Moment of stupidity cost me a day of cutting.

Was looking forward to getting into my woodlot this weekent to CSS some cherry and red pine. But while thinking of the fun ahead, I stupidly pumped some gas into my diesel car. So, no car = no chainsaw. Had to take the train to my in-laws place where we stay near the farm.

Still got to the woodlot, still had a fire...and the kids got to be kids. So it wasn't a total waste.

 

Will you have to purchase a special train ticket for the wood you are bringing back ? Or just a bunch of shopping bags......

 

I thought you said you did something stupid. Figured you must've put diesel in your chainsaw.... at least it's only a car..

 

Hopefully you'll get home in time to watch the penguins win!

 

How come you didn't want to bring the chainsaw with you on the train?!

Think about it - if you could rent an entire car, you could have started the "Loaded Train pics" thread!! Who knows maybe they'd even give you a discount if you showed them your saw?

 

grandgourmand I gotta say when I read the title to the thread I thought "Oh no...someone got hurt" Glad to hear it was a fixable oversight only.

And according to the pic, you look too young to drive anyway!

 

Yeah when I was waiting for the tow truck I was feeling like crap. But in the list of stupid mistakes this will inly cost money, not physical harm (unless you count the death stares from my wife).

I also spent time burning some scrub to clean up the place. So some stuff got done.

And Hellcat...I'm originally from Ottawa.

 

Those kind of death stares are extremely painful LOL. Did you realize what you had done before you started the car? This happened to my friend once (diesel in gas truck though) but he didn't start truck so it only cost draining the fuel tank.
This has been a good series between Pens and Sens.

 

Actually it was my wife who noticed. I had pumped 3 gallons. Then stopped. I did start it but just to move the car about 50' for the tow. I guess that's bad too.

It's been a great series except game 2 was boring. I prefer a series where I hate the opponent. Crosby is a Canadian hero. If the Pens do win, I want them to go all the way.

 

Well, hopefully it doesn't cost you a lot to get it fixed. I started watching/rooting for the Penguins in high school when Super Mario was the man. Without Lemieux, Pittsburgh might not have a hockey team. I HATE the flyers and couldn't see myself ever rooting for them.

 

Yeah the Flyers and that Boston team...not exactly shedding a tear when they don't do well.

 

Add in that Chicago team and I'm on board. The predators sure made quick work of the Blackhawks.

 

What did you do?!?!?!?!

 

Call me crazy, but if I only put 3 gallons in it, I'd have filled it the rest of the way up with diesel and gone on.
Wifey was certain her 2000 insight ought to burn e85 a few years ago, and it took a bumpy ride home to convince her otherwise. LOL.

 

I did something similar on a much bigger scale last year....put 60 gallons of gasoline into one of the dump trucks at work. I (we) caught it before I was done pumping so just had to call out the environmental waste guys to pump it out and dispose of it. I was pretty embarrassed but was assured it wasn't to first or last time someone had done it.

 

My wife put in about a gallon of e85 in her 4runner once. She caught it, and called me. I had her fill the truck up with regular e10 and it was fine. Had they had non reformulated gas, I would've had her fill up with that. 1 gallon in a 20 g tank , even with a couple gallons left before that e85 was quickly diluted with 90% gas.

grandgourmand , how many gallons could the tank hold?

 

Hmmmmm... so the density of diesel is greater than the density of gasoline. So technically..... and of course theoretically, if one accidentally put gas in a diesel vehicle, one could then pump diesel slowly until all the gasoline poured out of the fill pipe. Since the fuel pump is in the bottom, would it be reasonable to think that if a little gas got in the diesel tank, all one would have to do is keep the tank mostly full to avoid burning the gasoline? I suppose after a while it would mix and get burned off but wonder how long it would take......

 

Good response to that scenario.