Heating Oil in a chipper?

[roseyweb]

Cheers for the advice guys, I have no idea what kind of oil it is, only that it was in a heating oil tank, its not red which surprised me. Was free so the price was right

[Andy Collins]

Evening all

Managed to get a load of heating oil for free, or what I assume is, its not red, can I run this in my chipper (TW150)?

I've tried a google search and most internet people seem to think its the same stuff as diesel but I wondered if any one on here had any experiences

 

James

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Managed to get heating oil for free??? Yeah that happens to me all the time

[18 stoner]

So now the odds are stacked against you using it, following very well educated advice given here.

 

It appears you are stuck with it, so how much do you want for it?

[cosworth]

If I were you I would mix it with some red diesel and use it. say 20%heating oil

and the rest red diesel it wouldn't make no differnece.

[Billy]

I'd use it, but then my chipper has a proper inline injector pump wouldn't think twice.

[Shane]

Darn, was really happy when I chored that, think I might keep it for fire starting or in hire machines

 

Another reason lots of us dont like lending our machines out

[markieg31]

My mum used to run her discovery, me a kangoo, on heating oil for a couple of years with no detrimentle affects. It used to start on the button, unuseual for a landy I know,everytime!!

[gensetsteve]

our steam cleaner was a bit smokey so I thought running on kero it would be a bit cleaner. Within 3 minutes the fuel pump was dead and cost me £90 . I tend to put the correct clean fuel in everything now.

[bolthole]

Having said that about JP8... if that is true our 2010-bought Defender has just suffered a failed turbo after only about 6000 miles running on what we're drawing from the POL point out here in Bastion.

 

Admittedly the speed limit is 25kmh on camp (with a few sections of road where we're allowed to drive at 40kmh - woo!) which I realise isn't good for a diesel engine, especially a new one...

 

I asked the question about JP8 to the REME guys who looked at it and they said we were getting 'poor quality diesel' (they didn't say 'poor quality'!) so I'm not sure. The POL point seems to supply everyone on camp.

 

If it is JP8 it's not done our engine any good. There was a lot more black smoke than you'd have expected prior to the failure.

 

The older TD5s we've got seem okay.

[gensetsteve]

Kero burns very well in my boiler.