The first slide is on!
Between injuries, huge snowfalls, delayed tire deliveries, and frozen sand, getting to this stage took longer than we expected. However, we got the tires stacked on top of each other and the slide attached! Part 2 is done!!!!!
This was a perfect opportunity to use extra rocks that we’d been debating what to do with. One section of the flower beds, that we call the peninsula by how it juts out into the yard, has been an annoyance since we moved in. It is elevated with a wall of stacked rocks acting as a barrier. It is not easy to mow around. The rocks are unstable. I could go on complaining, but this is about Tire Mountain, not a flowerbed. In the end, we decided to get rid of the peninsula and were debating what to do with all of the rocks.
So, we lined some of the base tires, those that are going to be buried deep underneath the other tires, with the rocks to save some money. All of the base tires were, then, finished with a topping of sand.
The slide is attached to the top tire with bolts.
At first, the plan was to fill that top tire with sand, but we found that we liked being able to step in it before getting on the slide. That, and it acts as a sitting spot as well.
So far, the tires we’ve used are tractor tires or semi-truck tires. We will be getting another delivery of tires soon that will include regular car tires that we can use to act as steps for the higher portions of Tire Mountain.
For now, we will keep stacking tractor and semi-truck tires and filling them with sand. All in between of sliding down the slide!
Up next: A bridge and a bullet slide!