What Do You Do With Your Waste Oil?

[grsthegreat]

agree. and i wonder why the epa is ok with asphalt. not much different than motor oil. id spread my old oil on my roads, but my calif neighbors would turn me in. they actually called the cops on me for target practicing a month back. the cops didnt even come by my place. i only heard about it thru a local volunteer.

they need to move back

 

[Williy]

Those waste oil heaters cost big bucks and if you let other guys put their waste oil in a barrel you are going to burn watch out as they don't just dump waste oil and next thing you are cleaning out or replacing parts on your burner.
I have seen prices from $3150 to $6850 and parts ain't cheap either. I will stick with a wood stove and soak the chunks of wood in oil and then burn them and also on a fire pit can burn some oil there also.

willy

 

[BravoXray]

When I had trucks, I would dump it in the fuel tanks and burn it, ten gallons of oil that I didn't have to get rid of, and ten gallons of fuel I didn't have to buy.
Since they're gone, I take it to TSC. Just took the last of a 55 gallon drum full to them on Monday.

 

[MHarryE]

Blame the CA refs on city hall but what about ag lobby? At the end of the day, you can’t use a oil based solvent to clean the oil off your paver. You need to use a citrus cleaner to support the California citrus farmers. Remember that when you buy Simple Orange hand cleaner. Yeah, I do like it but I thought it was ironic cleaning the oil with citrus since it’s oil in the first place. Gotta live lobbyists.

 

[5030]

Those waste oil heaters cost big bucks and if you let other guys put their waste oil in a barrel you are going to burn watch out as they don't just dump waste oil and next thing you are cleaning out or replacing parts on your burner.
I have seen prices from $3150 to $6850 and parts ain't cheap either. I will stick with a wood stove and soak the chunks of wood in oil and then burn them and also on a fire pit can burn some oil there also.

willy

Most waste oil burners worth their salt have built in separators in them to remove contaminants from the waste oil. My Clean Burn does. Never had an issue with mine in 10 years, other than cleaning the oil injection nozzle every fall. Yes, the initial cost was high but the ROI has made it 100% worth the initial cost. It burns everything except antifreeze. Gear oil, crankcase oil, brake fluid, any petroleum based product.

Nothing beats a warm tractor shop on a cold winter day and no particulate emissions coming on the vent pipe.

All you are doing by soaking wood in used motor oil and burning it is contributing to pollution. Nothing more and a whole lot less.

 

[sixdogs]

It is not a good idea to put used motor oil in any contact with the ground. It will wind up in the water table where it will pollute incredible amounts of water. You'll also eventually drink it. I recall a study from Maine that a very small amount ( less than an oz?) of used motor oil would pollute around 10,000 gallons of water. Other things I read said 10 times that amount.

Now, I'm no tree hugger and have no problem with most things but don't want to drink used motor oil with all the fluids and heavy metals it contains. It's OK if others want to do it but do it straight from the container. In water it also is consumed by animals that we depend on from critters and birds to dogs, fish and farm animals. I like to fish.

Rethink used motor oil for any application where it can contact the ground. There are suitable substitutes--still oils--that work just the same and don't cause the drinking water issue.

 

[Bavarian]

It is not a good idea to put used motor oil in any contact with the ground. It will wind up in the water table where it will pollute incredible amounts of water. You'll also eventually drink it. I recall a study from Maine that a very small amount ( less than an oz?) of used motor oil would pollute around 10,000 gallons of water. Other things I read said 10 times that amount.

Now, I'm no tree hugger and have no problem with most things but don't want to drink used motor oil with all the fluids and heavy metals it contains. It's OK if others want to do it but do it straight from the container. In water it also is consumed by animals that we depend on from critters and birds to dogs, fish and farm animals. I like to fish.

Rethink used motor oil for any application where it can contact the ground. There are suitable substitutes--still oils--that work just the same and don't cause the drinking water issue.

What we learned at school, more than 40 years ago, one drop of oil ruines a full bath tub of water.

 

[Oaktree]

When I had trucks, I would dump it in the fuel tanks and burn it, ten gallons of oil that I didn't have to get rid of, and ten gallons of fuel I didn't have to buy.

Did you run it thru any sort of filter before you put it in the fuel tanks? I would think that all the gunk in the used oil would plug up your fuel filter pretty quick.

 

[5030]

Roadway Express has done just that for decades. The fuel filters are less expensive to change than getting rid of used lube oil.

 

[Bavarian]

Roadway Express has done just that for decades. The fuel filters are less expensive to change than getting rid of used lube oil.

Put your used oil in your truck/tractor nowadays. Then tell us what's cheaper.