home heating oil in your tractor

[pat32rf]

Our dealer used to tell me that they had three types of fuel oil for our use.They deliver coloured diesel for off road, uncloured diesel for on road. regular furnace oil for indoor tanks and cold weather furnace oil for outdoor tanks. Two of these are the same product. We often hit -30 below zero in winter....

 

[crazyal]

Each state is different. Here in Vermont heating oil is required to have 3% biodiesel in it and by 2016 it's going to be upped to 7%. Only a limited number of states have laws requiring biofuel heating oil. The states that do not have this requirement do not put biofuels into the heating oil sold in those states. That alone says that heating oil is different from state to state. Secondly, here in Vermont off road diesel has antigel mixed into it during the winter while heating oil does not. Tanks stored outside for heating have furnaces converted to burn 100% kerosine to prevent gelling in the tanks. I usually buy my ORD in the winter so I don't need to mix in an antigel.

 

[rd_macgregor]

We don't typically get extreme cold here (maybe -5 F or so at the coldest), but a lot of HHO tanks are outdoors. I doubt that the fuel oil delivery folks give different fuel blends to customers with outdoor vs. indoor tanks.
Several of our local gas stations have separate fuel (home heating) oil pumps and I buy 40 liters at a time for my Kioti DK45...at a savings of nearly 40 cents per litre.

 

[Soggy Bottom Outdoors]

Heating oil is not used in my area. Most heat with gas, (natural or propane), electric, wood and to a lesser extent Kerosene. Or what some of the ole timers will call "coal oil" but I don't think it's the same thing.

 

[Diamondpilot]

Ok, I will say it again. No fuel companies put any anti-gel or algicide in any fuel. I use several companies for my bulk fuel as well as have dealt with the local dpw fuel system. Due to the new fuel requirements of different manufacturers, no fuel dealers will add anything to the fuel. Its up to the consumer to add whatever is recommended for their specific engine by the manufacturer.

Diesel and heating oil is the same, I have never seen an injector or injector pump ruined by the type of oil, only by wether it was clean or not.

Not true. My dealer adds Howse to all the diesel.

Chris

 

[DarkBlack]

We don't typically get extreme cold here (maybe -5 F or so at the coldest), but a lot of HHO tanks are outdoors. I doubt that the fuel oil delivery folks give different fuel blends to customers with outdoor vs. indoor tanks.
Several of our local gas stations have separate fuel (home heating) oil pumps and I buy 40 liters at a time for my Kioti DK45...at a savings of nearly 40 cents per litre.

-5F is very cold for normal diesel above ground tanks. Around here you either need to be outdoor buried, or they give you kero- at those temps, but you pay more.

 

[CalG]

-5F is very cold for normal diesel above ground tanks. Around here you either need to be outdoor buried, or they give you kero- at those temps, but you pay more.

DarkBlack

-5 celsius is not so very cold. rd-macgregor is writing from Canada which is firmly committed to the mks system

-5 F is cold enough to stop fuel flow without additives

 

[DarkBlack]

He wrote -5F. That's the quote, see above.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Here in Ontario Canada, the two fuels are the same. Come out of the same tank on the truck. But they are TAXED differently!

I should clarify that this is my local Petro-Scam dealer. A rather large operation actually.

A friend just removed an oil tank from a home switching to Propane. He agreed to take the oil off their hands! Had been recently filled as well!

 

[CrosbyFamilyFarm]

I live for deals like that. Thank you all for the input. I realize this argument has been had before but I wanted a fresh update. Sounds like to be safe I'll add some additive to my heating oil for my tractor (probably would have anyway here in Ct we get a mixed bag for winter).