Got up this morning at 10:30. Messed around on the computer for about 30 minutes while I woke up. *Then had to "get with the program."

Brought in my mixing bucket from outside, and measured my needed quantity of Lye.

Took bucket outside, and poured 8 gallons of Methanol into the bucket. *Dissolved Lye in bucket.

Poured the mixture into my barrel that had 40 gallons of oil already pre measured from yesterday, and turned on trolling motor to mix.

While mixing. I fed animals and had "breakfast."

After allowing mixing to occur for an hour, shut off trolling motor and cleaned it up to put away. *Put lid on barrel to allow BD and soap to seperate.

Got cleaned up and hopped in pickup to go to town. *

Picked up another 35 gallons of used oil with recalictrant pump that has decided to refuse to pump without being partially submerged in the oil barrel. *Pick up fuel filter at auto parts store. *Buy another barrel for processed fuel storage.

Come home, and pull out junker push mower that a friend of mine found, fixed up and brought over. *

Mow overgrown areas that my tractor cannot get into with junker push mower. *

Collapse for another 30 minutes to cool of and fend off heat exhaustion (mid 90's today with high humidity http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif ).

I hate summer. * http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

wolfman,
*sounds a little like sanford and son there. LMAO *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif * anyways what are you doing with all the lye, methonal and used oil ?

*i hope the b b big one doesn't take you.

Move up north wolfman. *Make it happen.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (paul yarek @ June 20, 2002, 9:58pm)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">wolfman,
*sounds a little like sanford and son there. LMAO *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif * anyways what are you doing with all the lye, methonal and used oil ?

*i hope the b b big one doesn&#39;t take you.[/b][/quote]
Sanford and Son is actually a pretty accurate description of my place right now!! *I&#39;m the neighbour that some people like to bitch about. *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif

I have the ugliest house on the street (in process of repairing severe damage done by previous owner.

I have four cars parked in front (and I&#39;m single)

I still have two piles of junk left by previous owner (gonna burn this stuff and get it over with.)

Then there are the ducks penned in the front (so I&#39;ll remember to feed and water them).

As for the oil, I make my own fuel for my truck and tractor. *When the Benz is on the road, it&#39;ll run on a steady diet of the stuff as well. *Same for the Samurai when I get its engine swap done. *I just checked on the batch made this morning. *Finally, after a couple of months of delays and broken equipment, I checked the process barrel to find that I actually made fuel instead of a mess.

I get the oil for free, so the cost for me to process the oil to diesel fuel (when things DON&#39;T break) is $.60 per gallon. *I&#39;ll know what my actual yield is tomorrow morning when I pump the fuel out of the processing barrel.

Looks like I&#39;m finally back to driving to and from work on veggie oil!! * http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

When I&#39;m running this stuff, my vehicles exhaust smells like french fries. *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Machzzzz1 @ June 20, 2002, 10:27pm)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Move up north wolfman. *Make it happen.[/b][/quote]
Can&#39;t do it yet. *I vest a pension with my company in three months. *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/thumbs-up.gif

Then I will have to get this house finished so that it would actually sell. *I cannot finish this place untill some credit cards get paid off - another 9 months there. *Then add another 6 months to finish the house. *Since the gap between selling it as is, and selling it fixed up is over $70K, I&#39;m going to spend the bux and get it right.

THEN I&#39;ll get to re-evaluate a move back up north.