emergency use of kerosene

[Diamondpilot]

OP, Are you sure it is kerosene in the home heating tank and not #1?

I second that. Call your fuel supplier and see what you have. If its HH oil you will be fine.

Chris

 

[Diamondpilot]

1*This don't sound right.*How big is your tank?
Most home furnaces are set up to use HHO which is the same as Diesel.
2*I would not run the tractor on straight Kero. because it doesen't have enough lubricant in it.
3*I would fill the tank with the proper fuel off road /HHO.
Then I would just add a pump to the the tank and fill my tractor with that .
4*150 gallon a year would be well worth a tank and an elect pump set up but you might be able to use the tank you have provied you fill it with the right fuel .
5*Then put the right fuel in the tank so you can add a 12 volt pump .
This way you can use the same tank for the tractor and the house.

I actually agree with everything he says also. A 12 volt pump is fairly cheap and with the proper alligator clips you just pull the tractor up and pump away after hooking up to its battery.

Chris

 

[LBrown59]

OP, Are you sure it is kerosene in the home heating tank and not #1?

Even if he's sure that don't mean it's the right fuel.

 

[nybirdman]

Its is a new 275 gallon tank filled with KEROSENE........I had too many problems with fuel oil in the past for a few cents more per gallon kero saves a lot of headaches.This is an outdoors tank and we get as cold as -30F.
The use of this fuel(power outages) only if I ran out of diesel.I try to keep forty gallons on hand.Another tank does not help because the tractor is at another farm in the summer(only a mile away)but to much of an inconvience to run back to refuel.I will stick to my current system,and if need be I guess I can mix kerosene(in the winter) 50-50 to spread my fuel out.

 

[California]

I wonder if you can make up for kerosene's lesser lubricity by adding a little 2-cycle oil with the kerosene, maybe 100:1.

 

[LBrown59]

1*Its is a new 275 gallon tank filled with KEROSENE........
2*I had too many problems with fuel oil in the past for a few cents more per gallon kero saves a lot of headaches.
3*This is an outdoors tank and we get as cold as -30F.
4*The use of this fuel(power outages) only if I ran out of diesel.
5*I try to keep forty gallons on hand.
6*Another tank does not help because the tractor is at another farm in the summer(only a mile away)but to much of an inconvience to run back to refuel.

1*I still say kero is the wrong fuel for the home furnace.
I can't see or understand why you had to switch from HHO / diesel?
2*What kind of problems?
3*What does that have to do with things?
4*Do you mean you only use the diesel to run a gen when / if there is a power outage?
5* & 6*So how do you fuel the tractor that's a mile away with that 40 gallon of fuel?

 

[BotaBigot]

2*What kind of problems?

OP didn't say whether storage tank was above ground or not, but that's source of most problems with HHO...freezing condensation, and gelling. Buried tanks more trouble-free, unless no basement/below grade furnace...

 

[whistlepig]

Kerosene will work just fine. It will do less work per gallon than diesel. I.E. the tractor will use more kerosene than it would diesel. From what I have read it won't affect the power of the tractor. The thicker the fuel the more work per gallon.

 

[tawilson]

Many people round here use kerosene in their furnace if the tank is outdoors. Including me.

 

[Charolais]

Back in the late 50's and early 60's diesel road tractors weren't that common around here. My uncle ran a store and every so often a tractor trailer would be low on fuel and no place to buy diesel fuel within 30 miles. (This was a tobacco farming area) Hardly anyone used diesel farm tractors back then in this area.

My uncle sold kerosene out of a hand crank pump and tank. Those truck drivers would use his 5 gal. can and most of the time they would get 10 gallons of kerosene. They would fill the can half full of kerosene and add 1/2 quart of 30 wt. engine oil and shake it up until it's mixed and then finish filling the can with kerosene. Then they would drive on to Lynchburg and get filled up. It worked for them.