vsisReject modernity. Embrace tradition.
casualhippoI’m sure there will be people that take this seriously lol, PSA to others don’t do this. It fucks up the land and nearby water sources as it spreads out. In the US you can be forced to replace the contaminated soil
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DasnapI just drink mine before pissing in the gravel hole.
Damn it
I came here to also make a oil drinking joke lmao
When I was a yout, they had trucks with a huge tank and a sprayer on the back. The truck would drive all the country roads spraying the dirt with waste oils. This was done to keep the dust down. Smelled terrible. Miles and miles of dirt roads that ran all around by rivers and lakes.
It is crazy to think about that now.
What is a “yout”?
youth
Funny username
girl is a funny username?
TropicalDingdong
I was quoting the movie. 😂
I was hoping someone would pick up on that. ;)
Now they just dump on waste vegetable oils or thousands of gallons of salt. So progress?
I assure you they still do that, source: my dad still lived on a back country road that they regularly tarred until they finally paved it about two or three years ago. When I lived there I hated when they did it because I had a white car and didn’t want all the oil on it since it was so hard to wash off and I had to go to the car wash every time I left the house
I was reading about one where the oil was contaminated with some truly terrible shit, dioxin maybe? Several people died. They turned that whole area into a Superfund site.
A Brief History of: The Times Beach Dioxin Disaster (Documentary)
oatscoopSounds like chipcoat. The “tar” is bitumen, not waste oil – basically asphalt minus the crushed rock aggregate.
It’s messy as hell but no more toxic than regular asphalt.
They still do that on sites with dirt tracks that get dusty. Only, they spray with water.
It’s pretty shitty and foul smelling water, mind.
Calcium chloride I bet
Magnesium chloride also works well as a dust suppressant. I used to manufacture the stuff
nik282000Many moons ago, my family went to a cottage every summer where they would oil the roads to keep them from wearing. I’m not sure what it was exactly but it was for sure a petroleum product by the smell.
I’m sure you know this, but that’s exactly how a town got turned in to a EPA superfund site due to Dioxin contamination, because of a fuck up over chain of command for waste oil from the creation of napalm or pesticides(IIRC?). The guy running the spraying business didn’t know, which I can believe, but the company that paid for him to dispose of it should’ve informed him.
I forget the name, but it’s (one of the towns?) is by STL in Missouri…
Times beach Missouri
There are still places which basically make rural roads like this. They spray down a layer of heavy oil and then scatter small rock chips and recycled asphalt on top of of the sticky layer to make a roadway. Obviously it’s not suitable for heavy use, but it’s way faster than actually paving the surface.
Chip sealing! I know the process as they still do this for neighborhood streets around here. The oil is more like a tar and solidifies as it cools thus ‘gluing’ the chips to the older road surface. Sort of a stopgap before having to repave completely. I don’t think this is done on dirt surfaces as it doesn’t seem workable.
This process is pretty different than what I described originally. The dirt roads only hold those oils for a relatively short period.
RedEye FlightControlOur neighborhood was just done via this method. Usually called tar and stone. Quickly resurfaces the road without all that pesky work. It’s like asphalt glue that cools and then solidifies over days/weeks.
Highway engineer here. It’s asphalt (or bitumen), which is a product of crude oil refining. It’s all the stuff that stays at the bottom when you heat crude up to over 1000°F. Because it’s so sticky & viscous, it has to be heated up to around 300°F in order to be used. Asphalt is the “binder” in a pavement mixture that includes silt, sand, and rocks in various quantities and sizes, and these days the asphalt binder is usually modified in some way to improve its performance in the climate or application it’s going to be used in.
A chipseal is made by spreading a continuous layer of small rocks on a prepared surface and spraying the hot asphalt over it after, which binds the rocks together. It’s similar to Macadam pavement which was developed in the early 1800s and continued to be used well into the 1900s, often as a base layer for a more modern hot-mix asphalt pavement. Tar used to be used in paving a lot, but tar is made from coal and environmental regulations don’t allow it anywhere that I know of. There’s also a more state of the art technique that involves a looser layer of slightly larger stones, sprayed with a modified asphalt emulsion (modified in this case meaning with rubber or polymer for elasticity, and emulsion meaning it’s mixed with water to make it easier to work with), called a stress-absorbing membrane interlayer, used for reducing reflective cracking from an existing pavement surface into a new overlay surface. Modified asphalts & emulsions are often used for chipseals these days, too.
Lecture over.
Hey, thanks for that thorough explanation! I only have vague hand-waving knowledge, so this is nice to understand. I will probably forget most of it by the next time the topic comes up, but I (and others) appreciate the details provided!
The solution to pollution is dilution
I was told the solution to pollution is to ship it to Asia so the poors there have something to root around in for treasures.
Why ship it across the world when you can buy government regulators at half the price and then dump your waste right into the river?
pours water over soil
This really was the advice given till the 90’s or so.
My dad use to have a hole filled with cat litter to pour oil as that was the recommendation.
I think your dad was behind the times. Mine collected and disposed of the oil properly at a waste station
God damned roofers spilled gas on my lawn. I had to dig down almost a foot to get rid of the contaminated soil.
FizzPut oil back where it belongs, in the ground!
So it can be extracted again. True carbon neutrality.
eezeebeeThe circle of life
CaptainBlagbirdAnd life’s a jerk
back in those days ppl were burying old cars in their backyards
Digging is way too much effort when you can just push it into the nearest pond.
Just don't forget to take the battery out so it can be safely disposed of in the ocean.
Absolutely. You never know when you might need old car battery for torture.
How? Isn’t it just 12 V? Genuinely curious, because I never understood this stuff in movies…
That’s why it’s more likely used for fetish purposes irl, and even the maybe two in series? You’d have to ask the experts, which I’m totally not one of. Not involved in that world at all. Definitely don’t have a monthly budget for that…
I’ve heard of electric stimulation used for fetish, but none of the manufacturers state how high of a voltage the tools produce (at least I couldn’t find any info about this).
I don’t know for sure but I think it’s the current, higher voltage will bridge a bigger gap/higher resistance but a human body doesn’t have that high of a resistance and car batteries are capable of providing plenty of current (I think?)
Yes, but to penetrate the top layer of human skin, you need about 60 V DC, or 30 V AC. A car battery is 12 V DC…
The only way a car batteries could hurt you if you clamped two crocodile clamps to your nutsack to prove a point on the internet
It’s Perfectly Safe and Legal!
RozaŭtunoAnd breathing lead.
snooggumsAnd eating lead paint!
That’s why you bury a bunch of cars halfway and tell all the neighbors it’s “art”.
vreraanI remember that 1970 shitty cartoon “Barbapapa”, which proposed burying all kinds of waste as a solution.
Out of sight, out of mind
This is not a meme. Apparently this is a difficult concept.
never seen a “reject modernity” meme before? go inside and touch some internet.
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