edit: Don’t do this. Embrace modernity and don’t pollute the soil.
I’m sure there will be people that take this seriously lol, PSA to others don’t do this. It fucks up the land and nearby water sources as it spreads out. In the US you can be forced to replace the contaminated soil
When I was a yout, they had trucks with a huge tank and a sprayer on the back. The truck would drive all the country roads spraying the dirt with waste oils. This was done to keep the dust down. Smelled terrible. Miles and miles of dirt roads that ran all around by rivers and lakes.
It is crazy to think about that now.
I’m sure you know this, but that’s exactly how a town got turned in to a EPA superfund site due to Dioxin contamination, because of a fuck up over chain of command for waste oil from the creation of napalm or pesticides(IIRC?). The guy running the spraying business didn’t know, which I can believe, but the company that paid for him to dispose of it should’ve informed him.
I assure you they still do that, source: my dad still lived on a back country road that they regularly tarred until they finally paved it about two or three years ago. When I lived there I hated when they did it because I had a white car and didn’t want all the oil on it since it was so hard to wash off and I had to go to the car wash every time I left the house
I was reading about one where the oil was contaminated with some truly terrible shit, dioxin maybe? Several people died. They turned that whole area into a Superfund site.
There are still places which basically make rural roads like this. They spray down a layer of heavy oil and then scatter small rock chips and recycled asphalt on top of of the sticky layer to make a roadway. Obviously it’s not suitable for heavy use, but it’s way faster than actually paving the surface.
Chip sealing! I know the process as they still do this for neighborhood streets around here. The oil is more like a tar and solidifies as it cools thus ‘gluing’ the chips to the older road surface. Sort of a stopgap before having to repave completely. I don’t think this is done on dirt surfaces as it doesn’t seem workable.
This process is pretty different than what I described originally. The dirt roads only hold those oils for a relatively short period.
They still do that on sites with dirt tracks that get dusty. Only, they spray with water.
It’s pretty shitty and foul smelling water, mind.
I was told the solution to pollution is to ship it to Asia so the poors there have something to root around in for treasures.
This really was the advice given till the 90’s or so.
My dad use to have a hole filled with cat litter to pour oil as that was the recommendation.
Boomers: Why don’t you kids go outside and play. When I was your age we played in the dirt for hours at a time.
Also boomers:
Put oil back where it belongs, in the ground!
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I will mail you one of those jack in the boxes with boxing glove in it if you do this.
But the bone juice come out the dirt make out of holes why not bone juice back into ground for more juice later?
Recycle bone juice to dirt?
Bone juice kills the green things and the moving things. There is a reason they aren’t making more bone juice. All moving things that had it have died.
Tradition is to save it and use it as a wood oil so the wood will not decay after some time on the rain. Absorbs really good, doesn’t stink or stick…
Yeah, but there’s stuff for that that doesn’t give you eleven different cancers.
There’s a lot of plant based oils you can use, without additives, that give excellent weather protection. Choice of wood is also a huge factor.
Tbh I’d rather replace my fence every five years than cake it in used motor oil.
Was about to mention that. But you forget to mention the half-and-half mix of oil and diesel to prevent wood rot and insects.
If you got a very thick oil, yeah a mix of diesel and oil is good so it would lose on viscosity and would be easier to get it on and into the wood. But today’s engine oils are not really that thick and can be used without any mixing with oil of lesser viscosity such as diesel. Nowadays you can find those very thick oils mostly in tanks (military vehicles) and big machines not your everyday family car.
I mentioned that in particular because the house I’m living has beams that were treated with that mix when it was built, back in the 40’s. And the neither rots nor gets infested. But the added fire damage is there.
So you’re saying I have to take up an entirely new hobby I have no interest in just to dispose of my used engine oil?
