Tire walls/fences are made of old tires, one sidewall cut out and filled with dirt. they "aren’t a major breeding ground for mosquitoes".
Posted on 07/29/2018 5:25:12 PM PDT by EdnaMode
A war over a wall of tires. That's what's happening in one McDowell County neighborhood.
Jennifer Guyer and her parents have lived there for more than six years.
They love where they live, but lately, Guyer says, it's not as enjoyable as it once was.
"We were asked to put up a fence," she said. "Chain link fences are really expensive. We can't afford the expense of a chain link fence to go all the way down through there."
So, Guyer came up with an idea. She decided to create a tire fence. "It's not a dump yard. This is not trash. This is actually a work of art," she said.
Her neighbor Karen McKinney doesn't see it that way.
"I consider it a spite fence. They did it for a nuisance in the community, to make our area look ugly because we have to drive by, and they wanted us to have to look at it," McKinney said.
(Excerpt) Read more at wlos.com ...
I very nearly put one up on a 4x4 once. I knew of a lib that moved here from LA. I noticed he had a toilet sitting on the porch for a couple of weeks. I commented that he was adapting well to local standards.
Yes, spite. Where I used live my daughter had a friend whose parents kept goats in the yard. The neighbors complained to the city and the city ruled you can't have goats within the city. So they painted their house purple to spite the neighbors and to drive their property values down.
They should wheely just air this out with their neighbors, otherwise, especially if they're just doing this to needle them, the relationships could all fall flat and then they'll be treading a lonely road.
Probably gorse. There are homesites carved out of the gorse, south of here. God help you in a fire.
Tire walls/fences are made of old tires, one sidewall cut out and filled with dirt. they "aren’t a major breeding ground for mosquitoes".
Yes. This situation should be deflated before something blows-out.
The tires collect water and breed mosquitoes.
Yes. Confucius say, man who runs behind car will get exhausted, but man who runs in front of car will get tired.
!!!CAT FIGHT!!!
Over here PING!
From the picture, it looks like she stacked them like a mechanics garage would...and only 3-4 tire high. It’s an eyesore not a work of art.
Plus things like this (property disputes) can keep lawyers very very busy at billable hours.
Well the Fence-o-‘Tars isn’t that bad IMO. If it were more evenly matched height wise and maybe some paint it would be nicer.
It does need to be filled with dirt or sand to deal with the mosquitoe breeding part.
I wonder how pissed off people would get if they set it on fire to get rid of it?
Personally I think that the Sewer Cleanout is uglier. And a hazard to mower blades as well as a trip hazard.
But who am I to get in the middle of a good old fashioned Neighborhood War.
Nothing a little kudzu can't fix.
That was my question: How can someone be forced to erect a fence? I know that i you have a pool, you may be required in some localities to do that, but otherwise...why and how?
And yes...it appears as a spite “fence” to me.
If she is somehow being forced to build a fence, I would like to know why. I watched the video and read the story, but it doesn’t say why. In the article, it says she was “asked” to put up a fence.
Can’t she just say “No”?
There is no such thing as a “little” kudzu.
I am very picky about having a fence. I live in a suburban ranch land with standard quarter acre lots. We have a nice back yard, but my neighbors aren’t as interested in theirs, so I like having a nice 6 foot fence for privacy.
In my area, nearly everyone has one, and those who don’t are bounded by those who do, which is okay with everyone.
Our fence was old and rickety when we bought the house, and we made it 20 more years with constant patching until it couldn’t be patched and seemed to be held together by a lot of drywall screws and pieces of 2x4, then bit the bullet and replaced it.
Yeah, fences sure are expensive. We were bounded on three sides by our own fence, and one side by a neighbor’s fence that was nearly completely decrepit.
When it came time to replace, I asked that neighbor straight out if we could tear their fence down and put ours up instead...he agreed instantly.
Of course, these kinds of things are fraught with some minefields. Before the fence was replaced (and after I had signed a contract, made a down-payment and selected a date) I thought I would inform all my neighbors. It was fine until I got to a woman behind us who I had never spoken to, and she told us that she was going to raise hell because our back fence was on her property by four feet, and that also made our shed that had been there for decades before we moved in illegal.
My head was swimming a bit, and I had to look at the law for my area that said something like if it had been that way for 5 years and we were never informed there was an issue, then we were okay.
I also looked at my property map and measured, and there was no issue. But I could see where she made her mistake...she measured back from her side of the sidewalk, not the street!
Just to be sure, I talked to my other neighbor because she said HIS fence was on her property too, and he laughed. He said she told him the same thing!
I said “Screw it. I’m replacing the fence, and she can sue me if she wants to! Never heard a word...:)
Neighbors.
And people ‘laugh’ when I say I would like to live in a lighthouse or on a mountain top that needs a helopad.
Cuts down on the ‘drop ins’....
Use them to grow potatoes. You plant potato sprouts in a tire filled with dirt. As the plant grows you add another tire to the stack and fill to the top with more dirt. About 3-4 tires in the stack should do. When the plant is watered the water seeps and collects in the sidewalls of the tire stack. This encourages root growth outward. To harvest, simply remove the tires. No digging and thus no cut up potatoes.
My grandfather had purchased his house back in the 1930’s and lived there until he died, and my brother purchased it.
When my brother moved in, the little old lady who had lived next door since we were little kids passed on, and her house was purchased by a young couple.
His neighbor had a driveway that went all the way to the back of the property, and next to the driveway closest to my brother’s side were all the rose beds my old grandfather had planted and tended all those decades with love.
Anyway, after a few months, my brother comes home from work, and all my grandfather’s rose beds had been dug up and leveled, and there was a little modular plastic picket fence pounded into the ground all the way from the street back to the end of the neighbor’s driveway, with the area of the rose beds and a strip of grass probably eight feet wide now on the neighbor’s side of the cheesy fence.
My brother, who is quite calm and reasonable, went over to ask what was going on.
The guy said that my grandfathers rose beds and the strip of grass was on his property, and he was just putting up a fence where his own property line was and claimed it.
My brother had never looked at the property lines, it was just understood where they were, and everyone for decades seemed fine with it.
So he got the property maps, and sure enough...that land where my grandfather had put his rose bushes DID belong to my brother’s neighbor.
However, the property line from the street was not...perpendicular. It went at an angle.
So his neighbor DID own the rose garden land.
But my brother owned about the first 20 feet of the guy’s driveway!!!!!!
My brother went over and showed the guy the official property maps, and they both agreed to keep everything the way it had been for decades!
I love that story...:)
LOL, I know what you mean, xrmusn! (See my brother’s story right above)
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