Used motor oil for bar oil??

US burning wood,, esp cleanly is a drop in the bucket. The fires in the mouthing of Ga,SC,NC TN had most of those states smoked out for weeks!!! a few of us burning makes no difference. fires are natural and should happen in absence of man putting all the darn things out! they then become catistrouphic when they occur due to exclusion.

 

I believe you have hit the nail right on the head with that statement, driving a giant truck when a civic will do, it makes me cringe every time I see a single person driving a giant SUV with no passengers, not hauling a single thing, just daily driver. My truck doesn't move unless I have something to haul (%99 the time it's firewood I'm hauling). Otherwise I drive my little g5 around 35mpg and I've hauled half the materials for our house in that. She gets a little low to the ground with 45 cases of natural slate bathroom tile in the trunk. But it beats putting gas in the truck!!

 

What I really like is the guy alone with no load in a full size pickup with huge tires and driving at about 70 mph and all this was when gas was about $4.00.
This guy passed us about every day going to work.

 

I thought you were all about being a good steward.

Purposefully spewing smoke isn't being one is it?

Oil can naturally seep out of the ground. What's wrong with using it a little & pouring it back?

We're all hypocrites. Picking & choosing what we believe so that it fits our needs. As long as you agree with the society in which you live it's fine.

 

First, my Cummins is 100% factory stock 100% not even an air cleaner change and gets 20 mpg cruising at 62 mph.
Can you say your saws are factory stock???? the mastermind saw is not modified , hahaha

 

using that logic;

So, a few of us slinging used oil makes no difference,
when in China you can not go outside without gagging.
And BP Gulf of Mexico, Exxon Valdez, the 175,000 barrels just spilled out of the pipeline this week in Dakotas,
the drip under your Ford Ranger loosing a quart a year,
COWS FARTING, number one causes of methane.

 

Well I don't spew smoke. I have modern stoves and dry wood. wood burning is carbon neutral like was mentioned.

I see your point but that's not how I meant to come across.

 

A few of us burning wood is what I said . Let's face it, in today's world wood burners are a minority. we're not like India or villages in China chocked with smoke.

The difference here is used motor oil does not occur in nature. Frequent smoldering fires do. Not in today's world cause we put them all out. But the south has evolved in a fire ecosystem . Summer, fall and spring lighting storms started fires that burned till rain put them out they burned to a drain or burned themselves out. We no longer have this since we put every fire out ASAP. The way I figure it is the 3 of us in my small town that burn wood almost 24/7 in winter don't even come close to replacing the smoke volume that one fire very 3 to 5 years that would burn the landscape would have made.

 

If their was just one drawback maybe I could agree with you, but there's multiple issues involved.

And natural oil seeping out of the ground, is just a little different than spraying highly processed contaminated oil around. What's in a bottle of modern engine oil, has little to nothing in common with crude oil.

 

That was part of my point. A gallon of recycled motor oil sprinkled throughout the forest is a drop in the bucket as well.

 

I'm guilty of that myself, I tried parking my truck and having a smaller daily driver but it never made economical sense so I'm back to a large 4x4 crew cab pickup to commute with. Sure, I could get by with a car and rent a truck when needed, but I like the convenience of having a bed when the family goes kayaking, or we take our bikes somewhere for a ride, or to haul whatever crap I want. My point is that we all do things that don't make environmental sense, so stop picking on the guys trying to recycle their old motor oil!!

 

Sorry for singling you out. It was just easier to use than ironponys waste of energy to be built dodge or my cows methane farts to use.

I agree. Hence the use of the smiley.

 

Again if there was just one issue involved I could see the practicality, this just isn't the case. It would be like driving you 4x4 with a 1,000 pounds of weight in the back just because you had some old weights laying around. It simply makes no logical sense in any way.

I'm not trying to pick on anyone, these are simply my thoughts on the matter. Everyone is free to do as the please with their own equipment, even if they're wrong.lol

 

Didn't catch the smiley on my phone.



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Why the blowing a kiss (heart) smiley!!

 

My wife drives a big SUV daily to work. It is also our family vehicle. It carries my family which I consider to be precious cargo. I want them in a big, safe, 4WD vehicle. I drive a lifted 4WD pickup daily because it was the only one that I could find with no rust that I could afford. It carries all manners of cargo including me. I'd like to believe that I am as much precious cargo to my family as they are to me. I want to be in a big, safe, 4WD vehicle because I use it often for it's intended purpose, but also because I want to make it home every night.

 

That's just how I roll.

 

One could argue big, tall and heavy vehicles are less safe, do to the poor slow handling, poor breaking and how easy top heavy vehicles roll over. Not to mention how dangerous lifted trucks are to others on the road. But that's a bit off topic.

 

Spoken like a true Powerchoke driver............

 

There is NOTHING ILLEGAL about using used oil in bar and chain oil. Even the most restrictive governing body in the USA regarding oil spills allows some oil to be spilled without notification or fine; and that is the US Coast Guard.

I can see biodegradable oil only in the future for bar and chain oil, but the cost of that will only cause more people to turn to using whatever it is they have lying around for more bar and chain oil. But why make the law in the first place, it is completely unenforceable? For the homeowners, there won't be anyone coming to check their chainsaws, and I don't see a forest ranger checking on loggers. And who is to say they could even tell biodegradable from any other oil. They would have to put dye in it, and then that would lead to a higher cost and more people NOT using it...