Slamfire
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I'm the same as most others on the tires and batteries, but I burn the waste oil in my homemade burner to heat the shop in the winter. I sure hope the EPA ain't readin' this.
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EddieWalker
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Battery goes back to the store for the core charge. I kind of think that's why they charge that, just to keep me from burning them. hahhaha Because that's what I do with oil and tires, not to mention 90 percent of my garbage, trees and trimmings. I burn just about everything!!!!
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Farmwithjunk
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Oil; I use some of mine to coat trailer and wagon decks. The rest goes to a couple friends who have oil burner heaters in their shops.
Anti-freeze; A buddy runs a radiator shop. He gets a few cents per gallon from a recycler. I take mine to him.
Batteries; The ones that don't go for cores ends up at a scrap metal recycler who gives me anywhere from $.50 to $2 a piece for some of them. He'll dispose of the non-recyclable ones for me.
tires; Car and truck tires get to stay at the tire shop when I buy new ones. Same with some tractor tires. FORTUNATELY, all 3 of my tractors run tire sizes (on rears) that are popular with antique tractor pullers. When mine are worn to about 35-40% of original, I usually sell the old ones for a few pesos and buy new.
Big issue around here is getting rid of old PAINT. Cans have to be empty and dried before trash service will (knowingly) take them. I dump old paint into a sand pile to let it dry, then box up the sand and send it on to the landfill.
Anti-freeze; A buddy runs a radiator shop. He gets a few cents per gallon from a recycler. I take mine to him.
Batteries; The ones that don't go for cores ends up at a scrap metal recycler who gives me anywhere from $.50 to $2 a piece for some of them. He'll dispose of the non-recyclable ones for me.
tires; Car and truck tires get to stay at the tire shop when I buy new ones. Same with some tractor tires. FORTUNATELY, all 3 of my tractors run tire sizes (on rears) that are popular with antique tractor pullers. When mine are worn to about 35-40% of original, I usually sell the old ones for a few pesos and buy new.
Big issue around here is getting rid of old PAINT. Cans have to be empty and dried before trash service will (knowingly) take them. I dump old paint into a sand pile to let it dry, then box up the sand and send it on to the landfill.
RalphVa
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Some used oil on the ground is okay. It'll biodegrade if you don't overdo it. However, some of the dino oils have heavy metals in their additives that could cause problems to the eco system. A little transmission oil (very little additives) or gear oil on the ground is no problem at all.
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Actually any oil on the ground is bad. Engine, trans or gear oil all have nasty side effects with nature. All have additives, some less than others but they all have them. The EPA has very strict restrictions on dumping of any oil product, no matter how small the quantity and some very hefty fines to go with them.
Do the enviroment a favor and dispose of waste oil, tires, antifreeze and batteries properly.
I sell all my waste. Oil get's sold to people with waste oil burners. Antifreeze get's sold to reprocessors to be turned into new antifreeze. Batteries are sold to the local battery man. Tires are sold to the local tire recycling company that shreads them for use in blacktop and landscape use.
Most towns (in my area anyway) take waste oil for free and have public waste oil disposal drop off centers. They in turn sell it.
Do the enviroment a favor and dispose of waste oil, tires, antifreeze and batteries properly.
I sell all my waste. Oil get's sold to people with waste oil burners. Antifreeze get's sold to reprocessors to be turned into new antifreeze. Batteries are sold to the local battery man. Tires are sold to the local tire recycling company that shreads them for use in blacktop and landscape use.
Most towns (in my area anyway) take waste oil for free and have public waste oil disposal drop off centers. They in turn sell it.
slowrev
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So far my used oil has been used for burning Brush. Otherwise I would take it to the autoparts store in town, they will take all I bring in.
Batteries are traded in on the new one.
Tires go to Wally world, where twice a year here they accept old appliances, scrap metal, such a fence wire
and old tires, Finally after 4 years I have my place cleaned up. Got about 300 tires off the place...and about 12 old junk cars and such...darn previous owner. Who just happened to be the wifes Uncle. After 4 years of cleaning one of her cousins wanted to store a couple of old vehicles over here just in case he needed a part someday. He must have thought I mistook him for a child molester or something from my reaction
Ben
Batteries are traded in on the new one.
Tires go to Wally world, where twice a year here they accept old appliances, scrap metal, such a fence wire
and old tires, Finally after 4 years I have my place cleaned up. Got about 300 tires off the place...and about 12 old junk cars and such...darn previous owner. Who just happened to be the wifes Uncle. After 4 years of cleaning one of her cousins wanted to store a couple of old vehicles over here just in case he needed a part someday. He must have thought I mistook him for a child molester or something from my reaction Ben
slowrev said:After 4 years of cleaning one of her cousins wanted to store a couple of old vehicles over here just in case he needed a part someday. He must have thought I mistook him for a child molester or something from my reaction
Ben
ben, just tell him it will cost him $100 a year to store each vehicle
. I had a similar experience with cleaning all the trash on my property left by the previous owner. My place is now trash free!Bob
N80
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We have excellent 'convenience' centers where I live. They will take almost anything including paint, insecticides, solvents, etc. They have no posted limits on oil. They took all the used hydro fluid from my tractor (over 10 gallons) without a question.
On a related topic, there are several little 'tar pits' on my property where loggers changed the oil in skidders and dozers (before I bought the place). They apparently just let it run out on the ground. The old filter and empty buckets left on the ground. This oil-saturated ground is still evident and any water pooled nearby has oil slick on it and this happend 15 years ago. If a logging crew that _I_ had hired did this, there would be heck to pay.
On a related topic, there are several little 'tar pits' on my property where loggers changed the oil in skidders and dozers (before I bought the place). They apparently just let it run out on the ground. The old filter and empty buckets left on the ground. This oil-saturated ground is still evident and any water pooled nearby has oil slick on it and this happend 15 years ago. If a logging crew that _I_ had hired did this, there would be heck to pay.
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Gov't regulations. Ugh. My brother used to work in an oilfield up near Sulphur River in Texas. He said any oil spills had to be contained, remediated, kept from navigable water, blah, blah, etc. But, you could dump all you want on entry/field roads going to wells, tanks, etc. because it was a road. Go figure. This was about 10 yrs. ago. Rules hopefully have changed.
HomeBrew2
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I understand some folks use a circular saw with carbide tipped blade to cut up a tire every now and then and then put the pieces into black plastic bags with other trash.