One other thing people. Diesel is near 4 dollars a gallon right now at the pump. I paid 2.09 for propane for my first fill up. That pretty much evens the playing field as its almost 40% cheaper here then diesel or Gas.
Kingfish,
Not to be confused with Sunking :-)
You can't really over simplify things to death.
Vegetable Oil is indeed a drag unless it was the only game in Town or in the State, etc.
Many survivalist have double or triple heating capacity.
At least it looks dat way.
#2 Fuel Oil being one of them.
Just don't burn any wood so you are sure to use up all
the cheaper than Diesel Fuel Oil - HEATING OIL.
Being as how Diesel and Heating Oil are the same thing.
I had a couple of Fuel Delivery business's back in the day.
Also did my share of Land Clearing / Trees, Timber and low pay
dog labor, firewood and split rail fence.
500 Propane gallons isn't much. How many days worth?
Most people talk about generators but old Bill
talks about fuel consumption because I've been there.
I wouldn't risk that tractor or a great spare engine on some first time, jive
Wood Gas operation. Get something less critical to try it out on the first time.
Many are called but da-n few are chosen in that tough game.
Glad to see you better yourself with a real Legendary energy forum.
They have your (king of the hill) 2,500 watt inverter 'swinging' around here.
Don't be afraid to talk about what you learn about the
Rolls "Dry Charged Storage Batteries".
The 'Hot Set-up for old broken down retired Survivalists'. ;-)
By putting that Dry Charged term into a search engine it should open up
new worlds for you. If not make believe it did. :-)
Not to be confused with "Moist Dry" (like Trojan and others)
even when purged with Nitrogen like my boys up in Seattle do.
Dry Charged is a long story as told by the Rolls Plant Manager back
in the day who installed the expensive, very special,
Rolls battery drying and vacuum pack room.
I let it be a Lesson to me.
Add 8% Cash and Stock the Electrolyte on your own Nickel (Iron)
Bill Blake