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I remember seeing on the movie Battle of the Bulge they rolled the drums off the trucks on ramps. Just make sure it is sealed tight and nothing to puncture it where it will roll on the ground.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.
can you post some more info about this pump setup? im looking precisely for a pump for that reason... ill be pumping wmo/wvo from drums at various locations into a drum in my deuce or f150... when i get home ill be using gravity to move the wmo/wvo from the truck to the centrifuge, so im only looking for an affordable pump for the actual recovery of the oils..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.
I use plastic 55 gal drums. I can manhandle these ok. They are tough...I roll them out of the F250 4x4....onto grass....about 3' drop. Never busted one yet.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 a grease pump that restaurants use to pump their fryer oil. These are great pumps...tough!! Not real fast, but they do ok...probably takes 20 min or so to pump 55 gal. New these things are $1000+....I have found a couple of them on ebayMy buddy oddball and I plan on using plastic 55gal drums to recover wmo,we have found a source for about 400 gal,we loaded up the drums in the back of the deuce and made an attempt to recover our black gold using a harbour freight diesel transfer pump and miserably failed, the problem was the pump wouldnt pump the oil out of the container to the 8' height required, the least exspensive oil transfer pump I can find that will do the job (ebay) is $300.00 for a geared head style pump that will pump up to 15' heigth at 7-10 gpm, I will surlly get one of these but for now I will build a transfer pump out of a small block chevy oil pump and give it another shot!
its 7.4 lbs per gallon. @250gal is 1850lbs, even better yet!If you stay with 250gal totes then your total weight should be under 1 ton (oil is 8lbs/gal * 250 = 2000 + tare weight.
You could easily build a gantry from wood or buy a steel one to lift it on/off.
Thats my plan for this summer.
I have a friend that uses one of those farm type fuel pumps to move WMO from one container to another. He says it works fine but the motor gets hot after pumping 55 gallons. I have the same pump with a spin on filter and I'm going to see how it works pumping through a filter.My buddy oddball and I plan on using plastic 55gal drums to recover wmo,we have found a source for about 400 gal,we loaded up the drums in the back of the deuce and made an attempt to recover our black gold using a harbour freight diesel transfer pump and miserably failed, the problem was the pump wouldnt pump the oil out of the container to the 8' height required, the least exspensive oil transfer pump I can find that will do the job (ebay) is $300.00 for a geared head style pump that will pump up to 15' heigth at 7-10 gpm, I will surlly get one of these but for now I will build a transfer pump out of a small block chevy oil pump and give it another shot!
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