Just wondering what other people are using to pickup there oil at there sites I used a fillrite pump and could only get the high liquid product can someone give a fellow oil man a good idea on how to get it all thanks this is my new home.

I swap barrels. Keep a funnel with a lid on each barrel at location. I do have access to a truck with a lift gate so thats a BIG help.
I collect with this truck, then back up to my pickup and slide them on to my pickup. When I get home I have a 2x12 ramp made of two 2x6's and slide them down my ramp into the garage.
Not too bad. I went this swap out route because of winter and soild oil.
Rick H...

The restaurant pre-filters it and puts it in the 19 liter poly drums I provided, along with a large automotive funnel for filling them with.

120 gallon vacuum charged air tank...

*SLURP*

I also use a vacuum sucker tank, pulls even semi-frozen thick cold oil about as fast as liquid oil.

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I bought a gas powered 2 inch water pump and it does a nice quick job of it. But in the winter I still have to use a shovel for the stuff in the bottom. Partially hydrogenated soy oil,but it titrates at 1.

Tim what are you using there to pull the vaccum Thats what Im looking to make something I can pump onto my truck out of the 55gal drums ive dropped off thanks for any help maybe a pic of that,Hey Legal if I could get them to prefilter that would be sweet ive got a few 15gal poly drums I may use them for pickup if nothing else pans out thanks all.

I use a small 12 volt DC diaphragm pump to pull the vacuum, you can see it setting on top of the smaller tank in the picture, I swap the hose over to the pressure side and use the pressure to push the oil out of the collection tank.
The smaller tank is between the pump and the big tank to catch any oil that gets into the vacuum hose.
This pump is made by "thomas industries" but the same style pump is made by Gast and others, availble on Ebay for around $50.00 usually, this one moves 2.4 cubic feet of air per minute and works fast enough for my needs, I run it continiously while sucking oil, this empties a 55 gallon barrel of about any thickness oil in 12 minutes using a 1 inch sucker hose.

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2004 International 4300 vacuum truck

Tim believe it or not I had a 110 vac pump in the garage Ill try it out tommorrow thanks for the help.

Well, I'm just now in the process of putting together a collection tank from a 40 gallon hot water heater tank that I've taken the housing off of and plumbed for pressure and vacuum fittings. I've also salvaged a refrigerator compressor that I'm using for a vacuum. I've also found that it makes plenty of air for use as a bubbler in the wash tank. Have to cut down the air volume with a valve though. I plan on mounting the tank on a 4 wheel dolly I already have and trailering it from site to site then pressurize and dump into 55 gallon settling tanks at home.

I use a barrel pump and use a cordless drill to run it. put a hose on the end and I can fill a 55gal drum in about 7 min.

Harpman, do you have a pic of the pump? Can you tell us where to get one?

Rustymich, I have a Fill-Rite by Tuthill 110v electric 1 HP Lubrication pump that I just got recently and ordered a large 8" long stainless steel filter that screws on the end of it which was ordered from Northerentools.com and it works great! Also I leave my 55 gallon steel barrel at the restaurant and when I pick up my WVO I bring a 60 gallon plastic drum which I bought for $6 at the cocoa cola plant in Nashville, TN and then I pump it from my steel barrel to my plastic barrel in the back of my truck, take it home and then pump it in another 60 gallon plastic drum which is on a dolly in my building. I then roll it over to my processor ( 50 gallon elecric water heater) and I have a very large steel galvinized funnel on the top of the water heater and just pump it in the funnel into the processor..

Rusymich, Also one more thing. When I get toward the bottom of my WVO barrel at the restaurant there is ALWAYS settlement and I bring my large wet vac from Home Depot (Ridgid Brand) 12 or 15 gallon and it sucks up the junk from the bottom very well and then I discard it.

I have been able talk most places into putting it back into the cubies however one spot I pump out of a drum with a fill-rite 12v unit, works great on liquid oil.

Have not had to collect in winter yet but here is what I bought, intention is to swap out barrels in the winter:

$82 Harbor Freight pickup crane, will be welded to square tubing to slide into my reciever hitch.

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=1647

$25 Harbor Freight barrel picker-upper

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=45086