Rough red diesel prices? weighing up if worth it

[Chae1]

Our diesel suppliers will fill ibcs.

Remember being in a haulage companies yard a few years ago and they had a curtainsider full of ibcs! There lorries were filling out of it.

 

[delilah]

Don't get a tank of your own it will only attract unwanted visitors. Just buy 25 ltr as you need it from a friendly neighbour, you are most likely going to want to cultivate a relationship with him/her for future collaboration and bunging them a few pence over the odds for some red is a good way to introduce yourself.

 

[Hilly]

She got proper irate with some old pensioner chap (who probably had a big garden), because only an IRA splinter group or a jihadist would need more than 10 litres of petrol in tubs.

Here is me thinking i was alone getting tannoyed too death and practically wrestled to the ground by a old age pensioner forecourt attendant for filling plastic cans with petrol and trying to pay with ..................wait for it .....................................CASH, must be a caravan dwelling .....

 

[Ali_Maxxum]

I would go with the friendly neighbour option. I'm one of those friendly neighbours to some people. Friend of mine as a 4wd Ford 5030 with a loader and did all his hay making of 12 acres plus hauling round bales in with 2x 20 litre drums I think it was? And has had maybe 2 since then till about a week ago.

 

[spin cycle]

Quite often see S/H tanks on FB. By the smallest, cheapest, you can find . Also do you use central heating oil ? order some of that too, to make you look like a more " attractive " customer.

personally i'd never buy a s/h plastic tank JMO

 

[7610 super q]

personally i'd never buy a s/h plastic tank JMO

Wouldn't be my first choice either....but....

 

[Lincsman]

The fuel company’s can only deliver red to those who are farmers for food production or off road users they need the business name and address for when the customs and excise inspect their records

Need bundled storage

What if your heating is set to run on red?... and domestic tanks do not need bunding.

 

[steveR]

Don't forget that the modern diesel goes off. As a small user, when the fuel was changed to low sulphur and a bio content was included, and also my old steel tank was in danger of rusting through, I decided to do the sensible thing and fill up with white at the local garage. The cost difference is insignificant.

You can get hold of fuel stabiliser, but not that cheap for big quantities but could work if the discounts on larger quantities of Red makes sense....

 

[steveR]

She got proper irate with some old pensioner chap (who probably had a big garden), because only an IRA splinter group or a jihadist would need more than 10 litres of petrol in tubs.

Sound like some of the arsey so and so's who kick off when filling a bike and insisting the helmet is removed.

Had this once AFTER filling the tank. Silly cow told me that they could not take payment from someone with a helmet on... This to me with a flip up helmet and about to hand over the 25 quid.... I just asked for a receipt

I have known some riders be less courteous and civilised!!! One mate was about to fill up and Madam switched off the pump... so the nozzle was left on the floor

 

[New Puritan]

Just get a couple of jerry cans from an army surplus place or those 20 or 25 litre plastic cans and fill up at either a filling station that sells red diesel (aka gas oil); or better still find a local delivery company and see if they allow people to visit them and fill up with small quantities on site (as it would be cheaper). If you could say whereabouts in the country you are, people could suggest where to go.

If you do go down the cans route, get a funnel with a filter in the bottom to avoid random bits of muck falling into the tank, which happens far more easily than you might think.

 

[Tarw Coch]

How does the OP get on with the local farmers? Many now have tanks with meters on, could drive round on the tractor and fill it up, would likely be less than a handful of times in a year.
Something in the back of my mind that re selling red ain't legal but such laws are almost certainly intended to stop Joe public/white van man etc running on red, it would hardly be crime of the century to put red in someone else's tractor but perhaps best not to tell every Tom dick and Harry.

 

[Farmer Roy]

You’d spend 4 days in Guantanamo Bay and be subject to water boarding by the over officious petrol fourcourt attendants plus the ignominy of being tannoyed to death

On occasion when I've run out of diesel & couldn't get a delivery quick enough, I've chucked an old roundup 1000 litre shuttle in a box trailer & run into town to a servo

Not uncommon for people to run into town with a fuel trailer ( obviously has to be a legal, road registered trailer ) or a tank on the back of the ute, rather than having large quantities of fuel on hand & susceptible to theft. As we really only run tractors / machines at planting & harvest times, it actually works pretty well if you are not too far from town
We don't have " white " or " red " diesel as such. Diesel is diesel.

 

[Lazy Sod]

In what part of the UK would you find a garage that sells red diesel?
I can't recall ever seeing one anywhere.

 

[richard hammond]

In what part of the UK would you find a garage that sells red diesel?
I can't recall ever seeing one anywhere.

Horncastle Lincolnshire.

 

[chaffcutter]

Seen several lately actually..

Some were in Jersey though!

 

[puppet]

Seen several lately actually..

Some were in Jersey though!

Might be for the yachts

 

[quattro]

In what part of the UK would you find a garage that sells red diesel?
I can't recall ever seeing one anywhere.

A lot sell it for fridge vans (hgv)

 

[Farfrae]

In what part of the UK would you find a garage that sells red diesel?
I can't recall ever seeing one anywhere.

Several round here in Carmarthenshire, I use Nantycaws garage on the A48 just outside Carmarthen when I need small quantities of Red.

 

[bovrill]

A lot of the independents round here sell red.

 

[Hilly]

Just get a couple of jerry cans from an army surplus place or those 20 or 25 litre plastic cans and fill up at either a filling station that sells red diesel (aka gas oil); or better still find a local delivery company and see if they allow people to visit them and fill up with small quantities on site (as it would be cheaper). If you could say whereabouts in the country you are, people could suggest where to go.

If you do go down the cans route, get a funnel with a filter in the bottom to avoid random bits of muck falling into the tank, which happens far more easily than you might think.

Yes the red paint on the inside comes off and contaminates the fuel