Tyre/rim storage

Personally I'd just stack them any old way as long as there wasn't water pooling anywhere on them, after all without the weight of a vehicle on them, they're not going to care much, it's not like they'll get flatspotted. Water seeping past the tyre bead or pooling in the wheels would be something to avoid though, as well as mice and all that kind of garage stuff. UV deterioration isn't likely either in the winter ;-)

To save floor space and such, get a scaffold pole, thread them onto it, and suspend it up as high as you can. Either a cheap block & tackle each end from the rafters or another couple of poles making a triangle at each end. Poles and clamps aren't all that dear.

Is this what is called a headbanger?

He he, not a bad idea though assuming the hole in the middle of a Discovery alloy wheel is big enough to take a scaff pole. One snag might be that they would tend to twist on the pole as the balance point is well back from the hole. It would also take some lifting with 4 tyres and rims on, I wouldn't be surprised if the total wasn't around 200kg.

Think I'll go for the normal way up rather than a lying down stack. In a stack the bottom one would have the weight of the three above it bearing on it. I'd had just the rims stacked like that with bits of roofing lath between 'em the lower bits of wood had significant dents where the rims had rested.

It's a lot less than it's used to.. Those things mostly retain their shape when you're going round corners remember!

Around corners.... it doesn't sound right. Around bends is fine but how do we actually get around a corner. H'mmm

I've been stuck in the house for a week! Does it show?

Lee

stack.

Not in vertical stack, the load is onto the side of the side walls not the edges (IYSWIM) and most vehicles move fairly frequently not be sat for 5 months. They maybe crap tyres in the cold and wet but summer is fine and they are only about 1/2 worn in about 20,000 miles I'd like to get the other 20,000 out of 'em... There's slightly more chance of me moving 'em if all I have to do is roll 'e, about rather than heave 'em off a stack.

Well the windows are all very clean, must be the licking.

Yes those tyres are oh so delicate things!

Yes there is that, although they're easier to keep still when they're on the flat bit.

How about taking them inside the house and using them to prop up some planks of wood and describing it as a coffee table?

Stack them on top of each other but make sure the floor is flat with no old bolts etc which the tyrewalls could rest on. And rubber stores better in damp and cold conditions rather than warm and dry.

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I alternately store the winter/summer wheels of our Forester. The method I use is to hang them individually from a screw in the wall with loop of nylon rope. I also reduce the pressure of the stored wheels to about half running pressure on recommendation from a tyre specialist.

Mike

Some "screw", weighed one this afternoon 32kg.

As they are stood I think I'll keep the pressure up. If the tyres had nothing pressing on them I'd probably reduce the pressure.

Yeah I know, I'm probably fussing about nothing.

Already have a several sets of old tyres that are used as planters. Got a reasonable potatoe crop from one stack the other year. Well we got back more potatoes than we planted and IIRC they weren't proper seed potatoes either.

Takes much longer in the thraweezing early mornings I'll tell you. Thwost bite.

Lee

Takes much longer in the thraweezing early mornings I'll tell you. Thwost bite.

Lee

I'd say that's wise. Even if they were tubed, it stops stuff (small insects etc.) getting between tyre and rim, and ought to help keep both in better nick.