A bit difficult to know where to place this, but we were thinking of taking a tractor tire and turning it into a sandbox for the boys (2 years old).
In fact, it’s the same tractor tire I had in the backyard when I was little in the 80s, it was my sandbox that has remained all these years, and now we thought of repainting it. It has been red and yellowish, considering if we should paint it the same colors, or maybe blue and white like our house.
What I'm wondering about is, what kind of paint should one use? And is it safe? I've read that old tractor tires contain less pleasant substances. But maybe if it's painted? And I used the same tire all through my childhood... And many swings and such were and are still made of tires today.
In fact, it’s the same tractor tire I had in the backyard when I was little in the 80s, it was my sandbox that has remained all these years, and now we thought of repainting it. It has been red and yellowish, considering if we should paint it the same colors, or maybe blue and white like our house.
What I'm wondering about is, what kind of paint should one use? And is it safe? I've read that old tractor tires contain less pleasant substances. But maybe if it's painted? And I used the same tire all through my childhood... And many swings and such were and are still made of tires today.
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· Korpilombolo
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Strangely enough, used tires are used as toys. But creosote-impregnated telephone poles and railway sleepers have also been used in playgrounds against better judgment. Painted over, the risk of harmful substances transferring to the skin is likely reduced if the paint has a blocking function. It is doubtful if today's water-based paints have this function.
Now someone is welcome to tell me what is dangerous in a tire, and how it kills small children.
Do tractor tires from that time contain HA oils? I know that truck tires have much lower levels of HA oils than car tires due to their composition/structure. I am not sure about tractor tires.
HA oils evaporate. So the question is whether the tire, even if it contained HA oils at manufacture, has any left today?
HA oils evaporate. So the question is whether the tire, even if it contained HA oils at manufacture, has any left today?
Seems like Strömsö agrees with you:
http://svenska.yle.fi/artikel/2015/02/20/ladodla-i-dack
http://svenska.yle.fi/artikel/2015/02/20/ladodla-i-dack
I want to emphasize that I don't know. I'm just trying to look at the problem from different angles. If the Byggahus expertise (they'll come soon, trust me) presents evidence that the oils are a problem in a tractor tire that has been lying and drying since at least the 1980s, then I will gladly accept it.
Amused myself with a quick Google search, but can't find either the "half-life" for the oils or when they were introduced. It would be fun to know, since I myself have a bunch of tractor tires lying around, these are from the 60s and 70s.
Amused myself with a quick Google search, but can't find either the "half-life" for the oils or when they were introduced. It would be fun to know, since I myself have a bunch of tractor tires lying around, these are from the 60s and 70s.
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· Stockholms Län
· 702 posts
One melts! For the three-year anniversary, you can contact some mine about an old tire.
It will probably be fine anyway, about 20 meters behind the wood stack there's a small playground with a very large sandbox. This one is probably mostly so they have their "own" as well. What I should do is tidy up there by the wood stack and get rid of all the sheet metal...
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· Stockholms Län
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I have no idea either, but since it's standard with old tires (which surely aren't analyzed per case for carcinogens) in swings on every playground in the country, it feels safe. If there had been tire variants on the market in the last 30-40 years, these swings probably wouldn't have been approved.Norrhyttan said:
Growing food that you consume in large amounts in a tire or in soil/boxes made of creosote sleepers/pressure-treated wood, I would have been more skeptical about. It feels unnecessary to consume if there is a risk.