Free fuel.

[MapleLeafFarmer]

This guy is getting his oil 100% free, and I think he has multipule sources. The area he is getting from is fairly rural in nature, and I think he travels some as part of his job, so I think is probably getting from several dozen different places. I'm not sure how much of this stuff he had laying around, I didn't really pay that much attention, but I'm guessing several hundered gallons.

I'm in no way advocating what this guy is doing, and I don't want to go through the trouble to do what he is doing, but it is interesting.

interesting... in most reasonable sized cities most who have used cooker oil will be selling it on contract to a renderer or other grease merchant. In larger cities theft of cooker oil is significant and they take steps to protect against the theft.

For sure must be some places that would be happy to give it away but likely far and few between nowdays.

although making your own ethanol and blending to make e85 for gas engines is something that interests me... same tech. as making shine. especially where we are when we can get cracked potatos / sugar beets for almost nothing/free.

 

[crazyal]

Every so often I see an ad for free cooking oil. Basically come get it and haul it away.

There are companies that make kits that will use Diesel to start the engine and once the water temp is in range it'll automatically switch to cooking oil. Then when you get to where you're going it'll switch back and let the engine idle on diesel to make sure all the cooking oil in the common fuel lines, pump, and injectors before shutting off the engine. If I ever went down the road of using cooking oil in a vehicle I think this is the rout I would go.

I have no clue how a modern vehicle designed for low and ultra low diesel would handle burning cooking oil.

 

[triplemoutdoors]

I have been running straight vegi oil since 2008 and my 7.3 likes it better than the low sulphur diesel today. I collect over 50 gallons a week and have over 100000 miles on vegi oil. It's not for everyone but it works for me. Go to www.vegistroke.com to learn more. If you are having injector issues you are not dewatering or filtering properly.

The first diesel engine ran off of peanut oil...there was no such thing as diesel back then...it was called #2 slop.

 

[schmism]

I just dont see how you can get enough used fry oil to get 20 gallons of fuel per week?
Chris

the avg fast food place uses about 200 lbs of oil a week. at roughly 7lbs per gal thats roughly 28 gal per week. you can easly hit 6 fast food places a week for 180 gal of oil.

If you dont go to all the trouble of actually useing lye to separate out the glycerin (ie actually turning it into biodiesel) and just mix it 50/50 with pump diesel its realtivily easy to cut your fuel cost by half.

granted you have to take the time to pick up the oil, and setup a system to store it and filter it but its very doable.

 

[triplemoutdoors]

the avg fast food place uses about 200 lbs of oil a week. at roughly 7lbs per gal thats roughly 28 gal per week. you can easly hit 6 fast food places a week for 180 gal of oil.

If you dont go to all the trouble of actually useing lye to separate out the glycerin (ie actually turning it into biodiesel) and just mix it 50/50 with pump diesel its realtivily easy to cut your fuel cost by half.

granted you have to take the time to pick up the oil, and setup a system to store it and filter it but its very doable.

You are correct on the amount of oil that is generated...I'm not sure I would go the 50/50 route. If you spend a little money up front you could cut your diesel purchase to about a tank every quarter...most of the time you will be running on straight vegi oil...for free!

As far as collection and processing...I have it down to about 45 minutes per week. It's a little longer than going to the pump and swiping your credit card but the cost savings is worth it.