winter diesel

[son69]

This may be a stupid question but... I am almost out of diesel and want to fill my 55 gal drum. will running the blended winter diesel cause any harm if used in the summer? A full drum will prob last me until mid august. Thanks

 

[MikePA]

...will running the blended winter diesel cause any harm if used in the summer?

No...

 

[LBrown59]

This may be a stupid question but... I am almost out of diesel and want to fill my 55 gal drum. will running the blended winter diesel cause any harm if used in the summer? A full drum will prob last me until mid august. Thanks

My fuel guy delivered 55 gallon off summer fuel
last spring .
By November i still had 25 gallon of it left .
It's pretty hard to run summer in the summer and winter in the winter .
I got tired of trying to balance it out so now i just buy what ever is in season and use it in what ever season we're in .

 

[LBrown59]

.. I am almost out of diesel and want to fill my 55 gal drum. will running the blended winter diesel cause any harm if used in the summer? A full drum will prob last me until mid august. Thanks

How do you fill your drum ?
Do you use off road un taxed fuel?

 

[son69]

I have the drum mounted to a pallet, i would load it in my truck and drive down to the local gas station and fill it with on road diesel. My fuel oil supplier won't deliver unless a min quantity is met, but i can drive down to his place and get off road for about $0.30 cheaper than on road. Up to this point i have only really used on road. Other than saving the road tax, is there any positive or negative to using off road vs on road. I only ran 5 gal of off road once when i was low and it could be my imagination but it seemed to smell/smoke a little more than with on road.

 

[Barry Bowen]

Off road has a little more sulfur in it. Road fuel has ritually no sulfur, like 17 PPM and off road up to 500 PPM. Of road if better for pumps and fuel systems, but makes no real difference to temperature. Depending on how cold it is where you are, you may need to add anti gel to summer fuel, but running winter treated fuel in summer will not hurt a thing. If you only use that much fuel, I would just get it in cans at the gas station. In the fall they should be starting to treat fuel with antigel stuff. Treated fuel where you are should be good down to single digits basically. When you start getting seriously below zero, it is time to mix with no1 to thin out and keep flowing. This thinner fuel will hurt your power badly, but not hurt engine.

 

[LBrown59]

I have the drum mounted to a pallet,
1*i would load it in my truck and drive down to the local gas station and fill it with on road diesel.
2*My fuel oil supplier won't deliver unless a min quantity is met.
3*i can drive down to his place and get off road for about $0.30 cheaper than on road.
Up to this point i have only really used on road.
Other than saving the road tax.
4*is there any positive or negative to using off road vs on road.
I only ran 5 gal of off road once when i was low and
5*it could be my imagination but it seemed to smell/smoke a little more than with on road.

1*Then how how do you unload the drum when you get back home with it .
I can unload my 55 gallon drum with the pump .
2*Neither will mine that's why I only have them top off my drum when they are already delivering in my area.
The difference between a delivery and topping off is there is no min gallonage for a top off!
3*I save about 40 cents a gallon plus the free delivery saves me time and the gasoline it would cost to go pick it up.
4* The only difference between on and off road is the price .
5*off road is nothing but on road with dye in it which has no effect on it except for changing it's color.

1*Off road has a little more sulfur in it. Road fuel has virtually no sulfur, like 15 PPM and off road up to 500 PPM.

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*This may have been so in the past but things have changed in the last 2 or 3 years.

 

[Jerry/MT]

This may be a stupid question but... I am almost out of diesel and want to fill my 55 gal drum. will running the blended winter diesel cause any harm if used in the summer? A full drum will prob last me until mid august. Thanks

No law says you have to fill up your drum. Figure out how much you'll use til warm weather and buy that much. Having said that, other than getting slightly less lower heating value(LHV) fuel, you won't harm anything by running winter diesel in your tractor in the summer.

 

[YotaBota]

No problem running the winter in the summer. My concern is more that the fuel is sitting around for so long. I would be more worried that there is condensation building up in the drum, and that ending up in the tractor is more of a potential problem than the savings you are getting. Just my 2 cents.

 

[bp fick]

No problem running the winter in the summer. My concern is more that the fuel is sitting around for so long. I would be more worried that there is condensation building up in the drum, and that ending up in the tractor is more of a potential problem than the savings you are getting. Just my 2 cents.

I agree. Everyone does what is best in their own eyes. For me?, just me?, I like fresh fuel. Fuel that it is "in season". I don't need to have more than 3-5 gallons ahead at any given time, and other than for the convenience, your usage doesn't appear too different from mine. Goodness, I drive past a Fuel Mart with a diesel pump every other day or so. As to your question about whether you "can" use it? Of course.