Diesel fuel and motor oil deck treatment

[Bubbanewf]

Used motor oil is what is full of cancer causing toxins. They shouldnt have been using used motor oil to oil down the roads in any case, but even clean oil will wash into streams and ponds and create problems. If you dont believe scientists , nothing said will change your mind. I have seen rivers that I wouldnt let Obama swim in, and years later, with new EPA regs. people fish and eat what they catch from the same rivers.
As for all that drain oil farmers used and my neighbors for that matter, on the road in front of their home etc. thirty years later after drinking their well water, they are wondering why so many have several forms of cancer. More so than the usual averages across the country. Thank God they came through with city water about ten years after I moved here.
Its one thing to put some used oil on a post before burying it, and another to dump a gallon on the road just to have it wash down into someones watershed. If a guy can afford a $20,000 tractor why cant he afford a can of tested safe wood sealant? I prefer the oil base over the water base stuff, but once it dries it stays put. It doesnt wash right off. As far as the old farmer ways are concerned: I know of many that would put drain oil on a dog with mange, use turpentine on horses with cuts, and various other home remedies. They didnt have and could not afford to call vets and buy meds back in the day. But, many of the home cures did more harm than good. IE: dog's mange eventually goes away but a few years later, dog dies of cancerous tumors. Thats why most modern day farmers use Veterinarians and buy proper meds.

 

[ultrarunner]

It was in Nevada where the dirt county roads were regularly oiled down... hated it because I would have to clean the oil off the car... it did do a good job keeping down the dust.

It is very arid territory.

I wouldn't use if for a deck...

I have used it on wood fencing

Atached is a picture of siding only treated with diesel/motor oil...

It's standard procedure for the last 80 or so years in this alpine area...

Most of the residents live to ripe old ages... cancer incidence is very low.

 

[Jstpssng]

A few years back we visited my inlaws who live in a very rural part of NC. The main road to their house is paved but DOT or the county had just resurfaced the road in a strange way. It looked like they had just dropped gravel on the road and the laid down a oil/tar base on top of the gravel. Can't remember what it was called though. We asked my FIL who is a retired DOT inspector. He knew of course but I can't remember what he said. The oil/tar was thicker than say motor oil yet thinner than roofing tar.

Later,
Dan

Did you ever watch the movie "Cool Hand Luke"? There was a scene where they did that.

 

[smiley]

A few years back we visited my inlaws who live in a very rural part of NC. The main road to their house is paved but DOT or the county had just resurfaced the road in a strange way. It looked like they had just dropped gravel on the road and the laid down a oil/tar base on top of the gravel. Can't remember what it was called though. Dan

As others have said some call it chip and seal, we always called it stone and oil. We put down many miles of it by hanging a spreader box on the back of dump trucks with a guy (generally me) standing on the spreader box and hanging on for dear life, regulating the flow of stone while backing them down the road behind the oil spraying tanker, raising the box as we go. Many times we wound up with tree limbs, shattered street lights, telephone wires and even an occasional electric line hanging on or in the box, when the driver didn't lower the box quick enough. Nowadays they have large spreaders almost like pavers, with a bin in the back that convey the stone to the front and drop it in front of the wheels but the basic process is the same, spray it, drop stone on it, roll it. Some even have oil tanks so they spray their own oil (asphalt) first.

 

[plowindeeper]

Recycle the oil, please.[/QUOTE]

HE is recycling it, into a wood preserver. But no I would not put in on a deck. I would on a fence, barn, or trailer. I burn some of mine in a heater or in brush piles. When they start paying $1 a gallon for it I'll recycle it. I will not take it to a place and give it to them when they get a $1+ for it.

 

[paulharvey]

Chip seal is Not the same, it uses asphalt cement or emulsified aspahlt, its an petroloem product but far from being motor oil. I have no safety fears of oil, after all you get it on your hands/arms at the very least monthly, but I think a paint or aspaltic block sealer would perhaps work better on the trailer deck.

In paving, you dip shovels in a bucket of diesel to clean the asphalt off, and that diesel/asphalt mixture works wonders for shovel handles to prevent rot.

 

[paulharvey]

I just realized the original poster never responded to anything, I had assumed he ment a trailer deck but after rereading I'm not sure if he ment a trailer deck or a porch/patio deck. I would be perhaps a bit leery of using it where I grill, or if you have young children playing on the porch.

 

[smiley]

Chip seal is Not the same, it uses asphalt cement or emulsified aspahlt, its an petroloem product but far from being motor oil. I have no safety fears of oil, after all you get it on your hands/arms at the very least monthly, but I think a paint or aspaltic block sealer would perhaps work better on the trailer deck.

In paving, you dip shovels in a bucket of diesel to clean the asphalt off, and that diesel/asphalt mixture works wonders for shovel handles to prevent rot.

Paul,
Thanks for the clarification. After reading your post, I went back and reread mine and realized that I used a misleading term that we used in the business (40+ years) that means something different than it says. We call the asphalt "oil" when it's definitely not. It is asphalt that is heated before spraying on the road and it also can be done with the asphalt/water emulsion method, but you'd better be sure it's not going to rain before it dries or it'll wash all the asphalt out, leaving a nice bed of loose stone.
I retired a few years ago and don't miss that stinking stuff a bit, especially as I've got so many projects going that I don't know how I ever had time to work.
We generally go through Hawthorne twice a year on the way to and from Homosassa but thinking about flying next winter.

 

[StayPuff]

Diesel and oil mix is good around the base of posts. This is where they usually rot first, so it can really prolong the life of your posts.

The environmental concerns are a giant load of crap, and just proves how effective the liberal brainwashing has been on our society. There are bacteria in the soil that eat petroleum. They have been oil and chipping the roads around here for years, and I see no death or destruction yet. Landfills are a water-destroying nightmare just waiting to happen, yet these same enviro-worshipers seem to have no problem with them at all, and think that garbage incineration is an abomination.

However, as someone mentioned earlier, I wouldn't use it on my house or deck because of the fire hazard. Oil soaked wood will burn easy, fast, and hot!

 

[jinman]

From what I've seen of diesel, motor oil, and transmission fluid on pavement (especially at stop lights) in the days when lots of clunkers were still around, the stuff is slicker than greased owl poop when it gets a little wet. I'd be afraid to put it on my deck because slip-n-fall lawyers would be standing around lickin' their lips and waiting on a rain storm.:confused2: