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How to pump used oil from tanks?

Got 3 old steel tanks filled with used oil. Trying to clean up yard, would like to transfer oil into empty chemical totes I have and scrap the old tanks. They’re in a bad spot and totes are much easier to handle or get rid of. What would be easiest way to get oil from one to another? I’ve never pumped used oil before, don’t have much for pumps around the farm besides the one I used for filling sprayer and a 5 hp trash pump as well.

RE: How to pump used oil from tanks?

Call an oil recycler, they should pump it for free. Be rid of it.

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What kind of fittings or draw tubes do they have? 2-3psi of air will move quite a bit of product if there is a way to hook the plumbing up

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Call an oil recycler, they should pump it for free. Be rid of it. Who do you use over there? Anybody here charges to come and get it and there is only 1-2 of those. We put it in shuttles and give it away for furnaces

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I can't remember, but will try to find out. They picked up mine last fall.

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They used to charge, but now with the higher price of oil will take it free. They like to come when it is convenient on a run.

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I would like to be rid of it, but I don’t know of anyone who comes around here anymore. Im in far NE North Dakota. I only use about 75 gallons of oil a year so it’s probably been ten years since I had it emptied. But they’re all full now. I suppose I should try and find someone to take it before I get to carried away. But having read posts on here I was assuming I wouldn’t find anyone.

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Put an add in Classifides. Maybe one of us with a waste oil burner needs/wants it, or at least may have a pump to let you use.

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Find someone that has a waste oil furnace in their shop and tell them if they come get it they can have it. Some townships and or truck shops have them.

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Any old sprayer roller pump will work with pulley, belt and elect motor 1750 rpm at least 1 hp. Edit: hot day with air pressure should work too, but slower.

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I use a hyd gear pump off a truck hoist to pump used oil. I run it with a tractor PTO.

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Or a belt driven hydraulic pump out of an old combine run by an electric motor. I have two small combine hydraulic pumps direct coupled to 1hp electric motors I use for transferring oil. One is for new oil and the other is for waste oil. The unfiltered oil probably doesn’t do the waste oil pump any good but it isn’t pumping oil under pressure and has held up for a good many years.

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I've used a sump pump to transfer used oil, it worked great and I'd do it again.

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How about one of these Milwaukee cordless transfer pumps? Might be a little slow for all the oil you have to move, but that's a one time job I would guess. I've seen it in a store a few times and thought it would be handy around the farm for odd jobs, but I don't have any experience using one. If you have the Milwaukee M18 tools already it would be easy to add this to your lineup.

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We use an air diaphram pump to move it, works great. FYI if you put it in totes, do not store it in them long them. The plastic seems to get brittle with the oil (and or sun). Seems to work ok to move oil, but I do not trust them at all. If it was here I’d pump it and remove it.. we use it to heat our shop.

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An air powered diaphragm pump. I have a one inch on my truck and suck up about 15,000 gallons a year. It will suck up and pump about any liquid. Put some kind of screen on the inlet. A one inch pump will pass a 1/4" nut, but anything bigger will plug it up. I find all kinds of goodies in other companies used oil tanks.

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I use a 5 hp water pump. used a pipe on the end with a shut off valve to stick in the tanks.

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I would think direct sunlight would be more up a culprit than the oil. They will be stored in the shade on the north side of a building. But have the intention of getting rid of them sooner rather than later.

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I just did this last week and used the chemical pump from a roundup tank. Worked great.

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I just posted about a company that picks up used oil in most of ND. No connection here, just glad they come and get it.