12-17-2011, 02:06 PM
Glockzilla Wrote:[ATTACH=CONFIG]667[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]666[/ATTACH]
These tires are pressed and bundled like hay bales right on the range with a huge machine. That's how it's done on the http://www.tdsa.net range. These bales are very dense and they are hammered by 50 BGM too.
LEt me know if you wanna talk to Len, the owner/manager of the range.
GZ:
General statement about tires.
They burn and once started, can't be put out. And when they burn, the pollute. Not a problem in Afghanistan. May be a huge problem in the USA depending on where a guy lives.
At Mott Lake many years ago, entire small buildings were made using tires with sand. In fact, every live fire CQB (MOUT then) facility in the Army used stacked tires with sand. The problem was not only the potential of fire but that the bullets chewed up tires that were three to four feet above the ground and it was these tires that needed to be replaced periodically.
To replace them, every tire stacked above them had to be removed as well as tires to their left and right. The sand had to be removed, then replaced. These walls were upwards of eight feet high so there were a-lot of tires and a lot of sand.
The shredded rubber is a better solution but it means that you will need a whole bunch of it and will have to spend more time preparing the berm. The good thing about the shredded rubber is that you can easily clean out the lead. Some places are sensitive to lead being shot into the ground and furthermore, I bet lead is going for well over a dollar a pound as scrap.
I am assuming that the shredded rubber is treated with a fire retardant. I would go with that stuff as it is astounding how well it works.
LR55