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Old 06-05-2020, 06:15 PM
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Old 06-05-2020, 06:32 PM
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Yea sorry to say I did that.

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Still works today!
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Old 06-05-2020, 06:43 PM
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Growing up, the road beside our house was dirt and gravel. I remember my dad, and other guys from the neighborhood, with a drum of waste oil in the back of a pickup, oiling the road to keep down the dust.

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Old 06-05-2020, 07:04 PM
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Well ... the oil did come out of the ground in the first place.

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Old 06-05-2020, 08:26 PM
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Growing up, the road beside our house was dirt and gravel. I remember my dad, and other guys from the neighborhood, with a drum of waste oil in the back of a pickup, oiling the road to keep down the dust.
Ha!
The dust would blow from our side road also, My Dad rigged up a valve and pipes, (like 3 inch steel pipes). Put it in the back of his 66 Chevy pickup. had one of his teenage gas station employees help him. It did work...

The EPA would poop a green twinkie if you did this today....Isn't this nearly what asphalt is?

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Old 06-05-2020, 09:10 PM
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When I was a kid if you changed your oil in your driveway or on the street you would just walk to the nearest street corner and pour the used oil down the sewer. Every ten years or so the city would come around with trucks that had these buckets that they would use to scoop out the debris from the sewers. You would think they struck oil with the amounts that would come out. Today you would be in BIG trouble if you got caught doing that.

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Old 06-05-2020, 10:27 PM
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Trying to be environmentally conscientious I took my used oil to one of the oil change places for them to combine with their used oil. Just as I was leaving I saw the employee (maybe manager) taking my jugs out back and tossing them in a garbage bin.
Also with the recycling craze I saw that the plastic oil containers are a #1 recyclable plastic. Taking many to the local recycle area, the attendant would not let me 'recylcle' them. Same with #1 soap/detergent bottles. All because the containers held and still may have some hazardous materials in them. I looked him in the eyes and said 'Fine, then into the ground with regular waste they go'.

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Trying to be environmentally conscientious I took my used oil to one of the oil change places for them to combine with their used oil. Just as I was leaving I saw the employee (maybe manager) taking my jugs out back and tossing them in a garbage bin.
Also with the recycling craze I saw that the plastic oil containers are a #1 recyclable plastic. Taking many to the local recycle area, the attendant would not let me 'recylcle' them. Same with #1 soap/detergent bottles. All because the containers held and still may have some hazardous materials in them. I looked him in the eyes and said 'Fine, then into the ground with regular waste they go'.
Yep, our local transfer station "Attendant" said I could not put my perfectly recyclable hydraulic oil buckets in because they might have oil residue in them ... I said .. plastic is made out of oil you know ... no go. So they go to the local commercial facility that just sends everything to the incinerator. I'm all for recycling .... but it will never work as long as they continue to make it difficult to do.

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When I was in high school, I had this conversation with a friend:
Him: what do you do with your used motor oil?
Me: pour it into the bottles the new motor oil came in, then throw them in the trash.
Him: that’s a jerk move.
Me: oh yeah? What do you do with it?
Him: I pour it down the storm drain.

That must have been pretty common, because about 30 years ago, they painted “no dumping - drains to ocean” on every storm drain in Orange County.

Although that oil in the grass is nothing compared to the “extra chemicals” spot behind my grandfathers garage. We weren’t allowed back there on account of all the lead paint, DDT, etc he started dumping there in the ‘40s.

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Old 06-06-2020, 08:29 AM
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Now we our small, think about rail road locomotives. I read they would dump it beside the tracks in certain locations. We use to get local gas station to change our oil. I remember one of the older stations out in back was dirt that was black and slimy!

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Every oil change my grandfather would paint the shed. Needless to say it’s still standing, just don’t light a match..........

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Old 06-06-2020, 08:43 AM
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Guilty also, we had a “dark spot” on the ground behind the garage. We would just pour in in and it would soak into the ground. Today I return all mine to local O’Reillys store......but they won’t take the jug.

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Reminds me of a trip I took in what was East Germany around 1991, every small town that had a river running near or thru it had an odd concrete structure with 2 overhangs jutting out over the river, it had a small platform under it with the center cut out with a clear drop to the river.

I was told that was were the locals changed the oil on their Trabant's! Just drained it into the river. Government sponsered!

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Our back yard was along a cow and horse pasture.
Remember my dad used it for weed control along fence line.
Would get those huge burr and jimson weeds.

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Old 06-06-2020, 10:38 AM
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as wood cutting time approches i save it to put in my chain saws for chain lube

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Old 06-06-2020, 11:31 AM
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I recall used oil fired space heaters for the garage.

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Old 06-06-2020, 11:41 AM
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The Honda/Yamaha dealer in town has an oil furnace in their shop.
Sign out front "USED OIL ACCEPTED HERE."

I took him 5 gallons once, had to stand on a ladder to pour it in the tank.
Brought my bucket back home.

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Old 06-06-2020, 12:48 PM
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Yeah I remember those days of washing parts with gas, that and used oil would be dumped in the alley.

I have two old fuel oil tanks that stores the waste oil we generate. Every fall one of my customers comes by to pump 'em out for use in his garage's waste oil heater.

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