Oil & Fuel Home heating fuel in a tractor??

[moship]

Only the Dye is the difference. Run it in my Bolens. It is a light diesel and the man that delivers it said it would even work in a Monitor Heater.
Get caught with it in a road truck or something the Feds will stick it to you because you paid no Fed. Taxes on it.

Way to go Lem!

You replied to a nearly 16 year old post. You couldn't wait a few days to make it an even 16?

It will take some effort to beat this.

 

[Paystar]

Just in case something changed in 16 years......yes fuel is still all the same except for the die and the winter addidtives, LOL.

I'm guilty too.....I never look at the dates on threads. If they come up as unread when i log on I read them.

 

[Lem]

>>If I ever tapped the heating tank just to save a few cents and our heat went off because we ran out of fuel because the auto-delivery based on degrees days couldn't factor in tractor useage...well, I guess my wife might not take to kindly to that.

On the otherhand, it would be might nice to have a 250 gallon diesel tank out in the shop...maybe you could convince your wife that having it would allow you to have more fuel on hand in case the furnace ever runs low /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif. On more than one occaisson I have drawn from my 250 disel tank to re-fill the house before the oil guy could come...

My dad has over 400 gals and he had to go to the retirement home to live so I had a nice pump and I got about 15 gals. of the fuel oil that ran his furnace so It works fine and easy to get to and extract. Gave my neighbor some for his 70 hp John Deere. Dyed though. Farm Use only.

 

[Looking4new]

Around here #1 diesel is what we heat the house with AND I run the tractor on it. I have seen no problems what so ever with it and will continue to do so until I use more than 100 gallons/year, at which time I will get a tank strictly for the tractor. That tank will have #1 in it also.

 

[fried1765]

Around here #1 diesel is what we heat the house with AND I run the tractor on it. I have seen no problems what so ever with it and will continue to do so until I use more than 100 gallons/year, at which time I will get a tank strictly for the tractor. That tank will have #1 in it also.

I am sure #1 will work just fine in Northern Ontario all year long.

 

[Paystar]

I am sure #1 will work just fine in Northern Ontario all year long.

Yep, my fuel supplier here in Northern Ontario told me there is no longer summer and winter fuel (with Petro Canada anyway) He said they are putting the additives in all year round now.

I always fill my bulk tanks in the summer anyway and put a bottle of Howes in them. Never ever had a winter issue with fuel.

 

[Rock Crawler]

We buy our fuel at Roberts Ag Oil in Beaver Pa., they have a single underground storage tank for both off-road diesel and home heating. What changes is how they ring you out in the office.... AKA taxation applied to the product. So if you say that you are buying off road fuel, you get taxed higher than if you say you are buying heating oil. As you can guess, I buy a lot of home heating oil.... and yet I heat on natural gas wells that are on my property

 

[BX23S-1]

We buy our fuel at Roberts Ag Oil in Beaver Pa., they have a single underground storage tank for both off-road diesel and home heating. What changes is how they ring you out in the office.... AKA taxation applied to the product. So if you say that you are buying off road fuel, you get taxed higher than if you say you are buying heating oil. As you can guess, I buy a lot of home heating oil.... and yet I heat on natural gas wells that are on my property

Correct... It is dyed red to indicate that it is not legal to burn in a diesel vehicle because the red dye indicates that there were no road taxes paid with it.

Which one is more expensive to buy in your PA area RC (?)

 

[Rock Crawler]

Correct... It is dyed red to indicate that it is not legal to burn in a diesel vehicle because the red dye indicates that there were no road taxes paid with it.

Which one is more expensive to buy in your PA area RC (?)

Off road diesel has some form of additional taxation attached to it that makes it around $0.57 more per gallon than if you say it's for heating.

 

[BX23S-1]

Off road diesel has some form of additional taxation attached to it that makes it around $0.57 more per gallon than if you say it's for heating.

yeah, seems the case up here north of you in ny. I try to buy from cheapest sources when i can, but its pretty close in price everywhere you go around my area.
And i`m surely not going to step over a dime to pick up a penny.

I use to come across the border into PA to get whatever i needed, but lately, PA`s prices have jumped way high, more than NY diesel fuel prices now.

PS... hows your ole black lab doin, keepin things in check for yah...??? lol