Dispose of anti-freeze and oil

KIP in MX · Dec 20, 2012

Where do you guys take your old antifreeze, hyd and engine oil? I know you can burn the oil in certain heaters, but I don't have anything set up for that.
Want to change all of the fluids on my JD 4320 in a few weeks, so will have to deal with disposal. Also have about 10 gal of used motor oil from other engines to get rid of.

bo1 · Dec 20, 2012

In New York, any place selling oil and antifreeze has to take used stuff. I take mine to my local mechanic and he heats with it.

Dean · Dec 20, 2012

I use most of my used lubricants when burning brush piles. Excess is bottled in used oil bottles and taken to local auto parts stores.

I save most used anti freeze. Excess given to a couple of friends who use it.

Dean

uncle henry · Dec 20, 2012

i treat my trailer floors with used motor oil

RalphWD45 · Dec 20, 2012

I take 5 gal hitran and oil cans, that I empty, and put my mixed used oil, atf, and hydraulic oil, in them, and carry about 10 gal at a time into the Yelm Wa O rileys. They wont take water mixed oil, so I keep it in the shop till I fill a can. The anti freeze I put in a 55gal plastic barrel, with bung, and let it settle, and reuse after straining thru an old T shirt. I guess you could just take it all down to the creek, or river and cut out the middle man!

RodinNS · Dec 20, 2012

There's actually a lot of garages and shops in the northern areas like here that use waste oil heaters and will buy used oil... and pay a fair dollar for it too. At worst they'll take it for free.
Antifreeze... just goes away. Just don't leave it in a puddle....

Rod

RalphWD45 · Dec 20, 2012

Rod! I am more concerned with me and the family, than I am about the environment, I dont want to find either in my well water!

Pete76NY · Dec 21, 2012

We have a local shop that gives us a 55 gallon drum, when it's fulll we load it in the truck and take it to them as they heat with it (oil I mean). They will gladly take it 5 gal pails too if ya don't have the equipment to handle a barrel full.
The anti freeze goes to local salvage/recycling/u pull it yard along with empty gallon milk jugs, they toss it in with what they take out of the junked cars, filter it and sell it used in the jugs.

FBH44 · Dec 21, 2012

Yep, don"t don"t DON"T dump on the gorund, you and your kids and granskids will be drinking it. Contamination of groundwater is for real.

Allan in NE · Dec 21, 2012

Hurry!

Someone get out there and roll up all those derned asphalt hiways! :>)

Allan

Anonymous-0 · Dec 21, 2012

I still use NH 351 chain rollbalers (3) so I guess I feed mine to the cows.

Bret4207 · Dec 21, 2012

Mu drain oil all gets put in 5 gallon buckets and strained for use as lube, rust preventative, brush pile igniter or in some cases mixed 50/50 with bar oil and used in my saws. I can't say I've ever had enough money to throw away anti-freeze. If it still reads good on the tester I'd filter it and use it.

Stephen Newell · Dec 21, 2012

My son works at a Walmart auto department and he says they will take used oil from people for disposal.

thurlow · Dec 21, 2012

Allan.....some of us have 2 problems with your response.
1. What do those derned asphalt hiways have to do with tractors?
2. We resent common sense answers.

:>) :>)

Phil in Pa · Dec 21, 2012

I take my used oil back to Advance Auto and dump it. I have yet to find anywhere that takes anti freeze.

Bryan inIowa · Dec 21, 2012

I had talked to our waste water plant about antifreeze . They said antifreeze down the drain is ok. Long as it not large volumes,55 gal at a time . Just don"t dump in storm sewer . You may want to check locally on this.

Red1 · Dec 21, 2012

O'Reillys...will take old oil, atf ... don't know about anti freeze..

dcarp · Dec 21, 2012

I put the hyd & oil back into the 5 gal pails & take them to my NH dealer. They have a 500 gal tank in back, just dump everything into it. Anti freeze, good luck. Looking for ideas myself.

glennster · Dec 21, 2012

there is a auto mechanic shop down the road from me that heats with used oil. all our used oil goes to him. he also takes anti freeze and sends it to the recycler. way better to do that than dump it on the ground or down the drain. check with your local shops, they will take it off your hands.

Anonymous-0 · Dec 21, 2012

your brainwashing is complete, young annakin. We used to dribble used oil on our farm roads, to keep the dust down. And guess what? There are bacteria, in the soil, that breaks down the oil, and digest it, just like what happened in the gulf of mexico! Why do you think skid marks disappear, on the road?

Anonymous-0 · Dec 21, 2012

I always have one beater vehicle, that uses antifreeze, that's where the drain antifreeze goes, around here!

John T · Dec 21, 2012

"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust"

"It was from mother earth oil came, and to mother earth it shall be returned"

Around here they BIG BROTHER ALL KNOWING ALL WISE GOVERNMENT spray nasty black oil on the county gravel roads and they pave millions of miles of highway with nasty black petroleum based asphalt.

I know this politically incorrent "dude" who what he doesnt burn in his shop stove, knowing it kills grass and weeds and knowing it came form the earth, RECYCLES and deposits it back to mother earth along fence rows and on multiflora roses etc.

Now he dont seem all that bad of a guy to me lol

Ol John T

J.Wondergem · Dec 21, 2012

I do like some of the others on here, dump the oils in a 55 gallon barrel, and I reuse the antifreeze. I have a barrel pump and use the oil for different things back out of the barrel.

Dean · Dec 21, 2012

Bingo.

Dean

Allan in NE · Dec 21, 2012

Yeah,

Don't try to confuse me with logic! :>)

Allan

MSS3020 · Dec 21, 2012

My used oil goes on top of my wood corner posts. I have bridge planks that run across the opening of my shed where the doors open and close so I brush and coat those. make a little connel around my building posts and fill them let them oozzzz down around the posts to help keep them from rotting.. Most posts dont rot below usually just below ground..THen what I cant burn in burning barrel I take to auto parts store..

DoubleR · Dec 21, 2012

I think most of the TSC stores still take it, at least around here. I reuse some of mine on trailer and wagon decks,corn picker chains, Elevator chain, and where ever lubrication is needed. I also have a couple of friends with waste oil furnace and the local school bus garage where they have a big tank they get pumped out now and then.

greygoat · Dec 21, 2012

Our County, (LaCrosse County, Wisconsin) takes
used oil and Anti-Freeze, and lots of stuff, at
a "Hazerdous Waste drop Off Site".

El Toro · Dec 21, 2012

Our local town has a fenced in area where you can dispose of oil and antifreeze. They have 275 gallon tanks and are marked what they contain. They also accept car batteries. Hal

KIP in MX · Dec 21, 2012

Thanks for the replies. I'll check local CarQuest and Case dealer. I don't have a fence with wood post and sure don't want to pour it on the ground like we used to for dust control and I don't want the state or feds making me clean it up 10 yrs from now if I sell the place. As for the antifreeze, maybe someone can use it, but I don't have a use for it.

Dell (WA) · Dec 21, 2012

Kip.......WATCH OUT!!!.......anti-freeze is POISONOUS to DOGS. They like the "sweet" taste. .......Dell

ss55 · Dec 21, 2012

Around here any place that sells oil, antifreeze, batteries, lightbulbs, ammo, hazardous chemicals, etc are required to accept and dispose of those same items for free.

To be practical, I take them to a near-by repair shop. Any repair shop, dealership, ag co-op, and county or city recycling center are all equiped to accept oil and antifreeze in bulk with no hastles.

If you need to get paid for your used oil and antifreeeze, you could be more limited. The places listed above probably could tell you who will buy them.

JRSutton · Dec 21, 2012

I should change my name before answering this...

but since I was a kid I've dumped oil right where my father dumped his oil, and my grandfather before that.

When I change oil at my parent's house, I still dump it there.

... I figure it's so poluted by now it can't really get much worse.

Am I the only one that's so environmentally offensive? Should I change my ways?

KIP in MX · Dec 21, 2012

Thanks Dell, but I've known that for years. I want to dispose of it properly.

Dell (WA) · Dec 21, 2012

KIP........never HURTS to remind people of DANGER of anti-freeze to dogs. Lotta farmers put used anti-freeze in rear tires for traction. Anti-freeze does NOT corrode metal rims like calcium chloride. (CaCl) Surprizingly enuff, RV toilet anti-freeze (the un-used kind) is NOT poisonous. ........doggy Dell

Wile E · Dec 21, 2012

I know of an old guy that would use a tube sock and then wrap it around a funnel and then pour the oil in the funnel, filtered waste oil to be used as a cutting oil, or bar/chain oil. OR---Give it to an oil change place, lots of those places have waste oil heaters.

tomstractorsandtoys1 · Dec 21, 2012

We never have enough used oil.We lube up chains on three combines,2 forage harvesters,3 manure spreaders and a barn cleaner chain.Used antifreeze is kept to winterize 2 sprayers and the tractor with a leaking waterpump.

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