Re: Re: Distillate??

Posted by Bob Kerr on August 08, 2001 at 22:49:57 from (152.163.207.72):

In Reply to: Re: Distillate?? posted by Michael Soldan\War Tractors Of all Makes Should be Honoured on August 07, 2001 at 19:13:49:

Hi Michael, I am not totally positive but I think Bunker oil may be the stuff used in ships and larger boiler powerhouses. If I remember right it is something like #5 oil. The stuff is so heavy it has to be heated hot with a steam heated nozzle so it will atomize in the burner. One thing you guys might find interesting is I talked with an elderly gent at the prewar swapmeet in Chickasha Oklahoma. He grew up on a dustbowl ravaged farm in the 30s. they lost so much topsoil on their place his dad had to add an extra step to the house!Anyway, he said his dad burned crude oil in his tractor back then as they had an oil well on the place and had very little money to buy better fuel(like distillate). He said his dad would go out plowing in the morning and come in for lunch with the spark plugs from the tractor wrapped up in a handkerchief. He would toss them in a can of white gas to let them soak off the crud and after he ate he would clean them off and take them back out to the tractor and plow again till around dark.He didn't say how long they used that tractor though but I would suspect it was quite a while.What those poor folks in Oklahoma went through back then! I thought my grandparents had it rough here in Indiana.

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