Saw a 'tree' made of old tires in a park in Portland

I was walking through Overlook Park last weekend and saw what I thought was a weirdly shaped pine from a distance. Up close, it was a stack of about 15 painted car tires, bolted together and planted in the ground with some ivy growing on it. Someone had even glued plastic pine cones to the top. I guess it's art, but my first thought was about the long term soil compaction from that rubber. Has anyone else run into something like this on a job?

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the_grace20d ago

Yeah, that tire tree is a perfect example of trying to fix one problem and making another. @torres.grant is right about the slow drip, and it feels like we see that everywhere now, like the plastic grass some people put in.

jenny_hall20d ago

Is it really that big of a deal, @torres.grant?

torres.grant21d ago

Wait, so it's a tire tree? Lol that's just giving the ground a slow poison ivy drip.