Spraying Diesel on Old Equipment?

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   / Spraying Diesel on Old Equipment? #11  
So I was at work the other day and the Farm Manager was taking diesel fuel and spraying down the old pieces of equipment. He was saying something about how it would help or completely stop the metal from rusting away anymore. I was just wondering if anyone else did this to there equipment, and why in the world does this work?

I spray the seed cups in my grain drill with diesel every few months. Diesel is waxy and doesn't evaporate rapidly like gasoline.
 
   / Spraying Diesel on Old Equipment? #12  
Pretty standard thing to do anywhere i've lived. I dont do it to combines tractors etc as dust sticks but fert spreaders seeders or anything that uses fertilizer gets 5 gallon of diesel thrown over and through it before storage .
Always run a pail of grain/black oil through grain augers too .
 
   / Spraying Diesel on Old Equipment? #13  
Meaning what? By the time the truck comes off the cardboard, there are no drips. Burning oil soaked cardboard is no worse than burning fuel oil. I've had to junk too many good running trucks due to rusted out frames, the oiling method works 100%.

john morgan said it good.

wiped down diesel leaches good, and there are more effective ways to control rust.

not as easy or cheap.. but more effecive and environmentally friendly.

to save you some time.. before you start to argue with me.. I'm a civil engineer who did my thesis on water system engineering, potable and grey..

there is absolutely nothing you can 'argue' with me about that will make me thinking pouring diesel all over a tractor is 'great' for the environment.

so.. just saving you some typing there...

soundguy
 
   / Spraying Diesel on Old Equipment? #14  
I'd say if you don't like putting diesel on stuff don't. If it works for you have at it. I wouldn't hesitate as long as I didn't get much on the ground. You can spray it lightly and get too carried away. I doubt seriously if any alternative treatment would be any more environmentally friendly but you have to put the diesel in a can that says "rust inhibitor" so that someone can get $20 a gallon for their diesel.
 
   / Spraying Diesel on Old Equipment? #16  
john morgan said it good.

wiped down diesel leaches good, and there are more effective ways to control rust.

not as easy or cheap.. but more effecive and environmentally friendly.

to save you some time.. before you start to argue with me.. I'm a civil engineer who did my thesis on water system engineering, potable and grey..

there is absolutely nothing you can 'argue' with me about that will make me thinking pouring diesel all over a tractor is 'great' for the environment.

so.. just saving you some typing there...

soundguy

Could not agree more....and nobody mentioned the fire hazard?
Seems to me, spraying diesel fuel on your stuff before storage is asking for trouble.
But then again we don't have to battle a severe winter down here like you guys do up north. I suppose you could minimize the amount that winds up on the ground and it's a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of oil that runs off an asphalt road.
 
   / Spraying Diesel on Old Equipment? #17  
paint doesn't rust.

yeah.. it takes time to clean up and do it right.. but then you don't have to hose yer stuff down with fuel all the time. :(


I don't hose my tractors down with fuel.

when i get them I do it right, clean em up, and then paint them... again.. successfull paint coating entails proper surface preperation... take slonger, costs more, isn't easy... works better, and is more friendle to t he environment in the long term.

soundguy
 
   / Spraying Diesel on Old Equipment? #18  
Could not agree more....and nobody mentioned the fire hazard?
Seems to me, spraying diesel fuel on your stuff before storage is asking for trouble.
But then again we don't have to battle a severe winter down here like you guys do up north. I suppose you could minimize the amount that winds up on the ground and it's a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of oil that runs off an asphalt road.

you'd be surprised how benign an asphalt road is. read a msds on special MS water asphalt emulsion.

It's quite environmentally inert once in place and cured.

soudnguy
 
   / Spraying Diesel on Old Equipment? #19  
It works.

I know a farmer that used to spray diesel on his old disk to keep the rust down. And the spreaders get a spray with diesel after being washed out. It doesnt take much diesel. Yes some gets on the ground but its minimal.
 
   / Spraying Diesel on Old Equipment? #20  
Soundguy and "others from Fla".

Your post regarding alternatives lacks references.

Even the asphalt road example only holds "once cured"

Diesel "once cured" by a drive down the only road to my place is pretty "inert" as well.



Myself, I use "Plastic roofing adhesive" (read tar) well cut with ...ba dah boom

diesel! or kero, whatever i have a hand


Rust never sleeps!

And yes, I am a rocket scientist!

Cheers

Cal
 
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