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vege57 wrote:

jirqoadai wrote:

vege57 wrote:

jirqoadai wrote:

vege57 wrote:


So it was the waste residue from his burner going into the ground ?

no. the side benefit of his dumping his egine oil into the aquafier was a healthier garden.

At ten feet he wont get into the aquafier , and I'm not sure that pouring oil on you garden would do it a lot of good, but if you were putting the biochar from your burner into your soil there could be some benefit for it  

the very last time i played with it i " unplugged it " and oil poured out the top until i re-plugged it with the rag. i suppose had i wanted to i couldve called a small tanker truck and had them pump the oil and water out of it. maybe i couldve reduced it from 2" to 1/4" and run it to a Tiki god and burned the gas off like they do in the movies.

BigJ, I'm trying to understand what you are saying here,

You father has a pipe in the ground that he pours waste oil into and it improves the productivity of his vege garden ?

jirqoadai wrote:

vege57 wrote:

jirqoadai wrote:

vege57 wrote:

jirqoadai wrote:
no. the side benefit of his dumping his egine oil into the aquafier was a healthier garden.

At ten feet he wont get into the aquafier , and I'm not sure that pouring oil on you garden would do it a lot of good, but if you were putting the biochar from your burner into your soil there could be some benefit for it  

the very last time i played with it i " unplugged it " and oil poured out the top until i re-plugged it with the rag. i suppose had i wanted to i couldve called a small tanker truck and had them pump the oil and water out of it. maybe i couldve reduced it from 2" to 1/4" and run it to a Tiki god and burned the gas off like they do in the movies.

BigJ, I'm trying to understand what you are saying here,

You father has a pipe in the ground that he pours waste oil into and it improves the productivity of his vege garden ?

my Grand Father drove a 2" ridgid pipe into the dirt for the disposal of his engine oil when the additives in it prohibited his dumping into his heating oil tank. let me know if you understand that statement first, so i will know you are grasping the timeline here.

vege57 wrote:

jirqoadai wrote:

vege57 wrote:

jirqoadai wrote:

vege57 wrote:

At ten feet he wont get into the aquafier , and I'm not sure that pouring oil on you garden would do it a lot of good, but if you were putting the biochar from your burner into your soil there could be some benefit for it  

the very last time i played with it i " unplugged it " and oil poured out the top until i re-plugged it with the rag. i suppose had i wanted to i couldve called a small tanker truck and had them pump the oil and water out of it. maybe i couldve reduced it from 2" to 1/4" and run it to a Tiki god and burned the gas off like they do in the movies.

BigJ, I'm trying to understand what you are saying here,

You father has a pipe in the ground that he pours waste oil into and it improves the productivity of his vege garden ?

my Grand Father drove a 2" ridgid pipe into the dirt for the disposal of his engine oil when the additives in it prohibited his dumping into his heating oil tank. let me know if you understand that statement first, so i will know you are grasping the timeline here.

I've no prob grasping time lines, it begs the question as to how much used engine oil he had to dispose of , was he a mechanic ?

jirqoadai wrote:

vege57 wrote:

jirqoadai wrote:

vege57 wrote:

jirqoadai wrote:
the very last time i played with it i " unplugged it " and oil poured out the top until i re-plugged it with the rag. i suppose had i wanted to i couldve called a small tanker truck and had them pump the oil and water out of it. maybe i couldve reduced it from 2" to 1/4" and run it to a Tiki god and burned the gas off like they do in the movies.

BigJ, I'm trying to understand what you are saying here,

You father has a pipe in the ground that he pours waste oil into and it improves the productivity of his vege garden ?

my Grand Father drove a 2" ridgid pipe into the dirt for the disposal of his engine oil when the additives in it prohibited his dumping into his heating oil tank. let me know if you understand that statement first, so i will know you are grasping the timeline here.

I've no prob grasping time lines, it begs the question as to how much used engine oil he had to dispose of , was he a mechanic ?

no. he had two cars, and every 5,000 miles each would get its oil changed out by him. 16 quarts every 90 days. so 2.85 barrels of oil in the ground. or 120 gallons.

vege57 wrote:You cant filter the impurities out of used engine oil, it requires chemical processing,

jirqoadai wrote:

vege57 wrote:You cant filter the impurities out of used engine oil, it requires chemical processing,

i thought i said that. but, IF one were to use a very high threadcount peice of cloth, folded eight ways to sunday, most of the impurities would be removed. i think his jets in the oil furnace got clogged with zinc. used to be, engine oil was pure oil. then they added that list i provided over time. he only had to worry about the metal shavings whole he was burning it in his furnace. then they added zinc dialkyldithiophosphate and his jets clogged.

jirqoadai wrote:

vege57 wrote:

jirqoadai wrote:

vege57 wrote:

jirqoadai wrote:
the very last time i played with it i " unplugged it " and oil poured out the top until i re-plugged it with the rag. i suppose had i wanted to i couldve called a small tanker truck and had them pump the oil and water out of it. maybe i couldve reduced it from 2" to 1/4" and run it to a Tiki god and burned the gas off like they do in the movies.

BigJ, I'm trying to understand what you are saying here,

You father has a pipe in the ground that he pours waste oil into and it improves the productivity of his vege garden ?

my Grand Father drove a 2" ridgid pipe into the dirt for the disposal of his engine oil when the additives in it prohibited his dumping into his heating oil tank. let me know if you understand that statement first, so i will know you are grasping the timeline here.

I've no prob grasping time lines, it begs the question as to how much used engine oil he had to dispose of , was he a mechanic ?

no. he had two cars, and every 5,000 miles each would get its oil changed out by him. 16 quarts every 90 days. so 2.85 barrels of oil in the ground. or 120 gallons.