Used motor oil for bar oil??

Everyone keeps bringing up the dangers of the heavy metals in the oil. The EPA has standards on how many PPM of these heavy metals is allowable. If your oil is below this threshold, your local shop where you drop off your used motor oil is allowed to burn that oil for heat, putting those heavy metals into the air.

I'd be willing to be most auto shops don't test the oil they receive. I'd also have to think that most used oil is below this threshold anyway or the EPA wouldn't allow it at all. So take your pick, sprinkle some used motor oil in the forest or turn it in for recycling and have it burnt back into the air. Either way, we're all polluting. And it isn't the end of the world.

 

On that note^^^^^^^ the shop I usually drop off my oil at has started asking questions about whats in the bottles, wonder if he was spot checked and put on notice.

 

I think it's more to check for antifreeze and other stuff mixed in.
Many places will put it in a separate settling tank to get that other chit out.

 

I used to have an awesome inspection shop around here. Couldn't fix anything to save their life, but you always left with a sticker.

They dumped their oil down the public toilet (and often didn't flush it). I always wondered when they were going to get caught by some sort of authority.

 

More likely, somebody gave them some oil with coolant mixed in it, or gear lube, or turkey fryer oil, etc. You'd be surprised what ends up in peoples "oil" buckets. I guarantee that their heater clogged up, needed disassembled to work again (which is a huge PITA), made the shop cold, and they had to drop what they were doing to fix the issue.

My buddy heats his shop with a huge lanair waste oil furnace. He will only take oil from people he knows.

Now lets get back to the important part here..... Cow farts.




And oh yea....how many pages on this until we get to see this guy come out?

 

That's a weird way to try to revive a horse that ate oil covered grass and breathed in emissions. Makes me cross my legs when I see where he is hitting it.

 

About 8-10 years ago I spent quite a bit of time in NYC. I ended up in the basement of several high rise apartment buildings. All of them had 2 or 3 - 10,000 gallon fuel oil tanks. They were all marked capacity and contents: only fill with #6 fuel oil.
I got curious and looked up #6. Bunker oil.
I also got wondering how easy it would be for a shop , recycling company or building owner to dump in used oil. I'd bet a lot of money it happens all the time. It's not the evil it once was in the days of leaded gasoline,V8s, and 4 barrel carbs.
I recycle a chiton of WSO and WVO for heat and fuel. If I had to get it hauled out it would cost me $.

 

That probably is it. Whenever I drop mine off they ask if there's engine coolant and I think gear lube mixed in. They don't seemed concerned about tranny fluid as I've had a 5 gallon bucket mixed with both and they didn't care.

 

When I worked for the railroad we just dumped the oil from engine changes right into the fuel tank. But what is 55 gallons of used oil in a 5000 gallon tank?

 

Yeah I've heard of diesel guys mixing used (and filtered) motor oil in with their fuel after it's warmed up.

Of course I'd never follow the lead of a "diesel" guy, I know some that purposefully mod their trucks to spew black smoke "because it looks cool".

 

Now that is really dumb and a really good way to burn up a 1500 dollar injection pump.
You would be better off just putting the used oil in a chainsaw for bar oiling

 

Big in some cases did not mean safe, have no idea about your vehicle but some of the smaller vehicles had very good crash ratings that were far better then the "big" SUV's. There were many reports about this several years ago and I think things have improved.
I will add if I remember correctly some of the crash tests were so bad sales of some vehicles went down when the reports were made public.

 

Not really all that dumb.
I set up a settling and filtration system about 10 years ago.
Sump oil,hydro and canola are mixed and filtered down to 1/2 micron.
I run it in the fuel 2-6% depending on outside air temp. I have a 3406E Cat with close to 300,000 miles on this mix and it runs like the day I bought it. I actually increased mileage from 4.8 to around 5.6 MPG doing this
Total Miles are 480,000 and I've never touched the motor other than valve adjustments .
Newer E-engines I wouldn't think of trying this but older ones love it. It's Dino ,,, run it.

 

In the short term you're not going to blow up or seize the engine, but you will get excessive buildup. Lacquer, carbon, and metallic elements in the regular engine oil will eventually destroy the engine. Also you will have separation issues especially in cooler weather.

Honestly the fact you'd run out of necessary supplies and run engine oil even in a pinch, speaks volumes.

 

I am pretty sure even Paul Bunyan dulled his axe a time or to.

There is not a farmer in this nation that does not wish he ran a tighter ship, or ran out of oil for his equipment at times. Just this week I asked my wife (my parts-getter) to grab a jug of concentrated antifreeze, and while she tried, she came back with a 50/50 mixed version. It happens, I didn't get mad, I used it. We could all say that I should have had a few gallons on the shelf, or that I should have gone to the store and got the right coolant, or say that my dozer should not be leaking coolant...

The truth is, it already had a freeze point of -35 degrees but I prefer -45. It is a 20 minute drive to the store from my house...30 minutes to one opened after hours. And my bulldozer does leak coolant...they all do...because bulldozers operate on unlevel terrain when logging and lose some out the overflow pipe daily.

In a perfect world I would all have everything I need, when I need it, but that will never happen in my world. I don't know what I am going to be doing an hour from now (it is lambing season after all and -10 degrees right now and blowing 45 mph as I type this), but I would not want to live any other way. I have no interest in a predictable lifestyle.

 

BTW: Not everyone knows that any oil is better than no oil.

A logger by me who is all mechanical, and apparently intelligent enough to make it in the logging industry with his various pieces of vast equipment, checked the final drives on his feller-buncher and found one dry. Without gear oil to put in it, he ran it for the day. Big mistake, or should I say a $15,000 mistake. It ruined his final drive!

So he borrowed a feller-buncher off another logger and I was like "and you let him borrow it?"

 

It's not so much the fact you did what you needed to do to get the job done, it's the fact you ran out of a necessary consumable. Lack of foresight, it's a pattern. But if it's working for you it's worth.

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So at your house, you have never run out of milk? If not, you run a mighty tight ship that many of us wish the duplicate.

But if you think running out of 2 stroke oil is bad, you would be shocked to find out that I snapped a choker today and had to get by with five instead of six!

 

Did someone say Milk?

 

I hope that's goat milk, the cow farts are killing us!!!!