Why wouldn't you just use any old stick to keep a hoop going?

There's a remarkable scene in To Kill a Mockingbird, which my freshmen are reading now, in which Scout rides inside a tire down the street, over the curb, and up into Boo Radley's yard. I cannot imagine how this could have been fun even when I was small because I would have worried so much about scraping whatever parts of my body were outside the edges of the tire. Did you ever roll about in a tire, wwh?