TomG
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- Ontario
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- Ford 1710: Loader, Hoe, Snowblower, Box scrapper & 3ph Forks
Just a note. Today, we get 500 gallons of waste oil removed from our other place. The oil was an accumulation from a previous owner. The oil is in a well-rusted furnace oil tank and 55 gallon drums. They've been there since the days of leaded gas, and are just waiting to rust through or tip over. It would be an ungodly and an expensive mess.
I was talking to my insurance broker about another matter and incidentally mentioned the oil. She said: 'You know that if you've got that sort of thing on your property, there's no insurance coverage if something goes wrong.' I thought that's a real good thing to know and is strong encouragement for anybody with a waste oil accumulation to do something about it.
Getting rid of it is something of an ordeal. Here, there are testing and permits required, and the waste oil companies usually don't do residential work. Maybe I was lucky that a company decided to take it.
I was talking to my insurance broker about another matter and incidentally mentioned the oil. She said: 'You know that if you've got that sort of thing on your property, there's no insurance coverage if something goes wrong.' I thought that's a real good thing to know and is strong encouragement for anybody with a waste oil accumulation to do something about it.
Getting rid of it is something of an ordeal. Here, there are testing and permits required, and the waste oil companies usually don't do residential work. Maybe I was lucky that a company decided to take it.