[AT] Diesel Fuel Question

Mon Nov 22 02:23:40 PST 2021

That is definitely worth consideration, Spencer.  In my case, I'm quite
friendly with the employees at our transfer station.  I've run quite a
large number of truckloads of brush (several dozen, over time) down there
to the brushpile/composting operation, and they got to know me well.  I
almost-not-quite got my own key to the place. I'm getting off on a tangent,
but, that is one reason I don't burn brush.  For a while there while we
were clearing land, I was producing more brush than I would have the time
or patience to burn.  I pile it in the pickup and pack it down with the
loader bucket until I've got a sizable load, and they usually help pull it
off with their backhoe. Anyway this is a waste-oil story. They tell me that
the hauler who picks up their tank periodically is selling it for burning,
not re-refining.  This makes me pretty comfortable with hiding a gallon of
diesel in, oh, probably 10-ish gallons of used motor oil (I have a bunch of
2-gallon jugs I use to collect my waste oil).

If all goes well, my co-worker who has done a lot of brush burning in the
past has more ahead of him, and he will take it.  I'll find out when I get
to work this AM.

SO

On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 10:29 PM Spencer Yost <spencer at rdfarms.com> wrote:

> One word of warning:  Depends on the used oil station.  The oil recycling
> “nazi”(yes, thats my name for him now) manning our station will refuse to
> take it if he catches a whiff of anything fuel-like.  Probably more of a
> problem with gas than diesel.  YMMV (excuse the pun).
>
> Spencer
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Nov 21, 2021, at 6:40 PM, Stephen Offiler <soffiler at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 
> Hi Mike - good idea!  Yes I do all my own oil changes and dump it in the
> recycling tank at our local transfer station.  Seems pretty straightforward
> to make it disappear this way.
>
> SO
>
> On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 1:19 PM Mike M <meulenms at gmx.com> wrote:
>
>> Steve do you change your own oil? If so mix it in and bring it to a
>> recycle station. Around here most Tractor Supply and O'reilly parts store
>> take used oil. technically diesel is an oil true?
>>
>> Mike M
>>
>>
>> On 11/21/2021 1:00 PM, Stephen Offiler wrote:
>>
>> Thanks everyone, so far.  This has nothing to do with frugality.  It's
>> like $3.00 worth of fuel.  This is more about the only two choices I'm
>> seeing at the moment:  burn it; or store it for a relatively long time
>> until I can get around to disposing of it properly.  As for use as a
>> degreaser, I use mineral spirits for that.  Trailer decking, I don't own a
>> trailer.  As for brush burning, I don't.  I either shred brush or cart it
>> to my local transfer station who has a big brush-pile and
>> chipper/composting operation.
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 12:40 PM Jason <dejoodster at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Your 5 to 1 idea sounds fine as long as it's older non-electronically
>>> controlled injection system.
>>>
>>> IH 1066 sure. Case IH MX 285 with CAPS fuel system, never in a million
>>> years.
>>>
>>> Jason
>>>
>>> On Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 9:31 AM Stephen Offiler <soffiler at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I recently discovered I have a diesel fuel leak, and while trying to
>>>> find time for diagnosis and repair, I started parking the tractor over a
>>>> big drip-pan.  The pan collected roughly a gallon over the course of ...
>>>> well, I can't say precisely but around a week or two.  That fuel dripped
>>>> thru the normal grime found on engines, so it's pretty dirty.  (And I since
>>>> discovered that turning off the fuel petcock effectively controls the leak)
>>>>
>>>> I have filtered it multiple times.  First thru paper towel; clogged
>>>> three or four getting that done.  Next thru coffee filters, again, it took
>>>> 4 to finish the job.  Finally thru a Covid mask (regular surgical type not
>>>> N95).  That one never clogged and captured very minimal additional material.
>>>>
>>>> What I have now is therefore free of particulate big enough to catch in
>>>> coffee filters and surgical masks.  It remains discolored; if fresh diesel
>>>> was the color of Budweiser, this stuff looks like a nice brown ale.
>>>>
>>>> What says the list?  Burn it?  Will the tractor's fuel filter take out
>>>> everything big enough to cause problems with the pump or injectors?  (Seems
>>>> like that should be a design criteria for that filter, no?)  If I do burn
>>>> it, I will dilute it about 5:1 with fresh fuel.
>>>>
>>>> If I don't burn it, it will eventually be carted away to our local
>>>> Hazardous Waste Day held annually about 25 miles from here - I manage to
>>>> remember and get over there only about once every 3-5 years.
>>>>
>>>> Steve O.
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