If you trust the state of Ohio:
It doesn’t look too dangerous, and should evaporate completely. I don’t know if there are contaminates that would show up in a dry barrel, or how dangerous they might be.
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Looks like ethanol will work to clean it:
Benzaldehyde is a colourless liquid with an odour of almond oil. It has a melting point of −26 °C (−14.8 °F) and a boiling point of 179 °C (354.2 °F). It is only slightly soluble in water and is completely soluble in ethanol and diethyl ether
Benzaldehyde | Aroma, Flavoring, Preservative | Britannica.
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Billy, lm glad to hear from you! Hope you guys are allright, l hear Jakob is real buissy with his new house, and Jesse must be quite a man now also. Hope your girls are good too!
Sorry to hear about the healt issues. Also here, the military used to pump a lot of poison in the boys. Tone will confirm, as he probably served in the army aswell…
As for your chemical problem, first l must say organic chemistry and l are not to good friends. But the general answer is it depends on what you will be using the barrels for. Im not sure about this specific chemical but the majority of aromates are carcinogenes, toxic, iritant, or have a nother unpleasant trait. Alcohol shuld clean them well, so wuld pretrolprobably. But l wuldnt exactly put drinking water in.
A lot of aromates closely resemble human hormones too. A super tiny dose can mess up a population over decades, one of the reason human sperm count fell 50% over the last 50 years and that we see all those blue hair rainbow clothes beard wearing girls nowdays…
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these barrels have a crusty yellow substance that does dissolve somewhat in water.
not drinking water, but probably use for fire fighting water storage system…
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I looked it up. it is a common industrial chemical and also used as a flavoring for cherry flavored drinks among other things. It oxidizes to benezoic acid easy in air which is the white crystals. The yellow is probably where it hasn’t oxidized yet.
Benzoic acid is solubility goes up in hot water. I would just wash them out with hot water. But it will recrystalize when the water cools kind of like making rock candy. It is more soluable in ethanol and it goes up with temperature as well.
as a side note: it apparently benzoic acid is used as a treatment for athletes foot and a few other fungal type of diseases in whitfords ointment, so if you or anyone you know has athletes foot, do it barefoot. LOL
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Glad to hear from you Billy and all what the others said.
Wife has a thyroid hormone production issue that requires daily medication - an auto-immune thing. She was told if you have one auto-immune disease, vaccines can easily trigger more of them. That’s one of the reasons we’ve stayed away from vaccines for decades.
Say hello to everyone for me and stay safe.
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Real good to hear from you Billy. I see yall are getting some rain on your side of the mountain as we are getting plenty on our side this morning .
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Hauling lots of logs
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That is a very nice swing stand Jakob, I like the angled posts design. I might copy that one if you don’t mind 
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Haven’t gotten it done yet but we are building a lumber shed today it is all rough cut except for the short posts in the ground are treated cut offs from jobs. The bar joists I built from tubing I got from the scrap yard. We built from the short posts up today not bad in this heat.
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I had a good crew of help my whole family was out and grandpa even came for a while.
This picture was yesterday and it wasn’t taken at the hottest part of the day. I sure picked a good week to build a pole barn. It cooled off some today when the storm blew in.
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I can mill a max of 24’6" on my mill so I wanted a shed I could store that stuff in so the bar joists are 24’ long I can get 24’ in there by turning around the posts. It is tall enough that I can max out the skid steer stacking bundles. The main part is 24’ x 72’ with a 12’x72’ lean too off the back. So total footprint is 36’x 72’
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110F. Just plant me in the garden as fertilizer. I think 88F is as high as we’ve seen this year and 80% humidity mid-day. That was more than I could handle. What are you going to cover that roof with?
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I’m going to put metal on the roof. I bought a big stack of 12’ metal from out local metal place all the pieces that were damaged or scratched they stack them up and I bought the whole stack. I am planning on closing in the two ends as well.
I pretty sure that was the hottest day we have had this y
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Question for the mechanics
I am working on a 2010 Chrysler 62te transmission it will shift into reverse but won’t pull. In reverse forward works fine. It was run very low of fluid. Does this look like the problem?
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