Off-road (red dye) diesel

[RPW]

Local distributor. When I empty my 50gal drum I load it up in the truck and go get it. Then use the tractor to unload it.

 

[Will_C]

I buy mine at the pump-a benefit of living in a rural area with loggers, small farmers and contractors, all who but at the pump. For example, my brother uses about 100 gallons a week in the summer with his excavating business and he finds it simpler to fill his transfer tank 2x a week rather than having a pump at his shop.

Will

 

[BAP]

Around here, most of the convenience stores that sell on road diesel now sell off road diesel to. I have 2 places within 5 miles of my house that carry it.

 

[farmer2009]

I have a local bulk company and a farm supply that deliver bulk fuel. The bulk company doesn't charge for delivery on 300 gallon tanks. Even if you only hold 250. The farm supply buys their fuel from the bull company so it's higher. Plus they charge for fuel deliveries of less than a full truck 2000 gallons.

 

[KevT]

Google it with your zip code

 

[Looking4new]

I get mine out of the 200 gallon home heating oil tank. I am far enough north that we heat the house with #1 diesel oil rather than furnace oil.

 

[bdog]

If you don't burn a ton of fuel it really isn't worth the hassle. I have 9 diesel things that I could legally run red in. I don't. The reason is I have several on road diesels as well and I like being able to use one tank to fill them all up.

With a compact tractor unless you are running it 8 hrs a day everyday you likely are not burning enough fuel for it to matter much. Now if you were running a huge dozer and went through 1000 gallons of fuel a week I would be looking for ways to save every penny I could on fuel.

 

[Budweiser John]

If you don't burn a ton of fuel it really isn't worth the hassle. I have 9 diesel things that I could legally run red in. I don't. The reason is I have several on road diesels as well and I like being able to use one tank to fill them all up.

With a compact tractor unless you are running it 8 hrs a day everyday you likely are not burning enough fuel for it to matter much. Now if you were running a huge dozer and went through 1000 gallons of fuel a week I would be looking for ways to save every penny I could on fuel.

I've run red diesel for several years and my propane/fuel company deliveres diesel 100 gallons at a time to my re-purposes transfer tank on skids fitted with a 110V pump. No more lugging 5 gallon cans and stinking up the truck with spilled fuel.
The true cost saving is not having to drop everything and race to the truck stop, a 16 mile round trip, to fill up several fuel containers.

 

[ovrszd]

I have a transport tank in the bed of my pickup. I average 140 gallon a month thru it. I'm not enough of a financial wizard to even tell you how much I save by using red fuel. But for the sake of discussion, let's just say it's 30 cents a gallon?? That's $42 a month, or $504 a year. Definitely worth the "hassle" to me.

 

[bdog]

I have a transport tank in the bed of my pickup. I average 140 gallon a month thru it. I'm not enough of a financial wizard to even tell you how much I save by using red fuel. But for the sake of discussion, let's just say it's 30 cents a gallon?? That's $42 a month, or $504 a year. Definitely worth the "hassle" to me.

In your case it is but you are using 35 gallons a week on average. The typical compact tractor person probably doesn't burn a whole lot more than that a year.

If you don't have a diesel pickup or pickups then red makes sense I just always find myself using my transfer tank to fill pickups and big trucks and thus the flexibility of not having red that is limited to off road is worth it to me.