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gcreekrch

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-9 C this morning, snowed twice while I was baling haylage this afternoon, too POed to take pictures, broke a belt with 10 bales left in the windrow for today, 4 wheeler got a flat tire, -3 C as I write this at 10 PM.


Isn't Global Warming Wonderful?
 
If it is any consolation, my day didn't go so well either. I had a dumoss ottock and filled my diesel pickup with gasoline. :( :roll: Fortunately this was only on one tank, so I drove it home on the other tank before draining the fouled fuel. If a feller is going to be dumb, he needs to be tough. :wink:

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I can go you one better on the wrong fuel DAttack. I fueled a 7.3 diesel with gas once and drove it on the tank that was 50-50 until it was nearly empty, all the while cursing the fuel station that sold me bad fuel. This opinion was solidified when I refueled the same tank with diesel and there was a great improvement in performance.

I was more than a little embarrassed on the return trip when the station owner emptied the other full tank of GAS that I had put in and had given him bad advertising for 3 days for crappy fuel. He then refilled my tank with diesel free/gratis and asked if I would tell the folks I had complained to the whole story. :oops: :oops:

I bought fuel from that fellows little company until he sold out and retired.
 
Our local voluntary fire dept. had a brand new diesel fire engine that one of the firemen filled with gas and totally ruined the engine. They still haven't lived that down.
 
As I pulled into the filling station yesterday of our little town, a hitchhiker was being dropped off right close by. That being quite a bit of excitement for this old country kid to absorb, my attention was diverted so that I inadvertantly picked up the wrong nozzle. Fortunately, the numbers need to be reported to the nice lady at the desk, and she said that the $36 didn't match up with the 9.3 gallons. We both went back outside to check, and sure enough, those figures were on the gas pump instead of the diesel. I borrowed their electric siphon pump, put the pickup on the full tank of diesel, and came home to drain the other tank. This nineteen gallons of "half and half" fuel will be added to our ranch gas supply, and hopefully the diluted fuel will cause no further problem. :roll:
 
I was in Circle Montana one night years back and filled one tank about 1/2 full of diesel before I caught it and topped it off with gas my gas pickup ran real well on the blend.
 
Things were soooo much simpler way back when the diesel pump was out in left field all by itself, instead of connected to the other pumps.
Also a complaint I have is, Diesel nozzles were always, ALWAYS green. Now they can be any color they decide to stick on em. Alot of em are yellow now. But I still am in the habit of drivin in, if it's somewhere I don't normally get fuel, and lookin for the green nozzle.
Bought a lil 94 Toyota truck the other day, and first time I pulled up to the pump in it. What'd I do....grabbed the diesel nozzle......looked at it. Put it back, and got the gas. Habits are hard to break LOL
 
gcreekrch said:
-9 C this morning, snowed twice while I was baling haylage this afternoon, too POed to take pictures, broke a belt with 10 bales left in the windrow for today, 4 wheeler got a flat tire, -3 C as I write this at 10 PM.


Isn't Global Warming Wonderful?
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:shock: :shock: :shock: :o
Keep it down there!! I don't wanna be seein' that stuff anytime soon.
Pretty chilly breeze happenin here, but no minus temps and no snow.
 
Shouldn't admit I've been down that canoe trip too. Truck was nearly empty, put enough in to get home. Made 3 miles. Never did totally ruin the engine, just time, frustration and 2 sets of glow plugs getting the last bit of gas out. The pump, injectors and the rest of the engine survived the 50,000 more kilometers that I owned the truck.
 
gcreekrch said:
-10 here this morning, I think I'll put my earflaps down when I go out to repair that belt.
Weatherman says a week to 10 days of this. :(
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It was 105 here yesterday-- during the night a cold front moved in- wind started howling- dropped the temp down to 65 this morning- and is supposed to be in the 30's tonite....System Shock...

Fencing Contractor called last night and said it looked like a bunch of the neighbors yearlings in my pasture- mixed in with the cows...I was going to go up and try to sort them today- but not to anxious to pull a trailer 40 miles in this wind that they say is gusting to 50 mph.....
Holding tight to see if it won't go down some...
 
gcreekrch it seems way to early for snow and that much cold.

It seems like everyday we're getting a half inch to an inch and a half of rain and hail. We've hardly begun to get our hay up. Some of the fields sure look chopped up from the hail. The water has been running over the roads in places and it's just standing in the fields.

I have a friend that bought a new diesel pickup and accidentally put gas in it. He said he realized what he did before he left and called the dealership he bought it from. I believe they told him to just add a quart of automatic transmission fluid to it and run it out. My friend said it actually ran pretty good on it.
 

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