edit: Don’t do this. Embrace modernity and don’t pollute the soil.
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
- Fizz ( @Fizz@lemmy.nz ) 62•2 years ago
Put oil back where it belongs, in the ground!
So it can be extracted again. True carbon neutrality.
The circle of life
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I will mail you one of those jack in the boxes with boxing glove in it if you do this.
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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…
Mixed 50/50 with diesel is what I’m using as fence stain/sealer.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
I need the full book/magazine this comes from there.might be other nice tips.
Oh great thanks 🙏👍
Thanks. It nice to have a reliable source to turn to when I am inspired to follow guides published in the 1960s.
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
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 mean, oil comes from the ground so I’m just returning it to its natural habitat.