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[Don Jordan]

I know I'm probably going to get yelled at by the purists because this is not actually a Plymouth question (or answer) but I'm going to do it anyway.

I love the desert. Go out whenever I get the chance. Was out with a friend today and saw this and for some reason it just struck me...

Out in the middle of no where.

The picture speaks for itself.

d-

[Frank Elder]

Are you gonna take a shovel next time......? Might be an upside down car below it!:DNeat picture Don.

[Young Ed]

I read somewhere that tires cannot be buried. If you completely bury a tire it will somehow rise to the surface again. Anyone tried it?

[randroid]

Gents,

I did a quick check on Snopes and found nothing about buried tires but I would imagine not being able to bury them is an urban legend. The tire could have been buried like that during a flood, although the creosote bush above it has massive roots and I doubt the roots would have allowed it to be in that position without outside assistance. Perhaps it was set as a marker or an anchor or by someone on a Furd forum just to create havoc with us.

I once found an unexploded WWII practice bomb in that area and took it home only to find everybody frightened that it would someday explode. I still have it and it still makes folks nervous.

-Randy

[Frank Elder]

Gents,

I did a quick check on Snopes and found nothing about buried tires but I would imagine not being able to bury them is an urban legend. The tire could have been buried like that during a flood, although the creosote bush above it has massive roots and I doubt the roots would have allowed it to be in that position without outside assistance. Perhaps it was set as a marker or an anchor or by someone on a Furd forum just to create havoc with us.

I once found an unexploded WWII practice bomb in that area and took it home only to find everybody frightened that it would someday explode. I still have it and it still makes folks nervous.

-Randy

Then they are the dummies......not the bomb.lol

[Young Ed]

I don't know how true it is but I found this

"No rubber tire will remain buried. Most people, never having tried to bury a tire, are not aware that one will not stay in the ground. In fact, if you bury a tire five feet below the surface, it will–under normal conditions–rise to the top in about ten years.The reason for this is as follows:

The rubber tire, being resilient, is constantly pushing back against the soil around it. Since the pressure above the tire is less than below it, the tire has more success pushing up than it does pushing down. As this pushing proceeds, small particles of soil around the tire are dislodged and fall down through the cracks and crevices too small for the tire itself to fit through, a process that is accelerated somewhat by the slight movement of the tire as it expands and contracts with changes in temperature. Thus, as the tire pushes upward and the soil around it slowly moves down, the tire migrates toward the surface."

found at http://grantsgraceland.org/divine/archives/172

[pflaming]

In the early 70's we lived in Bellevue, NE. I made a retaining wall, with tires, I stuffed them with dirt and laid them like bricks. I wonder what it looks like today. OT if you are going to two a vehical. Put a tire on one vehical, then chian / cable, the tire works as a shock absorber. OT

[Don Jordan]

I, too, have practice bomb. I was an ordnance man in the service. While there are no explosives in the bomb it's still more fun to mess with the minds of those who don't know.

This pix isn't an actual practice bomb.