Use for used oil.

Dick2 · May 14, 2016

I hadn't thought of this one before. Nephew owns a couple short bar chain saws; oiler doesn't work real good on either saw so he just inserts the bar in a 5 gallon bucket of used oil to oil the chain and bar. Maybe some of you do the same thing?

He doesn't use it for fire wood, just trims the trees so he can get the machinery by the trees.

Ted in NE-OH · May 14, 2016

I fill crankcases of tractors waiting for restoration with used motor oil. I fill the crankcase as full as I can get it. It is also good for coating the bed of wood trailers.

jeffcat · May 14, 2016

Go to HF and buy the little hand held sand blaster with the screw on bottle. Around $26.oo. You want the crudyest icky drain oil you can find. Crawl under your truck or on your farm machinery and spray it down. Prevents the salt rot and rusting. On your truck you want to be very careful not to get the disks or brake lines, hoses, Etc. With that blaster gun it is pretty easy to control. Clean oil washes off but the crap stuff is really tough. Has worked for years up at the farm on machinery. You will smoke for a little way down the road but it has worked for me. USE at your own risk. Stay away for the exhaust if you can. Now if you have a Garden tractor....I coat the mufflers with it. Burns and smokes for awhile but it forms a coating and the muffler will not rust. Spring and fall. USE at your own risk. Remember.... this is my two cents so it is up to you.

Tom in TN · May 14, 2016

Good Morning,

I built my sorting pen and loading chute many years ago using sections of telephone poles. The "posts" stick out of the ground by about 6 feet. I pour my used oil onto the tops of pole pieces to try to reduce rotting. So far, it seems to be working.

Tom in TN

mj · May 14, 2016

(quoted from post at 07:53:34 05/14/16) Go to HF and buy the little hand held sand blaster with the screw on bottle. Around $26.oo. You want the crudyest icky drain oil you can find. Crawl under your truck or on your farm machinery and spray it down. Prevents the salt rot and rusting. On your truck you want to be very careful not to get the disks or brake lines, hoses, Etc. With that blaster gun it is pretty easy to control. Clean oil washes off but the crap stuff is really tough. Has worked for years up at the farm on machinery. You will smoke for a little way down the road but it has worked for me. USE at your own risk. Stay away for the exhaust if you can. Now if you have a Garden tractor....I coat the mufflers with it. Burns and smokes for awhile but it forms a coating and the muffler will not rust. Spring and fall. USE at your own risk. Remember.... this is my two cents so it is up to you.

AND it should keep mice and other vermin from chewing on the wiring ...... for years I have soaked the road-base in the barn and carport with used motor oil and parked my newest tractor and pickup over it ....... NO mouse damage, which used to be a problem! It seems like the crankcase oil from my diesels works the best as it smells pretty bad even after it has soaked into the ground (yeah, I know, NOT politically correct or ecologically sound). 8)

ObsoElitist · May 14, 2016

(quoted from post at 06:53:34 05/14/16) Go to HF and buy the little hand held sand blaster with the screw on bottle. Around $26.oo. You want the crudyest icky drain oil you can find. Crawl under your truck or on your farm machinery and spray it down. Prevents the salt rot and rusting. On your truck you want to be very careful not to get the disks or brake lines, hoses, Etc. With that blaster gun it is pretty easy to control. Clean oil washes off but the crap stuff is really tough. Has worked for years up at the farm on machinery. You will smoke for a little way down the road but it has worked for me. USE at your own risk. Stay away for the exhaust if you can. Now if you have a Garden tractor....I coat the mufflers with it. Burns and smokes for awhile but it forms a coating and the muffler will not rust. Spring and fall. USE at your own risk. Remember.... this is my two cents so it is up to you.

I dont want to be your mechanic!

D beatty · May 14, 2016

I have also used it to coat under side and back side of panels of vehicles. I coat all my wagons and trailer decks with used oil.

David G · May 14, 2016

I give mine to Bryan

connor9988 · May 14, 2016

It doesnt use much up but I use old oil to temporarily cover moldboards. Grease for long term.

thdrduck · May 14, 2016

Give mine to a guy that burns it to heat his shop. Couldn't bring myself to dump it on the ground, that's just not right.

Hoenes · May 14, 2016

I wait till I have 3 or 4 five gallon buckets full from oil changes, and take it to the local Valvoline Oil Change place. They dump it in their drain rack for free. I realize in rural areas you may not have this option though.

JOCCO · May 14, 2016

Years ago they used to put it on dirt roads to stop dust same for many of the local dirt stock car tracks!!!

IA Roy · May 14, 2016

I take it to the local implement dealer. They use it to heat the shop. Otherwise it makes great brush fire starter!

Dean · May 14, 2016

I well remember that.

It was great for gravel roads to keep the stone from washing away and to keep the dust down.

Of course, the enviro-Nazis would go ballistic if anyone or any municipality did so these days.

I use used oils to help start brush piles. Of course, it will not be long before one will no longer be able to burn brush piles.

Dean

Dean · May 14, 2016

Years ago, unfinished wood buildings such as corn cribs were regularly oiled with used oil.

Much less expensive and easier to apply than paint and preserves the wood better.

Dean

Catskill Pete · May 14, 2016

I'm not sure the mechanics in salt country would agree with you. On an older car, which in
salt country means about 6 years, the ones I know don't like the mess under the car. But
they prefer it to rusty broken off bolts!

Fred Werring · May 14, 2016

Between the chains for the 855 baler, the manure spreader, squeeze chute floor, stock trailer floor, chains and sickle on the haybine, etc., it all gets used.

Fred

Geo-TH,In · May 15, 2016

In the winter, my chainsaw likes the bar oil thinned or it won't go through the oiler. So I use used oil to thin bar oil with.

I also store some of my used oil in old laundry detergent bottles sitting on a shelf. When it sits for a few months, the oil almost looks new. Don't disturbe the bottle, just push on the button. geo

Ken(Ark) · May 15, 2016

(quoted from post at 11:03:07 05/14/16) Give mine to a guy that burns it to heat his shop. Couldn't bring myself to dump it on the ground, that's just not right.

I use those torpedo kerosene heaters in my shop . I mix in my used oils with diesel and any petroleum waste other than gasoline ( 4 gal diesel to 1 gal ?) . I have an 8" to 6" reducer screwed to the heater and 6" stove pipe for duct work that lays on the shop floor under the work table . It runs for 24' under the table , makes a U turn , back 30' and exhausts out of the shop. Surprisingly it emits very little smoke .

jacksun65 · May 16, 2016

I knew a guy in omaha that had a small fleet of trucks. Epa man came in and told him he would have to rip up all his asphalt and put in cement to keep the oil from his trucks from contaminating the ground water. He started laughing pointed to the wall. He had a permit from 1965 to dump motor oil on his lot to keep the dust down. He told the epa man that not asphalt thats used motor oil.

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