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Default Removing Home Heating Oil From Tank

Buckets?

You can probably disconnect the oil line from where it was connected to the
furnace, and using the existing valve to control the flow drain it via
gravity into a tray or shallow pail, and pour the pails into some larger
buckets or gerry cans that you can use to transport the oil to your house.
Then pour it into yours. Might take a while to move 50 or 100 gallons that
way but at $2 a gallon it's probably worth the time.

Just be very neat, and make sure you can control the flow with a valve
before you disconnect anything.

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Someone I know has converted from oil to gas and has 1/4 tank of oil
available in a basement tank. I would like to take it. How do I get
the oil safely out of this tank and into mine? Thanks.