This Sterling Snowman Made from Huge Tires is Free on Craigslist

There's no greater neighborhood competition than trying to be the best-decorated house for Christmas. This huge snowman could take you straight to the top.

This 'free' find on Rockford's Craiglist is a prime example of how trash can be turned into a treasure. Sitting in a yard in Sterling, Illinois is an eight-foot tall snow man made entirely of old tractor, truck and care tires. Ok, not entirely, His arms are a couple of sticks. The tractor tires really add to the girth of this behemoth. Those big farm tractor tires measure six-feet in circumference.

I reached out to the seller to get just a little backstory because there's no way this didn't start as a stack of unusable tires that some guy didn't feel like hauling away. Guess what I found out?

I was stacking them up to haul away and my wife said It would be neat as a snowman. I then looked for a few smaller tires and made a face and a hat as a joke and sent a pic to her.

You'll find this big boy in Sterling and it's free to a good home. Here's the Craigslist link to make contact with the seller.

Please be sure to share photos of where you put this guy, should you go scoop him up.

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