edit: Don't do this. Embrace modernity and don't pollute the soil.
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:
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I've had boers tell me that as kids they would pick up balls of tar from the street and chew it like gum
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Put oil back where it belongs, in the ground!
So it can be extracted again. True carbon neutrality.
The circle of life
And life's a jerk
I mod !soilscience@slrpnk.net
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.
Ah! AHHH! GRUG FIND SMART SCIENCE NOT THINK! Green thing not have bone and it die too? How green thing die if no bone?
Uno, atheists.
Do I have to prove that I do it, or can you just mail one to me?
Shipped.
3-5 business days.
Your punctuality disturbs me.
More like punchuality! Amirite?
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.
Ah yes, to get cancer is also very traditional, forgot to say that.
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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.
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Mixed 50/50 with diesel is what I'm using as fence stain/sealer.
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Shit like this is why people doing home gardening, especially in areas that have been inhabited for hundreds of years, without testing the soil first give me heart palpitations. What are you eating?? I don't know, and neither do you!
My neighborhood soil is laced with arsenic and lead from an old foundry that used to be nearby.
A bunch of my neighbors grow and eat food in that soil knowing it. It boggles my mind.
While I know it's not convenient, have you considered... telling them?
Yea, and the response has been ‘I’ve been eating food I’ve grown here for 20 years and I’m totally fine!’
Just like the people that love to tell their grandparents lived a long life smoking tobacco everyday.
It wasn't the smoking that didnt kill em. It was the minding their own fucking business.
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The first couple times I helped my dad change the oil in his car he dumped it down the storm drain which lead to the Chesapeake.
We don't do that anymore.
I think of all the times I did that working on my cars years ago.
It was just something you did and no one ever even blinked. Old oil, gas, brake fluid, etc, right down the storm drain.
Now I think back and shudder.
My grandpa would just set the old oil filters when he would change the oil in the 3 farm tractors he owned. He did that for years and 30 years later that spot is still like blacktop. At least it’s only a 2’x2’ spot but I couldn’t imagine if he dumped the actual oil. And that’s only 3 diesel tractors twice a year.
The thought that shops were doing it for years is sad
So return to its source. Basically.
Oil is weird.
I mean this is probably how we found it in the ground in the first place. The world goes round and round.
The oil cycle. Nature is finally healing
I need the full book/magazine this comes from there.might be other nice tips.
Instructions unclear, now the swing set in my back yard needs it's tires rotated.
Thanks. It nice to have a reliable source to turn to when I am inspired to follow guides published in the 1960s.
The modern way of doing this would involve reversing the process of dinosaur bones turning into oil. So you just put into the oil-to-bone-inator and bury those bones back into the ground where they originally came from.
Oil isn’t made from dinosaurs
Sure, if you're buying the cheap stuff.
Oh really? So how come you can use oil to make plastic dinosaur toys?
Checkmate atheists
That's what Big Non-Dino-Oil wants you to think, so they can get all of the moneys from everyone.
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