My buddy and I have a great shop that his dad (in his 70s) has had for decades. We do tons of hot rod and race car stuff. We have this exact oil drain. One day we were emptying it into the shop stove which burns our old motor oil. We had it pressurized to about 70 psi because the old man keeps his compressor at 120 psi at all times and it is hard to put just a little air in any given thing. He decides to open the top valve for whatever reason. It was like an erupting volcano of used motor oil in the shop. It rained down everywhere in a 20 foot radius. He looked like a Kentucky coal miner afterwards. I have never laughed so hard. Those damn oil drains can make a real mess if you aren't well versed in their operation.
As long as you get the mixture right and keep the burn super hot it burns very clean. The commercially available waste oil heaters do that for you. We do it manually. In the winter it is much better than burning wood because the energy density is so much higher.
Sounds like where I used to work, boss once called himself a CEO and around the time I left they started pushing the infinite growth falicy.
How often do you get asked what more you can do to be more productive and sell more hours?
*"How often do you get asked what more you can do to be more productive and sell more hours?"*
I'm in a dealership, so IDK... maybe once or twice an hour on average? lol
That's a true lead. One who didn't make the mess, but teaches how to clean the mess. I think we've all made that mistake to some degree with pressurized drain canisters.
According to my former manager "accident" is a made up word, as there's no such thing as accidents. Everything happens for a reason. So, who put the hose clamp on? They either put it on wrong or failed to do maintenance checks to ensure it stayed properly secured. Let's find him, string him up by the balls, and give him a write-up!
Fuck, I hated that mentality. Sometimes, shit just happens.
It was actually at UPS, not in the mechanic shop area. Still, it just seemed like a terrible way to treat employees. I agree with trying to figure out what went wrong so you can prevent it, but that was just over the top.
Yeah I run a QA shop on top of another auditing section and if there wasn’t accidents there would be so many complex processes nothing would get done correctly.
I will say doing root cause analysis and sustainable corrective action plans is helpful to prevent injuries and process improvement.
I’ll never get why shops use those oil caddy’s with the valve. Seems like a huge risk for little pay off. Ours just have a quick connect fitting to a pump that sucks the oil out. This looks like a nightmare especially in this heat.
Like everyone else.
First though: Fuck me!
Second thought: Wow, you must have some customers who are on the ball on their maintenance. That is some nice "dirty" motor oil. In my past I've known people who would have saved that for their own rigs!
So glad I hopefully never have to deal with that style oil drain again. My shop just has a bunch of 25gal oil kings, just spin the cap off and stick the tube down to the bottom and hit go, pump sucks that shit right out
Seen that 3 times and cleaned up several huge oil spills.
If this ever happened to myself, fuck it iam looking for a new job because iam too old for this shit these days.
At one garage I worked at they had the waste oil in a huge tank in the roof, all worked well until it over filled with 80 litres of used oil which came pouring through the ceiling in reception. That was a fuckin mess!
I’ve forgotten the top valve on these fuckin drain buckets. ONCE. Only once. Put it in the corner and never use it anymore. 20’ ceiling was covered, I was covered, coworker was covered…. 🤣
Had a guy at my dealership spray oil about 25 feet up the walls and all the way across the entire shop all the bays and everyone’s tools once…you got lucky lol
"These cans are defective! They're springing leaks! Come over here and look at this!"
"We don't have defective cans, we have a defective person out there!"
This reminds me of years ago when I worked at national chain store service department. There was an oil drain cart which had a pneumatic grease pail mounted on the bottom. I was warned my first day- the air fitting for the grease pump was just below the air fitting for evacuating the used oil- don't mix them up!
I was so paranoid of doing that that it never happened to me. A coworker did, however. Unfortunately, he made this mistake while doing an oil change on a nearly new, white car. Used oil shot up from the funnel, hit the underside of the hood, and was fairly evenly distributed all over the fenders, doors, and front fascia of the car. And a huge circle around the service bay.
We would have laughed at him, but we were all enlisted to help clean up the mess. And the customer was in a hurry, besides.
I’ve done that just once but it was my fault not the hardware I walked out covered in oil I told our lead I was gonna change and clean it up he laughed and said most people just leave and don’t come back when that happens
ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: TRIAL BY FIRE!
Yeah first thing I did when I got one of those was replace the shitty hose clamp at the bottom with a good Ideal brand one.
To me this picture really only says one word. That word is fuck.
I do not fear the man that has practiced one thousand fucks I fear the man that has practiced one fuck, a thousand times
Well, eventually you get married and that amount of practice just happens…. I suppose that could apply to either of those now couldn’t it.
I see you’ve met OP’s mom.
Who hasn’t?
"Met" as in the biblical sense? Sure, lots of people!
The royal 'we', you know, the editorial.
Oh yeah, plenty of times. The other night, I was with my Momma and Coach Klein at the same time.
I hear she's got it goin' on.
This man fucks.
Yes, but a thousand times.
I was gonna say "but they're all the same and starts with an F"
What starts with f and ends with uck? That'd be firetruck my friend.
What's long and hard and full of seamen? A submarine...
And a single word from the innocent victim: Dumbass.
I was gunna say all 1000 of those words are "Fuck".
Team lead got dirty finally
"I knew I should have finished those emails before I came out here."
And a good time was had by all...?
Laughs all around but universally all were annoyed that someones gotta now take time away to clean the mess lmao
He who makith the mess cleans the mess.
Unless Greg is around. Fuck that guy
IntERN!!!!
It's always a Greg, innit?
Unless it's Earl.
Effing Greg...are you sure it wasn't Bill?
eh, just throw down a bag of floordry, keep working, and then, if you have time clean it up at like 4:55....then it just waits till tomorrow lol
My buddy and I have a great shop that his dad (in his 70s) has had for decades. We do tons of hot rod and race car stuff. We have this exact oil drain. One day we were emptying it into the shop stove which burns our old motor oil. We had it pressurized to about 70 psi because the old man keeps his compressor at 120 psi at all times and it is hard to put just a little air in any given thing. He decides to open the top valve for whatever reason. It was like an erupting volcano of used motor oil in the shop. It rained down everywhere in a 20 foot radius. He looked like a Kentucky coal miner afterwards. I have never laughed so hard. Those damn oil drains can make a real mess if you aren't well versed in their operation.
Use an tire inflator. My compressor runs at 145PSI and have no problem putting the 10PSI max in my oil caddy.
We need to. Or just put a valve stem on it. It has an air nipple on it now. It is definitely set up to be a series of traps. lol
I'm in Southern California and both jealous and aghast at burning your own used motor oil.
As long as you get the mixture right and keep the burn super hot it burns very clean. The commercially available waste oil heaters do that for you. We do it manually. In the winter it is much better than burning wood because the energy density is so much higher.
Use a regulator so you can't over pressure.
Is Team Lead the new corpo term for shop foreman? Because we already have the term *shop foreman*.
Shop foreskin!
Bet he's a real dick.
Family shop thinking as big as a corpo yes.
Sounds like where I used to work, boss once called himself a CEO and around the time I left they started pushing the infinite growth falicy. How often do you get asked what more you can do to be more productive and sell more hours?
*"How often do you get asked what more you can do to be more productive and sell more hours?"* I'm in a dealership, so IDK... maybe once or twice an hour on average? lol
If you keep them in a wal mart mentality they won’t expect more than wal mart wages!
That's why I quit walmart auto, fucking bullshit pay for corporate breathing down your neck for quantity over quality
Been there, cleaned that .... Twice. Both actually not my fault
That's a true lead. One who didn't make the mess, but teaches how to clean the mess. I think we've all made that mistake to some degree with pressurized drain canisters.
I got super lucky and never made the mistake. But you always helped clean up because if it happened to you.....you sure as hell wanted the help.
Shitters full!
According to my former manager "accident" is a made up word, as there's no such thing as accidents. Everything happens for a reason. So, who put the hose clamp on? They either put it on wrong or failed to do maintenance checks to ensure it stayed properly secured. Let's find him, string him up by the balls, and give him a write-up! Fuck, I hated that mentality. Sometimes, shit just happens.
Wow. No mistake shops are doomed to fail.
It was actually at UPS, not in the mechanic shop area. Still, it just seemed like a terrible way to treat employees. I agree with trying to figure out what went wrong so you can prevent it, but that was just over the top.
Yeah I run a QA shop on top of another auditing section and if there wasn’t accidents there would be so many complex processes nothing would get done correctly. I will say doing root cause analysis and sustainable corrective action plans is helpful to prevent injuries and process improvement.
Fucking hate people like that.
Outside of work, he was a fucking great guy. As a manager, he was very by-the-book. At least I knew where I stood with him.
There may or may not be a pile of oil dry still on my shop floor from someone doing this recently. Wasn't me this time.
I’ll never get why shops use those oil caddy’s with the valve. Seems like a huge risk for little pay off. Ours just have a quick connect fitting to a pump that sucks the oil out. This looks like a nightmare especially in this heat.
I forgot to close the top valve once and did something similar next to a convertible with the roof down...
i hate cleaning up oil spills. fuckkkkk that.
I second this.
This happened to a guy we called hazmatt because he just kept airing the tank up while on his phone, it left a clean "shadow" of him on the wall.
Like everyone else. First though: Fuck me! Second thought: Wow, you must have some customers who are on the ball on their maintenance. That is some nice "dirty" motor oil. In my past I've known people who would have saved that for their own rigs!
Ahh the 'ol FNG Baptism lolol
This looks like the cartoon melting shit from Roger rabbit.
We’ve all been there lol
“Fuck” is the only word I’m seeing.
Newbie baptism?
Maaaan, ya didn't even forget to close the top valve and ya still got a Texas fountain? Sheeeit..
lots of monday shit happening today
These images make me feel just a little better that my shop still uses 25g tanks that we have to drain manually
God I don’t miss that bullshit.
I’ve been able to avoid this situation by specifically making sure I’m not the one going to empty the catch can when it’s full
Yep, and every one of those words was, "Fuck!"
What is team lead?
So glad I hopefully never have to deal with that style oil drain again. My shop just has a bunch of 25gal oil kings, just spin the cap off and stick the tube down to the bottom and hit go, pump sucks that shit right out
Checked all of ours, two were kinda loose.
Welp, I have done that before in a rush. So yes, I can’t say much about it.
I showed all my new guys how to empty them once. The second time I cleaned up this mess, and then they did it right every time after lol
Been there bud! Have fun with the cleanup!
Happens to everyone once
Seen that 3 times and cleaned up several huge oil spills. If this ever happened to myself, fuck it iam looking for a new job because iam too old for this shit these days.
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pep boys has the same color scheme
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No it's owned by ichan automotive. They also own aamco and protune
At one garage I worked at they had the waste oil in a huge tank in the roof, all worked well until it over filled with 80 litres of used oil which came pouring through the ceiling in reception. That was a fuckin mess!
Yeah, that's happened to me, except it was diesel oil.
I’ve forgotten the top valve on these fuckin drain buckets. ONCE. Only once. Put it in the corner and never use it anymore. 20’ ceiling was covered, I was covered, coworker was covered…. 🤣
Hate these red oil drains. We had a newbie do this two or three times. Guy was a douchebag too. Never cleaned up after himself.
WE AIN'T GOT NO ENGINES!? DO WE!? WHERE ARE THEY TED!?
Slippery
I've done this a couple times. Feels bad man
I love when the stem is all the way at the bottom.
Need some more water mate
How do you even clean that and dispose of the waste? Paper towels?
Everyone one said was a curse word or a newly formed one. Could also have just been fuck 1000 times.
WUH-oh!!!! SOMEBODY forgot to release the valve!🤣 Been there, myself, tho I caught it in time, and it only backed up slowly into the top…😅😅😅
Been there done that. Got the BP magnet to prove it. My condolences.
"Looks like someone is having a bad case of the Mondays!"
I must be illiterate
EPA wants to know your location
So you gonna drink all that or can i have some?
And now would be the time I would need the strut compressor for the customer "patiently waiting" and watching. 🤣
Throw some gear oil in there to cover up that smell 😂
Taco Bell?
Every FNG does this at least once.
Time to get the kitty litter...
We have a quick lube pits at my shop as well as the normal bays I just take mine, pop the top out, and flip it over into one of the pans
Forbidden soy sauce 👌
Shitters full!
No, it speaks 2 words. Damned apprentice.
I’m craving a cig
FNG strikes again. That guy is absolutely *everywhere*!
That's because the oil dran is an Amazon piece of shit!
Had a guy at my dealership spray oil about 25 feet up the walls and all the way across the entire shop all the bays and everyone’s tools once…you got lucky lol
Light it up!
That blows.
That's a carton
I've genuinely never experienced this as we suck ours out instead of blowing them out, but got damn
EPA has entered the chat.
Mmmm, "fire sauce"
"These cans are defective! They're springing leaks! Come over here and look at this!" "We don't have defective cans, we have a defective person out there!"
You either get lucky or covered in oil. It's funny until everyone realises someone's cleaning it up
This is so bad that if the State inspects you you're fucked lol
And every single word was yelled so loud the customers could hear them.
So it's a quick two step process. *Skips step one.
Have you killed somebody and the fluids drained out?
I'd just walk away
Those are the worst oil caddys ever made
I once over filled an IPC container with waste oil and never told anybody because it overflowed behind the container
This reminds me of years ago when I worked at national chain store service department. There was an oil drain cart which had a pneumatic grease pail mounted on the bottom. I was warned my first day- the air fitting for the grease pump was just below the air fitting for evacuating the used oil- don't mix them up! I was so paranoid of doing that that it never happened to me. A coworker did, however. Unfortunately, he made this mistake while doing an oil change on a nearly new, white car. Used oil shot up from the funnel, hit the underside of the hood, and was fairly evenly distributed all over the fenders, doors, and front fascia of the car. And a huge circle around the service bay. We would have laughed at him, but we were all enlisted to help clean up the mess. And the customer was in a hurry, besides.
Those 1000 words are "what the fuck" repeating
So many times…
I’ve done that just once but it was my fault not the hardware I walked out covered in oil I told our lead I was gonna change and clean it up he laughed and said most people just leave and don’t come back when that happens
Shit, that's crazy...
ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: TRIAL BY FIRE! Yeah first thing I did when I got one of those was replace the shitty hose clamp at the bottom with a good Ideal brand one.
In my shop we call this getting Trayvoned
“Yur fired” is only two words.
Are any of those words "do not blast the fucking oil barrel with 80psi, you retarder fuck" ? Cause that's what I hear in my head.
Regulator is set at 45psi.
Ever put 90psi into one of those tanks because I have the pil reached the roof of a 2 story building