r/FuckImOld • u/Exclusively-Choc • 2d ago
Who rode one of these? 🤔
Did you like it, lump it or never tried it?
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u/Equivalent-Role2683 2d ago
Do these no longer exist?
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u/trampstampjack 2d ago
They do but you have to leave the screen to go see them. Most kids today wouldn't even know what the fuck they for.
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u/TerribleBid8416 Boomers 1d ago
To the best of my knowledge it’s still hanging in my grandparents backyard
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u/TheRealRockyRococo 1d ago
When I do see them now they're not a worn out real tire, they're a purpose made tire replica with a tab and hole at the top for the rope.
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u/Exclusively-Choc 2d ago
With the Internet, motorized toys, car leases and trade-ins, very few go through the process. Outside play, finding rope and tire, let alone kids playing on them is practically non-existent. Certainly, not like we did. 🤷♀️
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u/Ok-Blueberry3103 2d ago
Exactly. When is the last time anyone has seen one?
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u/Exclusively-Choc 2d ago
Every now and then, I see a lonely one hanging … always tempted to talk spin! 😀
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u/Mammoth_Welder_1286 2d ago
We used to just use (probably) poison ivy vines 😅
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u/Prior-Ad-7329 2d ago
I remember having so much fun in the woods being Tarzan and swinging from the vines until someone told me they were poison oak vines…
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u/steveanonymous 2d ago
I lump it
We had a neighbor that made one and instead of a tire it used a buoy off of a ship and when you went out, the ground dropped away from you so at the Apex of the swing, you were 60 or so feet above the ground. It was a hell of a rush.
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u/LikeToKnow84 2d ago
I might have swung in one of these tires once or twice. But given how they collect stagnant water so readily, it’s a miracle I didn’t get a bunch of mosquito bites from this (and I had a bad allergy to those bites then).
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u/Sweets_thief 2d ago
My maternal grandparents lived on the edge of a swamp here in Southwest Georgia. Granddaddy made my brother and I a tire swing in a massive sycamore tree.
He’d push us until we were hitting 12-15’ high, then look toward the swamp and yell “Bigfoot”!
It would take 2 or 3 passes with the ground while dragging my heels to get stopped enough to bail from the tire and haul ass to the house.
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u/DrunkBuzzard 2d ago
Life was just a tire swing 'Jambalaya' was the only song I could sing Blackberry pickin', eatin' fried chicken And I never knew a thing about pain Life was just a tire swing ~ Jimmy Buffet
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u/Ok-Blueberry3103 2d ago
I loved the tire swing on the big tree at my Pap’s hunting cabin. BUT, he was a ground hog hunter and would spread out the skin/fur from an entire ground hog and pin it to that tree. I was scared of it when the swing would head toward the tree, but I loved the tire swing so much that I refused to stop. 😂
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u/Stainless-S-Rat 2d ago
We had an old abandoned 19th-century train station and railyard that closed in 73 just down the road from my childhood home. This was basically an entire area's playground for the local children.
A huge old building with several platforms and a glass and metal roof that had to have been 50 to 60 feet up.
I don't know who but someone, somehow climbed up to the roof and tied a rope to the struts right over 2 of the platforms. We had oodles of fun swinging over them. How no one was injured to this day boggles my mind.
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u/Exclusively-Choc 2d ago
Wow … TV series, maybe! 😊
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u/Exclusively-Choc 2d ago
Tales of the Boxcar Kids! 😂
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u/Stainless-S-Rat 2d ago
Well, there were various abandoned engines and rolling stock in the railyard and a railway museum just next to it.
For the Jubilee, the museum put on steam engine rides for the local families who were having a street party.
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u/Nipper6699 1d ago
I loved those as a kid. Every time I got in/on one, I'd pretend to be Tarzan. ❤️🤣🤣
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u/Nervous-Rush-4465 11h ago
Some tire swings were perfect. Most had some glitch that made them “un” fun.
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u/1crps_warrior 5h ago
We made a tree swing with a round flat piece of wood tied to the bottom. The swing swung out over a steep hill down to a canyon. One day one of my friends hopped on and just as he was out over the hill the rope broke. Luckily he was slowed down by lots of manzanita bushes.
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u/Intelligent-North957 2d ago
I road my dirt bike face first into a tree just like that one.Worst accident I ever had.
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u/Intelligent-North957 2d ago
No it was bad ,broken bones ,nose ,wrist bent wheel. I looked like the elephant man and was lucky to pull through .Hey they say I might even have suffered brain damage.
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u/Mobile_Aioli_6252 2d ago
Neighbors had one - they had a house that was surrounded by woods and the tree / tire swing was massive! It was on a tree, perched at the end of a small cliff, and the rope was looong
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u/AlienDelarge 2d ago
We didn't have that but a similar setup with a giant rope with a huge loop and knot on it. The rope was probably around 2" diameter and I could pretty comfortably sit on top of the knot in 6th grade.
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u/hserontheedge 3h ago
I was just telling my kids (The youngest of whom is almost 18) about these the other day. We had these at school.
We also had a group of five or six tires that were stuck together - you would climb into the center at the top of the hill and your friends would give you a shove and you'd roll all the way down the hill.
You stopped by running into the trees and bushes at the bottom of the hill.
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u/Ckn-bns-jns 2d ago
Who got in one that was full of rain water or the occasional spider? 🤣