Hydraulic fluid

Hey guys my buddy spilled some hydraulic fluid from his bucket truck on a ladies driveway and she is livid. Is it possible to get this stuff up? Or make it look better? Would ebc work with hot water? Here are some photos


EBC and hot water… Id go straight… and treat all of it not just the stains… Xjet maybe

Hydraulic oil usually has cleaning detergents in it, so it may clean up pretty good

wow, is his equipment leaking? Looks like he moved the truck around guessing he was cutting trees.

I had an emergency call out at a Lowes last year. The sign company was replacing the lights over front entrance and their bucket truck line ruptured and dumped a lot right in front of main door and blew all over front of building. That crap was everywhere and people tracking it all over. I called a friend of mine and we spent a total of 8 hours cleaning it as best we could. It had been there about 5 hours by the time we got on site and the only thing the store had done was put down some oil dri, which didn’t do much. WE threw everything in the world at it. Got it lighter, but it’s still there today. Get something with hydroxide in it. If you’ve got any BD200 from Southside, that will be your best bet.




When we left that night, thought we’d gotten pretty good

Next day

Went back next night after they closed and went over everything again . High heat, pressure, you name it.
What it looked like a week later

The lighting contractor ended up having to paint the front of the building. That stucco sucked it up
Can still see in pavement today.

You can try cleaning, but I would suggest that it might be cheaper to seal coat it if customer not going to be happy with some lighter stains. The only other suggestion is try some Eat oil - https://www.eatoils.com/ - there’s a video up somewhere of a hydraulic spill at a car dealership here in town on their parking lot and it looked pretty good. but a multi- day process if I recall.

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I was gonna type out a long-winded response but honestly…walk away. Unless your friend is willing to pay a premium because that’s not going to be an easy, or quick, job.

A bucket truck leaking that bad shouldn’t even be in service. What was he doing?

he was doing some tree removal and maybe a line or something went. But shes holding his dough until he fixes it lol. If its going to be a couple days proccess with ebc then it might make more sense to just give it a fresh seal coat

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