It's only flat at the bottom sir

      This must be one of those moments that all farmers dread. A flat and wrecked tyre on one of the tractors rendering it totally unusable.
      To fit two new replacements as the original tyre specification will cost around two thousand pounds each and these are just for the 'small' front wheels and you have replace both regardless of what the condition of the other is. No wonder farmers are always worried about money.
      The rear tyres? Eight thousand pounds for the two. Argh.

      The farmer found some 'cheap' Russian tyres online for only five hundred pounds each. Plus the fitting, the environmental cost of disposing of the two old tyres and VAT, of course. However no environmental costs were required, he's cut them down and made a double sandpit for the grandchildren with one  and painted the other and made a planter for the garden.
      A lovely piece of lateral thinking.