Oil Tank missing legs

[canman13]

Saw this at a friends house that they just moved into. We are going to replace it with a new tank with legs this weekend.

[Snapperhead]

that reminds me of cow tippin ...

[rayr]

Saw this at a friends house that they just moved into. We are going to replace it with a new tank with legs this weekend.

Double wall tank??

[pctech]

for a temp tank to replace the bad one this would be ok in my area but ONLY as a temp emg fix that would have to be done properly with in 48 hours

[canman13]

Nope it was a single wall tank only thing keeping it from tipping is the fill pipe. This was not a temp tank and the Best thing is the house inspector didn't say anything about it.

[craig1]

They must have left their oil tank unattended in the 'hood

[hurtinhvac]

While acknowledging I'm completely ignorant concerning oil burning furnaces; I still don't know how people sleep at night with all that fuel in their basement or right outside the kitchen door in a shed. How many gallons is that? Get tremors or quakes in NH? DC had one a couple years ago, did they not? {shivers}

[canman13]

Oil is very safe you can throw a match in the tank and it won't light needs to be itemized. The tank holds 275gal. And yes we got a quack here too

[timtanguay]

I don't see oil burners around here. What does it cost to run them on an average sized house?

[canman13]

I don't see oil burners around here. What does it cost to run them on an average sized house?

On a 2000 sq foot house it's around $2000 for the heating season

[hurtinhvac]

Oil is very safe you can throw a match in the tank and it won't light needs to be itemized. The tank holds 275gal. And yes we got a quack here too

Yes...I do recall from school (I think we had a week on them towards the end of advanced heating) the atomizing part and the importance of nozzle size.

I'm also told I could stand atop a 5 gallon bucket of gasoline and drop a lit cigarette straight down into it and it would be immediately extinguished. I can see that as well, but not about to test it.

I'm just thinkin' you should probably earn a bit more than a humble natural gas guy like me. Do they still have a retry button that the HO can keep pressing and dumping diesel when it's having trouble lighting off? And a step up transformer that could wallop the hell out of you? Or have they been modernized a bit as of late?

[canman13]

Yes...I do recall from school (I think we had a week on them towards the end of advanced heating) the atomizing part and the importance of nozzle size.

I'm also told I could stand atop a 5 gallon bucket of gasoline and drop a lit cigarette straight down into it and it would be immediately extinguished. I can see that as well, but not about to test it.

I'm just thinkin' you should probably earn a bit more than a humble natural gas guy like me. Do they still have a retry button that the HO can keep pressing and dumping diesel when it's having trouble lighting off? And a step up transformer that could wallop the hell out of you? Or have they been modernized a bit as of late?

They still have both newer ones you can only reset 3 times after that it goes into a hard Lock out. I have not heard that about Gasoline I would think it would go right up.