Someone left a mess at CGX !

"sfb" wrote

Let's be honest. There was a time in the not too distant past where we
were not that careful about spills at airports, railroad yards, truck
depots, service stations, tank farms, etc. etc.

Shoot, I've seen grading equipment leaking hydraulic fluid by the gallons,
and still keep on working. It could be some of that, too.
--
Jim in NC

Morgans wrote:
"sfb" wrote

Let's be honest. There was a time in the not too distant past where we
were not that careful about spills at airports, railroad yards, truck
depots, service stations, tank farms, etc. etc.

Shoot, I've seen grading equipment leaking hydraulic fluid by the gallons,
and still keep on working. It could be some of that, too.

Thats the ticket, it was hydralic fluid from the dozers craving all the
XXX's.

--
Jim in NC

On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 01:36:59 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote:


"sfb" wrote

Let's be honest. There was a time in the not too distant past where we
were not that careful about spills at airports, railroad yards, truck
depots, service stations, tank farms, etc. etc.

Shoot, I've seen grading equipment leaking hydraulic fluid by the gallons,
and still keep on working. It could be some of that, too.

Leak?

I was raided in rural Michigan. In the 40's and 50's they used to
*spray* the gravel roads with brine and/or oil. In many places they
even used what was affectionately known as "drip". Ever hear a car
run on that stuff? :-)) When changing the oil in cars and tractors
people were encouraged to spread it on the gravel roads to keep the
dust down. The brine truck used to make at least two trips a summer
down our road.

Most of the foundation for older roads around here has two or three
heavy coats of brine.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

"Roger" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 01:36:59 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote:


"sfb" wrote

Let's be honest. There was a time in the not too distant past where we
were not that careful about spills at airports, railroad yards, truck
depots, service stations, tank farms, etc. etc.

Shoot, I've seen grading equipment leaking hydraulic fluid by the
gallons,
and still keep on working. It could be some of that, too.

Leak?

I was raided in rural Michigan. In the 40's and 50's they used to
*spray* the gravel roads with brine and/or oil. In many places they
even used what was affectionately known as "drip". Ever hear a car
run on that stuff? :-)) When changing the oil in cars and tractors
people were encouraged to spread it on the gravel roads to keep the
dust down. The brine truck used to make at least two trips a summer
down our road.

Most of the foundation for older roads around here has two or three
heavy coats of brine.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

I remember that being done in the '60s and maybe even into the early 70's.
They would lay down coat of heavy oil then top it with fine gravel. A poor
mans asphalt.

"Roger" wrote

I was raided in rural Michigan.

I hope that being "raided" didn't set your development back too far! BFG

In the 40's and 50's they used to
*spray* the gravel roads with brine and/or oil.

I too remember the oil spraying.

In many places they
even used what was affectionately known as "drip". Ever hear a car
run on that stuff? :-))

Now, I'm clueless when you speak of "drip." What is it?

When changing the oil in cars and tractors people were encouraged to
spread it on
the gravel roads to keep the dust down. The brine truck used to make at
least two
trips a summer down our road.

Brine? As in sal****er, or something else?

Most of the foundation for older roads around here has two or three
heavy coats of brine.

That sounds like the tar oil type of stuff, like they still use between
coats of bitumenous (sp?) concrete. (asphalt)

I'm surprised you know about all of this road stuff. Did they really have
cars, back when you grew up? g,dr
--
Jim in NC
--
Jim in NC

"Roger" wrote in message
...
Leak?

I was raised in rural Michigan. In the 40's and 50's they used to
*spray* the gravel roads with brine and/or oil. In many places they
even used what was affectionately known as "drip". Ever hear a car
run on that stuff? :-)) When changing the oil in cars and tractors
people were encouraged to spread it on the gravel roads to keep the
dust down. The brine truck used to make at least two trips a summer
down our road.

Most of the foundation for older roads around here has two or three
heavy coats of brine.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

Roger

If it weren't for brine, there'd be no Dow and if there were no Dow there'd
probably be no Midland.

http://www.geo.msu.edu/geo333/dow.html

I can still hear my boss's voice on the Corporate History piece we did:

"It was in 1897 that Herbert Dow discovered Brine buried in pockets deep
beneath the Earth..."

Jay Beckman
PP-ASEL
Chandler, AZ
(Production Intern - Dow Chemical Co. PR Dept. Midland, MI - '84/'85)

"k" == kontiki writes:

k If you dug down into any number of 50 year-old (or greater)
k backyards you's probably be shocked at the concotion of
k contaminats to be found. I would bet any money that the
k amounts of contaminats from various airports are but a blip in
k the noise level compared to all the contaminats from homes and
k businesses across the country.

k But why inject logic in to the maelstrom.

"Why inject logic"...we don't know, since you didn't inject logic, but
rather fairly wild, unsubstantiated speculation and conjecture.

Bob Fry wrote:
"Why inject logic"...we don't know, since you didn't inject logic, but
rather fairly wild, unsubstantiated speculation and conjecture.

Forgive me... I wasn't aware that you fell off of a turnip truck last night.

On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 13:33:01 GMT, kontiki
wrote:

Bob Fry wrote:
"Why inject logic"...we don't know, since you didn't inject logic, but
rather fairly wild, unsubstantiated speculation and conjecture.

Forgive me... I wasn't aware that you fell off of a turnip truck last night.

He's probably pretty close, particularly for those in the country or
older neighborhoods where now banned herbicides and pesticides were
used copiously.

A news report some years back stated that every year Americans throw
more oil out into the woods and/or roads than was lost in the Exxon
Valdez (sp?) incident.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

Roger wrote in
:

Snipola
A news report some years back stated that every year Americans throw
more oil out into the woods and/or roads than was lost in the Exxon
Valdez (sp?) incident.

I'm not surprised. It's so damned hard to "properly" dispose
of used oil if you do your own changing. I'm speaking of the
common person that liks to change the oil in their car instead
of paying some drop out 50 bucks to not put the drain plug back
in properly.

I live in an LA suburb and I've always had trouble finding a
place to dispose of my used oil. Places either charge, or you
have to use a special certified container to bring it in. Oh,
and of course they just happen to sell these special certified
containers for a "nominal" fee, of course.

I bet 99% of people who change their own oil end up putting the
used stuff in the same bottles they just poured the new stuff
out of. Why can't you turn it in like that? I'm not kidding!
I've been turned away before. "Not approved."

So, I end up with gallons of used oil sitting in my garage until
the city has one of those free "bring anything" trash collection
sites set up for a couple days every few years.

Brian
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