Why do people put tires on the roof of their home?
 

First off, the "Home and Auto" prefix works perfectly on this thread. But on to the topic.

I've been driving through a very rural area the past couple of days. Yesterday I saw a mobile home with a bunch of tires scattered on its roof. I pondered the reason and wondered if perhaps winds could cause a mobile home roof to resonate or something.

But over the past 36 hours I've seen several more homes with tires on their roof, and most of them weren't mobile homes. They were stick-and-brick homes that just happened to have numerous tires scattered on their roofs.

Why do people do this?

I have never once seen this.

Lol Some trailers need weight on top of it's roof to keep the wind from taking it off. Tin roofs.

Rednecks do what rednecks do.


That's your answer.

I imagine they help hold the "roof" down, whether that be tarp, tin, etc.

:D

It's to prevent a phenomenon known as "roof rumble". The roofs are called "bowstring", cause they're built on a roof truss shaped like an archer's bow... flat across the ceiling and arched up slightly in the center of the roof. The wooden trusses are nailed to the top plate of the exterior sidewalls of the home. The sheet metal roof skin is screwed only at the perimeter of the mobile home, along the top plates... NOT across the top of the trusses. This is because the metal roof skin and the wood framing expand and contract at different rates in temperature changes. If the roof skinning was fastened to each truss across the top of the roof, you'd eventually have leaks roof galore. Because the skinning is not fastened across the top of the roof, it tends to rumble whenever a good wind blows up. The weight of the tires prevent the rumbling. I've lived in Fla., Texas, New Hampshire, and Ohio, and it's the same thing everywhere. Watch out in the wintertime though; the tires will fill with rain and snow, and turn to ice, which puts alot of weight strain on your roof trusses.


Got this off of yahoo. I was curious as well

This exactly. Many times old worn tires are the cheapest usuable item to be found so up they go. Unfortunately most folks forget to drill drainage holes so they also end up holding stagnant water in more humid climates, fostering mosquito breeding.

So it sounds like my theory is correct on mobile homes related to resonance. But if it's also about weight, the houses must be poorly built if a frame house needs tires to keep the roof on. Most houses keep their roof just fine without tires on it.

What you said.

I get squirrels running across my roof and they sound like bowling balls.

Tiiiiin Roof...Radials.

BFG-52's

I never knew this.

Because shingles are asphalt

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Decorations?

there are no shingle roofs in australia. or at least i have yet to see one. that said, there should be MORE shingled roofs in australia. our tin roof is thirty years old, and every time it gets windy it sounds like a tin wave of water in the ocean. you can hear every ripple as it makes its way from one side to the other. i am waiting for one good wind to peel it off like a tin can of sardines.

at least we are insured thank ****.

(not going to refinance the house to buy a new one, so we are going to save for the next two years.)

so in short, tin roofs ****ing suck. needs to either be shingles, clay shingles, or ****ing plywood painted :D

oh, and i have about ten old tires, thanks for the idea :D

no, SERIOUSLY, thanks for the idea, i just realized where our flashing leaks, i can put a tire and some silicon underneath to stop the leak.

rain you rock even when you dont think you do :D

It's easier than throwing the whole car up there....

I was starting to think you were really really smart until you stuck those last two sentences in there! :D

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Wait what?

Have you never been to Browning or Black Eagle?

Me neither, but I assume it was easier to get tires up there than the old fridge or sofa that is on the front porch.

Never seen this phenomenon .

Bubb Rubb approved.

Is fo' decoration!

:clap:

Hardin, Garryowen...if you ever get a flat....find a trailer house.

Also, we use tires around utilities. Cows like to scratch against solid objects. We put tires around peds and markers. Cows won't step on them or around them. However, snakes and mice find them very comfy.:#

Yea, what ****ing state is Bwana living in? I could pretty much see this in every rural Montana town. ****ing high life living bitch pretending not to see it!

I stand corrected.....ROFL

ROFLROFLROFL

He walks with his head hung in shame and misses quite a bit around him. You'd do the same if your wife beat you every day and your boss made you drive a Subaru.:D

Because that's just how Bronco fans roll.

Hey I detest this remark.. It's a redneck thing though.

Could come down to the old "cut the ends off the roast" story.

Mainly for wind. I got my old mudders up there

You know how I know you are a redneck?

The term is Roof Rumble. The tires are put on the roof to stop the metal from flexing up and down causing the rumble. To keep the roof on? LOL

I get a rumble every time the squirrels run across my roof bastards :cuss:

Tire free and proud. They're on the roof/ Freighters

Ain't paying no gat'dam Walmart $3 disposal fee....

Well played sir.

Ha you guys are a couple of dickweeds! :D I guess I'm too busy keeping my eyes on the road, particularly down on the rez. You never know what kind of drunken riffraff is gong to decide to take up your side of the road. Man now I'm going to have to start looking around for this stuff.

Perhaps they have them up there so they can fire them up to create a diversion/smoke screen when the DEA shows up to bust their meth labs.

[QUOTE=Bwana;12512021]Ha you guys are a couple of dickweeds! :D I guess I'm too busy keeping my eyes on the road, particularly down on the rez. You never know what kind of drunken riffraff is gong to decide to take up your side of the road. Man now I'm going to have to start looking around for this stuff.

Perhaps they have them up there so they can fire them up to create a diversion/smoke screen when the DEA shows up to bust their meth labs.[/QUOTE]



Man you guys are hurtful not everyone who puts a tire on their roof of trailer house isn't making meth.


TWTLM :cuss:

Trailer White Trash Lives Matters

How many you got up there Tat?

None this trailer don't think I need them but my old trailer I did. I think they are tacky though but you know you are a redneck.

It's not to keep the roof on.:rolleyes:

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None here lol. I'm not ashamed of my place I like it like I've said I've lived in trailers before this one is pretty nice on the inside and that's what I care more about. This isn't a dream home but it is a home and shouldn't take long to pay it off & if I decide to move I'm not out of much that would keep me here. I like keeping my options open and rent to own does that for me.

I just need a Camaro on sender blocks to make this authentic redneck.

Sounds like a great way to have your own personal mosquito farm.

Cinder

Yes yes.

I actually know about this.


See, people will tell you it's to secure the roof but why can't they just do that with some other weight? Something like an engine block or whatever.

It's actually an offering to the great God Firestone.
Hillbillies believe that of you put tires on your roof, (always white lettering up for appearance sake) the great God Firestone will spare your dwelling from tornadoes.

I dunno, ask R8ers.

You been stalking me again?

So those tires aren't put on at the factory?

I'll be damned....