Hydraulic fluid in plastic milk jugs ?

[Rocksprings]

Thanks for all the information guys.

 

[markct]

dont ya have any old hydraulic or gear oil or motor oil pails? thats what i always put my used oil in, they seal up and no question of compatibility

 

[clemsonfor]

I was also going to say that i use 5 gallon buckets that fluid comes in. I am a forester so i can get lots of buckets that the loggers disgard on logging decks, they go through hy/tran fluid and hydro fluid like i do fuel in my tractor.

I collect used motor oil in one and when i is full i take it along with my garbage to the county recyle/dump collection area, they have a container for used oil like ones at advance or autozone.

Also you can use cat litter jugs if u have cats and litter jusgs, we usually buy the ones that are about 2.5 gallons. Alos if u use liquid laundy soap you can use those containers, of couse unless you do alot of laundry that will take a while.

I would buy those lowes buckets if you dont have a source for 5 gallon used oil buckets. I personally will not b uy a bucket, i see to many trown away and or burned to even think of buying one. I actually have one stashed away in my storage shed here at work in case i need another.

Like i said i have come to jobs and seen upwards of 8-10 buckets on the ground after a leaky/blown hose on a loader has been fixed and fluid replaced.

 

[LBrown59]

I would buy those lowes buckets if you dont have a source for 5 gallon used oil buckets. I personally will not b uy a bucket, i see to many trown away and or burned to even think of buying one.
1*I actually have one stashed away in my storage shed here at work in case i need another.
2*Like i said i have come to jobs and seen upwards of 8-10 buckets on the ground after a leaky/blown hose on a loader has been fixed and fluid replaced.

1*You can never have enough 5 gallon buckets stashed around.
It's surprising what all they can be used for.
2*Looks like the EPA would be after them for that if they knew about it.

 

[thatguy]

Ditto that--- One note-- common sense prevails with putting cool fluid in there only..

Some jugs are thicker than others, so try to use the thickest you can..

J

We were trying to store water in milk jugs for flushing the toilet incase of a power outage.. Milk just are NOT made to last - most of them sprung leaks within several months..

2L soda bottles and bleach bottles are made much stronger..

Brian

 

[Rocksprings]

I hear what you are saying about the milk jugs not being real strong. I am going to use the five gallon buckets and other one gallon containers. I don't want any accidents in the truck bed on the way to the recycle center, once again, thanks for the information guys.

 

[masscity]

I don't know if this was mentioned before, but I like vinegar bottles for storage.

I keep a bottle of 50/50 coolant mix in vinegar bottles for my vehicles.

The bottles are see through and tough.

 

[Soundguy]

i save oil bottle from quart to the larger jugs and pails.. and also save the wife's laundry detergent bottles.

soundguy

 

[clemsonfor]

1*You can never have enough 5 gallon buckets stashed around.
It's surprising what all they can be used for.
2*Looks like the EPA would be after them for that if they knew about it.

Sadly yes, but its one of those things, cost of doing business and the nature of the beast.

Think about the next time your swimming in your favorite lake. Think of how many 2 stroke outboards are run in it. NOw assume everyone mixed at 50:1 and never richer, that one gallon of oil for every 50 gallons of gas. At my lake you could easilly say 10,000 gallons of fuel are burned a year on it, no idea how to guess this and this is totally a guess. That is 200 gallons of oil that comes out as carbon and the unburned parts that are not burnt in combustion. Or lets take oil based paints used for timber marking. EPA will not let you pour out gallons of it a day, but in a 6 hour day i could squirt out 1-2 gallons of the stuff, most of which is rubbed off on the way to the loading area or oversprayed on the bushes and ground to begin with, as well as knocked off by the loader while being merchandised and loaded, end result lets say 75 % gets knocked off in the woods the other 25% makes it to the mill. That is lets say a 100 acre marked timber sale that used lets say i can mark 7 acres a day (not to heavy of a stand) if i use 1.5 gallons of paint a day thats 22 gallons rounded up to account for boundry line marking as well. so 75% of that is 16.5 gallons of paint that end up on the ground in the woods anyway. The other 5.5 gallons either fall off on the road, are sold to mulch places to go in consumers flowerbeds or are burned as boiler fuel at the mill (where the bark goes after it is debarked from a tree). All this being said i think the EPA would frown upon me taking 16.5 gallons of paint and walking through the woods pouring it out, but done the corect way its acceptable as a use for the product. This is just the way it is till things formulations change and we have to deal with it and accept it. I recycle my oil, bottles and cardboard, i dont try to pollute in anything i do, but this is just the way it is. A hose that leaks sprays preasureized fluid out over say a quarter mile while driving back to the dock you cant get that up. No logers use the veggie based things as its to expensive.

Another example is prescribed fire, where i use to work on a good day we could use 150 gallons of tourch fuel. Torch fuel is either 50/50 deisel gas or 60/40 deisel gas, depending on conditions and who mixes it. Is is ok to just tourch off 100 gallons of this stuff to watch it burn, no. Use it in an approved forestry manner , yes. Also there is a percentage of the stuff that does not burn, i would put it into the 1% area unless your in a lot of hardwoods where the fire just creeps and does not total burn, so you have several gallons that go unburned and just spilled on the ground.

-Nate

 

[markct]

clemsonfor mentioning the hydraulic oil brought to mind some interesting info i learned at a seminar on biodegradable hyd fluids. they said that to meet the spec of being a rapidly biodegradable hyd fluid it had to degrade 60 percent in 28 days. sounds pretty good indeed, then they went on to tell us how ordinary mineral hydraulic oil will generaly degrade 20 percent in 28 days. the reason they told us that is to point out that it is sometimes labeled inherintly biodegradable, but that doesnt meet the spec of rapidly biodegrading. reason i bring this up is that while we all should do our best to prevent spills, when one does occur it isnt as awful as it sounds in some ways. and 8 or 10 pails of oil could easily be lost from a machine with a 60 or 70 gpm pump before a large leak not in view of the operator is noticed