Used Oil?

We did that with fence posts on the farm.
We didn't buy fence posts, we made them. Locust wood preferred.
Not sure how much it helped.

 

I dunno, but I've gotten rid of used oil that way too.

 

I keep a 55 gal barrel that seals on the side of my house and when it gets full every 10 years or so I take it to someone who burns it for heat at a shop in the winter. Grab up another barrel and start all over. Only problem is now someone in my family is changing oil in my garage every weekend because I have the barrel!

 

A gravel road out in the country. Keeps the dust down.

 

If you are in Ohio I would say illegal.

http://forestry.ohiodnr.gov/burninglaws

 

Growing up in VA we always did this also. It is frowned upon out here in the burbs, this summer I had some old gas I needed to dispose of so I waited until it got dark and dumped in out in the street and lit it off. My kids thought it was awesome and my wife came running out of the house and saw us standing there and instantly stopped running and said "I should have known".

A few weeks ago someone left a crappy bottle of booze at the house I wanted to get rid of and my son was like hey lets dump it in the street and burn it. I was like, great idea. Got the torch and proceeded to lite it but it would not burn so I told my son to go grab the lawnmower gas. My wife said "seriously, I am going inside so I can answer the phone when the home owners association calls". We called her a communist and proceeded.

 

I buy the hotwheels "for my son" when I'm there.

 

Good one.
Hey, if the township can spray it on the back roads, I can too.
I have a section of my driveway that's gravel where the township tore it up for sewer work...and never repaved it.

 

I watched my grandfather pour his used motor oil on the gravel road in West Liberty, IL. which is a village, for years. I did the same when I lived out in the country.

If I decide to change mine again after the Toyota Care is over. I will probably change my oil on a dirt road out in the country.

 

Just leave the containers outside of a Big-O or other service shop after hours and drive away. Everyone else does it...

 

Even better.

 

Used motor oil is chuck full of BTEX, MTBE and TAME. Or as they say in the business "Methyl Ethyl Death". Nasty shit, carcinogens.

If you dump it on the ground, and you have a well, and you ever have to have water tested for a mortgage sale, you may get a BTEX hit. Not good. Use diesel for brush fires. No BTEX.

Auto zone lets me walk to the back and dump 5gal jugs whenever I want.

Edit:
https://toxics.usgs.gov/highlights/waste_oil.html



A Friday thread on tuesday, this one.

 

The best part about burning things in the street and suburb antics is my wife always says "are you sure it is safe" to which I always reply "no, FUCK no. But once it is on fire you kinda just have to deal with it however it goes you know". My neighbors have learned to deal with it and some even loosen up and join in. I always am sure whatever I am doing is safe but it is fun to lead the sheltered people on. I burn my weeds with an 80,000 BTU ground torch and neighbors say "is that safe" I am like "hell fuck no but it destroys the weeds without chemicals and I have a water hose". The same people always come to my house when they need to fix or deal with something.

Some neighbors rat me out to the wife. My wife was at dinner with some friends this summer and I got a text that said "really, you are welding in the garage without glasses on" I ask my daughter who was in the garage with me if her mother had come home, she said no. I replied to the text "ummm no, I had to grind something real quick and gave my glasses to our daughter so yeah I might have thrown a few sparks without glasses but it was just to cut a bolt and it was throwing the sparks away from us both but she had glasses on". She replied "oh well Sandy down the street drove by and told me you were welding". Sandy's a bitch! Yet not a week later my wife said "Sandy called and her car is making a funny noise and asked if you could look at it". So there I was changing the idler pulley on a Sequoia for the person that ratted me out.

This is the picture I sent back to my wife.

 

+ 1 for AutoZone. I usually change my oil at work, AutoZone is right around the corner so I bring my pan/jug thing in, they dump it and take the filter and I'm on my merry way.

 

I didn't know they took filters. I've been throwing mine in the lake behind the house for years.

 

Any national chain auto parts store will have a dumping tank. If not, call your city and ask how to dispose of it. They will have a recycle site because they don’t want it in the storm drains, streams, dirt, or any other environment ruining place.