or ottoman from a tire. You will need two more circles of plywood or fiberboard of a suitable diameter; hemp rope is used for finishing. From the materials at hand, you will need glue and a glue gun, as well as varnish and a brush for applying it. To connect the circles with the tire, you will need a screwdriver and self-tapping screws - 8-10 pieces on each side.
An ottoman or table from an old tire
Next, we take a glue gun and heat up the glue, apply it to the sidewall. If there is no such luxury in the household, take glue, which is in a larger tube, such as "liquid nails". It is easier for them to work with an assembly gun. Apply a strip to the sidewall, glue on the hemp rope. So - to the very top.
We glue the sides with hemp rope
Using the same technology, we decorate the table cover (ottoman). You need to start laying from the middle: apply glue, lay the rope.
Decorating the table cover
Finishing work - applying varnish. We do it slowly, soaking well. This is what you should get as a result. If you made a table, you can put glass on top - a rope, even varnished, is not the best covering for a table, although it is beautiful ...
Such an ottoman-table turned out to be both an old tire and a hemp rope
Variety can be achieved with the cover. It can be sewn from a dense material you like.
Nice ottoman ...
Can be knitted - large knitting looks interesting.
Knitted large knit cover - looks interesting
If you don't feel like sewing and knitting, you can use old knitwear cut into strips. They are cut into long strips 3-5 cm thick, wound into balls and then wrapped around an ottoman. It turns out interesting, especially if several colors are combined.
Cut the old knitwear into stripes, roll it into balls, wrap the ottoman with the top. The result is in front of you
The same technique in different colors
If you need a taller ottoman, twist the two tires together with self-tapping screws, and work with them in this form.
How to make a tall ottoman
This is the result of labor
See another option in the video.
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Do-it-yourself tire flower beds step-by-step instructions with photos and videos
It is always pleasant to make something beautiful and useful out of a junk thing. A vivid example of such creativity is beautiful flower beds made of tires. It is not difficult to build them, but the benefits from them are enormous. But the fantasy of the summer cottages is not limited to this either. From old wheels, which are often just lying on the road and polluting the environment, they make outdoor furniture, sculptures for the garden, and even rebuild small children's towns.
What are tire crafts?
Such a simple and unsightly material at first glance, like old car tires, in fact, as if specially created so that every summer resident could feel like a real artist and decorate his site with real designer flower beds and original author's sculptures. You can cut from tires, without exaggeration, anything. Such crafts, along with those made from plastic bottles, will delight the eyes of the owners and guests of the dacha all year round, and most importantly, they will not require special financial investments.
It is also nice that the idea of making crafts with your own hands from tires is twofold: on the one hand, we dispose of a wheel that polluted the environment, and on the other, we get an original garden decoration or a flower bed.
Crafts from rubber used tires amaze with the variety and how rich the imagination of their authors is. Here are the most common ones:
In the photo - flower beds made of tires Small flower bed. The easiest way to make flower beds from tires is to leave the tire as it is, just paint it brightly and fill it with earth. Nothing complicated. Even a weak woman or child can cope with this, and such a flower garden will look great.
This photo shows cups made from old wheels. Flower beds made of old tires in the form of various objects. Making them harder. The tire is cut into two unequal parts and the larger one is turned inside out. It is worth noting that the edges of the tires can be made in various shapes, it's all about imagination and sleight of hand. In this technique, flower beds are made in the form of a mug, flower, vase. The huge rubber tire cup looks very funny. And some craftsmen, thus, build a whole tea set on their site.
Turtle from old wheels Flowerbeds and sculptures in the form of animals and fairy-tale characters. A funny frog made of tires, a kind gnome, a mysterious unicorn, beautiful swans, a three-headed dragon, a turtle, a luxurious carriage, a huge telephone - it's easier to list what is not made of this available material. The only condition is to think over the composition from the very beginning, so that there are no unpleasant surprises later.
In the photo - multi-tiered flower beds or berries
Multi-tiered flower beds from several tires. The simplest in execution is three-tiered, but the number of parts may be more. Several tires of the same or different sizes are stacked on top of each other or in a checkerboard pattern. A well made of tires looks spectacular, stylized as a real one and equipped with all its inherent attributes: a chain, a shaft with a visor, a bucket. Such a flower garden can also be used as a vertical bed for growing berries and vegetables.
Beds of strawberry tires A flower bed for strawberries made of tires will take up a minimum of space and give a rich harvest. It is perfect for growing seedlings, herbs, peppers. From such a flower bed, you can make a fence for a raspberry or currant bush, or make several of them and delimit the garden with them into cultural zones. It is worth mentioning that a well made of tires is often made not only decorative, but they mask a drainage pit or septic tank with it.
Experienced craftsmen and craftswomen know many secrets that help them create garden sculptures and flower beds from tires with their own hands. They understand best of all how to make unique and inimitable author's crafts out of old rubbish no one needs. Here are just a few of these secrets:
- Imported tires are best suited for work, since the rubber on them is softer and easier to cut. But in the absence of them, domestic products will also fit. In principle, they are also quite easy to process and allow you to give crafts from them different shapes.
- Tires intended for use on winter roads are more pliable, easier to cut and easier to handle than those used in summer.
- The longer the tire has been used and the more it is worn out, the thinner, softer and the easier it will be to work with it: cut and turn out.
- Before you start creating crafts, the material must be prepared: thoroughly cleaned of dirt, and degreased before painting.
- Use a sharp knife with a thin butt to cut car tires. You can check how well it is sharpened by running the blade along the notebook sheet, holding it in weight. If the knife does not cut or tear the paper, it is not sharp enough.
- It is more convenient to cut a car tire for garden crafts if you periodically lubricate the knife with machine oil. This will make it easier to fit into the rubber. Used oil will do as well.
- When you need to cut out some curly elements, markings are applied to the bus. It will help you achieve a more accurate and accurate result. It is most convenient to apply it with ordinary white chalk, as a last resort, with a marker.
- The durability of the craft depends on what paint to paint the rubber with. For old wheel tires, both car paints and any street paints are suitable.
- It is recommended to prime the surface of the tire before painting it. A primer with the addition of a small amount of PVA will increase the strength of the coating and reduce paint consumption.
- Paints in aerosol cans accelerate the coloring process up to 20-30 minutes, and the painted layer itself is made more uniform.
- Decorative trim can be made from scrap materials. For example, glue the surface with pebbles, bottle shards, or lay out pictures of colored plastic bottle caps.
It is better to paint a flower bed from a tire not only from the outside, but also from the inside. This will make them look more aesthetically pleasing, and the black rubber will not show through from the inside.
Of course, each master has his own secrets, and it is unrealistic to list them all. And when you take up this fascinating business - tire sculpture, they will certainly appear with you.
Several workshops on making crafts from old tires
As mentioned above, tire crafts are diverse. Their appearance and purpose are limited only by the imagination of the master. We invite you to familiarize yourself with the basic models. After familiarizing yourself with them, you will learn how to make a flower bed out of tires with your own hands and you will be able to create original, unlike other and useful garden accessories yourself.
Simple flower bed
A small flower bed, made like a chamomile from one tire, is the simplest basic model. You can make several such flower beds, arrange them hardly and decorate the approach to the house. They are sometimes placed on paved or tiled areas.
We need:
- One old tire.
- Sharp knife.
- Marker or chalk.
Mark the place of the cut with a marker. We will cut the tire along them, from thickening to thickening.
Before cutting the tires, make sure there are no metal cords in them that could ruin the knife. They are usually inserted into truck tires.
We cut the tire around the entire circumference with straight zigzag petals of any shape of your choice (triangular, oval, semicircular).
We turn over the tire and work with its reverse side. Leading the knife along the thickening, cut out a circle from the back of the tire.
Then, along the entire circumference inside the tire, approximately every 20-25 cm, we make transverse cuts from the cut edge to the bend (end of the tread).
After that, the tire must be turned out. The flower bed is ready. It remains only to paint it, giving it a more attractive look, fill it with earth and plant plants.
For more clarity, watch the following video:
Https://youtu.be/CYtQYhNb0NA
Garden flowerpot from an old wheel
You can make a beautiful garden vase from an old wheel in a short time. These flowerpots look best in a pair in front of the house, on opposite sides of the door or porch. Consider step by step a master class on their manufacture.
We need:
- Disc tire.
- Sharp knife.
- Chalk or marker.
With chalk or a marker, mark a zigzag line along the entire front circumference of the tire, along which we will begin to cut. Thanks to her, the flowerpot will look like a large flower with many petals.
We cut the tire along the marked line with a sharp knife. To facilitate the process, the knife is periodically dipped in machine oil (used oil is also suitable).
After the wheel is cut, we check if the cut sections are not left until the end, and proceed to turning it inside out. It is better to do this together with an assistant, slowly, in parts.
After we managed to turn out the tire for the future flower bed, it turned out that there is a camera in the wheel. It must be cut and thrown away.
The pot is ready. His bowl was made from the main part of the wheel. It is not necessary to remove the disc from the tire. It serves as an elevation and stand for the vase, and the remains of the tire at its base as an additional support.
We just have to clean, degrease and decide how beautifully to paint our new garden vase. When you put the earth in the bowl, do not forget to put a gasket on its bottom so that the earth does not spill out and make several holes in it to drain the water.
Video instructions for making a flowerpot:
Https://youtu.be/5qiq59BKY8M
Old tire swan
The most popular tire garden sculptures are swans. They are usually placed near an artificial pond, which gives the site a stunning look. You can plant grass in the bird itself, then you get the impression that it looks out from behind the vegetation. Detailed step-by-step instructions with a photo will help to make it.
We need:
- Sharp knife.
- An electric drill for making holes for entering the rubber of a knife.
- Grinder or file.
- Electric jigsaw.
- Chalk or marker (marker is still better).
- Wire 5-6 mm in diameter (rigid, to shape the neck of a "swan").
- Plastic clamps (to shape the head).
- Roulette.
- Gloves.
According to the scheme, we mark on the tire surface the contours of the future swan according to the following video, in which the author uses dimensions in inches, calling them in the international measurement system - inc. Inch (1inch) = 2.54cm.
Https://youtu.be/ydcioha556g
How beautiful and neat our sculpture will turn out depends on the accuracy of the marking.
Let's start cutting. At the initial section, we drill 3-4 holes at a distance of 3-5 cm with a drill and cut the tire between them with a knife. Insert a jigsaw into the resulting cut and begin to cut the swan.
After all the contours have been cut out, turn the tire out. We try to do this carefully, because careless movements in the thinnest places can tear it.
To make the bird's figure look more neat, smooth all the sections along the contour with a grinder.
To shape the swan's neck, insert a wire into it. To do this, drill holes in the center of the neck and to the end of the body every 20 cm. We put the wire and fix it in the holes with soft staples.
We shape the head. We make longitudinal cuts and holes, as shown in the photo and using the same wire or plastic clamps we give the swan's head a shape.
Our tire swan is ready. It remains to paint it and make a stand.
The swan can be painted white or not painted at all, leaving it black. Make the beak red. Swans look very nice in a pair: black and white.
Soft rubber swans won't stand without a stand. As it, you can simply take any tire and paint it, for example, blue. Thus, it will symbolize the pond. And you can not be lazy and make it curly.
We make a curly stand in the same way. We mark on the tire the contour along which we will cut, cut the tire along it, turn it out and paint.
Https://youtu.be/cBGHZB1_9Hc
In a similar technique, you can make any figures from tires: animals, birds, fairy-tale creatures.
But, if you don't want to mess around with complex markings and cutting, you can do it even easier. For example, collect a cute frog from whole tires.
In the photo - a flower bed in the form of a frog A tire frog is very simple to do. From one or more tires, the body and head are assembled, from small wheels, for example from a baby carriage, eyes, and from rubber scraps of feet.
Flower bed chamomile
A decoration that is easier to do than this flower bed is hard to come up with. Despite the fact that it will need several car tires, it can be assembled in just 15-20 minutes, it looks cute, neat and will never be superfluous.
We need:
- Three old tires of the same size.
- Sharp knife or grinder.
All tires, having previously designated the places of the cuts, are cut in half. Find out if the rubber contains metal cords before cutting. The knife will not take them, so use a grinder.
To give the future flower bed aesthetics, you can paint the tires. It is better to do this in advance, immediately after cutting.
From 5 halves we form a fence in the shape of a flower and cover it with earth.
Video about the process of creating a chamomile flower bed:
Https://youtu.be/NZ34infaCnQ
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How to cut a tire
1 Topic from Brick 2012-12-11 04:07:22
Hello people! Advise how to cut car rubber! I tried to cut the tire with a disc for metal on a cutting machine, so the disc burned out very quickly along with a part of the rubber.
And how can you make holes in the tires?
2 Reply from Crazy hands 2012-12-11 04:07:50
Tires are cut depending on their type. Radial tires with textile cord can be cut with a knife, diagonal tires with metal cord can be cut with a metal hacksaw. The tool must be wet and the tire must be cleaned with soapy water, and the hole cutter tool depends on the required diameter and the tool available. For example, a tire can be cut with a sharpened pipe of the required diameter. It all depends on the size and, accordingly, the thickness of the tire, as well as on the place where the hole is made.
3 Reply from Andkorn 2012-12-11 04:08:43
Hey! There is such a method for cutting tires, tested in practice: an ordinary electric jigsaw is taken with a wood saw, the coarsest one, moistened with machine oil. It is better to work together, pulling back the cut off part, otherwise it will greatly interfere with the work. The tire is cut in five to ten minutes. The hole is also so easy to make, the main thing is to punch the initial hole for the "entry" of the file.
4 Reply from Я_123 2012-12-11 04:09:29
There are special corrugated knives for the jigsaw, just for rubber and other similar materials.
5 Reply from Nathan 2012-12-11 04:10:05
Or you can heat a sharp knife and cut, and so heat and cut as many times as necessary.
6 Reply from Crazy Hands 2012-12-11 04:10:37
Well, people will write. What kind of hot knife ?! All the heat from the knife will be wasted in melting the rubber, and this molten rubber will stick to the knife, preventing it from moving, so cutting will be much more laborious. It's better to just cut it with a cold knife. Although, a few seconds after the start of such work, the cutter will not worry about this question, because he will be poisoned by the poisonous vapors released when the rubber is heated and will lose consciousness.
The modern industry produces many different types of rubbers that are used in the most unexpected industries. Quite simply and quickly, you can find the necessary rubber gaskets or the necessary rubber blanks at the nearest bazaar. However, if you still need to make a rubber product with your own hands, then you will need a couple of simple tips on how to cut the rubber simply and neatly.
Rubber can be quite varied in its properties, ranging from a very elastic and rather pliable material and ending with elastic durable rubber plates. The use of rubber can be found in a variety of ways, for example, cutting out a suitable sized water pad, a heel for boots, or a non-slip support for a glass surface. Many people cut all kinds of animals, swings, or make interior items from car tires. You can make flower beds from car tires, but for this you need to know how and with what to cut a car tire.
The secret is very simple, in order to neatly and simply cut a piece of rubber, you need a sharp knife, of course. and ordinary water.
A piece of elastic rubber, a sharp knife, and water.
First, you need to outline the cut line (it was enough for me to just align the knife blade).
We begin to cut the rubber with a knife.
Cutting thick rubber with a knife becomes rather difficult as the blade deepens into the thickness. The rubber begins to become viscous, and if you overdo it, the rubber can even melt. Whatever this happens, and the knife went through the rubber like clockwork, it must be moistened with water (and not oil, in no case moistened with oil).
We moisten the rubber with water and cut with a knife.
When wet, the rubber becomes slippery, and the knife blade will not get stuck or melt the rubber, thereby you get a smooth and high-quality cut without much effort.
Water-cut rubber block.
How to make a round hole in rubber:
Sometimes there is a need to cut rubber circles, for example, for non-slip legs under a stool, heels, or for spacers between two glasses. In order to cut smooth rubber mugs, you need to choose a metal pipe of a suitable diameter, you also need a piston suitable for the diameter of the tube.
A - metal tube, B - piston
You need to sharpen the edge of the iron tube with a sharpener or file.
Honed iron tube
After you sharpen the tube, you need to insert it into the drill chuck, moisten the rubber with water and just start drilling the holes, having previously laid a piece of wood.
We drill round rubber gaskets
With the help of such a simple device and water, you can drill as many smooth, neat rubber rounds as you like (I use them to make non-slip feet for devices). A sharpened tube acts on the principle of a drill, but as the circles are drilled, it is filled with them, and in order to pull them out, a special piston is needed.
How to cut a truck tire into pieces.
You then simply push the rubber rounds out of the sharpened tube.
We squeeze the rubber bands out of the tube with a piston
The main thing is not to forget to wet the rubber with water when drilling or cutting. It should be noted that it is much easier and more convenient to cut a circle using a sharpened tube than in the classical way - using a drill. However, if you need to drill through the rubber with a drill, this is also quite easy to do by sharpening it first, and periodically dipping the drill into water.
You need to drill rubber at low speeds and periodically wetting the cutting edge. However, if you need to drill a large block of rubber at high RPM, you want to submerge it completely in the water.
Drilling rubber in water with a drill.
In the most extreme case, holes in thin rubber, as in plastic, can be melted by heating a drill shank or an iron tube with a lighter.
Rubber melted holes
The main thing is to be careful when working with hot metal. Also remember that when overheated, rubber can emit toxic substances, therefore, melt holes under the hood or in a well-ventilated area. Observe all safety precautions even when drilling rubber.
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How to cut a car tire?
When you need cut a car tire (tire) with your own hands, it is better to know some tricks that will not only help make this process more enjoyable and less time-consuming, but also help protect yourself from injury and make the cut better.
- First you need to know the structure of a car tire (and any other equipment).
Since the surface that the tire touches the ground is more difficult to cut, since there is a metal cord.
To do this, you can use, like a hand hacksaw, lubricating it with oil or soapy water or a grinder with a disc for metal.
I must warn you, if you have never used a grinder before, it is better to use a hand hacksaw, since it is not difficult to catch the clamping of the disc when cutting the tire. For this procedure, you need to hold the tool firmly and be able to saw correctly.
- With the side part of the tire, the situation is much simpler, there is no need for a special tool, but care must be taken.
Since the cutting is carried out with a sharp knife, which is constantly moistened with soapy water, oil, or at least water.
When cutting, it is best to pull back on the piece to be cut to reduce the resistance to the knife.
Such a procedure is indispensable in the manufacture of various homemade products from tires, from flower beds of various designs to original garden figures and sculptures.
Vehicle characteristics: The dimensions of the car are as follows, length - 3826, width - 1100, height - 1323 mm. The wheelbase is 2382 mm. The ground clearance is 211 mm. The car is equipped with a hybrid power unit. The 2-cylinder engine is equipped with a power output system. There are 4 valves per cylinder.
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The diameter of one cylinder is 72 mm, the piston stroke is 70 mm. The engine crankshaft and accelerates to 8000 rpm. The maximum torque is maintained up to 3000 rpm.
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Alex.O.GO.
23.08.2007, 10:08
What is the best way to cut a tire?
2. With a jigsaw?
3. With a knife?
Who had the experience to share!
23.08.2007, 10:34
For some purposes (when I will show you) you need a piece of tread from an old tire.
What is the best way to cut a tire?
1. Grinder? (cuts, but it stinks and everything is covered in soot)
2. With a jigsaw?
3. With a knife?
Who had the experience to share!
Solzhenitsyn writes in "The Gulag Archipelago" that the convicts made boat shoes from car tires called "Chuni from ChTZ" by cutting the tires with 2 axes (one as a chisel, the second beat). And sewed with copper wire. 🙂
When wielding a grinder, you do not have to do physical education. Thus, it is possible to remove worn-out rubber from the rims.
The diameter of the disc for the grinder is smaller and OK.
23.08.2007, 11:16
It is not worth cutting with a jigsaw - longer.
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A well-sharpened strong knife (in the sense of the handle is thicker than a table knife). Pierce the sidewall with a knife and forward a little wetting the knife in water (it is possible in working off, but then try not to get the knife handle soiled - it will slide)
B_Aleksey
23.08.2007, 12:13
It is not worth cutting with a jigsaw - longer. A well-sharpened strong knife (in the sense of the handle is thicker than a table knife). Pierce the sidewall with a knife and forward a little wetting the knife in water (it is possible in working off, but then try not to get the knife handle soiled - it will slide)
I made myself a container for water and cut a balloon from K-700 with a knife quite successfully. And balloons from cars are generally easy. If only the cord is cut, then for the metal of the knife.
1. Cut the sidewall with an ordinary table knife with salidol or lithol. mother-in-law, satisfied with the flower beds, remained.
A sharp knife and lubrication with glycerin, you can use perfumery - it slides like butter and then can be easily washed off with water. The method is recommended in the "Chemist's Handbook" for cutting rubber plugs, and they are very hard.
Alex.O.GO.
23.08.2007, 14:10
Thanks!
I realized that it is better with a knife!
I'll try it today.
Alex.O.GO.
27.08.2007, 10:24
You need to cut with a JAWS, a coarse file,
Thank you very much!
Moreover, it is immensely a coarse file with a large tooth. At first I tried with a file on metal with a fine tooth (I cut the tire along the tread, and then there was a metal cord, then-oh-just such wires :), but there are a lot of them: confused :). A file for metal with a fine tooth cuts wires, things go slowly, the file sits down quickly. And a file with a large tooth breaks the wires, things are much more fun. In order to strip the tire it took 2 files with a large tooth and 10 minutes of time. Protruding wire rags are perfectly sanded together with rubber with a grinding (thick) grinder disc.