Patent ID: 7137758

Claim:
A construction method comprising: providing at least first and second waste tires, with each waste tire including an upper sidewall, a lower sidewall, and a tread portion interconnecting and extending between the upper and lower sidewalls; cutting the upper sidewalls from the tread portions of the first and second waste tires; stacking the first and second waste tires on one of the cut upper sidewalls into a stack with the lower sidewalls of the first and second tires each abutting with the one of the cut upper sidewalls; connecting multiple waste tires in series together by connecting the lower sidewalls of both of the first and second waste tires to the one of the cut upper sidewalls in the stack to form a layer of waste tires; filling the layer of waste tires with ballast; and stacking another layer of waste tires on the previous layer with a staggered arrangement.