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I'm looking for a better way to handle the drained oil when changing tractor oil. I have used a big pan then have to pick it up and pour into a funnel into a cantainer. There's got to be a better way. How do you do it? I want to steal someones great idea.
 
I have an oil changing bottle (10 quart or bigger) that has a big opening on the side with a cover and a plastic screen and a small normal opening on the end. You only open one cap at a time, depending if you are draining oil into it or pouring oil out of it. I have no idea where it originally came from.
Zach
 
Do you have enough room under your tractor for a five gallon bucket? I get hyd oil in five gallon buckets, and pop off the lids. They fit under most of my tractors, and when they're full, just put the lid back on and there you go.
 

I don't know who makes it, but there is a container made just for that pupose. It has a large lid that you remove for draining the oil into, and then you can seal it up tight for carrying to a recycling center. You can most likely find one at any auto parts store, or probably even Wally World. I've got one out in the shop, but I rarely use it because my drained oil gets recycled in another manner.
 
I'm with [b:654c4848f0]Larry 986[/b:654c4848f0]; we use empty GL1 140 five gallon buckets.

Keep one around handy for "oiling" the chain drives/sprockets on the balers.
 
I have one of those big flat plastic oil change collectors (holds maybe 3 gallons???) I bought at Tractor Supply or Rural King or Auto Zone, heck I forget... It has the big screened hole to catch the oil under the car then you replace it and drain it out a small top outlet thats closed off while its under the car PIECE OF CAKE AND CHEAP TO BUY

John T
 
I have a 5 qt capacity pan that sits under the car or under the tractor. Then I pour the oil into a 5 gallon pail, then put a lid on it and then get enough to give to the oil change place and they use it in an oil burner to heat their shop.
I use a piece of old plywood under the drain pan while I pour the oil.
 
I have one of those large plastic drain pans. It holds about 5 gals and has a spout like an old tea pot and handles that let you pour the oil into a 1 gal jug without a funnel. For tractors I usually just drain into 5 gal cans. I have a large plastic tray (bottom half of one of those car roof luggage carrier things), about 4ft square with 6" high sides, and ribbed floor....I put the drain pan and any jugs/cans into it and slide it under to catch spills, dropped drain plugs etc.
 
I don't know where to get them but they have a screw in adapter that you use as a plug and it has a hose you screwe on and then reales somthing to drain the oil via the hose.A farm I used to work at had them on the tractors and it made it nice to drain,no mess no splash just stick the hose in the pail and drain.
 
I have two of those plastic pans/buckets one that holds about 5 gal. and one on wheels that holds about 20. What do you use to control spatter when changing fuel filters? I've seen something that looks like coarse 3M scrubbing pads.
 
I save the gallon jugs from oil changes on the trucks at work. I set my drain pan under the tractor, and just take the plug in and out as I drain it into the gallon jugs. Any I miss goes into the pan and I drain it out into another jusg or one that isnt full. Take a little more time and patience, but I dont have to lift those heavy pans and try and haul it to the recycler or the waste oil heater at work.
 
I just catch it in an old tire then burn it all! No that's not right, I use gallon jugs, then put on the chains on my NH balers.
 
I store it in one of those 275 gallon plastic shuttles.But,i burn it in my shop furnace.I've picked up 300 gallon from farmers this week.
 
I use one of those "oil change" containers made for cars. But for my tractor I raise it up on a five gallon bucket so it doesn't splatter.
 
I just pull them out in the gravel drive way, pop the drain plug and let her go. It came out of the ground, so iam just putting it back in the ground. Thats recycling at its best!!!

Before anyone gets their shorts in a wad, The above statement was just a joke.

How we actually do it is drain the oil into 5 gallon buckets and then put it in a 275 gallon tank that feeds the waste oil furnace that heats the shop.
 
I catch it in pans, pour it into plastic jugs and use it on brush piles, plastic jug and all.

Dean
 
Go to Jiffy Lube and get one oil change with a "forever reciept", and take it from there.

Here's how it works. You change your oil and put the dirty oil in juggs, and when your neighbor is sleeping at about 2 AM, set the juggs on his doorstep. The next day while talking to him, mention that you saw another neighbor changing his oil the day before and that gives you the idea to go get yours changed down at Jiffy Lube right then and there, and make sure he knows you're heading down to Jiffy Lube as you pull out of the driveway and head down to the tavern for an hour or so, a beer or two. While you're sitting at the bar, borrow a pencil with an eraser from the bartenderess, and change the date and milage on your Jiffy Lube "Forever Reciept" that you got about ten oil changes ago. When you get home, let your neighbor see the reciept, but not too close so he can't see the eraser marks and stuff. That way you'll be ok while he beats the other neighbor up for leaving dirty oil on his doorstep to deal with.

Been doing it for decades now, no problem. Different story for the lady that rents out the farm house on the other side of him though. She can't keep renters for some reason.

Mark
 
The oil is drained into five gallon pails and caried to a 250 gallon barrel in the storage building.

I have a new waste oil handling system in the works and when I'm done with harvest I will complete it. After it's done, the oil will be drained into a pan made out of a 55 gallon drum. The pan will be wheeled to the corner of the shop where a suction hose will suck the oil out and it will be pumped into the 250 gallon barrel. The pump is a small hydraulic pump direct connected to a 1 HP electric motor. I used it this summer to pump out the waste oil barrel and it works fine. The drain pan is one we have already been using only it's not on wheels yet. Can't wait to get it done. Jim
 
My tractors, have enough clearance I can use a 5 gallon bucket, with the top removed then put back after draing oil into. I put a 3/8" ball valve and located it couple inches from the bottom so the crud can settle. Then after draining I can run off into other containers. I use for oiling chains, coating the decks of my hay racks and chopper boxes.
 
I've got a cut down 5 gallon bucket. Drain in it and then transfer/pour into an empty 55 gallon drum when its time for the next change. That way if I need a little oil for chains or something I can draw off whats in the little bucket rather than mess with the drum. You know, it sure didnt seem like it, but last of Sept I had a full drum since Feb trip to the recycler.
 
Raise the tractor or lower the container and run oil into a 5 gal drum via a funnel, if the present method is not satisfactory.Keep the oil for lubrication, also good to keep white ants [termites] off the fence posts.
 
5 gallons jugs, then to shuttles for "motivation" for our shop woodburner and oiling chains on baler, corn header, etc. Have a friend who is straining it through a cloth and pouring an 80% rate in his fuel tank of his powerstroke... I'm not brave enough yet..
 
I made a steel pan on creeper rollers. It is about 6" deep X 24" wide and 36" long. It holds about fifteen gallons 70% full. The rollers make it only clear the floor by 1/2 inch on the bottom. So the over all height is just under seven inches.. I then put a handle like on a little red wagon on it to roll it around. I mounted a small bronze gear pump on one end that I drive with my air drill. I pump the oil into a 275 oil tank that supplies my shop stove. That way I don"t have to struggle to lift a full bucket/pan/tank and dump it into my tank.
 
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