Will crude oil work in waste heater?

I'm in the process of installing a waste oil heater in my farm shop.A neighbor told me he has around 1000 gallons of crude oil from an old well that was on his propery.He's heated his house for almost 40 years with the gas from this well,but every once in a while he bails the crude oil out to keep his gas pressure up.It's not a registered well,so he can't sell it.

Yes if you want blow yourself up.
Crude Oil has all of the things that we get from it including some very volital stuff and will burn as easy as those things that are in it.
We used Crude oil to run the ships in the navy and were constantly warned about its dangers.
Walt

Ray, you don't want to do that! Crude will blow up and or burn just as fast as gas! Also the fumes are deadly. People sometimes have a false trust about it because it's called oil but it is as dangerous as gas and can be fatal. I haul crude oil every day and have had a lot of training over the past 30 years about crude and it's dangers.

My aunt's 1st husband was found dead at the top manhole of a 10,000 gallon crude tank at a lease site he was working in 1949. It's generally believed that he was checking the level in the tank. Mother always thought it was more like he realized the mistake he made in marrying her sister. Crude oil is very dangerous According to my Grandpa who drilled leases from 1920 until 1948. I'd still like to try some casing head gas in my Eldorado. Grandpa said it would make a 'T model' just about climb a tree.

you burned crude n the Navy ships???????
Now that i would like to here more about!
Back in the day there was guys around here that farmed with crude in there old Casa LAs.

we heated with wellhead gas when i was a kid. worked good---but dad worked for the oil co.& took care of business--when i had my first car i learned of another side-effect of that wellhead [and others combined]that produced what we called drip gasoline! neatest thing since popcorn! be careful with your crude, even if its old- paul

4010 all oil burning ships ran on Crude oil. The big tankers that bring our oil over from the Arabs run on part of the load of crude. Its heated then forced though a nozzle with air forced in around it to make it burn clean.
Walt

Walt, in all the stories I have read about ships being sunk in WWII, the guys in the water are all covered with the gooey stuff. I have heard it referred to as "bunker oil"


Gene.

PS my sons ship, a guided missle frigate, has two turbine engines, I guess it runs off of some form of jet fuel?

Gene

Crude oil varies from light sweet crude which is is mostly kerosene/gasoline and dissolved butane/propane etc.
To the other extreme of the thick dark 72 carbon molecule chain stuff from the North sea of England or the Canadian Tar Sands. It's pretty much Bunker C, #6 fuel oil or asphalt.
The warnings about deadly vapours are true. The vapours displace oxygen in a tank or pit and will be fatal.
Worse yet is the deadly Hydrogen Sulphide gas. 5-10 parts per million is toxic if memory serves on the numbers. A brief whiff will drop you stone dead.

Definitely some truth to that, my grandfather was on a ship that was blown up by a German U-boat in the Atlantic, he and some others were floaters for awhile, eventually rescued, also had some serious burns from the incident, he also worked on the Standard Oil ships, was and or made it to chief engineer, spent a lifetime doing this, most of the family believed those oil ships contributed to his early demise, he was only 63, my grandmother always said how those oil ships would make him sick, he had to drink a little to deal with the problems he had long after he left Standard Oil, was always said he ran a tight ship with very tidy engine rooms regardless of what he was going through, one tough irishman, eventually this started cirrhosis of the liver, he passed at the last place he came into port, of pneumonia, somwhere near the port up there in Washington State. His body was flown home, started his career here in the U.S. on Navy ships, was born in Ireland, faked his age to get in the Navy during WWI, standard oil after that, then merchant marines during WWII, saw the Korean conflict and the early to mid part of Vietnam, all on the ships, I'd stay well clear of crude unless you have appropriate safety measures, there is no doubt in my mind my granddad would have been here a lot longer, one tough irishman.

The Japanese were reduced to using a form of crude which was called black oil.
It was rather flammable/explosive I've heard
and would compound the fire problem if a ship was hit.
I don't think we used much straight crude in our ships. Most of them used bunker fuel.
I read a bit about the Pacific Naval war and though I don't know much about the fuels I know we always used fuel that was more refined than the Japanese could get. Especially towards the end of the war.