So I was workin in my shop the other day...

[exotion]

I used to work at a car stereo shop. There was a big demo board of systems n the showroom, and the backside was open to the shop. Wires everywhere, and a workbench with a vise, wire tools, and a soldering iron. The owner kept the iron hot and clamped its handle into the vise. (Can you see where this is going?) Anyway, owner was trying to demo a system with a customer, and the system would not turn on, so he runs around to the back side and thinks the wires have come loose. The system he's trying to demo is at the top level, out of reach due to the workbench, so the owner starts to climb up the bench to get to the wires, and lifts himself upward but does not have enough forward motion to grab the top of the display, and he's falling backwards now and his hand reaches out to grab what he thought was the vise handle.

Inner Ear: Brain! We're falling! Do something!

Brain: Right hand, reach out and grab the vise handle to stop our fall!

Eye: No visual yet Brain

Brain: Right hand, it's there, so just grab

Right Hand: Okay, grabbing...and making contact now...OMG this thing is burning HOT! Must release NOW!

Inner Ear: NO! We'll fall down on the floor!

Right Hand: The pain is excruciating

Brain: Calculating if burn pain > or < impact pain of hitting floor....thinking...thinking...

Brain: Inner Ear, have we stopped moving yet?

Inner Ear: Yes, we're stable now

Nose: What is that terrible burning smell?

Brain: Right Hand, release NOW. Legs, stand by to take on load

Nose: Ooof. That's bad

Right Hand: Tell Lefty I love him and to come visit me in the burn unit

Eye: OMG, Right Hand, that's messed up! Look at the smoke coming off the soldering iron

Nose: P.U.

Thanks this little narrative kept me sane at the dol

 

[ILENGINE]

Reminds me a few years ago, had been working in the shop on a mower, and then came in for lunch, and was having hamburgers and fries. You know how the ketchup tends to drip off of the sandwich, or off the fries, and your instinct is to just take your finger and wipe it off your shirt, and put it in your mouth. Well in my case it wasn't ketchup, it was grease. tongue went numb for about 15 minutes.

 

[exotion]

Reminds me a few years ago, had been working in the shop on a mower, and then came in for lunch, and was having hamburgers and fries. You know how the ketchup tends to drip off of the sandwich, or off the fries, and your instinct is to just take your finger and wipe it off your shirt, and put it in your mouth. Well in my case it wasn't ketchup, it was grease. tongue went numb for about 15 minutes.

Bleck

 

[Bison]

Illegal Oil Dumping

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That oil came from the ground to start with,.it's natural and really doesn't do much harm if it is spilled ,...it just looks ugly.
How about all the millions of gallons of man made pesticides fungicides and herbicides that get sprayed around the world on yer food and the soaps and other man made chemicals that get used daily by industry and city people that ends up in your food ,on the ground in sewers and in surface water.??,..all stuff that is alien to Nature.

Nah,,...that's OK

 

[bertsmobile1]

That oil came from the ground to start with,.it's natural and really doesn't do much harm if it is spilled ,...it just looks ugly.
How about all the millions of gallons of man made pesticides fungicides and herbicides that get sprayed around the world on yer food and the soaps and other man made chemicals that get used daily by industry and city people that ends up in your food ,on the ground in sewers and in surface water.??,..all stuff that is alien to Nature.

Nah,,...that's OK

Yep believe it or not there are specialist bacteria that break down oil into carbon dioxide & nitrogen.
It has a bit of trouble with all the other crud we put in oil but basically nature can deal with small volumes quite well.
Basically you put spent mushroom compost & horse droppings on it and give it plenty of water.
Fungi will soon spring up which are edible and when they are finished earthworms will start their bit.
However this does not look "sexy" on the 7pm news so we spray it with lots of chemicals, scalp the soil, burn it at very high temperatures and carry on like a headless chook when all it needs is the right enviroment and a little ( lot really ) of time.

 

[grumpygrizzly]

Ya know, it's kinda strange that we have these big oil companies out there with their big derricks pumping oil out of the ground 24/7 and then they have to convert those old dinosaur remains into a fuel we can run our motors with..

Wonder what it would take if you could just save all the oil you dump out of your engines (cars, trucks, lawnmowers) into a 55gal drum, and then convert that to gas for your equipment and vehicles??

Maybe that's one of those questions you're not supposed to ask..

 

[bertsmobile1]

Too expensive to do
You can burn it in a heater, plenty of them around ( California excepted )
Mine goes to a collector who strains it & sells it to shipping companies to run the ships on . called Bunker oil , the dirtiest fuel you can use
All those photos of ships with thick heavy black smoke coming out of the funnels are burning Bunker oil which they do once they are in international waters ( no pollution laws )
Some of the foundries I worked in or ran used it in the furnaces with a lot of oxygen to get it to burn clean and a lot of small islands that use diesel generators for all their power use it .
Before mass TV brain washing it used to go to refineries who cleaned it then blended it with fresh oil added a new addative package & sold it for reuse in your car .
However the big oil companies did such a good job on convincing that if you even put a can of it in your boot, your car would vapourise on the spot and all your children would become sterile, your mother in law would come to stay for good and you will become allergic to beer. So no sooner had it became available to Joe public, it got withdrawn.
Some big transport & excavation companies will run re- refined oil to cut costs in engines that use 10 gallons in the sump.

 

[Hammermechanicman]

Amusing how we like to say crude oil came from dinosaurs. How many millions of dinosaurs piled up in one place at one time would it take to make a multi million barrel deposit of oil? Oh wait! Oil came from the forests of plant matter. May be some dinosaurs in the mix but nearly all crude oil came from plants. I guess when Sinclair oil put a dinosaur on their logo and had a fuel called Dino Supreme it convinced the world oil came from dinosaurs. Just getting into grinch mode for the season.

 

[Scrubcadet10]

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[grumpygrizzly]

I like a concrete floor in my shop, it gets cleaned after every job and some time in between a job. One thing I do like is a clean, smooth, hard and dry floor to work on. If I do spill fuel or oil it gets cleaned up right away. As I work all removed hardware go's in a pan or box. After ever days work all the tools get cleaned and put back in there place. This makes it a lot easier keep tract of everything like tools and parts and make for better workmanship.

You must have one hell of a wife.. Did you have to put a big screen TV out there and a comfy chair for her to sit in and watch her soaps while you toil away??