Winter oilers - we must be mad

[Tony]

I was thinking that to myself this evening in the freezing cold, as a scraped congealed veg off the floor of my outbuilding in an attempt to get it a bit cleaner.  Winter fuel making requires some proper grafting - something the vast majority of the population just wouldn't be motivated to get on with.

Despite the cold and the unpleasantness, I felt a sense of pride in our little community.

[Head Womble]

I agree Tony, it does take some dedication in this weather, it's the cost of pump diesel that keeps me going.

But as you and anyone else that's seen my setup will know, I don't do cleaning up 

[Tony]

Yes well, yours is clean compared to mine 

[Head Womble]

But didn't you see my newly built shed, all nice and, um, clean.

I will get around to putting the lino down that I got from Julian, I will, one day, honest.

[Tony]

I'm beginning to think that putting down sawdust to absorb spills is a bad plan, and actually a rubber edged wiper of some kind and a dustpan to scoop spills into would be a better plan.

[Head Womble]

I started this bio lark with good intentions, I painted the floor and kept it clean for a couple of months,
then started just throwing sawdust on the floor, then the saw dust was 1" thick.
Now I've just given up and have a pare of shoes just for the shed.

[Julian]

But didn't you see my newly built shed, all nice and, um, clean.

I will get around to putting the lino down that I got from Julian, I will, one day, honest.

If it takes you as long to put the tasteful Lino down as it has to return my mixer, the concrete base will have worn out and you'll need the mixer again ... Ah, so that's your plan!

[Rotary-Motion]

i hear ya there folks, think this is my third or fourth winter now and its worse in winter and more work with more fats and water.

funny my shed is still as clean afyer 4 years i only change the flooring which i always use cardboard from old tv boxes or something, soaks up well and works really well, i have drip caps under each outlet also.

your all dirty veggers 

[K.H]

I was thinking that to myself this evening in the freezing cold, as a scraped congealed veg off the floor of my outbuilding in an attempt to get it a bit cleaner.  Winter fuel making requires some proper grafting - something the vast majority of the population just wouldn't be motivated to get on with.

Despite the cold and the unpleasantness, I felt a sense of pride in our little community.

If you got your arse in gear and built the 500 litre one you wouldnt have to spend as many nights brewing

[Dickjotec]

I put cardboard down in the engine bunker for spills. I acquired a roll of corrugated from a skip on a building site, I did ask, and it absorbs the spills then just fold up and burn. My local resource centre has it in sheets very cheap. Use it in the bund under the processor as well to make cleaning that easy. For bigger spills a square mouth plastic fed scoop works well and means it can be recycled. Sawdust if in a hurry!
The engine shed runs at 35 ish degrees in winter with the door shut so it is nice to go and stand there after working outside.
Dick

[Tony]

I was thinking that to myself this evening in the freezing cold, as a scraped congealed veg off the floor of my outbuilding in an attempt to get it a bit cleaner.  Winter fuel making requires some proper grafting - something the vast majority of the population just wouldn't be motivated to get on with.

Despite the cold and the unpleasantness, I felt a sense of pride in our little community.

If you got your arse in gear and built the 500 litre one you wouldnt have to spend as many nights brewing

Tell me about it, I'm in the process of clearing an area of the outbuilding so I can work on it inside in the winter, though it's slow going.  I've bought some mighty steel warehouse shelving, so I can get all my junk arranged vertically rather than horizontally

Part of the reason for scraping the floor clean in the processor area is that I don't want any stray welding sparks to set fire to oil-soaked sawdust.  A bit of oil on a concrete floor would probably be OK though.  Anyway, that's the other side of my concrete bund right at the other end of the building, I'm probably just being paranoid.

I also worry in summer with sawdust down, about spontaneous combustion due to oxidisation.  I can't help feeling that sawdust is a bad plan all round and nice easy to remove cardboard is the way to go!

[Jmg]

Just off to fill the car now, going to look at the price of diesel now to psych myself up

[julianf]

I dont plan to make any bio next winter at all.

I want to get a big tank in the summer, and fill it up!

(i posted this before, on another topic, by mistake)

[K.H]

Are you going to winterise it as you go?

[Head Womble]

But didn't you see my newly built shed, all nice and, um, clean.

I will get around to putting the lino down that I got from Julian, I will, one day, honest.

If it takes you as long to put the tasteful Lino down as it has to return my mixer, the concrete base will have worn out and you'll need the mixer again ... Ah, so that's your plan!

No chance of the concrete wearing away, the floor level is slowing rising due to veg and gly buildup.