Inherited 1,500 litres fuel - What to do ?

[Wilmslowboy]

My new old house adventures continue.

I knew there were two IBS tanks besides the garage, but as they were under an old blue tarp, I assumed (as did others) that they were empty.

Shock horror, I pulled the tarp of to find one full and the others over half full.

I thought it was diesel but on contact, the very elderly previous owner is saying it s kerosene, that he bought at auction (for another house project he had in the plans).

What do I do with it ?

I m thinking contact local farmer and see if they want it?

Video of it burning, as well as small sample in a white container.


https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VmOu6D7ORmw?feature...

Edited by Wilmslowboy on Friday 7th August 07:14

[hidetheelephants]

Find someone who has oil heating and offer to sell it to them, thanks to Donald Trump the price is quite high at the moment.

[Somewhatfoolish]

Drink it <== ignore this I thought it was high octane unleaded

Sniff it

Have you anything with low grade diesel engines? Like an old fergie or whatever? If so you have free power for decades - that's the obvious thing to do in my mind

Edited by Somewhatfoolish on Tuesday 4th August 00:58

[mwstewart]

It's off - don't pull back with it in the tanks. Lots of uses on the ground.

[Geertsen]

You could put it back in an auction?

[MDT]

hidetheelephants said:

Find someone who has oil heating and offer to sell it to them, thanks to Donald Trump the price is quite high at the moment.

deffo do this, they will be very grateful around 85p per L just now so that is worth the hassle for them to move it.

[MDMA .]

At least it isn't 1 jerry can worth of 2 stroke.

[bigmowley]

Quite a valuable asset there .
We use any old kerosene up in our telehandlers, dumper trucks, diggers, cement mixer etc etc. It does help that we have a quite a large fleet of elderly diesel powered plant. Any left over heating oil works just fine in the old kit. We will mix it 50/50 with some fresh stuff. Obviously we don't put it into anything modern with high pressure pumps.
I would have thought that you could sell that in a jiffy on Faceache or similar.
Added bonus is that it’s not cherry coloured!

There is an awful lot of BS stated as fact about “stale fuel”. It’s bks if it burns you can run an old Perkins 4Cyl Diesel on it. Water is the only thing you keep an eye open for.

[SJfW]

Anyone running diesel heaters in a workshop etc would also be all over some of that.

Guessing you want to shift the lot rather than have an endless queue of folk rolling up with jerry cans. If it went to someone with a workshop they would likely have access to a forklift to help shirt it.

[hidetheelephants]

bigmowley said:

There is an awful lot of BS stated as fact about stale fuel . It s bks if it burns you can run an old Perkins 4Cyl Diesel on it. Water is the only thing you keep an eye open for.

Kerosine is quite stable and can be stored for long periods, like diesel and other similar hydrocarbons it can grow bacteria if there is moisture present but that would be obvious in the sample.

[Electronicpants]

[Wilmslowboy]

Happy to let it go to anyone that can collect, hence approaching local farmers

It’s against policy to list on EBay and Facebook.


Don’t really want it on the premises, up against the house, also Trump might get wind and attack.

[Collectingbrass]

Keyboard Warrior said:

Why is it your problem? Did you purchase it as part of the property? Surely it's legally the vendors problem to give you a clear site. Also your insurers may take a dim view of that much fuel being stored questionably adjacent to the insured asset

Powerfully Built PH Director said:

Tip it over my Ex-SWT's car and I'll supply the match

[POIDH]

Offer it to Mr Hewes for running some old tanks and st off?

https://www.youtube.com/@MrHewes

[LooneyTunes]

Wilmslowboy said:

Video of it burning, as well as small sample in a white container.


https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VmOu6D7ORmw?feature...

Compared to the bloke who set light to his shed, that is quite a poor effort by PH standards…

[Magooagain]

Only problem I’ve found with using heating fuel to run machinery is that it can dry the seals on fuel pumps. It’s prudent to ad some lubricating clean engine oil into the mix.

[Wilmslowboy]

Listed tanks on Facebook, but insisted whoever buys them must take the fuel as well
£750 (approx 1,600 litres) had 5 messages already, issue is helping with loading (I don't have a fork lift).
A few messages asking if its cloudy, looks clear to me ??

[Doesitdrive]

bigmowley said:

Quite a valuable asset there .
We use any old kerosene up in our telehandlers, dumper trucks, diggers, cement mixer etc etc. It does help that we have a quite a large fleet of elderly diesel powered plant. Any left over heating oil works just fine in the old kit. We will mix it 50/50 with some fresh stuff. Obviously we don't put it into anything modern with high pressure pumps.
I would have thought that you could sell that in a jiffy on Faceache or similar.
Added bonus is that it s not cherry coloured!

There is an awful lot of BS stated as fact about stale fuel . It s bks if it burns you can run an old Perkins 4Cyl Diesel on it. Water is the only thing you keep an eye open for.

I was going to say be wary of using neat Kerosene in anything diesel, made that mistake lol.

Then read the 50/50, Assume with fresh diesel?

[Griffith4ever]

Wilmslowboy said:

Listed tanks on Facebook, but insisted whoever buys them must take the fuel as well
£750 (approx 1,600 litres) had 5 messages already, issue is helping with loading (I don't have a fork lift).
A few messages asking if its cloudy, looks clear to me ??

That's clear. I inherited a barrel of heating kero and it was cloudy (water ingress) - trust me, its obvious - like its milky

[Harpoon]

If you want to test it further, Kolor Kut paste changes colour when it comes into contact with water

https://oiltankwarehouse.co.uk/product/water-findi...