Anonymous-0
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spilled some used motor oil this winter cleaned it up the best i could and this spring guess where the grass was growing first?
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Well , did you learn not to change oil in the yard ? You better hope some nosey polution geek dosen"t se that bare oily spot , or that lesson will also be costly . It used to be a person could pour his old used oil along his driveway , or along the berms of his road to kill weeds & kept the dust down . No more ever since the idiots behind desks found a way to make extra money prosecuting individuals . I"ve had neighbors that like complaining about me burning old oil & tires getting brush piles burning . Some individuals aren"t happy just minding their own business . God bless
Allan in NE
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Yep,
You folks have lost your freedom, that's for sure.
Allan
You folks have lost your freedom, that's for sure.
Allan
George Rausch
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Waste oil is hazardous waste, the oil and the heavy metals keep precolating down and get into the ground water and there is NO way to get it out. All the restof us, our kids and grandkids, wind up drinking it. That's why. I sure don't want my boys to drink the oil from my Farmall.
Gary from Muleshoe
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Something to ponder, we take the oil out of the ground use it for our purposes but we can"t put it back in the ground. Have you ever wondered if oil traces would show up in our ground water if no oil was ever pump out or pured in? Ponder that one for a while you environmental geeks.
If any of the younger so called Green Generation complain about how I do things on the farm (like change oil or burn trash etc) Id tell them their generation fills landfills with dirty disposable diapers while ours washed and recycled cloth diapers,,,,,,,,,,,,their generation fills landfills with plastic water bottles while our generation drank tap water from a glass,,,,,,,,,their generation fills landfills with paper or plastic milk containers while ours used glass returnable bottles,,,,,their generation fills landfills with plastic drink bottles while ours recycled (we got 2 cents) glass coke bottles
NUFF SAID now any young green generation types put that in your water pipe n smoke it lol
"If you ever wonder why you ride the carousel, you do it for the stories you can tell"
John T
NUFF SAID now any young green generation types put that in your water pipe n smoke it lol
"If you ever wonder why you ride the carousel, you do it for the stories you can tell"
John T
Clean it up the best you can. Heck here in Pa they frac wells for natural gas and then dump the frac water into our streams and rivers. They inject diesel fuel and drilling mud by the barrel. Local communities take the water and drink it. There are no regs to stop them and no one knows what to test for anyway. Big money , you know........
Anonymous-0
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Our rural township picks up over 100 tires a year from people hauling them out here and tossing them.Next will be oil filters seeing Wi made that filters need to be hauled to a recycle center.
You better hope some nosey polution geek dosen"t se that bare oily spot
I think he was saying the grass was growing there FIRST and BEST.
Russ from MN
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- Bemidji MN
It used to be a common practice to pour it on
thistles,it would sort of kill them but then the
next generation would just come up!
thistles,it would sort of kill them but then the
next generation would just come up!
Don't guess I lost my rights yet!!!I still drain most of it in a #3 washtub and pour it on what ever I want, I also dig holes to bury my trash and cover them up after the get kinda full. County came by one day and said "you can't bury your trash in holes on your property". Well, they shouldn't have done that!! I told them "hey, you know who paid for this place,ME, I then dumped another load while they looked and just shook their heads and drove off. figured a BIG fine and court stuff, but seems as for the last 15 years I've won so far.
Life is good in Texas!!!
Fred
Life is good in Texas!!!
Fred
Anonymous-0
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wagner power painter sprays used oil all over equipment that has to stay in weather , keeps everthing from rusting up , keeps wood on wagons in giood shape too ./
Anonymous-0
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Jim, did you ever know Ellis Shuck in Corydon? Ellis is dead now, but he's the guy who used to own the old Corydon Auto Supply when it was downtown, in the building the Corydon nnalert newspaper tore down for a parking lot.
Ellis was a bit of a mechanic, and my grand-dad trained him in the old-school methods of the 1930's and 40's. One thing Ellis did, when he built his home on the west hill in the early 50's was to build a lube pit in the garage. Ellis changed his own oil there, and when he was finished, he'd spray the underside of his car or truck with the used oil, as a rust-preventative measure.
It must've worked, because Ellis had the only mid-60's International Travelall station wagon that didn't rust out in the quarter panels.
Ellis was a bit of a mechanic, and my grand-dad trained him in the old-school methods of the 1930's and 40's. One thing Ellis did, when he built his home on the west hill in the early 50's was to build a lube pit in the garage. Ellis changed his own oil there, and when he was finished, he'd spray the underside of his car or truck with the used oil, as a rust-preventative measure.
It must've worked, because Ellis had the only mid-60's International Travelall station wagon that didn't rust out in the quarter panels.
bobs old iron
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watch out---big brother E-P-A might fine you for the big oil spill. lol
But at the same time it is OK to use the heavy oils on the berms of the roads to protect erosion from run off or to make the black top stick to the back roads.---Next they will want to use pampers on all the wild animals that defecates / urinates in our streams Or will building latrines for the fish in the lakes.
What about some of these large reservoirs that you find dead animals in That your city water comes from ? Sure they treat it with poisons and chemicals that are (good ?) for human consumption.
What about some of these large reservoirs that you find dead animals in That your city water comes from ? Sure they treat it with poisons and chemicals that are (good ?) for human consumption.
Forgot to say I tried to get some berm dirt last year from in front of my house.
They were hauling it about 3 mile up the road.
When I ask for maybe 3 loads he, (State Inspector) told me they couldn't dump it within 50 feet of the creek behind my house ????????????
This dirt was run off from the road, for Pete's sake. It already was contaminating the creek !
They were hauling it about 3 mile up the road.
When I ask for maybe 3 loads he, (State Inspector) told me they couldn't dump it within 50 feet of the creek behind my house ????????????
This dirt was run off from the road, for Pete's sake. It already was contaminating the creek !
Anonymous-0
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shows up round here at 300' or so. just pluged a 200' water well with cement last week cause it was getting green oil in it, we call it crude oil.
Anonymous-0
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Father in law once told me they took the used oil and dumped it on the hogs.It would be like manging them today.He said after a day or so they would just shine as if someone had polished them up.
Anonymous-0
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somebody mentioned about heavy metals in the used oil but did anybody consider the heavy meatals that is put on the ground every time you use a grinder to sharpen your lawn mower blades there is probly more metals comeing from that lawn mower blade than a 45 gallon drum of used motor oil of coarse im just guessing on this
Anonymous-0
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Prior to portable hand pump sprayers becoming popular after WWII farmers actually had mechanical devices called "hog oilers". You would put it by the fence and the hog would rub against it to run the oil onto the skin. It was thought to help control insects and disease, as well as keeping the hog's skin "soft".
Anonymous-0
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yes , i recall that fella ,, guess he is driving ihc in heaven,
Anonymous-0
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In order for them to use these items, somebody must be making them and put them on the market as a time saver which seems to be the holy grail. of course you know who invented the throw away age. Now the World has to live with it.
Traditional Farmer
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- Virginia
Highway Dept here used to put thousands of gals of
used motor oil on dirt/gravel roads to keep the dust downs for years.So where is all the damage from that?None visible.
used motor oil on dirt/gravel roads to keep the dust downs for years.So where is all the damage from that?None visible.
Anonymous-0
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Where do the local councils dump their rubbish. in disused quarries. is that somehow different?.
A couple of more things to consider:
re: no damage visible from past dumping. Ever see someone die of cancer? See any exterior damage? Just because you can't see something on the surface doesn't mean it isn't there.
re: whipersnappers and their glass bottles etc. Which generation was it that made those diapers and plastic bottles the only product available? Unless there were 7 year old CEO's of companies it wasn't the whippersnappers.
re: oil comes from the ground, we are just putting it back. Oil comes from an average depth of 5600ft. Water wells are drilled from an average depth of 150-300 feet. Both are in the Earth but veggies and milk are both in the grocery store. That doesn't mean they are at all close together.
re: no damage visible from past dumping. Ever see someone die of cancer? See any exterior damage? Just because you can't see something on the surface doesn't mean it isn't there.
re: whipersnappers and their glass bottles etc. Which generation was it that made those diapers and plastic bottles the only product available? Unless there were 7 year old CEO's of companies it wasn't the whippersnappers.
re: oil comes from the ground, we are just putting it back. Oil comes from an average depth of 5600ft. Water wells are drilled from an average depth of 150-300 feet. Both are in the Earth but veggies and milk are both in the grocery store. That doesn't mean they are at all close together.
(quoted from post at 14:53:45 06/09/11) Father in law once told me they took the used oil and dumped it on the hogs.It would be like manging them today.He said after a day or so they would just shine as if someone had polished them up.
When I was a kid growing up, some of the old timers would pour used motor oil on their dogs backs to cure them of the mange.
Apparently it worked. :shock:
Anonymous-0
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depends where your at can get crude round nw Pa any where from 200' to 1000'
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