Blending and separating oils.

One question, What is SBC? Small block chevvy?

1. I doubt it. Likely it'll smoke you outta the shop!

2. Maybe, never tried it, much, but some oil in a motor is better than no oil, in a motor... Wink

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If it has been setting 2 years, drain off 6 quarts and see if it looks like "oil"... then drain the rest and see if it looks more like "diesel"....

How much diesel do you use in the burner ?.... Mix a gallon of the "used diesel" with two gallons of NEW DIESEL and it should work in the burner OK..... if the first 6 quarts drained look HEAVY, then scrap it.

Most conventional oils will mix and not seperate.. Combining 5 w 30 , 10w30 and 15w 40 should not be a problem... You are running this as a TEST anyway... eventually it will be drained and refilled... no problem.

Edited by steve(ill) - 27 Oct 2020 at 6:03pm

Like them all, but love the "B"s.

use it for a brush pile

shameless dude wrote:

use it for a brush pile

That's what I do with fuel like that, down to about a gallon of fire starter now.

Diesel is safer to use as firestarter.

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Coke wrote:

How? And I mean this in all seriousness. We had a tornado during the summer, and I lost a couple of trees and a lot of branches. The D17 proved it's worth even managing to knock one of the high branches out, and hauling and stacking it all up (and yeah a neighbour came by with his Case and prettied it up) but I have no idea how to set a big pile burning safely. Use diesel?

Make a campfire teepee at the edge of the pile with some newspaper under it. Make sure it's not a windy day. We are required to have a burn permit here for anything larger than a campfire. We also need to call the fire dept to see if it's okay to burn, or go on their website to check.

Pour the diesel on the area you are going to start the fire. Walk back to the barn to get the matches to start the fire. Return to pile and start fire. This allows the diesel to soak into the wood. I always put a back clade on the tractor and turn it around backwards. When the fir starts getting small I push he edges of the pile into the middle. You can usually get the bulk of the stuff burned up.

If these trees came down this year and were green, you may want to wait until spring to burn to let the stuff dry out a bit.

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Don't ever use gasoline to start a fire. It is way too dangerous. The flash point of gasoline (point that it gives off combustible fumes) is -40 degrees F. That means that the second that you pour the gas on the pile, it starts vaporizing and you don't know where those vapors are. When you light it, it goes up very fast, almost explosively.

Diesel, heating fuel, and kerosene have flash points around 120 - 130 degrees F. They need to be heated some before they give off combustible vapors. This makes them light much more slowly and much more safely.

Many years ago, as a volunteer firefighter, we had a case of a 16 year old high school student that tried to light a camp fire with gasoline. He splashed some on his clothing without realizing it. When he lit the fire, his cloths caught fire as well. Without going into the nasty details, let's just say that he died a few hours later. Not a pretty sight.

Please don't do this to yourself.

This may also help to understand the dangers:

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i burn alot of green or just cut live branchs and pile it up, i also use diesel in a hand pump sprayer, green brush has to be packed pretty tight, then wad up some paper under a safe exit area, light the wad, spray some diesel there after it's lit, when the tree sap gets hot it'll burn on it's own, can spray more diesel around from the lit area to make it spread out and burn the pile faster. junk oil can be added to the diesel too.

A buddy of mine, very safety conscious guy, in fact a safety coordinator by trade, knew of the dangers of using gasoline to start a fire, but had "nothing else" so decided to try it very carefully.

His pile of leaves/twigs was probably 40 or 50 feet away from his little shed. Gasoline stored on a head-high shelf in the shed. He got the gas, poured it on the leaves, and took the gas back to the shed and put it on the shelf. Very still day. He lit the fire and watched in slow motion horrific amazement as the leaves lit and then the fire took off toward the shed! It got to the point where he swung the can up to the shelf, I guess moving fast enough it finally swirled the air and dispersed it and the flame went out, just a couple of feet from the can still with gas in it and would have blown and took his whole shed down in flames. It's funny now, he wasn't laughing that day. Never again he says!!!

like mentioned, the diesel has to be 130 degrees to BURN... pour some on a news paper and light the paper... then it burns... your right, you NORMALLY cant hold a match to a can of diesel and have it light

Like them all, but love the "B"s.

I’m surprised someone thinks motor oil, and diesel will not mix.
If I understand the OP correct.

I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science.

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