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 01-26-2004, 12:47 Post: 75106
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  PTO driven vs Gas engine

I recently went through the decision making process and ordered a 12kw diesel generator. Since I don't plan to run a generator more than 14 hours/day, I figure 25 gallons of fuel will go a long way. We don't use propane. We have fairly frequent outages here but most are less than one day, multi day outages seem to average once every couple of years. I should have gotten a bigger generator earlier (gas 5 kw now) as we recently had a 3 day outage. I'll probably keep the gas generator since our well is on a separate meter 0.1 mile from the house. I could just leave the gas generator at the well during the outage and run it a few minutes 4 or 5 times a day to maintain water.
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 01-26-2004, 14:19 Post: 75107
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My cottage is oil heated. So is my 'Bota, Laughing out loud.

I have a second 250 gallon heating oil tank in the garage that I get filled every spring with off-road diesel, what I don't burn in the 'Bota or one of the other diesel toys (full-size TLB, etc.) gets pumped into the furnace tank.

The fuel is never more than one year old and even them it gets a good dose of additives.

Ken, if you use 100 gallons a year for the CUT you could try the same idea, I imagine most of your outages are at the same time of year, winter. If you got the tank filled just befrore the bad weather season you would be all set.

What most fuel oil distributors WONT tell you is that the trucks pump OUT as well as into your tank. If you speak nicely they will usually pump your left-overs up into the truck and refill you with the newly 'blended' stuff. They usually do this when the truck is full so the ratio of 'old' to 'new' fuel is pretty low, nobody could ever detect the difference.

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 01-26-2004, 14:54 Post: 75111
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Wouldn't be worth the trouble and expense, Murf. We don't heat with oil so we'd have to retrofit an oil furnace to our existing geothermal heatpump. The payback would probably exceed my lifespan.






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