Used oil disposal technique from 1963

[slo town]

I'm a 65 year old guy and sheepishly admit to dumping oil like this.

On my second job as a 16 year old working at a "full service" gas station (imagine that!), we used to pull the drums off the brakes so we could do inspections. Then we'd blow out all the brake dust with air guns. It would form a huge dust cloud big enough to fill a three service bay wide area. I vividly remember walking back and forth through the cloud while deeply inhaling and saying "I love this smell of this stuff!" We all did it.

It makes you wonder what we are doing today that we will look back on and wonder what the heck we were thinking. Like drinking municipal water!

Scott

 

[dishdude]

Originally Posted by SLO_Town
I'm a 65 year old guy and sheepishly admit to dumping oil like this.

On my second job as a 16 year old working at a "full service" gas station (imagine that!), we used to pull the drums off the brakes so we could do inspections. Then we'd blow out all the brake dust with air guns. It would form a huge dust cloud big enough to fill a three service bay wide area. I vividly remember walking back and forth through the cloud while deeply inhaling and saying "I love this smell of this stuff!" We all did it.

It makes you wonder what we are doing today that we will look back on and wonder what the heck we were thinking. Like drinking municipal water!

Scott


Ha! I have to admit that does put things into perspective.

 

[ZeeOSix]

Originally Posted by Shannow
Originally Posted by gfh77665
You missed the NEXT two words. Reread it again. You cannot pick out PARTS of a quote and then try to use them totally out of context against me.

All I did was draw a comparison. I "justified" nothing! You are wrong, again.

So when did you STOP smoking and blowing your smoke in someone else's face ?

Ignorance at all levels ???

 

[Rhymingmechanic]

Originally Posted by SLO_Town
I'm a 65 year old guy and sheepishly admit to dumping oil like this.

On my second job as a 16 year old working at a "full service" gas station (imagine that!), we used to pull the drums off the brakes so we could do inspections. Then we'd blow out all the brake dust with air guns. It would form a huge dust cloud big enough to fill a three service bay wide area. I vividly remember walking back and forth through the cloud while deeply inhaling and saying "I love this smell of this stuff!" We all did it.

It makes you wonder what we are doing today that we will look back on and wonder what the heck we were thinking. Like drinking municipal water!

Scott


"Are you allergic to as-bes-tose?" (There must be some King of the Hill fans reading this site, right?)

 

[DoubleWasp]

Enough to know that HAS to be a Dale quote.

Pretty much any combination of toxic and dumb somehow came back to Dale.

 

[doitmyself]

Dust to dust. Oil back to it's origin. What's the problem??????? LOL. The OP is effective in showing our ideas back in the 50's and 60's.

I'm part of that generation. Back then it was very accepted that kids run behind the neighborhood DDT mosquito trucks. Nobody left the little league field and grandstands when the area was DDT fogged!


Today, we are dumping huge amounts of plastic waste into the oceans. Some things never change.

 

[oilpsi2high]

I remember growing up my grandfather had me pour the lawnmower oil into a hole behind the shed, lol.

 

[Rhymingmechanic]

Originally Posted by DoubleWasp
Enough to know that HAS to be a Dale quote.

Pretty much any combination of toxic and dumb somehow came back to Dale.


Yup. Grandpa mentioned he was looking for work, and that was Dale's response. Grandpa's answer was similar to "Heck no!"

 

[SeaJay]

Glad to hear that most, if not all of our community are against wanton dumping of used oil in out of the way places. I always wondered about that.

 

[john_pifer]

My grandfather (born 1919) used to spray weeds with kerosene up into the ‘90s.

 

[Cujet]

Just putting the oil back into it's native habitat.

 

[fdcg27]

You don't need to go back to 1963 for this disposal method.
There was a blender with product on Walmart shelves that could usually be had FAR that briefly recommended just such a disposal method less than ten years ago.
Full points to whomever remembers the oil and the blender.
Anyway, there was a time when what is now recognized as hazardous waste was legally disposed of in a very casual manner, including radioactive materials.
This is the reason that we have Superfund sites, far worse than some guy dumping a couple of gallons of drain oil each year in a hole in the ground in the back garden.

 

[TheLawnRanger]

Free After Rebate? Smitty's

 

[JHZR2]

Originally Posted by spasm3
Originally Posted by eljefino
Originally Posted by bullwinkle
I remember they sprayed it on gravel roads to keep the dust down, and also used cinders & ash from the power plant for traction in winter. Would you like a little mercury with your dioxins!

I drove on cinders in upstate NY in the late 1990s! They didn't even grind them all that fine, it was like running over charcoal briquettes.


In Jr and Sr high school, our track was crushed cinder. We wore spikes to run the mile. I could always run about 10-15 seconds faster in the mile on a rubber track than our cinder track.

You wanted to be up front, as everone else had cinders flying off their shoes and hitting you in the face. Wonder how bad that was for us health-wise.


I remember when our track got a fresh load of cinders that the track team raked out smooth. Late 90s.

I recall roads on PA getting cinders back then in the snow too. Maybe still do. Prefer that to salt.

The road cinders are much different than the track ones...