To celebrate the Battle of the Boyne, which occurred in 1690, Loyalists are going to set fire to a load of tyres:
www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news....0
Quite an impressive erection, but surely there is nothing more noxious than the smell of tyre smoke
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Is there a queue for refunds for tyre disposal fees ? ;-)
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That house looks a bit close, but anything I say is likely to be taken as a 'racist' statement, so I'll keep shtum!
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That house looks a bit close
think the photo might be misleading, there's a road in the way. Still I'm guessing closer than the height of the pyre.
>anything I say is likely to be taken as a 'racist' statement, so I'll keep shtum!
A tribute to British engineering and construction, perhaps?
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Irish maybe but not British.
Ireland is not part of Great Britain.
Trust me I have a Geography 'O' Grade.
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www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/art...e
dare I say a more in-depth report about the plan ?
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dare I say a more in-depth report about the plan ?
Stated on the BBC that it is a smaller pile than last year. Gulp!
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Irish maybe but not British. Ireland is not part of Great Britain. Trust me I have a Geography 'O' Grade.
Ah but I have a Government and Politics 'A' Level, and these men of Ulster are definitely British, living in the United Kingdom though not in Britain.
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This is about burning tyres not Irish politics. Tyres are vaguely motoring. Keep on track or its locked. :-) PU
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Having seen the smut left by ONE burning tyre ... let alone hundreds of them?
"Tyre rubber has large carbon content and emits highly toxic smoke when burnt. Besides, the carbon particles that are emitted can spread in a fairly vast area, causing respiratory disorders among human beings and animals. Carbon particles are reported to be carcinogenic. One of the emitted substances styrene is a benzene derivative and is a suspected human carcinogen.
Another one, butadiene, is known to cause cancer in laboratory animals. Besides, extender oils and carbon black emitted from burning tyres are highly toxic."
And on a totally motoring bent - I'm sure the local carwashes wil have a roaring trade afterwards!
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Send the army in to dismantle it... the council has not been able to due to "intimidation" says one report.
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one tyre? cape town? Hmmm Not the necklace?
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TourVanMan TM < Ex RF >
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Nope. However, there have been instances where one of the motorways was closed due to a huge cloud of black smoke from the illegal tyre burning...
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"Tyre rubber has large carbon content
Hence tyre/carbon footprints I opine.
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L\'escargot.
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If thats Irish surely it should be Geography .......O' Grady......
I'll just collect the coat......
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And there was me thinking that County Antrim was in Northern Ireland, part of the UK. Bejasus I'd better inform my geography teacher what Mr Scunner says!
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L\'escargot.
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Glaikit Wee Scunner
Northern Ireland is part of the UK
"Trust me I have a Geography 'O' Grade"
Well, trust me I have a Ph.D. in Irish Historical Geography and live in N. I.
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Irish maybe but not British. Ireland is not part of Great Britain. Trust me I have a Geography 'O' Grade. my irish cousin o,grady has an o level in geography aswell
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Call me dumb or something, I dont see what tyres has got to do with it. Not sure there were too many around in 1690 let alone being used in the battle of the Boyne!
I seem to reacall a news item about a burning tyre dump, (millions of tyres) where the fire brigade couldnt put them out, and had been burning for 8 months. Is it still burning?
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TourVanMan TM < Ex RF >
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Ah yes - here we go
Burning tyres can have a serious environmental impact. Whilst tyre fires are uncommon, they produce vast quantities of harmful emissions that will pollute the atmosphere and water courses through run-off. The high energy content of tyres means they can burn for long periods. For example in Wales, a tyre fire started in 1989 in a covered tip containing 10 million tyres was still burning nine years later.
tinyurl.com/2j3mvd
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TourVanMan TM < Ex RF >
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Surely if someone were to calculate the hypothecated mortality increase due to burning these tyres, it could be legislated against in an obvioulsy non-partisan/non-controversial way - much the same way that passive smoking is calculated to 'kill' n-persons per year. It beggars belief that thay're actually going to burn thsoe things - I'll be staying indoors here in N.Wales if we get a N-Westerly weather system.
On that geography question: The term the 'British Isles' covers all the islands, including Eire/Sheltand/Orkneys/Hebrides etc. and is purely a geographical term - all other descriptions describe sovereign/political boundaries of some sort.
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A Derbyshire cement works was due to burn old car tyres as part of their fuel mix.
No idea if they ever did - but the locals were rather upset about the process.
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Presumably (?) for every one of these tyres that were collected through a retail outlet the previous owner coughed up the "environmental disposal fee". Is it £1 per tyre?
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so that's 400k then - cripes.
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Thought you were talking about the one they've just announced is located in the state of Vermont, TVM. It's also still burning. ;-)
"Boneys" aka bonfires are lit in loyalist/unionist areas here to commemorate the Battle of the Boyne. There tends to be a fair amount of competition among various neighbourhoods for who can build the biggest one. Nothing is rejected that could provide fuel, and I've even heard of furniture, garden fences etc being stolen in order to add to the bulk of the bonfire. Not a great idea to try & "interfere on grounds of health & safety" - mainly on grounds of health & safety (if you see what I mean). Thankfully I live in a remote rural area where no bonfires are being lit.
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andymc
Vroom, vroom - mmm, doughnuts ...
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amazing number of tyres are burnt (as well as other plastic) around my neck of the woods when it is a dark foggy night.
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tyres are burnt (as well as other plastic) around my neck
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""Boneys" aka bonfires" -- shurely shome mishtake? Don't you mean "Bonnies" - isn't a boney something rather different?
Anyway, if you drive to watch the bonnie using your company car make sure you have a "No smoking" sign displayed and for goodness sake don't have a fag in it - you know how much the smoke damages peoples health - even when they are not in your car.
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>>""Boneys" aka bonfires" -- shurely shome mishtake? Don't you mean "Bonnies" - isn't a boney something rather different?
Written fonetikly for a readership largely unfamiliar with the East Belfast accent!
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andymc
Vroom, vroom - mmm, doughnuts ...
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Maybe someone mis-understood the dialect, and all this arguing over the disposal of rubber tyres is "the battle of the boiiiiing"!!!
::legs it::
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Presumably (?) for every one of these tyres that were collected through a retail outlet the previous owner coughed up the "environmental disposal fee". Is it £1 per tyre?
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Hence my comment at the top re a refund :-)
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I realise that old tyres present a massive disposal problem but I'd have thought that given enough oxygen, they could effectively be burnt and supply energy on a power station scale. Of course, they'll give off CO2, but would that be worse than any fossil fuel? Can any of the industrial chemists on here enlighten us as to why this isn't done?
At one time, I thought they were all going to be strapped together and used as coastal defences. Has that one been pursued?
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Some years ago a method of execution in certain parts of the world was to place a burning tyre around the victims neck.
The late Bernard Manning claimed to have witnessed an execution where two tyres were placed around the neck.
He was appalled by the fact that they were mixing cross plies with radials.
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Here is a motoring-related image from yesteryear:
i151.photobucket.com/albums/s138/Cliffordpope/tyre...g
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Sorry, I don't think that link worked. {It should now - DD}
But anyway, it shows a 1920s scene in French wine-growing country, of workers burning old tyres. The fumes were said to keep pests off the vines, and the molten rubber soaked into the unmade road and created a better driving surface.
The process has presumably now been superceded.
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Thought i once read that old tyres were being shredded and mixed in tarmac or something and used for road surfacing. Said to provide a "quieter, smoother" running surface with better wet weather braking tendencies. Never actually come across any such roads, did it ever get off the ground?
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Thought i once read that old tyres were being shredded and mixed in tarmac or
Indeed. This was laid on an urban A road very near me, It was very smooth but grippy, and really noticeably quiet.
BT dug a trench through it 5 days later, and the rest of it is lifting off after two years leaving deep pockets, whole thing needs re-doing.
So good idea, needs more thought or care.
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..He was appalled by the fact that they were mixing cross plies with radials.
Top joke!
Ah.. dear old Bernard Manning, sadly missed even by me - a fully paid-up, Guardian reading, tree-hugging, muesli-muncher.
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The "Springfield Tire Fire" has been burning since 1966 or 1989, depending on which episode of The Simpsons is referenced.
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May well be true but not the place to air it....... unfortunately the replies which were less of a problem but still non motoring in nature were the victim of the surgery to remove the post - PU
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