Dodgy oil tanks

[Kempfy]

Hi

I think you guys will enjoy these just some of the dodgy oil tanks I've found in my travels.

Ryan

Ps. Sorry for them being sideways.

 

[Geyser]

Thats great. Im going to get snapping and post some. Farmers around here can be really inventive with oil tanks!

 

[Kempfy]

It's alright the one with the built in log store works for building control.

 

[stani]

5+6 look quite habitable, possibly holiday cottage.

 

[Best]

I prefer oil tanks that are covered over. Keeps the sun off them, but regs as we know won't allow anything flammable

 

[Dotty]

Kempfy, you over here in NI? I think I recognise one of them.

Oh, and no swearing please mate.

 

[Kempfy]

No mate Fife, Scotland at the present time and sorry for the swearing

 

[Dotty]

No worries, consider your thighs slapped!

One of them looks like a tank setup I came across in Enniskillen,

 

[WHPES]

I came across a recently installed tank in a workshop a couple of years ago. It was put in to service an electricity generator. In the workshop was welding gear, grinders etc etc and loads of paints, chemicals and timber. Had loads of compression fittings without inserts which were weeping oil all over the place, and the person who fitted it didnt seem to like using a pipe bender so elbows everywhere. Wish I had taken a photo.

 

[Sparkgap]

Had a job at a secondary school some years back, new boilers and converting to gas. The school was on a hillside and the undercroft below the main building had the boiler room and a 15000 litre or so tank off an old railway wagon. Reckon it had been put in when the school was built and no way was it going to come out easy! Ended up leaving it drained of oil and filled with water. Went back several years later and they'd converted the oil tank space into classrooms. Pity the contractor having to get rid of 15 tons of contaminated water!

 

[lame plumber]

my favourite is one resting on 2 old and rotting sleepers, over a ditch feeding into a river up on exmoor! gets refilled every year no issues AAAAAAAAAAAagh

 

[Roger Welton]

I've been finding the oil companies to be refusing to fill more and more lately.

 

[lame plumber]

I've been finding the oil companies to be refusing to fill more and more lately.

only so they get the replacement tank work....

 

[Roger Welton]

or not as the case may be :tank:

 

[lame plumber]

or not as the case may be :tank:

been back and found 3 new tanks recently, mention it to the customers who I have worked for for years and they all said, oh you install tanks as well as boiler servicing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[WHPES]

That's your fault for not putting tank installation on all your letter headings and invoice headings along with your general descriptions. Everything I send out has a description of everything I do on it, and a picture of an oil tank, boiler, bath, tap, etc