Oil & Fuel What to do with 500 Gal of heating oil

[LBrown59]

It is kind of hard to describe. But the house is at the bottom of the hill. Then there is the entry/driveway and right after that (10-12 feet) is the landscaped hill and right there is the tank. There is no way I can get away with putting anything permanent there.
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What I don't understand here is why the tank setting there to fuel your tractor
would look any worse than it has looked setting there for years supplying fuel
to the oil burner in the house.

 

[amirm]

1*How long had you been using the oil burner?

Not long at all. We bought the house last fall. Got the first heating bill and our eyeballs popped out! Then we realized it would cost a fortune to extend hyrant heating to the basement we were remodelling. And that pushed us into heat pump. But by then, they had filled the thing once more.

2*Where have you been getting the fuel for your BX24?

Yellow cans filled at gas station. I have only filled it three times though since I got the tractor and the house last year. The little machine gets pretty good "gas mileage" it seems!

 

[amirm]

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What I don't understand here is why the tank setting there to fuel your tractor would look any worse than it has looked setting there for years supplying fuel to the oil burner in the house.

For the house, the consumption is far, far higher. We would go through the tank in 3-4 months at the rate it was going. As I mentioned, for my tractor, that would extent to 5+ years.

Even with this, when I called the heating oil company, they severely warned me to not let the tank drop below 20% as that would suck in a ton of unwanted stuff.

To be honest, as I mentioned before, my experience with Diesel is limited to turbo-charged boat engines which need pretty clean diesel. Not sure if the BX is much more tolerant of moisture and sludge.

 

[California]

I would put an ad on Craigslist. Something like $4/gallon for the first 80%. Then later advertise $2/gallon for the dregs. It should all be gone in a couple of weekends.

Anybody smart enough to brew biodiesel will figure out how to filter that final gunk.

(But first transfer a couple years supply to a barrel for your BX, siphoned off the top of that tank. Run it through some kind of fuel filter as you transfer it.)

 

[LBrown59]

Agree that the price is right. My usage is quite low though. I think I average one to two gallons a week. * Meaning it will last me five years to go through it! Wonder if the fuel can be preserved for that long.


Yes we were. And I told my wife to call them and say not to fill it. She forgot and they filled the thing a week later .

Let others help you use it up.
Charge them a 4 dollar a gallon participation fee.

 

[LBrown59]

Add 10 % cooking oil with the diesal for lubrication

Why
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[LBrown59]

1* I could get a small, say, 50-100 Gal tank, have them fill that after they empty the main tank and give me the difference.
2*Then set that one to be filled once in a while and I don't waste money going getting new gas for the tractor!

1*For storing only 100 gallon or less I would not spend hundreds for a tank.
You can store 165 gallon in drums for 30 to 45 dollars.
2* How would you get the fuel out of a 50 to 100 gallon tank into the tractor?
This is why you need to get the pump and filter like I suggested earlier.

 

[LBrown59]

You know, that is another good idea I did not think of! The only hitch is if I wanted it filled by the oil company, then I would have to figure out how to give them access....

You could leave it unlocked on the expected delivery day.
Schedule the delivery day and time for when you can be there.
Give the delivery driver a key.
Put a key where only you and the driver know about.

 

[LBrown59]

Not long at all. We bought the house last fall. Got the first heating bill and our eyeballs popped out! Then we realized it would cost a fortune to extend hyrant heating to the basement we were remodelling. And that pushed us into heat pump. But by then, they had filled the thing once more.
Yellow cans filled at gas station. I have only filled it three times though since I got the tractor and the house last year. *The little machine gets pretty good "gas mileage" it seems!

*True but you could have filled the tractor with the same fuel out of the 500 gallon tank you have at the house.
You were buying fuel when you already had fuel bought and paid for.
What I'm still having trouble understanding is why was the 500 gallon tank acceptable for heating the house but now it's not good enough to supply fuel for the BX24?
I'm just not grasping how what the fuel is used in affects the accep-tance /rejection of the tank
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[LBrown59]

1* the heating oil company severely warned me to not let the tank drop below 20% as that would suck in a ton of unwanted stuff.
2*Not sure if the BX is much more tolerant of moisture and sludge.

1*To sell you 500 gallon of fuel and turn rite around and tell you that only 100 gallon of it was fit to use
Something very wrong with that picture.
2*That's what a water blocker filter is for it will take care of problems with moisture and sludge if there is any.