off road diesel

[LouNY]

My off road diesel fuel stop has guys in line waiting to fill tractors and tanks mounted in trucks. I’m in a very heavy AG area.
Some of those tractors running on red dye are $250,000-$500,000 tractors, too.

I’ve only had ONE injector related failure and it was using old fuel from a 300G storage tank.

No offense, but I probably use 100 times as much diesel fuel as the average TBN guy per month, so my sampling size is a LOT larger. It’s very common to use 100+ gallons in one long day of raking, baling & stacking.

My diesel fuel bill for August alone was $1,200.

I don't know if many of the local stations have off road. Most of the use I've seen on those has been 5 gallon jugs or mid sized truck tanks for refilling equipment. Those that do usually also have a pump for #1 fuel. Some of them maintain a ledger that you have to sign before buying that fuel. Most farms around here have there own storage facilities of 500 to 1500 gallons. During the forage chopping season both corn and hay some of these places have a contract with one of the fuel suppliers to come on site and fill all the trucks and tractors and those thirsty choppers. Most have them come by every night during the season. One custom operator had a 1000 gallon tank in a stock trailer. No placards or DOT nonsense that way.

 

[Hay Dude]

Here’s a $250,000 Fendt 716 waiting for me to finish filling up with off road diesel. He pulled in behind me and refueled with the same off road diesel.


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