Wtf I do with these barrels? Bought a property and found a few in the back. I can hear liquid sloshing around if I tilt them and possibly a slight scent of motor oil near the ceased cap at the top.
I don't know what's in them and don't plan on calling EPA either. Any creative ideas on how to dump these hot potatoes that doesn't involve throwing them in a lake or creek? Neighbors seem to think it's crop poison, but there's no labels on em.
Depending on the county you live in, you can just take them to their waste collection place. Don't pollute this shit, someone shittier than you is giving you the opportunity to do the right thing.
US here. There is a waste collection site, but they'll want to know the contents of the barrels to which I don't have a definitive answer for. "It smells like motor oil" isn't very reassuring. It looks like it might be a huge ordeal to have them tested too, and I don't have the money for that.
Not going to dump it out. I meant dump as in get rid of them. Make the problem go away.
Im not taking a real picture of them.
>It looks like it might be a huge ordeal to have them tested too
Open one and see, you know what used motor oil looks like lol.
If it is, you can just burn it, make a lil drip burner for your greenhouse, barn or whatever.
>what used motor oil looks like lol.
The dioxin-contaminated waste looked just like used motor too, at Times Beach MO. The town had to be abandoned lol.
>The town had to be abandoned lol.
my vote goes for Love Canal. cooler name, same sort of disaster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Canal
times beach fits the best here, they tough it was motor oil and sprayed it on roads like done for decades, ecept it was no motor oil
it could be PCB transformer oil or non burning hydroulic oil and burning it would create tons of dioxin.
op could do a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beilstein_test
take a copper wire and heat it to glowing with a torch then let it cool down, dip it in the oil and hold it in the flame again, if the flame turns green the oil contains halides like chlorine or bromine,
but you may need other tests on what it is.
You left the watermark. Diy still falls for it.
There is literally no law against you dumping these in the ocean.
I've decided to call up an environmental waste removal service and will be contacting previous owner if they know what was in them.
Take your old car batteries with you, so you can save a trip.
Probably just waste motor oil. Put it on your trailer deck or soak some posts in them. Oil your cows, oil some farm equipment roller chains, Run it through a centrifuge and dump it in your old diesel tractor engines for fuel or your 6.9/7.3 IDI or old mercedes diesel... etc.
Alright, this is creative! Now I hope it is motor oil because I do plan on building a fence soon. I'll figure a way to get a hole in the top of one with a flat head.
Turning your neighborhood into the next Times Beach is a fun and easy hobby
You act like all those aren't actual useful uses for used motor oil and haven't been done for 100's of years. Frick off babby.
Yeah just bathe in the mystery waste.
Your county might have a hazardous waste facility. I know my city does.
>Oil your cows
wat
>2023
>still using oil on cows and not dry silicon
> PCB transformer oil
Jesus that would suck so bad to have buried in your new houses property
My mom bought a foreclosed property in 2008, tiny place out in rural Virginia. As they cleared stuff out of the shed they found an old freezer locked shut, and I wish I had the photo because I 100% expected there to be a body inside. It looked straight out of some fricking horror movie. She said it had a horrible smell. I guess when they opened it, it was filled with meat from hunting. Honestly I don’t think I even would have opened it, just sent it straight to the dump sealed up
On a related note my mom also found 50 gallon drums of oil buried there. Frick I totally forgot about it until this thread. She said once they can’t fix the septic tank or something because they are worried about damaging drums of oil they have found buried there. She also said that fricked with the value of the land, but I don’t remember how big of a deal t was.
>just sent it straight to the dump sealed up
you cant do that, they wont accept it sealed up because of possible environmental concerns like OP trying to get rid of toxic chemicals or used motor oil illegally. nice try tho
>not knowing how to disguise a 55 gallon drum as household garbage
Ngmi
>crop poison
pesticides are fricking expensive
no hobo has several 55 gallon drums of those
if its just motor oil there is no harm in burning it
>Bought a property and found a few in the back.
You got fricked over. Don't make it worse by contaminating your property by pouring out the waste next to fence posts or burning it.
Make a waste oil heater
ask around to see if anyone has an oil burning furnace
it won't matter if there's water mixed in with the oil, they make water/oil filters
it's better to burn it then dump it
My house came with old paint, unmarked tin gallons, and plus I had my own collection of used motor oil. The local collection site takes them no questions asked. They even unload it and don't let you out of the car. You can only do like 5 gallons at a time because of hazmat, but can go as often as you want. They just ask for your zip code., not even address or id.
I should give them my old piss and cum bottles while am it.
Not your problem
am i the only one thinking you stumbled into a dumping ground for several missing persons cases?
Load them up in the middle of the night and dump them on someone else's or the governments property. Do it right now before you finish reading the comments.
If the EPA finds oil improperly stored on your land get ready to get rape fined. If they find more than a couple of tablespoon in the dirt you are going to get fricked harder than the IRS can even dream of. You will have to pay huge sums to have the soil and area cleaned even if you own the property.
They don't care how it got there. It's your problem now and I would take care of it right now. Don't tell anyone else about this.
I’d just roll em down a hill off my property
The cattle ranch behind me will know where they came from. I'm having a guy come out next week with a tractor to haul them off to a waste center in town. Apparently no label is fine with them, so we'll see!
Would like them off the property pretty quick though because my water comes from a shallow well nearby.
>a guy
How much is he charging per drum?
Nothing since he's a neighbor, but I'll pay him anyhow. I think he wants them off as much as I do too because our wells tap into the same water.
My mm had an oil tank buried in her back yard, for heating oil I guess. In order to sell her house, she has been told to do the following
“OIL tank must be dug out and soil inspected by State agent to see if soil is contaminated by oil and if so, then scraped out. cost: $15K.”
I’d get the soil tested friendo
Why do you need them gone quickly? They been leeching into your soil for like 80 years right?
I would pay for a photo of a guy in a hazmat suit looking at and then having to carry your piss bottles. Just t(e look of disgust n his face.
now keep us informed and post some pictures of the cleanup.
do you know whats inside the barrels by now?