Fuel what do you use

[PILOON]

Here in Quebec only stationary generators* may use 'off road', all other applications must use taxed road fuel.

A friend who owns a B21 found out the hard way as the fuel police sampled and found heating oil in 2 of his tractors.

*and that is probably because the power company (also Quebec provincial owned) generates hydro power in many remote locations.

 

[Doofy]

#1 fuel oil is kerosene
#1 diesel fuel is kerosene
#2 home heating oil is #2 diesel
depending on your area winter blend will usually be #2 with additives until the temp get too low at which time #1 is blended in till at extremely low temps #1 is the recommended fuel.
Some engines will call for winter fuel as high as 50 F

Guess I'd better be calling the fuel man before I mess something up. Thanks for that info. No telling what they use up here.

 

[Doofy]

Here in Quebec only stationary generators* may use 'off road', all other applications must use taxed road fuel.

A friend who owns a B21 found out the hard way as the fuel police sampled and found heating oil in 2 of his tractors.

*and that is probably because the power company (also Quebec provincial owned) generates hydro power in many remote locations.

That is really Lame. Tractors are not "on road" vehicles and are not the ones wearing out the highways. I'd find a friend with some dye. When the dyed fuel first came out, it wreaked havoc on out boiler burner nozzles. Made quite the mess. No dyes in the fuels here now.

 

[aczlan]

Where do you buy off road diesel? Gas stations around me only sell ultra low sulfur diesel with road taxes. I doubt my heating oil dealer would let me fill up my 5 gallon gas cans with #2 heating oil!

We get ours from the same company we get our heating oil from. He fills up the heating oil tank, then fills up the tractor tank.

Aaron Z

 

[Gator6x4]

That is really Lame. Tractors are not "on road" vehicles and are not the ones wearing out the highways. I'd find a friend with some dye. When the dyed fuel first came out, it wreaked havoc on out boiler burner nozzles. Made quite the mess. No dyes in the fuels here now.

Exactly why I run road diesel with 2 ounces of power service and 4 ounces of marvel mystery oil per each five gallons. One injector can cost $100.00 dollars, plus aggravation of installing.

 

[3930dave]

Here in Quebec only stationary generators* may use 'off road', all other applications must use taxed road fuel.

A friend who owns a B21 found out the hard way as the fuel police sampled and found heating oil in 2 of his tractors.

*and that is probably because the power company (also Quebec provincial owned) generates hydro power in many remote locations.

There is no Ag exemption in PQ ? Wow, that is lame. I'm also surprised that construction equipment isn't exempt.

Back to OP - dye is just a tax issue here (Canada) too - your chance of getting anything other than ULSD at a retail pump here is basically zero.

Fuel lubrication can be an issue, but there are things (rural lore) that you do not want to be putting into a modern tractor as additives - ex. ATF.

Rgds, D.

 

[milkman]

Found this and seems all diesel is ULSD now days, whether it had dye or not.

Ultra-low-sulfur diesel fuel was proposed by EPA as a new standard for the sulfur content in on-road diesel fuel sold in the United States since October 15, 2006, except for rural Alaska which transferred in 2010. California has required it since September 1, 2006. This new regulation applies to all diesel fuel, diesel fuel additives and distillate fuels blended with diesel for on-road use, such as kerosene, however, it does not yet apply to railroad locomotives, marine, or off-road uses. Since December 1, 2010, all highway diesel fuel have been ULSD. Non-road diesel engine fuel was required to move to 500 ppm sulfur in 2007, and further to ULSD in 2010. Railroad locomotive and marine diesel fuel also moved to 500 ppm sulfur in 2007, and will change to ULSD in 2012. There are exemptions for small refiners of non-road, locomotive and marine diesel fuel that allow for 500 ppm diesel to remain in the system until 2014. After December 1, 2014 all highway, non-road, locomotive and marine diesel fuel produced and imported will be ULSD.

 

[pwhite42]

Cheaper, no tax on it. I have one station that sells both.

 

[pwhite42]

Do you have any problem in the winter with the heating oil? I have an oil tank with 170 gallons in it I need to get rid of as I am switching my dual fuel wood boiler to propane instead of oil. I'm thinking of pumping it out and using it in my Kubota L2250 and my Massey G2300. Do you put additives in it?

 

[oosik]

OK - my take on this. About two years ago - one of our local service stations became a Chevron station and they have "red diesel". Before I will use any of their diesel - I want to ask them how much they dispense per week, per month. The highway diesel I get at the Texaco station works just fine - costs about 35 cents more per gallon and I know they dispense hundreds of gallons per day. If I were burning large volumes - then I would seriously consider "red diesel" - - but then, like all the other farmers in our area - I would have a storage & dispensing setup and have the local distributor delivering it.