Wife knocked over 5 gallon bucket of used motor oil

checkthisout said:

I would have paid to see this.

I wonder why your superior intellect told you to use floor dry in lieu of using drain pans?

Perhaps your children will know better?

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Do you treat everybody like this? I did have a spill pan down but if you knew anything about high pressure when you disconnect the ****** line and start up the truck it's going to shoot out like mad and the drain pan actually catches very little, I didn't have the correct fitting to put in the radiator to connect to a hose and fill a 2 litter bottle witch is how it should of been done, but my method worked in a pinch. Sometimes the red green way is the fastest And I got a free bag of hidry out of the deal.

I don't even change my own oil (other than the small engines like snowblowers and lawnmowers) and even I have a 5 gallon can of floor-dri in my garage. I've used it to absorb extra lubricants like WD-40 and the occasional oil spill as well.

However, by far the most frequent usage of the floor-dri is to **** up drips from visitors who think it is a good idea to park their oil leaking vehicles on my driveway. Provided I can get to the spot(s) in a reasonable timeframe, I just put a handful of the floor-dri on the oil spot and proceed to mash/rub it in with my shoe. I will then go ahead and sweep up what is left or in some cases if the spot is small I'll just leave it on the driveway where it eventually will be swept away with the wind and rain.

Thus far I've been fortunate enough to not have any oil spills remain -they have all been able to be cleaned with the floor-dri method. It is a lot easier and cheaper than paper towels, and a lot less messy to dispose of. One bag (which I transferred into a five gallon bucket) has lasted me about five years so far and I probably have about 65% of it left.

Sawdust also works good too. If I use sawdust, I scoop it up and pitch it into the woodburner, sameplace the used oil filters go.

Keep said:

So how the hell do you get that thing in your truck once its full?

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I use the cherry picker or roll it onto the lift, back up the old truck and roll it on!

Luckily is SK, Great Canadian Oil takes any amount! I pull in with a box of donuts and dump 'er over and we all shoot the **** while she glurgs out....

djd99 said:

Do you treat everybody like this? I did have a spill pan down but if you knew anything about high pressure when you disconnect the ****** line and start up the truck it's going to shoot out like mad and the drain pan actually catches very little, I didn't have the correct fitting to put in the radiator to connect to a hose and fill a 2 litter bottle witch is how it should of been done, but my method worked in a pinch. Sometimes the red green way is the fastest And I got a free bag of hidry out of the deal.

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No, only people that shoot ****** fluid all over their shop floor and use floor dry in place of drain pans.

Relax, I was just given ya a friendly rib'n.

I would like to see your shop bathroom though. Do you pee on the floor then **** it up with a wet/dry vac?

checkthisout said:

No, only people that shoot ****** fluid all over their shop floor and use floor dry in place of drain pans.

Relax, I was just given ya a friendly rib'n.

I would like to see your shop bathroom though. Do you pee on the floor then **** it up with a wet/dry vac?

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checkthisout said:

No, only people that shoot ****** fluid all over their shop floor and use floor dry in place of drain pans.

Relax, I was just given ya a friendly rib'n.

I would like to see your shop bathroom though. Do you pee on the floor then **** it up with a wet/dry vac?

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Your a funny man there wasn't that much to clean up it was only a couple quarts and most of that was in my friends engine compartment, I provided him with a pressure washer when we were finished.

And as for my bathroom you have to go outside there's too many parts in there to even get to the toilet.

scooby074 said:

Id love to do the barrel thing, but locally i get looks and a bit of a lecture trying to drop off a 5 Gal.

If you went with a barrel theyd say your commercial and would likely refuse.

Garages with waste oil burning furnaces may take it, but you'd likely loose your barrel. Most dont have that much extra capacity in their tank to take that when you consider they need that capacity for their own oil.

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Most dont know this, but shops actually get paid for their used oil. Id have to double check but I beleive locally it is around 1$ gallon. Thats why the parts store started accepting used oil...its free money.....or wait till the end of winter and you can sell it to the guys that burn it, it seems they always run out

I'm suprised nobody caught this but, how big was the weed wacker to knock over a five gallon bucket of oil???!!??
I couldn't kick one over without breaking my toe, even if I tried. (Don't ask me how I know!)

grego said:

I'm suprised nobody caught this but, how big was the weed wacker to knock over a five gallon bucket of oil???!!??
I couldn't kick one over without breaking my toe, even if I tried. (Don't ask me how I know!)

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Turns out it was a bucket of grass seed from Sams club and not the 5 gallon bucket of oil I was thinking of. So it was square and slightly taller than a std. bucket.

I kind of question all the people harping about having sealed containers on everything. How clumsy do ya have to be to always worry about a full bucket falling over on the floor?

The seed bucket did have an attached lid. But there's no telling whether or not it was secured and whether or not it would have survived intact or if it would have spilled open anyway.

To sum it all up, yes it's probably a good idea to put lids on buckets. Kitty litter is good to have for everyone. And e-tek changes the oil a lot.

And a lot of you guys are really funny.

Still laughing about peeing on shop bathroom floor, etc......

After the oil dry or kitty litter does its job, a good way to take care of that ********* oil spot on concrete is to brush in dry mortar or cement, with a stiff broom. It will at least cover it or hide it.

I accumulated about 25 one gallon containers of old oil and then my wife happens to mention that our trash pickup guy will take drain oil if in clear 1 gallon containers. You can only put out 2 or 3 gallons a week because of their space limitation. I got 6 gallons left, then its gone.

I see E-Tek has that barrel on a furniture dolly. Great simple idea. In my new garage I'm trying to put everything on wheels. I'm Harbor Freight's best dolly customer. Buy them on sale plus a 20% coupon, can't go wrong.