edit: Don’t do this. Embrace modernity and don’t pollute the soil.
I’m sure there will be people that take this seriously lol, PSA to others don’t do this. It fucks up the land and nearby water sources as it spreads out. In the US you can be forced to replace the contaminated soil
I just drink mine before pissing in the gravel hole.
When I was a yout, they had trucks with a huge tank and a sprayer on the back. The truck would drive all the country roads spraying the dirt with waste oils. This was done to keep the dust down. Smelled terrible. Miles and miles of dirt roads that ran all around by rivers and lakes.
It is crazy to think about that now.
I’m sure you know this, but that’s exactly how a town got turned in to a EPA superfund site due to Dioxin contamination, because of a fuck up over chain of command for waste oil from the creation of napalm or pesticides(IIRC?). The guy running the spraying business didn’t know, which I can believe, but the company that paid for him to dispose of it should’ve informed him.
I forget the name, but it’s (one of the towns?) is by STL in Missouri…
I assure you they still do that, source: my dad still lived on a back country road that they regularly tarred until they finally paved it about two or three years ago. When I lived there I hated when they did it because I had a white car and didn’t want all the oil on it since it was so hard to wash off and I had to go to the car wash every time I left the house
I was reading about one where the oil was contaminated with some truly terrible shit, dioxin maybe? Several people died. They turned that whole area into a Superfund site.
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They still do that on sites with dirt tracks that get dusty. Only, they spray with water.
It’s pretty shitty and foul smelling water, mind.
Calcium chloride I bet
Magnesium chloride also works well as a dust suppressant. I used to manufacture the stuff
Many moons ago, my family went to a cottage every summer where they would oil the roads to keep them from wearing. I’m not sure what it was exactly but it was for sure a petroleum product by the smell.
There are still places which basically make rural roads like this. They spray down a layer of heavy oil and then scatter small rock chips and recycled asphalt on top of of the sticky layer to make a roadway. Obviously it’s not suitable for heavy use, but it’s way faster than actually paving the surface.
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The solution to pollution is dilution
I was told the solution to pollution is to ship it to Asia so the poors there have something to root around in for treasures.
This really was the advice given till the 90’s or so.
My dad use to have a hole filled with cat litter to pour oil as that was the recommendation.
I think your dad was behind the times. Mine collected and disposed of the oil properly at a waste station
God damned roofers spilled gas on my lawn. I had to dig down almost a foot to get rid of the contaminated soil.
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Boomers: Why don’t you kids go outside and play. When I was your age we played in the dirt for hours at a time.
Also boomers:
I’ve had boers tell me that as kids they would pick up balls of tar from the street and chew it like gum
Boomers: Kids these days think they can get through life by taking shortcuts
Also boomers:
Put oil back where it belongs, in the ground!
So it can be extracted again. True carbon neutrality.
The circle of life
And life’s a jerk
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I will mail you one of those jack in the boxes with boxing glove in it if you do this.
But the bone juice come out the dirt make out of holes why not bone juice back into ground for more juice later?
Recycle bone juice to dirt?
Bone juice kills the green things and the moving things. There is a reason they aren’t making more bone juice. All moving things that had it have died.
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Tradition is to save it and use it as a wood oil so the wood will not decay after some time on the rain. Absorbs really good, doesn’t stink or stick…
Yeah, but there’s stuff for that that doesn’t give you eleven different cancers.
Ah yes, to get cancer is also very traditional, forgot to say that.
Most of those are also pretty nasty chemicals
I’m pretty sure all of it will give you cancer.
Was about to mention that. But you forget to mention the half-and-half mix of oil and diesel to prevent wood rot and insects.
If you got a very thick oil, yeah a mix of diesel and oil is good so it would lose on viscosity and would be easier to get it on and into the wood. But today’s engine oils are not really that thick and can be used without any mixing with oil of lesser viscosity such as diesel. Nowadays you can find those very thick oils mostly in tanks (military vehicles) and big machines not your everyday family car.
I mentioned that in particular because the house I’m living has beams that were treated with that mix when it was built, back in the 40’s. And the neither rots nor gets infested. But the added fire damage is there.
Isn’t this what recently happened in Maui? A lot of tarred and oil treated houses… and a single standing one with a steel red roof?
Could be.
Mixed 50/50 with diesel is what I’m using as fence stain/sealer.
So you’re saying I have to take up an entirely new hobby I have no interest in just to dispose of my used engine oil?
Or just bring it to Walmart.
Can also be sprayed on your undercarriage to repel road salt & water during the winter and prevent rust, though it’s not legal in every state.
Shit like this is why people doing home gardening, especially in areas that have been inhabited for hundreds of years, without testing the soil first give me heart palpitations. *What are you eating?? I don’t know, and neither do you!
My neighborhood soil is laced with arsenic and lead from an old foundry that used to be nearby.
A bunch of my neighbors grow and eat food in that soil knowing it. It boggles my mind.
While I know it’s not convenient, have you considered… telling them?
Yea, and the response has been ‘I’ve been eating food I’ve grown here for 20 years and I’m totally fine!’
Just like the people that love to tell their grandparents lived a long life smoking tobacco everyday.
It wasn’t the smoking that didnt kill em. It was the minding their own fucking business.
People doing home gardening usually replace the soil.
Almost everyone I know of that gardens at home just tills the soil they have available. Gardening soil isn’t cheap and they view it as an unnecessary expense. It’s especially hard to convince people in rural areas that just using the dirt out back can be harmful.
When I lived in a private house with a garden, we would buy new soil EVERY YEAR. Because fuck all grows otherwise.
I grew up in the country and my grandparents never bought any soil, but God knows what they added to it. Arsenic used to be common in pesticides, for example.
I know you can send soil to be tested by your local university extension, but how do you test for conaminents like used hydrocarbons, arsenic, lead, glyphosate-based herbicides, etc?
I am about to embark on a hobby of composting and would like to know.
If your local university doesn’t test for the specific contaminants you’re concerned about you can send samples to a private lab instead, sometimes they offer more testing options. I don’t know the specifics of how each one is tested for, but on your end they usually just require you to take (and possibly dry) soil samples before sending them in.
If you don’t have a good idea of the history of the site, it would be good to try and figure it out through your local historical society if you have one, or land records from your local records office. Whoever is testing the soil will have a better idea of what to test for if they know it used to be a mining town, or it’s 50 feet from a house old enough to have used lead paint, if it was farm land, etc.
The first couple times I helped my dad change the oil in his car he dumped it down the storm drain which lead to the Chesapeake.
We don’t do that anymore.
I think of all the times I did that working on my cars years ago.
It was just something you did and no one ever even blinked. Old oil, gas, brake fluid, etc, right down the storm drain.Now I think back and shudder.
Also, heat your home more effectively in the winter by always having a bucket of coal burning in your living room.
Make sure to leave your gas stove on, too.
My grandpa would just set the old oil filters when he would change the oil in the 3 farm tractors he owned. He did that for years and 30 years later that spot is still like blacktop. At least it’s only a 2’x2’ spot but I couldn’t imagine if he dumped the actual oil. And that’s only 3 diesel tractors twice a year.
The thought that shops were doing it for years is sad
back in those days ppl were burying old cars in their backyards
Digging is way too much effort when you can just push it into the nearest pond.
Just don’t forget to take the battery out so it can be safely disposed of in the ocean.
Absolutely. You never know when you might need an old car battery for torture.
The only way a car batteries could hurt you if you clamped two crocodile clamps to your nutsack to prove a point on the internet
How? Isn’t it just 12 V? Genuinely curious, because I never understood this stuff in movies…
That’s why it’s more likely used for fetish purposes irl, and even the maybe two in series? You’d have to ask the experts, which I’m totally not one of. Not involved in that world at all. Definitely don’t have a monthly budget for that…
I’ve heard of electric stimulation used for fetish, but none of the manufacturers state how high of a voltage the tools produce (at least I couldn’t find any info about this).
I don’t know for sure but I think it’s the current, higher voltage will bridge a bigger gap/higher resistance but a human body doesn’t have that high of a resistance and car batteries are capable of providing plenty of current (I think?)
Yes, but to penetrate the top layer of human skin, you need about 60 V DC, or 30 V AC. A car battery is 12 V DC…
Edit: I got the voltages from an old ElectroBoom video and I just remembered them so I know when to use protection when working with electricity and when it’s not needed.
And breathing lead.
And eating lead paint!
So return to its source. Basically.
Oil is weird.
I mean this is probably how we found it in the ground in the first place. The world goes round and round.
The oil cycle. Nature is finally healing
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Instructions unclear, now the swing set in my back yard needs it’s tires rotated.
The modern way of doing this would involve reversing the process of dinosaur bones turning into oil. So you just put into the oil-to-bone-inator and bury those bones back into the ground where they originally came from.
Oil isn’t made from dinosaurs
Oh really? So how come you can use oil to make plastic dinosaur toys?
Checkmate atheists
Sure, if you’re buying the cheap stuff.
That’s what Big Non-Dino-Oil wants you to think, so they can get all of the moneys from everyone.
Then why is there a dinosaur on the gas station!?
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Damn. You got me.
I remember that 1970 shitty cartoon “Barbapapa”, which proposed burying all kinds of waste as a solution.
Out of sight, out of mind
