Mondays are for yard work
Could be anything, General July 14th, 2008I spent the first part of the morning grabbing some more oil for my Biesel. I stopped at the Flight Deck and picked up close to 30 gallons of oil. My transfer system works pretty good and is clean. The only part that is a pain is getting the filled 20 gallon drums back into the truck. I got them back home and set them in the back of the garage to settle a little bit before mixing.
My agenda for the day consisted of doing a bunch of yard work. Usually in the summer if you do not water the grass does not grow but we have been having a storm pretty much each day or so. So the grass has been growing and needed mowing. I mowed the back and front, got out the weed eater and trimmed up both lawns and then attached the blower and cleaned it all up.
My next project was to trim up the neighbors trees. There is a choke cherry tree next to the driveway up by the garage and it is spitting cherries every where. So I got out the ladder, trimmers, clippers, pole saw and chain saw and went to town on those pesky little bombs. Since I had all the stuff out I also trimmed all of the neighbors bushes next to my fence to make it look neater.
I did not feel like loading all those little branches into the truck so I hauled them to back and loaded up the burn barrel. It may take a couple of days to get rid of all of it but that is no problem.
After that I went back and made up my Biesel. Take a look at these numbers I made a total of 31.94 gallons of Biesel it cost me $22.61 to make it up. With diesel at $4.89/gallon this would have cost me $136.36 so I saved $112.75. And my truck is running perfectly.
With all this going on we decided to find the wife a new vehicle with a diesel engine. We went to Carmax and found a Jeep Liberty with a 4 cyclinder diesel engine and pretty much bought it. It will take a few days to get it transfered, and when it gets here we will test its pulling power and how it handles hauling the boat to see if it will work. With Carmax you have 5 days to try out the vehicle make certain that it is the right one for you.
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