Used Motor Oil, disposing of it properly

Used to work for a water department, We'd drain the trucks on the drive way, and push 'em back to clean dirt to put the plugs back in. We'd also use coffee cans and bare hands to empty the transformer oil, and dump it on the driveway to keep the dust down. That is nothing, every old factory had a dump where everything went. At one point the old Winchester dump was using 30 thousand pounds of charcoal a year to clean up their wells. (They even had a battery dump.) EVERY old factory was like that until the seventies or so. Just like China is now.

 

Pour it on the burn pile. Use it in the bottle jack for the cherry picker. Paint for barns, trailer floors, etc.

Atleast I keep it out of the ground and the water supply.

 

One old timer in Santa Maria Ca had a shop behind his house where he worked mostly on motorcycles. In the winter he had a wood stove for heat. Outside he had a tank for the drain oil, a line ran from that tank to the wood stove. There was a hand valve on the line just before the stove to control a steady drip of oil into the fire. He also always had a revolver in the toolbox for shady characters.

 

So, so sad. People just didn't know otherwise back in the day (before the 1970's). And you are right, China is going through it's own Industrial Revolution right now like we did in 1900. I can only hope, they know better and don't make the same mistakes we did --but I doubt it.

Today is Earth Day, by the way, 40th Anniversary.

 

Kill mosquitoes

 

they know better but the government doesn't care, it costs too much money to do things properly, remember it's a communist state there is no true private industry,

 

China doesn't want to slow there economic growth, so the environment suffers.

I take my oil to AutoZone too. They are pretty nice about it --because I rarely ever buy any parts there. I just take them my old oil.

 

WHAT? This is actually a law on the books in Long Beach? Seriously?
And you call it Paradise?

I'd love to read the actual law, and then challenge it in court!

 

we use it for bar oil in the chainsaw and for oil drip in the wood stove... its keeps the garage nice and warm in allmost any weather.... and of course to start burn piles but i think we use diesel more often 4 that...

 

I use mine on the bandsaw blades, drill bits, lathe, pretty much everything in the shop.

 

just be careful handling it, they are linking a lot of contact with used oil to skin cancer now. A lot of old time oil change and garage guys are showing up with tumors on their hands now. One of those no one knew better deals. it's not the oil,it's the combustion byproducts in the oil. I don't suppose tap magic is any better for you with machines though. stuff will clear your sinuses

 

For bad gas, wait til summer, put in a shallow pan, and let it evaporate. Don't know how responsible that is but it works well.

 

Actually, I have OCD and one of my obsessions is my hands. I wash my hands about 30 times a day and have a real issue with dirt/oil on them. I wear gloves for all types of work and nirile gloves when I'm handling greasy parts. You would think with this issue I would have chosen a different career path,lol.

But you do bring up a good point. Thanks.

 

I was the original recycler. I figured it this way: where do the oil companys get the oil? IN THE GROUND! I did my part by returning it from wence it came.

 

I used to carve a shallow hole in the desert and dump-n-fill. Now its to the Kragen and thanks for that service. Old gas gets thinned out about 3to1 and run through the baja gas fixer. I had a 59 Ranch Wagon that burned oil like it was free so thats where the used oil from all my friends went. Just another service.

 

I burn it in my mitu-fuel deuce. 10% diesel 90% waste oil.

 

We had a 55 gallon drum with holes in it and a fill spout burried next to the garage that we pored our used oil into for years. Its been there since the mid forties when my Grandfather biuld the garage.

 

Old gas is simple. Mix it with fresh gas in the daily at about 75 new 25 old and it doesn't seem to care.

letting it evap is really bad for the Ozone.

 

We used to pour it on the buried railroad ties on either side of our several hundred foot gravel drive to preserve them.

 

I use it on my hair..keep it greasy!

 

a lot of the semi truck leasing fleets are taking the waste oil and putting it into there diesel tanks ..who will notice a little more smoke in a semi ???

 

Years ago my Dad had a shop,put all his used oil in drum and an old man would come about once a month with empty drum and take away full one,Ididn"t ever think about it and about 2 years later he asked me if I wanted to work for him a couple of days.We went way up an old dirt road and came to an old building with pens all around it.well found out what he did with all the oil,he had a pit in one of the pens full of oil,The only way his hogs could get out of the pens was to go through the oil pit.He told me he had been dipping his hogs in oil for years and it kept all bugs,ticks and skin desease off real good.

 

Burn pile!!
I just kill off the weeds around the old engines and fenders out back. Works pretty good. Starts fires in the fireplace pretty well too.

 

i remember when the town and state did that,every summer.
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Yup, it makes a good Brylcreem substitute

 

i always try to find a nice clear creek or lake ,maybe one with spotted owls near by. dump it in there with some old tires and batterys....HA!!!
my grandpa always put it along the fence and poured it on the gravel driveway...

 

If you spray the spotted owls directly, they taste better.

 

I like to throw it over the fence into the neighbor's woods. And on the briars in my woods. Fenceposts work well also. I have soaked down my bedwood in attempts to stop weathering, not winning that battle.

 

Just throw it on the driveway. Had a truck come every year and spray oil on it,so why not? O yeah, played in the oil puddles, threw bugs and caterpillars in it, mom wasn't to happy.

 

I pour it in my daily.... and it vanishes from there, somepeople thing we have new blacktop intown