What the heck could I possibly do with this...

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It was on my property when I bought it. I have a 1,000 poly tank for comparison so with that, it's still hard to say but looks to be somewhere between maybe 3,000 min. and 5,000 max. gallons if I had to guess? Probably somewhere in the middle. It was a neighborhood oil waste tank. I spent $80 for Noble Oil to come suck a lot of it out and I now have a bucket collection to drain the rest of it. Only had like 4 inches in the bottom at first. Now down to 1-2".
All I can come up with if I kept it would be to cut it up into a few fire rings and try to sell... Scrap metal is at a low so that's out for a while. Would love to sell it and get rid of it. It's taking up an entire parking space for something else. I don't even know what to call it? Old underground gas station vessel??? I saw a few of them up in Amish Country in Kentucky on the side of barns with gutters to collect rain water. But there's no amish around here that I know of? But I honestly have absolutely no purpose for it...

Any ideas? interest? Offers???
 

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6BangBronk said:
THAT will make it easy to load to take to scrap... According to a website I found, it weighs around 3,500 pounds as it sits.
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Be careful using a torch to cut it,you might catch the remaining oil on fire.
 
-Paint it yellow and make it into a submarine?
-Bury it and make a bomb/Zombie apocalypse shelter
-Cut the ends off, paint a spiral pattern inside, place it on powered rollers and install a cat walk through it. Charge kids to walk down it and get dizzy
-Cut ends off, place it on rollers and charge kids run inside it. Secretly hook it up to an alternator and power your house.
-cut it in half length wise and make 2 hot tubs.
-Gold fish ponds
-raise baby alligators in them
-place in ground and run a tube up to a hidden entrance, store the dismembered dead bodies of those that piss you off.

The ideas are endless.
 
Hot tubs. :lol: I lost it on that one. A good wood fire underneath with all the neighbors kicked back chillin inside while passing around beers and hollerin at the kids to stoke the fire and add more wood...:smokin:

Good ones mbalbritton!!!
 
Bacon smoker:huggy:
 
I believe there is still some amish folk around the Burlington/lake Macintosh area. Although you'd have a lot of effort in loading/hauling it.
Maybe trade them a lifetime supply of fresh corn???
Or go all out and make the biggest pig cooker ever. Get like 8 pigs in that thing.
 
So the neighbors didnt like the PO?
Got it.
 
10.000 gal waste oil tank sat on my property for over 10 years with the vent holes up.
imma thinkin it would make a great obstickle for the trucks so i set about cutting
it diagionaly from one side to the other. first day i get the backhoe, torches and
my mexican friend to go give it a shot. torch in hand i set about getting started.
had cut about 4 inches when the sparks started blowing out at us and not into the tank.
told carlos to help me get to saftey at the rear of the hoe while hearing it start
whistling like a tea kettle. al of a sudden it went kinda WHOUMP and apperently
blew itself out.
next day imma thinkin that we oughta somehow evacuate the gases so
we ran a hose from a truck exaust thru a vacume cleaner hose into the tank. we had the tank
chained to the front end loader just tight enough to help hold it. cutting the tank
went amazingly smooth. TILL I PICKED UP THE "LID" allowing fresh air into the tank.
all that hot cut metal ignighted the sludge inside blew the "lid" up into the bucket and
bout scared us to death but it set down back "kinda" where it came from. it was still
on fire pretty bad at this point so i rolled the bucket and let the chains fall off so
i could get the hoe away from the heat. this was about dusk and about 6-700 feet
from the main road but people could see smoke "thick and black" and fire so they
were stopping on the side of the road to watch. we got lucky and no one was hurt
and the fire dept / police were not called.
it made a great obstickle.

just last month one of my MC brothers had a much worse accident involving cutting
a tank. this guy and his helper had cut a "door" into a large tank. they remove tanks
as a business and cut em up regulary and use dry ice to evac the fumes. cutting went well
and the torches were off and in a safe place. they were shoveling out the sludge
and something ignited the sludge on the ground. an explosion occured that left the helper
on fire. my buddy was right next to him and only got burned trying to extenguish
his helper. 2nd and 3rd degree burns to his face-arms and back. he is making good
recovery altho he will be scarred for life. only thing burned on my buddy was his beard
and hair. he had gloves on that saved his hands that day.

so be extra carefull when cutting old oil/fuel tanks. please excuse the bad spellin---
i missed that day at school.
 
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Sounds like cutting into it is not an option. I have no idea the history of this thing and what ELSE was in it. Most likely gas at one time? I'm 2 miles from an old gas station. All of the old land owners around are gone except for the old hag directly in front of it (the perfect target to roll it towards). She wouldn't know. If she even allowed me to knock on her door to ask?

I feel safe popping a hole underneath to empty the rest of the oil but that's about the extent I'll be modifying it now... Done got one skin graph on my leg.

Nothing else it'll slide onto my 20' trailer and go to scrap in a year or so... If they'll even take it???
 
How long and how tall is it? Would you like to part with it? I have a purpose for it.
 
no help with the tank, but a buried bread van makes a great place to grown weed. Just saying.
 
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