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  1. stehansen

    dealing with rising diesel cost

    I was going down the freeway the other day and passed a Geo Metro with a huge beam of wood lashed to the top.
  2. stehansen

    dealing with rising diesel cost

    Are they usually 12,500 lbs GVW? 5 to 6 thousand pounds is what I was thinking and it has to be able to lug the chipper around also. I do work in the hills/mountains once in a while and I have learned that you can't get away with overloading things up there like ya can down here on the flat...
  3. stehansen

    dealing with rising diesel cost

    I'm thinking of getting a chip truck. Is a 1-ton adequate? My chipper is a Vermeer 1250, weighs 7500 lbs.
  4. stehansen

    dealing with rising diesel cost

    I was talking over the fence with my neighbor who is a partner in a fuel distributorship and he said that there was additives in the ULSD to make it lube better now and that putting anything in the diesel was a waste of money.
  5. stehansen

    dealing with rising diesel cost

    Diesel is about 50 cents more per gallon here. I think the red diesel is about 60 cents less than clear diesel. I have a 100 gal. tank with a hand pump on it and I will fill it up with red diesel for the chipper and the tractor. I can also put it in the tractor that I work my orchard with but...
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    dealing with rising diesel cost

    I thought they could check the chipper.
  7. stehansen

    dealing with rising diesel cost

    I could probably do that also but they have truck safety check points around here and they check for red diesel in the tanks.
  8. stehansen

    dealing with rising diesel cost

    My neighbor the fuel guy was telling me about hauling some fuel to the service station in Yosemite Park. He has 4 big rigs hauling fuel but didn't have time to make a delivelry to the service station in Yosemite Park so he hired a competitor to deliver it for him. The competitor charged him by...
  9. stehansen

    dealing with rising diesel cost

    I don't have a Sam's Club anywhere close, and the Safeway is about 10 miles away. Wal-Mart is putting in a superstore about a mile away from me. Will they have fuel at one of those? I just figure a little extra in each bid and I do hourly work so very seldom. For most jobs that I do fuel is...
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