To tarp or not to tarp

[Jstpssng]

I remember my father draining the oil onto the gravel driveway, as you say. Then he started saving it in 55 gallon drums. At one time he has several, which he took over to the landfill and emptied them out.
It was perfectly acceptable back then.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Maintenance guys would go out to a dozer or something out in the boonies and drain the oil on the spot.

And I'm told railroad workers would use 2" or bigger diesel dozzles, put them on the ground still pouring out fuel to move the locomotive to get to the next tank. That might also have been deliberately done to skew the efficiency numbers over steam operations.

JD has a little plastic bottle, a couple of onces capacity, and a network of hoses that catches the three drops of fluid spilled from the rear aux couplers when you remove, on our 6200. A young person must have thought of that.

 

[Jstpssng]

Yesterday to prepare for our first winter storm of the year I consolidated all of my implements and covered them with a big tarp. With the BH sticking up though it was hard to tie the cover down well. Of course the storm was precursed by the obligatory high winds, and my tarp ended up doing a really good job of keeping the ground dry next to my pile.

 

[fried1765]

Yesterday to prepare for our first winter storm of the year I consolidated all of my implements and covered them with a big tarp. With the BH sticking up though it was hard to tie the cover down well. Of course the storm was precursed by the obligatory high winds, and my tarp ended up doing a really good job of keeping the ground dry next to my pile.

Don't you have a Woodmizer?
If not, you need one, so you could build some storage.
Sure wish I had bought one when I was younger.

 

[Jstpssng]

Don't you have a Woodmizer?
If not, you need one, so you could build some storage.
Sure wish I had bought one when I was younger.

I sure wish that I had bought one when I was younger, also. Then everything I have might be under cover now. It's on my list of things before I retire, but that day keeps getting pushed back.

 

[fried1765]

I sure wish that I had bought one when I was younger, also. Then everything I have might be under cover now. It's on my list of things before I retire, but that day keeps getting pushed back.

Maybe try to find a way to slowly move it up your $ priority list?
It might actually pay for itself, if you did just a little custom work occasionally.

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^
I actually have enough lumber lying around to put something up; I just need a little more site prep. I'm having an excavator in next spring to do some work which I"ve been trying to get done for 4 years. People say they will do it but never show up.

 

[Industrial Toys]

You want something, you need to be the squeaky wheel.

 

[mred2]

I heard of a man that was almost put in jail for putting oil down on a dirt drive. But the highway department puts down oil on the ground before they pave a road. They can do it, but you can't.
I don't pour oil on my equipment, but I have had lines break in the past. I put down washing powder. Wet it in. The grass grows back within a year.
We do try to recycle everything that we can. But I don't know of anyone that doesn't spill a drop when changing their fluids on a tractor. And how many recycle their oil filters. At work we are required to open, drain and then crush the filters.