Used oil

[Sawyer Rob]

I put some in sawdust/planer chips and use it to start fires in my wood stoves...

I've mixed quite a bit of it 50/50 with diesel, filtered it, and burned it in my diesels in the summer too...

SR

 

[ovrszd]

I store my used oil in 5 gallon plastic pails with a screw on cap. When I get 40 or more gallons I drop them off at a friends auto shop. He uses it in his waste oil furnace for heat.

Me too George. Mine all gets burned to heat a shop.

 

[BravoXray]

Tractor Supply will take waste oil also.

 

[diesel85]

I do the same with mine. A friend who owns a machine shop has a couple waste oil furnaces.

He gave me a 55 gallon drum and when I get it about 3/4 full, I take it down to him. Got it on a narrow pallet and use my tractor to get it on the bed of my truck. Very easy and hassle free.

And, yes, I've heard of places giving people the dickens of a time to get rid of their used motor oil. I am totally against that, and anyone that charges or refuses motor oil (if they sell it, use it, etc) should be fined! This is the exact reason it ends up in streams, sewers, lakes, oceans, etc!

I'm not some green hippie or anything, but at the end of the day, the government wants us to do the right thing and recycle it, then provide the resources to do so, and anyone failing not to accept it, should be fined.

 

[shooterdon]

I save some for a guy from out of state who has a camp 3/4 miler down the road. He is unable to get a campfire started without something to help. The rest goes to the repair shop for their heater. No charge for disposal

 

[Jstpssng]

I have also heard of people using it as bar & chain oil in their saws. It makes a gawdawful mess though, so I don't use it (anymore).

 

[SDT]

Bingo.

I save used oil in emptied oil containers and pour it on brush piles to be burned whether needed or not.

SDT

 

[lman]

All of the county governments around here have a location where they accept used motor oil and other hazardous waste. Some of our taxes fund it.

 

[zoltanthegypsy]

'bout the same here. Used to take it to the transfer station when they didn't charge for recycling. Now that they do it goes to a local auto shop where they burn it in their heater.

Z.

 

[ultrarunner]

Waste Management picks it up curbside at no additional charge here but where many changed their own oil it is rare to see any put out these days...