Diesel Fire

[mffarmall]

Heat went out so we made a fire with out any wood. My son said that there was only diesel. So we loaded up some paper and then put the diesel on it. Don't recommend it but in an emergency it worked well. The paper was hot enough to catch the diesel. We stayed warm through the night. Only a little lasted a long time.

 

[Doc_Bob]

So how well did the diesel burn?
Bob

 

[skipro3]

I used to build a small fire, then set a coffee can of diesel fuel in the center of it. When the diesel would get hot enough, it would ignite and burn a nice flame off the top of the coffee can. We would set these cans in the woodstove and they'd burn all night. We also would set them out on the frozen pond and ice skate at night.

I also remember the old road flairs; they were round like a cannon ball with a wick or opening on the top and road crews would set them out to mark a hazard like an open trench or something at night. I bet they would also work in a stove to put off heat w/diesel.

 

[RalphVa]

I used to burn used oil in my wood stove. I just sat a metal container with the oil in it in the front corner of the stove. Used oil has a TERRIBLE back smell though when the fire went out.

Ralph

 

[kthompson]

You do realize the old OIL heater is using fuel oil and it is just running into the bottom of basically a barrel with the heat controlled by the amount of oil flow. If memory and impression is correct the fuel oil was diesel fuel.