Just missed out on 500 gallons of free WMO because I didn't have anything to store it in. What are you using to transport your oil when you collect it and where is a good place to pick up reasonably priced tanks?
I use 55 gallon drums and some used plastic totes that used to hold new motor oil. There is a guy fairly local that I found on craigslist that sells both fairly priced. I just need to work on a better pump setup.
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55 gallon drums. I have 11 car repair shops all near me who collect only good WMO for me and then they get strained before going into the drums, strained again going from drums to smaller containers which I mix 50/50 with clean deisel. I even get alot of clean deisel from the desiel mechanics around here who have to drain tanks or purge systems.
I have one 55gal drum slowly amassing WMO from my personal cars and lawnmowers. I have considered asking local shops if I can have their waste oil and ATF but I haven't figured out where I'd keep it. If I fill drums in the back of the truck, I have no way to get the full drums back out of the truck once home.
Big challenge that I would wager that you face is how to get the juice up and down out of the back of the truck (if you're using the truck to haul it). In my duece, I'm fortunate enough to have a forklift on site to lift a 250-gallon tote (white plastic tank with a tube cage built around it) into the back. Of course, when I get home, gravity can do most of the work, but I have to have a second tote or fuel tank to drain into, due to not having a forklift available at my depot.
For those who are challenged on space/resources but still want to participate in WMO fun, an attractive option would be to throw a fuel tank designed for a pickup truck bed into the back. It may have a refueling pump/nozzle attached, doesn't take up much space, and you can leave it there during all of your vehicle related activities. Sure, you may not be able to score 500 gallons at a time, but 50 gallons is better than nothing.
If you have the lift capability (as mentioned above) the 250 gallon "totes" are the way to go. Using a 12 volt pump with in-line filter you can drive around to locations that will give you UMO and fill the tote up.
I use a pickup tube made of PVC pipe with a screen on the bottom to prevent chunks from getting into the pump.
Never go all the way to the bottom of a container you are pumping from.....that is where all the water/crud ends up.
I filter at every stage of recycling.
You may find it harder to get waste oil.....companies that used to charge or pick it up for free are now paying for used oil. I lost a couple of sources to the big recycler in the area that is paying 25 cents a gallon for it now.
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I use drums to transport it around. I just tow a civy trailer behind my deuce and use a handtruck to unload it from the trailer. I have some 275gal totes, I just have been to lazy to incorperate them into the filtering system
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I have been thinking ways to do this also, my best theory so far (that's works for me) would get a 3/4 ton trailer from the local military surplus store for about $500 and put the tote w/cage setup in it and dedicate that to collecting the motor oil from my local sources. Then at home pump it into 55gal drums and from there finish the process with filtering, etc.. An in the end having drums of clean WMO to use.. This is just my on this idea
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From our end of the spectrum here in Ga. as a producer of WMO.
EPA under 50 CFR part 279 as a non hazardous product. The vendor we use is insured as we only dispose of 350 to 400 gallons per month of 15w40. No antifreeze and unless a diesel had a fuel in oil issue would be the only way diesel would be introduced into the WMO.
The vendor has to be fully insured as he is reponsible there is no leakage on site and he (she) is reponsible for the transportation to their facility and according licensed per the State of Ga to do so.
Its just another thing laying around here and would just be one of those added on projects to do WMO seperation for a fuel souirce.
Was nice back in Mich - just used it in the waste oil furnaces - NWH can you think of doing that down here.
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What are you using to collect WMO
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