Heating idea??

JayinNY · Feb 27, 2012

My friend was telling me he takes his newspapers, rolls them up ties them with twine, and soaks them in used motor oil for 2 weeks. Then he burns his so called wicks in his wood stove. I guess it's kind of recycling, but it must smell awful around there. Can't be good for the air. When I was a kid dad would dump drain oil on the ground. He stopped when u could take oil back to jiffy lube or such. Someone told me the oil came from the ground, so dump it back on the ground, I don't agree with that.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 27, 2012

I had friends in high school whos uncle was in trucking they had a home made furnace in the truck shop where they could roll a whole semi tire in it.It could be -20 and needed to open the doors to cool the shop off.The thing would be there sitting and be glowing red.

NCWayne · Feb 27, 2012

Motor oil burning hot enough doesn't smoke or smell any worse than any other type of fuel oil. I've got my old wood stove set up now with a drip system that will get the outside of my stove in excess of 650 degrees, and the fire chamber itself puts my raytek off the scale at more than 850 degrees. Rarely do I ever et any smell outside when it's burning.

That said I had an old catalog that I did the same thing with several years back before I modified the wood stove I had in the shop to burn oil. The thing laid there and burned for several hours , and was still smoldering long after the wood in there at the same time was long gone. I never smelled anything out of the ordinary when it was burning hot or when it was just smoldering.

old · Feb 27, 2012

How do you think many auto shops heat there places. Yep they have oil burning stoves that burn the oil they change. I know a guy who has a shop that rebuilds automatic transmissions and in the summer I can get his waste ATF but in the winter he will not give me a drop because he uses it to heat his shop

greygoat · Feb 28, 2012

In the 60's, workimg on the Railroad, they cut
out old ties...had a machine that cut them in
thirds, and pushed them out along side of the
tracks. I'd bring home a 1 ton pickup load every
day, of 3 foot long pieces. Had a huge woodpile,
burned them in my shop in a stove I welded up
from 3/8 plate steel. (They burned hot-a barrel
stove didn't last long)Whenever I heated the
Workshop, you could smell that creosote burning
a mile down wind!

Bevan · Feb 28, 2012

I worked in a shop owned by a factory that made mulch and sawdust. They had their own fleet of trucks. We had a cofired used oil furnace that used pallets and 15w40 out of the semis. We couldn't burn the stuff fast enough and it heated the shop plenty hot. Just had a copper line drip oil onto a bed of burning pallet wood.

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