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Post by skycheney on Aug 26, 2020 20:11:17 GMT -5
I've heard nothing lately about DPF and DEF for boats but it's coming. We got a new forklift recently and it's one it. Brian My last few pieces of equipment have it too. PITA And yet another reason to repower now instead of waiting
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Post by yachtsmanwilly on Aug 27, 2020 7:16:12 GMT -5
Got a chance to do some tugboat work again. This boat in 1998 was a smoker with a Fairbanks Morse 38D 10 banger. Always a wet stack motor until heated up. Some one called the air cops. They came down and pulled a sample of fuel and found "it exceeded .05 PPm of sulphur. The owner paid 600.00 for remediation and the supplier who "knowingly" sold the low grade fuel (Bunker A?) paid like 5000.00 plus costs. Damn EPA... ws
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Post by krush on Aug 27, 2020 17:43:59 GMT -5
It's world wide. Heavy fuel oil is now all low sulfur, unless the ship has a scrubber.
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Post by skycheney on Aug 27, 2020 19:23:06 GMT -5
Got a chance to do some tugboat work again. This boat in 1998 was a smoker with a Fairbanks Morse 38D 10 banger. Always a wet stack motor until heated up. Some one called the air cops. They came down and pulled a sample of fuel and found "it exceeded .05 PPm of sulphur. The owner paid 600.00 for remediation and the supplier who "knowingly" sold the low grade fuel (Bunker A?) paid like 5000.00 plus costs. Damn EPA... ws That's ridiculous. I hope the owner gets reimbursed by the supplier.
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Post by yachtsmanwilly on Aug 28, 2020 7:31:46 GMT -5
Yeah.. that was 1998. Im sure its gotten worse. Those east coaster boys with the commercial experience should have some answers. Scrod should be in the know, and that licensed unlimited horsepower engineer would owe some accountability to foul play/ Ya test yer fuel Krush?? ws
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Post by rsmith on Aug 29, 2020 7:37:00 GMT -5
During the Clintonian age they started dyeing the fuel more for tax purposes than sulfur content. Commercial boats were able to use the red but pleasure had clear and a .25 luxury tax added to it. My documentation is Coastal trade form chartering but no one ever asked.
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Post by krush on Aug 29, 2020 8:58:52 GMT -5
Bunkers are all sampled and tested. 2020 began new low sulfer mandate from IMO on heavy fuel oil.
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Post by banned on Aug 30, 2020 7:02:29 GMT -5
Now the red off road diesel is also low sulfur it's only dyed to identify it as fuel with no road tax. I use that fuel in all my trucks. Back in the nineties DOT pulled a fuel sample at an agricultural check point and gave me a $500 summons for un taxed fuel in an on road vehicle. I fought it in court I brought a bottle of a fuel additive with a red dye in it and was going to claim that's why the fuel was red. I never needed it when the DOT attorney couldn't show test results the judge threw it out. How would that work today when the red fuel is also low sulfur?
Brian
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Post by yachtsmanwilly on Aug 30, 2020 9:20:09 GMT -5
Ive heard they do that in Texas (and the SW areas) at rodeos. They walk down the line testing all the pick up trucks for taxed fuel. The aux. tanks in the bed are exempt for tractor use. Jimmy Bob refills his truck off'n that tank and gets a ticket on his windshield. Its not for the owner per se, but the tag owner on that particular truck. Reefers on freezer trailers are the same; untaxed. Do they drop a hose in the tank and pull a sample? The rodeo jobs are field tested and not sent to a lab. They just look for color. ws
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Post by badhattitude on Aug 30, 2020 9:37:10 GMT -5
MMO. PINK AND PEPPERMINT.
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