Do you use home heating or pump at the diesel

[Oldpath05]

300 gal of gas, and 150 diesel, according to my cellphone that's around $1,600.00, ouch!, you people in Michigan use a lot of fuel, must be from all that snowplowing caused by global warming.

 

[coobie]

300 gal of gas, and 150 diesel, according to my cellphone that's around $1,600.00, ouch!, you people in Michigan use a lot of fuel, must be from all that snowplowing caused by global warming.Just ask al gore.

HE ! HE!! No gobal warming here,just ask al gore.I just topped off the 300 gal. gas tank. Only took 60 gal.at $3.70 per gal.Just filled up before the summer prices go up.

 

[Looking4new]

I'd like to have a small oil drum rather than a big one, I have set up high so I can have the fuel gravity feed. With a big drum, I have use a credit card to pay for it, but I wonder how big it has to be to have a oil company deliver ORF. I've been using 3, 6 gallon containers, and my shoulder starting to hurt lifting a 6 gallon can up 4' on the hood so I can pour it in. I look at some DC fuel pumps, but they start at $150.00, and I'm not sure how long they would last, or even if they work good.

You need a jiggle siphon. Put the fuel can/jug on the hood, open the big hole, stuff in the jiggle siphon and jiggle. Point the open end towards the fuel fill hole and Bobs' your uncle. It will suck the can down to about 2" of fuel left in the can.

 

[varmint]

I have been using HHO with no issues. The oil truck guy who delivered a load told me that their oil depot distributor sells the same basic diesel oil for HHO, ORD and road taxed fuel- only the dye is different, depending on where it's going. This winter, my oil was $3.54 delivered. As for global warming, they say the reason we're all enjoying winter so much is that the arctic is warming so fast that world weather patterns are changing much faster than predicted. If you look at the rise in overall average earth temperature, it ain't good news. At least you guys in upper Maine will be able to plant vineyards in a few years.

 

[Redneck in training]

If you don't beleve globa warming look at weather in Europe. There was no winter this year at all. All winter looked like early spring. The average temperature of the globe was higher than in the past.

 

[Oldpath05]

You need a jiggle siphon. Put the fuel can/jug on the hood, open the big hole, stuff in the jiggle siphon and jiggle. Point the open end towards the fuel fill hole and Bobs' your uncle. It will suck the can down to about 2" of fuel left in the can.[/Q
I have one of those siphon's, they do work good, but the problem with them, I still have to lift 6 gallons 4-1/2' off the floor, I don't know what 6 gal. weighs in Maine, but more than a foot high it's heavy. I put fuel in my tractor 3 weeks ago and pulled a muscle in my shoulder, it still hurts, and the sad part is, I remember when I was younger, I could take 6 gallons and throw it over the tractor. But now I need a platform the same height as my tractor hood, or maybe get a boat winch.

 

[Oldpath05]

So I read that ORF and HHO is the same oil, and the only real difference is, I get my 3, 6 gal. jugs put them in my Jeep, because my pickup wont start, go to the store, fill them up with ORF, pay $4.00/gal, lift them back up in the Jeep, have that nice ORF aroma fill the Jeep, make's my wife mad, come back home, lift one up on my tractor, pull a muscle. It might take me a minute, but I think I can see the advantage of getting HHO delivered for $3.54/gal.

 

[OldMcDonald]

If you don't beleve globa warming look at weather in Europe. There was no winter this year at all. All winter looked like early spring. The average temperature of the globe was higher than in the past.

Redneck, I am surprised you have not had lots of flack over that post.

I can confirm what you say about temperatures on my own place. I check max, min and soil temperatures as well as rainfall at 9.30 am or thereabouts every morning without fail and have spreadsheets for each year since we came here in 2003, although that one is incomplete. We regularly had half a dozen frosts of down to minus 6ºC on about half a dozen occasions each winter for the first few years we were here, but the winters have gradually become warmer. The summer max temperatures have not increased. This winter we have not been below freezing point since 10th Dec and that was only minus one. Soil temperatures have been in double figures at 9.30 a.m. and the mean temperatures for January and February 2014 were well above anything we have experienced in the past. I just realised a couple of days ago that I did not change into my "winter" woollen socks at all (a first) having continued to wear my "summer" cotton ones right through.

 

[Looking4new]

You need a jiggle siphon. Put the fuel can/jug on the hood, open the big hole, stuff in the jiggle siphon and jiggle. Point the open end towards the fuel fill hole and Bobs' your uncle. It will suck the can down to about 2" of fuel left in the can.[/Q
I have one of those siphon's, they do work good, but the problem with them, I still have to lift 6 gallons 4-1/2' off the floor, I don't know what 6 gal. weighs in Maine, but more than a foot high it's heavy. I put fuel in my tractor 3 weeks ago and pulled a muscle in my shoulder, it still hurts, and the sad part is, I remember when I was younger, I could take 6 gallons and throw it over the tractor. But now I need a platform the same height as my tractor hood, or maybe get a boat winch.

Sorry, I forgot about the lifting it up to the hood. I have the same problem, right down to the boogered up shoulder. I put $20.oo worth in my cans. that makes them about 4 gallons each and a lot lighter.