Gus' Model Garage ... motor oil disposal !!!

Crazy Horse · Sep 20, 2019

I was in NAPA today and they have a little bulletin board there inside the front door. Someone had posted a page from a January 1963 edition of Popular Science Magazine. It was Gus' Model Garage Handy Tips, about six on the one page. Remember Gus? He was the guy who could fix anything and his columns ran for decades in these kinds of publications.

Anyways, check out the link below .... the first page is the January edition page of hints. Go to the bottom left hint and check out how Gus suggests you get rid of your used motor oil. Yikes, not the current way of doing that. My goodness, how things have changed.
Gus method or used oil disposal

Lazy WP · Sep 20, 2019

That was back before the Greenies came on the scene.

Janicholson · Sep 20, 2019

Woof. I hope no one decided to use the digger on that idea. Jim

OregonAaron · Sep 20, 2019

My dad did something similar. He dumped his in an old stump that had a rotten center hole...

Bill(Wis) · Sep 20, 2019

From the ground it came, so shall it return. (;>))

Northvale PA · Sep 20, 2019

Well it came out of the ground. Maybe it just wanted to go back home.

JDEM · Sep 20, 2019

I see that Gus thing is dated 1963. Waste motor oil was still being dumped on the dirt roads by the town (and our Deere dealership) back in the early 90s in central NY. Cheap dust-control. I am no so sure that the calcium chloride used now for summer dust control is any better for us or the environment. At least the waste oil did not rot our cars and trucks out.

RBnWA · Sep 20, 2019

I killed alot of weeds in fence rows. Now I heat my shop with used oil. RB

Bill(Wis) · Sep 20, 2019

How things have changed! It doesn't seem that long ago that we were told, in a very dry year, to blow holes in our swamps with dynamite mixed with ammonium nitrate fertilizer and diesel fuel to provide waterholes for the ducks to build their nests and lay their eggs. So, we dutifully did just that. No one thought it unusual at all.

GordoSD · Sep 20, 2019

THOSE fence row weeds were a major source of cover for nesting and roosting birds. Why would you destroy cover in a area that you were not farming?

SVcummins · Sep 21, 2019

So you can fix the dam fence

Mike(NEOhio) · Sep 21, 2019

FIL would keep used motor oil in ten gallon milk cans and old tires were saved for burning brush in the pasture. I still use the cans. When I was a kid I changed oil in dad's car and dumped it in a nearby storm sewer. Times (and laws) have changed.

Traditional Farmer · Sep 21, 2019

Weed Psychosis.

jacksun65 · Sep 21, 2019

About ten years ago I was out in Omaha Neb at a small trucking co picking up a trailer. Talking to the old Man there I told him about the volvo dealer in Indy who had to hammer up the entire shop floor because the epa said it had to be sealed to keep the oil out of the ground. Well he starts laughing said Epa man came around and told him that he had to do something with the pavement to keep the oil from the trucks washing away. He said son thats not pavement that oil from trucks from the last 50 years, and by the way here is my permit for dumping that oil. Hanging on the wall was a permit dated from the 60s for him to dump the oil to keep the dust down.

37chief · Sep 21, 2019

We never even bothered to dig a hole for the oil. Not like today. I see Chrysler corporation hadn't figured it out yet, by 1963, That all wheel bolts can be screwed in the same way, if tightened correctly the will not unscrew. I know some of you old timers remember GM still used ball bearings in the front wheels, up until around 1954, when most everyone else was using tapered bearings. just stubborn engineers I guess. Stan

dr sportster · Sep 21, 2019

That is how I did it . The hole in the woods across from my parents house where I dumped it all grew a nice maple tree which was not affected by the oil at all.

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