@@ericyea6603 actually some concrete, dependant on it's mixture, lime etc,, can possibly eat through the copper line. Don't panic it's kinda a rare thing, but it can happen, , just be sure that your floor where the line is isn't Staind! I would suggest if you have the money replace it with an "encased" oil line, preferably 1/2 over 3/8, but 3/8 is normal!
Im 52yrs old and embarrassed to say i didnt know til recently heating oil and diesel were the same! I always thought heating oil looked kinda like motor oil. Lol
For the folks that don't know, heating OIL is actually Diesel or some may call it Off Road Diesel. I'm a Hazmat Truck Driver, and I have delivered this product for many winter seasons here in Maryland!
@@ZKRITTEX in the US red diesel is the same as heating oil. theyre both just diesel fuel dyed red to indicate its not taxed for highway use. Kerosene is usually only used as a supplemental heating fuel in the US.
fun fact, around 20% of all german homes are heated with heating oil. even 40% in bavaria and some other states. Also the red dye nowadays is mostly there for differentiation. to counter tax evasion the additive "Solvent Yellow 124" is added, which cannot be removed easily and can be detected in very small quantities. prices in europe fluctuate with the global oil market around 40-90 euro-cents/liter of heating oil, which is around half to one third the price of diesel for cars and trucks.
Fun fact. In Poland which is Germany neighbour less than 0,01% of homes uses heating oil. In 1999-2003 people were tricked to buy oil burners by low oil prices. After 10 years additional taxes were put on oil and the oil price were doubled. People returned to coal and some moved to gas. This year gas prices raised about 70% and people are being tricked into heat pumps. Waiting for electric energy prices to sky rock 🤣
@@lucian0221 I don’t know about Germany, but as an owner and driver of a truck in the United States, over the road highway trucks they rarely check. But trucks used for agriculture where they have access to large amounts of off-road diesel they check them more often. The thing about trucks driving across multiple states, is that you have to Report to IFTA the amount of fuel you’re buying in each state and how many miles you drive in each state. You also must keep the fuel receipts on file as proof. So if you ever get an audit they would be able to see if you purchase off-road fuel. If you don’t buy enough fuel in a particular state For the amount of miles you drive In that state you must pay fuel taxes for the Fuel you should’ve bought based on the mileage. I’ve never heard of them checking fuel in cars,but unlike Europe we don’t have many diesel cars.
Fun fact. You can add used filtered diesel oil into red dyed diesel to make it black 🙂 also during a state of emergency (usually lasting a month) red dyed diesel is allowed to be used in on road vehicles.... The dye will last many tanks later. 🙃
I bought my first house 10 years ago that has heating oil. I have a 500 gallon tank. I have a woodstove insert and i usual offset the use of oil with it. I burn wood from noon till bed time. Have oil set to fire when inside house temp gets to 70 which is usaly about 2 or 3am.. In summer when your not using oil heat its best to top off your tank. That way condensation will not build up inside of tank and rust the inside of tank out.
Lol heat for a year... I have one tank and in the coldest part of winter it would probably last 3 weeks (I have it filled in 2 weeks to keep it from being too low). But great video!
Really depends where you live, if you dont already have one look into an outdoor reset, best $200 you can spend that saved me about 25% of my oil every year
I have customers that will only use one tank a year, rare, but it happens, some burn wood so in some cases that's a big difference, others are just cheap, etc.. lol Then there are some places that I have to go every two weeks, great for the oil man bad for the customer, lol. I've never heard of a trooper pulling over a truck and testing the tank 4 color around here, but, at some of those weigh stations I've heard that at times there's someone actually from the internal revenue department that sticks the tanks, if there's Red fuel, you have to get a certified person to remove it and put the proper diesel in, then they fine you I think per gallon plus whatever else they can add-on. Rare but there's been times I've run out of diesel with the oil truck,, and trust me, I'm not walking with cans looking for a diesel station. I'm sure you understand what I mean! lol Normally I do always fill up and pay the tax. Thank you so much for the video, you hit it right on the money every step! Looking for a job? 😊
Funny story from Hungary: it was the same dying process here until the 90s, (amd heating oil eas cheaper than diesel) then criminals started to “bleach” the heating oil to make it the same colour as the diesel fuel, and sold it. It became a serious crime with thousands of people involved. Then after these years: there is no cheaper price for the heating oil anymore, both are priced the same. So basically nobody uses oil for heating here anymore. More here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_bleaching
That was an international issue. Same here in Slovakia and same kind of fraud was popular in Czech rep. I am nod familiar with the current situation and pricing. I believe however that even agricultural vehicles were allowed to use the so called red diesel fuel.
Now tell the viewers that it costs about $400 a month to heat a family home in a cold northern state with red dye and diesel fuel, vs. about $60 a month for natural gas. You also have to schedule deliveries rather than it being piped into your home continuously. No thanks. I'm not giving up an extra 20% of my income and have to worry about running out, when the delivery man can make it, having to remember to check a gauge on a tank frequently, calling people, etc. Nope. Been there, done that. Worst heating method ever. It's part of the reason why people in New England live paycheck to paycheck. One more reason to dread winter. One of the worst aspects of living somewhere that doesn't have natural gas. I can't imagine ever going back to that.
Right. Growing up in NY I remember the tanks in the basement and my dad working extra shifts to get that sucker filled. We usually ended up using the kerosene heaters because it cost so much to fill those oil tanks . This was late 70s early 80s.
I rented a farm fresh out of college with a oil tank. Never again, it cost nearly half my pay during the winter to heat it. I sealed most of the house up and used the buck stove rather than feed that bastard another winter. Significant reason that fuel oil is a deal breaker on homes for me.
@UCWpMzxMMRNYLZk_RVA16-PQ $2,000 a year is an insane amount to pay just for heat. That's 12 months of heat/electric and water combined for me, in a house built in 1887 in Montana.
I use a 220,000 BTU torpedo heater for my shop. I used to use diesel to run it, but it ejected a very small amount of soot, but most annoying were fumes and the cost. Clear kerosene was not an option at 9.00/gal. Found out heating oil, (stove oil in the pacific nw) is about 3.75/gallon. Since you are burning fuel there are fumes but the shop is large and doesn’t have insulation so not too bad. Will run it to break the chill then shut it down. Not ideal, but it’s cheap and it works in a pinch. Been doing this for three years so no, I’m not going to die from carbon monoxide poisoning.
it's not the CO that's the problem. These oils give off ultrafine particulate that goes directly through your lungs into your blood, and appears to cause heart disease.
Iron Fireman units were Bit coal burners, weren’t they? I put in a dual fuel Keystoker in 2019, I burn oil for hot water in the summer and Anthracite in the winter.
Screw using heating oil, if you can afford to buy an alternative method like a mini split ot heat pump go that route. Oil price is going to be through the roof. Find a better thing to heat the house . In other countries they are using it and is far better.
I don't disagree about cheaper options, I have a small heat pump I put in here ruclips.net/video/kEWzIfnIhUw/видео.html ideally if I could add solar that would be one of the best options of all.
Well. I installed two heat pump at home and that has been my primary heat source. I kept on looking at the price for oil and just to add 150 gallons it will cause me a whooping 450 . So i said i will stick to heat pump till it gets super freezing . Testing mode now.
@Larry Butler True. How, there's a divide between unleaded and diesel. The demand for big trucks is not going to decrease, the demand for electric big rigs is not quite there yet. If people switch from diesel passenger cars to electric, which could go either way, diesel is already more fuel efficient, but people who drive that might be seeking fuel efficiency. Gasoline prices will drop with the increase in electric cars, if that demand outpaces reductions in available crude supply. However, decreased demand for diesel will probably lag behind decreased demand for gasoline. Unfortunately. For people who use red diesel for heat at least. Convince major trucking companies to convert to electric rapidly, and that could be a different story completely. Diesel used to be cheaper than gasoline, 20-30ish years ago. It could happen again, but not with trucking in such high demand.
technically, diesel and heating oil are the same, but nowadays, the diesel fuel is much more refined than heating oil and most car companies won't accept warranty repairs if the engine was fed heating oil.
I was able to get cheap heating oil from HVAC companies. When they changed out oil to gas, heat pump or propane, I would buy all the oil they pumped out of the old tanks they delivered to me. I had 750 gallons of storage.
I had a yr 1971 oil fired boiler. In 2005 I put in a new Becket burner like the one in your video. Increased efficiency and saved $$. Should have done it long before then!
As a professional and certified oil heat technician, why would you not remove the electrodes when changing the nozzle? You take a large risk of breaking those porcelains by not removing them.
Do you service your oil burner yourself? Would love to see a video on that to save a lot money on something that’s not difficult at all. Just a little dirty, but I know you love that!
Back in the1980's when I was stationed in Korea we had to spend time away from our base due to a runaway closure, we were set up in "tent city" at another location and they had diesel oil heaters in the tents. Toasty warm but was always afraid that the tents would go up in flames. IT was a barrel sort of affair with a pipe out the top of the tent. Don't remember how the oil went into the heater.
I get my oil burner serviced maybe every 5 years. They vacuum out spider webs, clean the nozzle and change the filter. The nozzle definitely doesn’t need to be replaced yearly, I'm 22+ years in with no replacement.
Filter changes are the most important part. If you do nothing else, regular oil filter changes will save a lot of problems. Every 5 years is pushing it tho. I don't like seeing people go more than 2.
Very well done. Explained clearly and concisely. I learned that heating oil is the same as diesel. I thought it was a lower grade of fuel; more like kerosene.
I have an oil heating system and it runs off kerosene. I do have another tank with red diesel for my tractor and lawn mower. Kerosene is cheaper than red diesel also in the UK
@@arnoldcaines9012 Also kerosene burns hotter than red diesel,and is slightly thinner. Iam sure kerosene would kill a road car over time. Red diesel on the over hand is fine as long as you ADD a cleaning additive to the mix.BUT you would be in trouble with police over using NON TAX fuel on the road.
Many insurance companies won't even deal with you if you have oil heat in Canada. In fact. Where I live in northern Canada there is no company's left that will deliver oil. So anyone left on oil was forced to convert to propane. Not to mention oil is $5.70 per gallon.
Being tech savvy, I’m surprised you’ve not yet embraced ground source heat pumps. For one unit of energy to power compressors, pumps and fans, you’ll extract and move 4 or 5 freebies. Tapping the heat right under your yard! Perhaps a video on upgrading your heating, cooling and domestic hot water systems? Can all be done through the heat pumps. I enjoy watching your videos. Keep up the great work.
this video helped me alot because i wanted to do oil to gas conversion on my house, and the gas company is alot of hassle they jave to dig up alot and the oil company they dont have to dig up they just have to put the furnance and thats it.
@@da_blade5040 Not sure where oil doesnt burn clean comes from. Should be 0 smoke in flue or out chimney if burner has been set up correctly. If they burned dirty people with oil furnace would sweep their chimneys. They dont.
Fun fact: the btu content per volume of #2 heating oil is higher than diesel. If you set the appliance up to run on heating oil, it will likely run fine on diesel, but will have too much air (lean). If you set a burner up on diesel, then switch to #2, you may have sooting problems as th fire will have too little air (rich). It may be fine either way, but there is an actual difference between diesel and #2.
Heating oil systems require significantly more maintenance and costs for it to be safe. LNG and Propane has multiple failsafes in the system. While it's true that cutting a gas line inside the house can lead to an explosion, black pipe isn't going to puncture by something sharp falling on it. The same can't be said for old heating oil tanks or the line to the burner. Also, LNG is substantially cheaper than Oil.
@@doughill5487 My parent's have both. The house was built with fuel oil heating in the 60's. They added gas (propane?) many years later when converting the fireplace to gas logs. Both have to be hauled to the house as there are no pipelines. (The farm tractor is gasoline, so they just keep track of gas used in the tractor for end-of-year taxes.) Once a year, usually in the summer when oil is cheaper, the local oil company fills all the tanks.
It doesnt get safer than oil. Can literally toss matches on it...Oil burners dont have fail safes? If there is no flame, it shutsdown thanks to the 'cad' cell and controller. Maintenance? 5$ filter and 5$ nozzle and 20 minutes. A monkey could service a beckett style burner. Better than a cracked exchanger every 10-15 in your gas unit...
Thanks. I live in CA where all resources used to heat a home are taxed. Electricity, natural gas and propane. I've been thinking about retiring in Michigan or Wisconsin. Its nice to learn that heating oil (kerosene) is not taxed.
Had no idea heating oil wasn't more popular, everyone on my block is oil heat. Just need to call my HVAC guy every fall to change the filter. Only downsides are burning fossil fuels and pretty big price swings year to year.
Installed a Mitsubishi four head three ton mini-split system in my house in august, 2020. Heated the house on the coldest day here on Long Island, around 15 degrees. Most of the time it was much warmer. My first summer was great but I struggled with humidity. Turned out that by running all four heads the system ramped way down and the coils were warmer so they didn’t remove humidity. This summer I only used the 1-1/2 ton head in the living room during the day and left all doors open. Humidity went from 70% down to 50%. Had to raise the temperature from 68 degrees to 73. At night we used the head in that room and shut it off when we got up. Solar panels are next. Then maybe an electric car. Will keep one that runs on gas though.
@@stephanmussehl7425 A properly installed heat pump from a reputable brand will give you 15-20 years of service. Most companies offer 10 year compressor warranty.
The word "gas" is overloaded. The fluid you used is petrol, usually called gasoline in the US and here in Canada. It has a high vapour pressure and can be lit easily, which is useful for Otto-cycle engines but makes it difficult to store. The word also refers to various gaseous fuels: methane, which is usually stored as a cryogenic liquid, and propane, which is familiar to urban users as being stored at room temperature and at very high pressure as a liquid in white cylinders. Alberta recently had an Arctic blast that was so cold to where propane was liquid at outdoor temperature and pressure. Both methane and propane are stored as liquids but used as gases. Petrol is technically used as a gas as well, because liquids technically don't burn, but for our purposes petrol is used as a liquid. Offroad diesel/heating oil, as you demonstrated, has a much lower vapour pressure.
Friend of mine in northern Wisconsin pays over 4 dollars a gallon smaller 2 bedroom home costing well over 2 thousand dollars a year. Go Propane cleaner and 1/3 of price
I respect your love of heating oil but I will take natural gas any day. A properly piped system won't leak and petroleum spills are a big deal. Natural gas is also amazingly safe with a small flammability range of 5 to 15%. With natural gas I can heat my water and my house plus dry my clothes, cook my food and have a gas fireplace and a gas stove in the garage and in my bedroom. It is extremely versatile and I have virtually an unlimited supply and never have to worry about running out. Then there's the cost! Home heating oil runs upward of $22 per million BTU with natural gas at $5. It was $2 just last year. I think if you had a choice, and you likely don't in NE, you would choose natural gas any day.
This is all true, and natural gas is a cheaper, cleaner fuel if you have it available. However, it's been artificially low in price for a while because the US has so much of it as a byproduct of other refining. This is changing as climate agreements are made and pipelines are shutdown/not permitted. I wouldn't plan on NG being as cheap as it has been ever again. The writing is on the wall for super high taxes on fossil fuels to help pay for 'cleaner' alternatives. The best bet will probably be heat pumps with a fossil fuel backup for super cold days.
Interested in knowing the electrical current,voltage and draw rate of the power necessary for these igniters. Do they run continuously while heating or does the fuel need constant electricity to prevent run on. As he mentioned a hot tank or plate perpetually reigniting. Also would a ballast of a temperature gradient material(steel,iron or ceramic) in the center of the tank retain some heat to augment heating?
The ignitor is a step up transformer. They put out between 10,000 volts and 20,000 volts, with very low current. Newer ones don't run continuously. Older ones do.
I have an old danesmoor 15/19 heatslave that's been in our house for years and years, always serviced regularly and has been super reliable. to go with that is a large 1200 litre tank that when full can last up to year. here in u.k though as with many countries the cost of oil is shooting up rapidly. to compensate we had an up to date room Stat installed as it didn't before so that should save a chunk in fuel.
When I was in grade school a house near the school blew up. It was so powerful it blew the front door of the hinges on the house across the street. Gas leak.
It’s dyed diesel, aka, off-road diesel, aka heating oil. It can be used in powered units or pony motor units that are used exclusively off road. I’m a landlubber so I can’t speak about off shore.
@@ryangreenley4818 I kinda thought that was a given? Dyed diesel is regular ol diesel with dye. It’s so the ol DOT can easily see if you’re “stealing” by not paying your fair share to the legalized mob.
Growing up in a rural area (one of the lowest population densities in the US), almost every farmer and rancher was running ORD in their pickups. The cops really don't care.
Love my oil heat.. it's like right now hot and I've rewired the electrics so as long as I have oil in my tank, and gasoline for my generator I can have heat. My next go around I'm going to use a hybrid heat-pump/oil system just to save a little oil on "cool" days. Super bad-day plus-side is I can technically get heating oil at the gas station(diesel fuel) right by my home. Granted it's expensive but if I'm at that point, I don't care.
If I remember right, a natural gas Therm is 100KBTU, while a gallon of diesel is about 130KBTU, so compare the local prices for each, including the amortized monthly Natural gas hookup cost and the oil delivery cost.
From what I've learned, heating oil furnaces take a lot more maintenance than say natural gas but they are less expensive because there's just less moving parts. Also heating oil is stored in a tank in the home so it has to be filled periodically. Natural gas is piped in so it refills forever. So basically natural gas = less hassle. Both require electricity to run the furnace but I have a non-venting natural gas heater that doesn't use any electricity to operate as emergency backup heat.
Best part about gas to the house is then you can tie in the cooking stove and water heater. Having had oil heat for years it sucks, especially if you have buried tanks and run the risk of them leaking.
@@ghost2coast296 well oil leaking in the ground requires soil remediation and is very expensive. Natural gas is mostly methane and doesn’t require remediation of surrounding areas.
I've had fuel oil, natural gas & now geothermal... Fuel oil is expensive, cost me about $200 every 2 weeks in u.s., also seems more maintenance too. Natural gas all yr $50-70 on budget bill & like 3-4 months of no gas bill. 450-630 roughly probably on the higher side of that. Geothermal... everything is electric Based on electric bills from $70-280 last yr. I figured $150 avg if spread out over the yr. I think my bill will be lower overall after modifying my thermostat temperature range of 3 to 5degrees vs 2 degree range prior. For instance heat set to 72. Geo kicks off at 73 kicks on at 68. With that said worst month for heating cost alone is probably $180, this past month around freezing point or so was about $50 in electric. I know someone with electric heat that pays $500-600 a month for comparable home. Worth noting natural gas place I had was 2/3 the space of my newer place. So what does it all look like? Natural gas 1000sq ft 3mo. $450-630 Fuel oil 1500sq ft. 3mo. 1200 $ Geo. 3 months $500 on high estimate Electric 3 mo. $1000-1500 Propane 3 mo $600 Someone local told me propane is typically around $600 for the yr for a house I believe that is somewhere between 1000-1500sq ft. I'm thinking it is bigger than my 1st but not as big as my current 1500sq ft.
@@CL-ty6wp The last gas furnace I had lasted at least 20 years, the fan motor went bad...no issues with heat exchanger. Some of it can be from poor maintenance. I kept clean air filters.
Not really. The effort to do so would negate the tax savings. Also diesel trucks nowadays need much more refined diesel to run due to higher spec fuel systems for efficiency.
get a box of kitty litter and funnel with something like cheese cloth and pass it through that shit and it will come out clean, may take a few passes. act accordingly
Yes because diesel and heating oil is pretty much the same thing. You can use it for off road diesel engines. Those diesel heaters will run just fine on heating oil. It is illegal to drive a diesel vehicle with red fuel.
I have 2 houses one runs on oil the other on gas, I just bought them so I can't comment on which is better the one that runs on gas was better built and the one that runs on oil I'm scared to leave alone a lot was built bougie and the thermostat is old and not only did I have to replace the old furnace but now I found out the oil tank has to be replaced too
There is something I find odd. If you look at a small diesel motor that is water-cooled? You are better off as far as what I have calculated to use the heat from the motor and the kinetic energy of the engine producing electricity to then store any extra in Nickel Iron batteries so that takes care of a system that will only need Filter and oil changes for a very long time. you're not only making heat but you are also making power this is especially beneficial in emergency situations or if you live off grid. this also brings the viability of a heat pump along with its amazing efficiency, safety, reliability & convenience of electricity. it's too bad that Society has to go through all these hoops because the one thing that we should be focusing on his inexpensive and cheap energy yet that's the one thing that for one reason or another everyone has a concern about but no one seems to be investing and any kind of infrastructure for it since the 50s
We had a small oil leak from the bottom of the tank, every green plant in the house died, so we switched to gas because it was cheaper, and we did not need a tank to store it. You can convert these boilers from oil to propane and vice versa
if I was writing the laws on taxing fuel etc, I'd probably tax kilometers (proxy for liters burned) rather than liters bought. EVs, I'd scale proportional to the carbon intensity of the local electric grid.
Yup, it's all Diesel #2 ultra low sulfur, same that comes out of the pump. It's dyed red because you don't pay road/fuel taxes on it, so they can catch you if you run it on the road
Oil is a good fuel. Natural gas is also very safe unless you do something not allowed. Nat Gas requires a lot less maintenance and is the fuel of choice. It is more efficient and costs less to heat with. No, I’m not pushing natural gas. I actually heat with propane. They all have pluses and minuses.
Heating oil and diesel are exactly the same produc The differences come with additives add after refining Like detergents and oder additives to prevent the diesel to freeze in the tank of a truck
I was told most farm tractors run Diesel Red...and they check usually in southern farm belt states. I have never been checked in Cali for my 1997 Ford F350 XLT PowerStroke (7.3L turbocharged I.H.) 4x4 crew cab..also Cali weasels (aka parasites) do smog checks on newer diesels....I am exempt.
What comes to my mind immediately, is if it's diesel, why not replace the burner with a stationary diesel engine, attach a cooling loop and generator, so that as you burn the diesel fuel, you're extracting heat through the coolant loop still, but additionally, the mechanical work of the engine to produce electricity? Downsides I could see are increased costs, increased noise, increased complexity, and greatly increased maintenance, but I'd think someone could figure out an extremely low maintenance engine, efficiency probably doesn't even matter, because it's all intended to create heat anyway. Emissions would be an issue.
Maybe if you had an off grid setup and had a large battery bank and the gen charged batteries that you already have and lived in a cold climate and wanted to reclaim that heat it could be worth it. Run the exhaust through a heat exchange also
Its only because you have a tank instead of a gas line. Thats not why they are unpopular, its because most people think burning oil is some unsafe 1940's tech
you can add long storage time additives to it. otherwise it might start growing fungus. if you let regular diesel/heating oil sit for more than a month it will make a difference and in 6 months its straight up dirty.
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Is it okay that my oil lines aren’t protected by concrete?
Thank you!
Not tryn to be rude but that's not a "pump" it's a fuel unit, it Actually doesn't "pump" oil 😁
@@ericyea6603 actually some concrete, dependant on it's mixture, lime etc,, can possibly eat through the copper line. Don't panic it's kinda a rare thing, but it can happen, , just be sure that your floor where the line is isn't Staind! I would suggest if you have the money replace it with an "encased" oil line, preferably 1/2 over 3/8, but 3/8 is normal!
Im 52yrs old and embarrassed to say i didnt know til recently heating oil and diesel were the same! I always thought heating oil looked kinda like motor oil. Lol
For the folks that don't know, heating OIL is actually Diesel or some may call it Off Road Diesel. I'm a Hazmat Truck Driver, and I have delivered this product for many winter seasons here in Maryland!
Here in the U.k it's called red diesel and it's used for farming vehicles. Heating oil has a yellow colour and it's called Kerosene.
Yup. Whenever I run out of heating oil I'll grab a container of diesel just to survive the night.
@@ZKRITTEX in the US red diesel is the same as heating oil. theyre both just diesel fuel dyed red to indicate its not taxed for highway use. Kerosene is usually only used as a supplemental heating fuel in the US.
@@ZKRITTEX kerosene is a different chemical.
That’s what I thought it was. Red dye diesel
fun fact, around 20% of all german homes are heated with heating oil. even 40% in bavaria and some other states. Also the red dye nowadays is mostly there for differentiation. to counter tax evasion the additive "Solvent Yellow 124" is added, which cannot be removed easily and can be detected in very small quantities. prices in europe fluctuate with the global oil market around 40-90 euro-cents/liter of heating oil, which is around half to one third the price of diesel for cars and trucks.
Hast du schonmal erlebt, dass die Polizei oder Irgendjemand kontrolliert hat, ob man Heizöl getankt hat?
Fun fact. In Poland which is Germany neighbour less than 0,01% of homes uses heating oil. In 1999-2003 people were tricked to buy oil burners by low oil prices. After 10 years additional taxes were put on oil and the oil price were doubled. People returned to coal and some moved to gas. This year gas prices raised about 70% and people are being tricked into heat pumps. Waiting for electric energy prices to sky rock 🤣
You remove the dye by running it through cat litter and then activated charcoal.
@@lucian0221 I don’t know about Germany, but as an owner and driver of a truck in the United States, over the road highway trucks they rarely check. But trucks used for agriculture where they have access to large amounts of off-road diesel they check them more often. The thing about trucks driving across multiple states, is that you have to Report to IFTA the amount of fuel you’re buying in each state and how many miles you drive in each state. You also must keep the fuel receipts on file as proof. So if you ever get an audit they would be able to see if you purchase off-road fuel. If you don’t buy enough fuel in a particular state For the amount of miles you drive In that state you must pay fuel taxes for the Fuel you should’ve bought based on the mileage. I’ve never heard of them checking fuel in cars,but unlike Europe we don’t have many diesel cars.
We get natural gas here in tx for like 7 cents a gallon
I can imagine this guys wife saying" Honey stop. Don't take apart the furnace for your video!"
That’s why he replaced the nozzle, he knew he’d need an excuse lol
Actually this video was her idea. Cymbal dreaded having it apart again
Fun fact. You can add used filtered diesel oil into red dyed diesel to make it black 🙂 also during a state of emergency (usually lasting a month) red dyed diesel is allowed to be used in on road vehicles.... The dye will last many tanks later. 🙃
I bought my first house 10 years ago that has heating oil. I have a 500 gallon tank. I have a woodstove insert and i usual offset the use of oil with it. I burn wood from noon till bed time. Have oil set to fire when inside house temp gets to 70 which is usaly about 2 or 3am..
In summer when your not using oil heat its best to top off your tank. That way condensation will not build up inside of tank and rust the inside of tank out.
You can also add a water dissolving additive to your oil 😁 I do on occasion just to keep the tank clean
Lol heat for a year... I have one tank and in the coldest part of winter it would probably last 3 weeks (I have it filled in 2 weeks to keep it from being too low). But great video!
Really depends where you live, if you dont already have one look into an outdoor reset, best $200 you can spend that saved me about 25% of my oil every year
Thank you. That 'one tank for a whole year' statement took my attention.
we have a tank in our basement that lasts for 3 years ;-)
Also live in Mass, 5 - 6 tanks a heating season
I have customers that will only use one tank a year, rare, but it happens, some burn wood so in some cases that's a big difference, others are just cheap, etc.. lol Then there are some places that I have to go every two weeks, great for the oil man bad for the customer, lol.
I've never heard of a trooper pulling over a truck and testing the tank 4 color around here, but, at some of those weigh stations I've heard that at times there's someone actually from the internal revenue department that sticks the tanks, if there's Red fuel, you have to get a certified person to remove it and put the proper diesel in, then they fine you I think per gallon plus whatever else they can add-on. Rare but there's been times I've run out of diesel with the oil truck,, and trust me, I'm not walking with cans looking for a diesel station. I'm sure you understand what I mean! lol Normally I do always fill up and pay the tax. Thank you so much for the video, you hit it right on the money every step! Looking for a job? 😊
Steve Lav has taught me all I need to know about oil powered heating systems.
Steve is my hero. He’s awesome
Funny story from Hungary: it was the same dying process here until the 90s, (amd heating oil eas cheaper than diesel) then criminals started to “bleach” the heating oil to make it the same colour as the diesel fuel, and sold it.
It became a serious crime with thousands of people involved.
Then after these years: there is no cheaper price for the heating oil anymore, both are priced the same.
So basically nobody uses oil for heating here anymore.
More here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_bleaching
Why is that labelled as being a criminal though? Isn't is all about money? How is that morally acceptable? Fuck laws if they aren't moral.
@@JackRR15 so they cheated with tax a lot, but agree
@@peterkiss7742 tax is theft
That was an international issue. Same here in Slovakia and same kind of fraud was popular in Czech rep. I am nod familiar with the current situation and pricing. I believe however that even agricultural vehicles were allowed to use the so called red diesel fuel.
@@bassam_salim a small amount of tax is alright but taxes today are ridiculous.
Now tell the viewers that it costs about $400 a month to heat a family home in a cold northern state with red dye and diesel fuel, vs. about $60 a month for natural gas. You also have to schedule deliveries rather than it being piped into your home continuously.
No thanks. I'm not giving up an extra 20% of my income and have to worry about running out, when the delivery man can make it, having to remember to check a gauge on a tank frequently, calling people, etc. Nope. Been there, done that.
Worst heating method ever. It's part of the reason why people in New England live paycheck to paycheck. One more reason to dread winter. One of the worst aspects of living somewhere that doesn't have natural gas. I can't imagine ever going back to that.
Right. Growing up in NY I remember the tanks in the basement and my dad working extra shifts to get that sucker filled. We usually ended up using the kerosene heaters because it cost so much to fill those oil tanks . This was late 70s early 80s.
I rented a farm fresh out of college with a oil tank. Never again, it cost nearly half my pay during the winter to heat it. I sealed most of the house up and used the buck stove rather than feed that bastard another winter. Significant reason that fuel oil is a deal breaker on homes for me.
@UCWpMzxMMRNYLZk_RVA16-PQ $2,000 a year is an insane amount to pay just for heat. That's 12 months of heat/electric and water combined for me, in a house built in 1887 in Montana.
I use a 220,000 BTU torpedo heater for my shop. I used to use diesel to run it, but it ejected a very small amount of soot, but most annoying were fumes and the cost. Clear kerosene was not an option at 9.00/gal. Found out heating oil, (stove oil in the pacific nw) is about 3.75/gallon. Since you are burning fuel there are fumes but the shop is large and doesn’t have insulation so not too bad. Will run it to break the chill then shut it down. Not ideal, but it’s cheap and it works in a pinch. Been doing this for three years so no, I’m not going to die from carbon monoxide poisoning.
it's not the CO that's the problem. These oils give off ultrafine particulate that goes directly through your lungs into your blood, and appears to cause heart disease.
Used oil burner.
Good video. My company just recently stopped rebuilding parts for Iron Fireman burners. Good videos on the topic, One of the better ones.
Iron Fireman units were Bit coal burners, weren’t they?
I put in a dual fuel Keystoker in 2019, I burn oil for hot water in the summer and Anthracite in the winter.
Screw using heating oil, if you can afford to buy an alternative method like a mini split ot heat pump go that route. Oil price is going to be through the roof. Find a better thing to heat the house . In other countries they are using it and is far better.
I don't disagree about cheaper options, I have a small heat pump I put in here ruclips.net/video/kEWzIfnIhUw/видео.html ideally if I could add solar that would be one of the best options of all.
Well. I installed two heat pump at home and that has been my primary heat source. I kept on looking at the price for oil and just to add 150 gallons it will cause me a whooping 450 . So i said i will stick to heat pump till it gets super freezing . Testing mode now.
@Larry Butler how clean does it burn? Smoke comes out chimney ?? Or just a vapor??
It was the second largest bill next to rent when I had to use it. I'm surprised more New Englanders don't freeze to death each year from the cost.
@Larry Butler True. How, there's a divide between unleaded and diesel. The demand for big trucks is not going to decrease, the demand for electric big rigs is not quite there yet.
If people switch from diesel passenger cars to electric, which could go either way, diesel is already more fuel efficient, but people who drive that might be seeking fuel efficiency.
Gasoline prices will drop with the increase in electric cars, if that demand outpaces reductions in available crude supply. However, decreased demand for diesel will probably lag behind decreased demand for gasoline. Unfortunately. For people who use red diesel for heat at least.
Convince major trucking companies to convert to electric rapidly, and that could be a different story completely.
Diesel used to be cheaper than gasoline, 20-30ish years ago. It could happen again, but not with trucking in such high demand.
technically, diesel and heating oil are the same, but nowadays, the diesel fuel is much more refined than heating oil and most car companies won't accept warranty repairs if the engine was fed heating oil.
Heating oil is the United States is all sold ULSF these days
@@ML-lg4ky Not true
In New York State they are exactly the same.
It is exactly the same in NYS. The only difference is the color it was dyed. In fact, in NY most places sell bio diesel which is 10% recycled oils.
There's also farm diesel. What are the differences between farm, heating and road diesel?
One of the best random RUclips suggestions I've had in a while!
I was able to get cheap heating oil from HVAC companies. When they changed out oil to gas, heat pump or propane, I would buy all the oil they pumped out of the old tanks they delivered to me. I had 750 gallons of storage.
I had a yr 1971 oil fired boiler. In 2005 I put in a new Becket burner like the one in your video. Increased efficiency and saved $$. Should have done it long before then!
Just be sure to fire the burner properly to achieve maximum savings
As a professional and certified oil heat technician, why would you not remove the electrodes when changing the nozzle?
You take a large risk of breaking those porcelains by not removing them.
Maybe he's not a softie like you and has confidence in his hand tool skills.
@@mdlabor43 🙄
Do you service your oil burner yourself? Would love to see a video on that to save a lot money on something that’s not difficult at all. Just a little dirty, but I know you love that!
When you were talking about it I was thinking it behaved alot like the bio diesel I made in chemistry forever ago.
Back in the1980's when I was stationed in Korea we had to spend time away from our base due to a runaway closure, we were set up in "tent city" at another location and they had diesel oil heaters in the tents. Toasty warm but was always afraid that the tents would go up in flames. IT was a barrel sort of affair with a pipe out the top of the tent. Don't remember how the oil went into the heater.
I get my oil burner serviced maybe every 5 years. They vacuum out spider webs, clean the nozzle and change the filter. The nozzle definitely doesn’t need to be replaced yearly, I'm 22+ years in with no replacement.
Filter changes are the most important part. If you do nothing else, regular oil filter changes will save a lot of problems.
Every 5 years is pushing it tho. I don't like seeing people go more than 2.
@@kyleh1974 That and should vac out the exchanger.
We had oil heat until about 2004 and switched to gas backed heat pumps.
Love your videos, they're always so informational while being entertaining!!
Very nice of you to say, I really appreciate it
Very well done. Explained clearly and concisely. I learned that heating oil is the same as diesel. I thought it was a lower grade of fuel; more like kerosene.
That's... What you took from this...
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I have an oil heating system and it runs off kerosene.
I do have another tank with red diesel for my tractor and lawn mower.
Kerosene is cheaper than red diesel also in the UK
@@johnwalton1137 interesting.
@@arnoldcaines9012
Also kerosene burns hotter than red diesel,and is slightly thinner.
Iam sure kerosene would kill a road car over time.
Red diesel on the over hand is fine as long as you ADD a cleaning additive to the mix.BUT you would be in trouble with police over using NON TAX fuel on the road.
RP-1? Lol rocket kerosene.
Many insurance companies won't even deal with you if you have oil heat in Canada. In fact. Where I live in northern Canada there is no company's left that will deliver oil. So anyone left on oil was forced to convert to propane. Not to mention oil is $5.70 per gallon.
Generally only a large leak can cause a gas explosion. Concentration has to reach 4 or five percent that is unlikely unless a large Lin is broken.
Being tech savvy, I’m surprised you’ve not yet embraced ground source heat pumps. For one unit of energy to power compressors, pumps and fans, you’ll extract and move 4 or 5 freebies. Tapping the heat right under your yard! Perhaps a video on upgrading your heating, cooling and domestic hot water systems? Can all be done through the heat pumps. I enjoy watching your videos. Keep up the great work.
Heatpumps are serious buisness.
Yes, good point. It's always cheaper to MOVE heat than to CREATE heat.
@@mattfoley6082 Heat pumps are still getting hot air from the surrounding area, which can be an issue in some cases
How clean is it, though?
Good use of time very interesting
this video helped me alot because i wanted to do oil to gas conversion on my house, and the gas company is alot of hassle they jave to dig up alot and the oil company they dont have to dig up they just have to put the furnance and thats it.
The problem with gas is, it might burn cleaner but it generates less BTUs then oil! BTUs are the measurement of heat produced when burned .
@@da_blade5040 Not sure where oil doesnt burn clean comes from. Should be 0 smoke in flue or out chimney if burner has been set up correctly. If they burned dirty people with oil furnace would sweep their chimneys. They dont.
Seriously good information.
I really appreciate it. Thank you.
Fun fact: the btu content per volume of #2 heating oil is higher than diesel. If you set the appliance up to run on heating oil, it will likely run fine on diesel, but will have too much air (lean). If you set a burner up on diesel, then switch to #2, you may have sooting problems as th fire will have too little air (rich). It may be fine either way, but there is an actual difference between diesel and #2.
Heating oil systems require significantly more maintenance and costs for it to be safe. LNG and Propane has multiple failsafes in the system. While it's true that cutting a gas line inside the house can lead to an explosion, black pipe isn't going to puncture by something sharp falling on it. The same can't be said for old heating oil tanks or the line to the burner.
Also, LNG is substantially cheaper than Oil.
When you factor cost per BTU, LNG isn't that much cheaper. Also, no one would have oil heat if they had access to gas.
@@doughill5487 My parent's have both. The house was built with fuel oil heating in the 60's. They added gas (propane?) many years later when converting the fireplace to gas logs. Both have to be hauled to the house as there are no pipelines. (The farm tractor is gasoline, so they just keep track of gas used in the tractor for end-of-year taxes.) Once a year, usually in the summer when oil is cheaper, the local oil company fills all the tanks.
It doesnt get safer than oil. Can literally toss matches on it...Oil burners dont have fail safes? If there is no flame, it shutsdown thanks to the 'cad' cell and controller. Maintenance? 5$ filter and 5$ nozzle and 20 minutes. A monkey could service a beckett style burner.
Better than a cracked exchanger every 10-15 in your gas unit...
You always have great videos. You're like a twin of Project Farm
That is very kind of you, he is next level on me, but I really appreciate the compliment.
Thanks. I live in CA where all resources used to heat a home are taxed. Electricity, natural gas and propane. I've been thinking about retiring in Michigan or Wisconsin. Its nice to learn that heating oil (kerosene) is not taxed.
Liberals killed Cali. If you're a leftist stay put. You made your bed, now sleep in it.
@@rickfromthecape3135 Ain’t that the truth.
@@rickfromthecape3135 When I get there, I'll be sure to cast my vote. Although, I didn't bring politics into the conversation.
Had no idea heating oil wasn't more popular, everyone on my block is oil heat. Just need to call my HVAC guy every fall to change the filter. Only downsides are burning fossil fuels and pretty big price swings year to year.
Installed a Mitsubishi four head three ton mini-split system in my house in august, 2020.
Heated the house on the coldest day here on Long Island, around 15 degrees. Most of the time it was much warmer. My first summer was great but I struggled with humidity. Turned out that by running all four heads the system ramped way down and the coils were warmer so they didn’t remove humidity.
This summer I only used the 1-1/2 ton head in the living room during the day and left all doors open. Humidity went from 70% down to 50%. Had to raise the temperature from 68 degrees to 73. At night we used the head in that room and shut it off when we got up.
Solar panels are next. Then maybe an electric car. Will keep one that runs on gas though.
@@brianmahoney154 yeah, high end heat pumps will be more cost effective then any other heating solution. If only the fact was better known.
@@Dirty_Bear22 until repairs are needed, then it gets pricey
@@stephanmussehl7425 A properly installed heat pump from a reputable brand will give you 15-20 years of service. Most companies offer 10 year compressor warranty.
The word "gas" is overloaded. The fluid you used is petrol, usually called gasoline in the US and here in Canada. It has a high vapour pressure and can be lit easily, which is useful for Otto-cycle engines but makes it difficult to store. The word also refers to various gaseous fuels: methane, which is usually stored as a cryogenic liquid, and propane, which is familiar to urban users as being stored at room temperature and at very high pressure as a liquid in white cylinders. Alberta recently had an Arctic blast that was so cold to where propane was liquid at outdoor temperature and pressure. Both methane and propane are stored as liquids but used as gases. Petrol is technically used as a gas as well, because liquids technically don't burn, but for our purposes petrol is used as a liquid.
Offroad diesel/heating oil, as you demonstrated, has a much lower vapour pressure.
Iam thankful that I don't need heating here, we're now in november and it is 6am and the temp is 26 C°
You are LUCKY! We are getting very chilly here now and ready for a long winter ahead.
I'm just tankful to have enough
heating oil for this winter
Can you please do a review on your shop vacuum?
This is one of the safest fuel to heat your home. Way better than gas for sure.
Friend of mine in northern Wisconsin pays over 4 dollars a gallon smaller 2 bedroom home costing well over 2 thousand dollars a year. Go Propane cleaner and 1/3 of price
I respect your love of heating oil but I will take natural gas any day. A properly piped system won't leak and petroleum spills are a big deal. Natural gas is also amazingly safe with a small flammability range of 5 to 15%. With natural gas I can heat my water and my house plus dry my clothes, cook my food and have a gas fireplace and a gas stove in the garage and in my bedroom. It is extremely versatile and I have virtually an unlimited supply and never have to worry about running out. Then there's the cost! Home heating oil runs upward of $22 per million BTU with natural gas at $5. It was $2 just last year. I think if you had a choice, and you likely don't in NE, you would choose natural gas any day.
This is all true, and natural gas is a cheaper, cleaner fuel if you have it available. However, it's been artificially low in price for a while because the US has so much of it as a byproduct of other refining. This is changing as climate agreements are made and pipelines are shutdown/not permitted. I wouldn't plan on NG being as cheap as it has been ever again. The writing is on the wall for super high taxes on fossil fuels to help pay for 'cleaner' alternatives. The best bet will probably be heat pumps with a fossil fuel backup for super cold days.
When theres a disaster of some kind you will have to worry about running out LOL
Energy conversion once at the point of use, more efficient than burning stuff to make electricity to try to convert to heat again.
yup, theres no free lunch.
I heat my automotive repair shop with used motor oil. The burner is very similar except that it pre heats the oil before it goes to the nozzle.
Interested in knowing the electrical current,voltage and draw rate of the power necessary for these igniters. Do they run continuously while heating or does the fuel need constant electricity to prevent run on. As he mentioned a hot tank or plate perpetually reigniting. Also would a ballast of a temperature gradient material(steel,iron or ceramic) in the center of the tank retain some heat to augment heating?
The ignitor is a step up transformer. They put out between 10,000 volts and 20,000 volts, with very low current.
Newer ones don't run continuously. Older ones do.
I have an old danesmoor 15/19 heatslave that's been in our house for years and years, always serviced regularly and has been super reliable. to go with that is a large 1200 litre tank that when full can last up to year. here in u.k though as with many countries the cost of oil is shooting up rapidly. to compensate we had an up to date room Stat installed as it didn't before so that should save a chunk in fuel.
Great job on your information.
Oil furnaces are the shit, I’m putting one in my work shop
You can also put heating oil in you Diesel car maybe not an an New S6 or m550d but in your golf 1.9tdi or old Opel/ Vauxhall
Works great
When I was in grade school a house near the school blew up. It was so powerful it blew the front door of the hinges on the house across the street. Gas leak.
It’s dyed diesel, aka, off-road diesel, aka heating oil. It can be used in powered units or pony motor units that are used exclusively off road. I’m a landlubber so I can’t speak about off shore.
No, dyed diesel is regular on road diesel with a dye.
@@ryangreenley4818 I kinda thought that was a given? Dyed diesel is regular ol diesel with dye. It’s so the ol DOT can easily see if you’re “stealing” by not paying your fair share to the legalized mob.
did not know about that fuel law... the lengths the government will go through to tax us is insane
Three years ago gas explosion took out 50 homes in Lawrence Mass.
I remember that, I heard it and some of the people I worked with lived there. Very scary!
Growing up in a rural area (one of the lowest population densities in the US), almost every farmer and rancher was running ORD in their pickups. The cops really don't care.
The cops probably do it too lol
Lots of people do that here in rural Maine.
In my country Gasoline is dyed with that red dye.
Can't fool me , I'll keep heating with gas. Haha
Love my oil heat.. it's like right now hot and I've rewired the electrics so as long as I have oil in my tank, and gasoline for my generator I can have heat. My next go around I'm going to use a hybrid heat-pump/oil system just to save a little oil on "cool" days.
Super bad-day plus-side is I can technically get heating oil at the gas station(diesel fuel) right by my home. Granted it's expensive but if I'm at that point, I don't care.
How does heating oil compare to natural gas in terms of heating cost???
Depends where you are.
If I remember right, a natural gas Therm is 100KBTU, while a gallon of diesel is about 130KBTU, so compare the local prices for each, including the amortized monthly Natural gas hookup cost and the oil delivery cost.
thanks for the great and clear video. what's the cost comparison to run an oil furnace Vs heat pump? is the oil a lot more expensive to run?
From what I've learned, heating oil furnaces take a lot more maintenance than say natural gas but they are less expensive because there's just less moving parts. Also heating oil is stored in a tank in the home so it has to be filled periodically. Natural gas is piped in so it refills forever. So basically natural gas = less hassle. Both require electricity to run the furnace but I have a non-venting natural gas heater that doesn't use any electricity to operate as emergency backup heat.
Best part about gas to the house is then you can tie in the cooking stove and water heater. Having had oil heat for years it sucks, especially if you have buried tanks and run the risk of them leaking.
@@on4acres I'd much rather have an oil tank leak than a gas pipe leak but that's just me
@@ghost2coast296 well oil leaking in the ground requires soil remediation and is very expensive. Natural gas is mostly methane and doesn’t require remediation of surrounding areas.
@@on4acres a proper underground tank has a very low chance of leaking
@@on4acres If a gas line is leaking *you have to dig up the ground and fix the pipe.* just like you would dig up the ground to fix a oil tank.
I've had fuel oil, natural gas & now geothermal...
Fuel oil is expensive, cost me about $200 every 2 weeks in u.s., also seems more maintenance too.
Natural gas all yr $50-70 on budget bill & like 3-4 months of no gas bill.
450-630 roughly probably on the higher side of that.
Geothermal... everything is electric
Based on electric bills from $70-280 last yr. I figured $150 avg if spread out over the yr. I think my bill will be lower overall after modifying my thermostat temperature range of 3 to 5degrees vs 2 degree range prior. For instance heat set to 72. Geo kicks off at 73 kicks on at 68.
With that said worst month for heating cost alone is probably $180, this past month around freezing point or so was about $50 in electric.
I know someone with electric heat that pays $500-600 a month for comparable home. Worth noting natural gas place I had was 2/3 the space of my newer place.
So what does it all look like?
Natural gas 1000sq ft 3mo. $450-630
Fuel oil 1500sq ft. 3mo. 1200 $
Geo. 3 months $500 on high estimate
Electric 3 mo. $1000-1500
Propane 3 mo $600
Someone local told me propane is typically around $600 for the yr for a house I believe that is somewhere between 1000-1500sq ft. I'm thinking it is bigger than my 1st but not as big as my current 1500sq ft.
Fuel oil furnace are 1500$ and last forever because they dont have fragile heat exchangers like gas.
@@CL-ty6wp
The last gas furnace I had lasted at least 20 years, the fan motor went bad...no issues with heat exchanger.
Some of it can be from poor maintenance. I kept clean air filters.
I wonder if there's a way to easily remove the dye. If there is, I wonder how many people don't let this dye stop them from using it.
Not really. The effort to do so would negate the tax savings. Also diesel trucks nowadays need much more refined diesel to run due to higher spec fuel systems for efficiency.
get a box of kitty litter and funnel with something like cheese cloth and pass it through that shit and it will come out clean, may take a few passes. act accordingly
Question: Those Wabasto Diesel heaters being used in RV's, Van, Semi Truck cabs, could those operate on Heating Oil?
Yes because diesel and heating oil is pretty much the same thing. You can use it for off road diesel engines. Those diesel heaters will run just fine on heating oil. It is illegal to drive a diesel vehicle with red fuel.
@@markm0000 but not unlawful
She's choochin' mama, she's choochin.......
I have 2 houses one runs on oil the other on gas, I just bought them so I can't comment on which is better the one that runs on gas was better built and the one that runs on oil I'm scared to leave alone a lot was built bougie and the thermostat is old and not only did I have to replace the old furnace but now I found out the oil tank has to be replaced too
There is something I find odd. If you look at a small diesel motor that is water-cooled? You are better off as far as what I have calculated to use the heat from the motor and the kinetic energy of the engine producing electricity to then store any extra in Nickel Iron batteries so that takes care of a system that will only need Filter and oil changes for a very long time.
you're not only making heat but you are also making power this is especially beneficial in emergency situations or if you live off grid. this also brings the viability of a heat pump along with its amazing efficiency, safety, reliability & convenience of electricity.
it's too bad that Society has to go through all these hoops because the one thing that we should be focusing on his inexpensive and cheap energy yet that's the one thing that for one reason or another everyone has a concern about but no one seems to be investing and any kind of infrastructure for it since the 50s
Heating oil can legally be used for agriculture use and I believe industrial in place of diesel
Yeah, that’s because they’re the same thing.
thanks for this info. coming to think about yeah we can use the same heating oil for our trucks. but like always uncle sam will never allow that.
Is heating oil just red diesel? Which in the UK I believe you can use legally for farming equipment and boats
Yes and mixed with kero usually in the winter to stop gelling.
“Heating oil” is unrefined petrol suited for heating since it has a low flash point
Which one is more affordable?
So heating oil is just off road diesel?
We had a small oil leak from the bottom of the tank, every green plant in the house died, so we switched to gas because it was cheaper, and we did not need a tank to store it. You can convert these boilers from oil to propane and vice versa
if I was writing the laws on taxing fuel etc, I'd probably tax kilometers (proxy for liters burned) rather than liters bought. EVs, I'd scale proportional to the carbon intensity of the local electric grid.
Which oil burner is better Beckett or Reilo? Are they more or less the same?
Its a Beckett, the Riello does the same thing but working on each is very different and use different pressure, etc. Riello is very different inside.
I also heard the Red Diesel is used in Agriculture Machines too for tax free purposes.
Yup, it's all Diesel #2 ultra low sulfur, same that comes out of the pump. It's dyed red because you don't pay road/fuel taxes on it, so they can catch you if you run it on the road
SO THAT WAS THE BIG BLACK TANK IN MY GRANDMA'S BASEMENT! 😆
Oil is a good fuel. Natural gas is also very safe unless you do something not allowed.
Nat Gas requires a lot less maintenance and is the fuel of choice.
It is more efficient and costs less to heat with.
No, I’m not pushing natural gas. I actually heat with propane.
They all have pluses and minuses.
Only it's $2.25 per liter here in Canada...sooooo..yeah...
Excellent video bravo
Heating oil and diesel are exactly the same produc
The differences come with additives add after refining
Like detergents and oder additives to prevent the diesel to freeze in the tank of a truck
#2 (diesel) gets blended with #1(kerosene) in colder months to prevent gelling
@@Icutmetal also diesel gets blend with kerosene to make jet fuel
@@craizihorse3230 Prove it.
Can you substitute vegetable oil ? I've run diesels on veg oil in the past .
Not in a typical oil burner. Only kero, diesel an no. 2 heating oil. A waste oil burner yes.
Trying to explain the world runs on oil, is near impossible to some people. We have oil use oil!
I was told most farm tractors run Diesel Red...and they check usually in southern farm belt states. I have never been checked in Cali for my 1997 Ford F350 XLT PowerStroke (7.3L turbocharged I.H.) 4x4 crew cab..also Cali weasels (aka parasites) do smog checks on newer diesels....I am exempt.
Yes off-road diesel is red
Can you tell me i should clean my generator carburetor my generator only ran for 10 minutes and stored for almost 20 years
Don't mind the dry pine needles behind me
That was pretty cool
What's the part number on that coil?
It could be useful for future experiments
amzn.to/3phXtTq They are very cool and work right off 110v with nothing buy a power cord. Be careful with the high voltage coming out.
@@SilverCymbal wonder if you could use it for a small spark gap Tesla coil
What comes to my mind immediately, is if it's diesel, why not replace the burner with a stationary diesel engine, attach a cooling loop and generator, so that as you burn the diesel fuel, you're extracting heat through the coolant loop still, but additionally, the mechanical work of the engine to produce electricity? Downsides I could see are increased costs, increased noise, increased complexity, and greatly increased maintenance, but I'd think someone could figure out an extremely low maintenance engine, efficiency probably doesn't even matter, because it's all intended to create heat anyway. Emissions would be an issue.
The difference in the demand for heat and electricity would be the issue
Maybe if you had an off grid setup and had a large battery bank and the gen charged batteries that you already have and lived in a cold climate and wanted to reclaim that heat it could be worth it. Run the exhaust through a heat exchange also
Oil burning is old tech but it still works
A bottle of 2 stroke oil fixes the color issue
Propane is way cheaper where I live fuel oil is like 3.40 a gallon whole propane is 2.40
Propane BTU/gal is about 90,000 vs. 140,000 for gal of oil so of course it's cheaper per gallon.
Heating oil is used in locomotives also...
Yes it is diesel. Dif taxes and name, maybe dye.
Those things are massive. No wonder it’s not popular
Its only because you have a tank instead of a gas line. Thats not why they are unpopular, its because most people think burning oil is some unsafe 1940's tech
i live in an appartment, why do i even watch these
Could you not just add dye to the fuel to change its color and claim its some anti freeze. Or filter the dye out?
A big brained individual would use a hidden auxiliary fuel tank for the oil with a decoy dummy tank for diesel
Great video
If I wanted to store multiple years of heating oil in my home, how long would it last?
you can add long storage time additives to it. otherwise it might start growing fungus. if you let regular diesel/heating oil sit for more than a month it will make a difference and in 6 months its straight up dirty.
every home up north here has oil sit from aprilish to octoberish. So about half the year. Its normal and fine.