Fuel oil substitute for diesel?

Depending on where the barge loaded, some oil looked clearer or more refined. The jobbers selling fuel oil for diesel used to get annoyed if the oil looked cloudy.

That was over 25 years ago, the federal penalty for burning fuel oil in a road vehicle is pretty damn stiff now, and any thing you saved would cetainly be offset by a substantial fine if you were caught. But you can still put what ever you want in your tractors and other off road vehicles. The fuel and the diesel are colored now, so that it is easy to tell if someone is using fuel oil for diesel, but in those days many trucks loaded fuel oil on their trucks and delivered it to diesel customers.

When we got our first diesel tractor (the 70), we we were anxious to try it out, but it needed fuel. We phoned our local fuel and oil supplier to tell him we needed a gravity tank and fuel pretty quick. He told us he couldn't get out there with a tank for few days, and to go ahead and use the #2 heating oil as it was the same stuff he would be putting in our gravity tank. When he did finally get out there with a tank, he filled the house tank, then the gravity tank, and that was that. While he was at it, he filled the tractor, all out of the same batch.

I'm sure there will be a host of opinions on this, but that's my experience, which is #2 heating oil and #2 diesel fuel are the same stuff.

Frank-in-Tallahassee
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