Fuel, 101 way's to get it

[newbury]

<snip> Since diesel will not go bad for years as long as water isn't present, <snip> It wasn't a problem with the high sulfur fuels back 50 years ago, but may require a biocide additive in todays ultra-low sulfur fuels if you want to use that type.

Need the biocide with today's fuels.

I kind of like the plastic 35 gal. solution, seems to me there is less condensation with plastic and the cost per gal., 35 x $2.50/gal. that's all I want to pay at once.<snip>

Have you looked at the offerings at Northern Tool? They've a 14 gallon solution for $110.

 

[Oldpath05]

Just setting mine up. Two 55gallon plastic hdpe drums. One harbor freight hand crank pump. Got to get some 1inch hose... Fill 55gallon drum that is in your truck. Drive home and install pump. Pump into drum on the ground, or on pallet that can be moved. I'll make a roller cart. One drum is empty, move pump to ground base drum. Fill tractor as needed. No lifting necessary. No lifting full drum. But you do have to pump 55 gallons twice.

That would be a great idea if had an electric pump, but it's still sound's better then trying to move 55 gal barrel by hand, even lifting it with tractor folks, for me might be dicey, unless I'm on flat ground and I have very little of that, that's why I'm leaning towards 2, 35 gal. barrels if I can find them. I'll check prices on hand pumps see if that's doable, never thought of looking at HF for it, thanks.

 

[Garycw]

I use 300 gal gas tank with 12vdc pump, and a 125gal diesel tank from tsc with two way hand pump. Fuel is delivered by Lykins energy. Best source for non ethanol gas & dyed diesel

 

[s219]

That would be a great idea if had an electric pump, but it's still sound's better then trying to move 55 gal barrel by hand, even lifting it with tractor folks, for me might be dicey, unless I'm on flat ground and I have very little of that, that's why I'm leaning towards 2, 35 gal. barrels if I can find them. I'll check prices on hand pumps see if that's doable, never thought of looking at HF for it, thanks.

While I use an aluminum transfer tank to procure fuel and store it in my barn, I use 55 gal plastic drums as fuel tanks for my generator. If I remember right, they had several sizes of these drums from 15, 30 gal on up to 55 gal. I ordered mine from Gemplers:

Closed-head Polyethylene Drums | GEMPLER'S

Grainger also sells them, as does Rural King and a few other places. I ordered a couple barrels at once since it made the shipping more reasonable.

A lot of people find these on Craigslist, but I had no luck -- I was looking for a barrel with threaded caps on top.

Be warned, these are not approved for transfer of fuel over the road, so you could possibly get ticketed.

Also, be wary of putting a hand pump on a plastic drums. The threaded cap holes are pretty thick, but I doubt they'd hold up to repeated cranking or pumping of a lever on a manual pump. A crank pump would be less stress on the drum than a lever pump, but the crank pumps generally have a lot lower flow rate. I put a lever pump on my aluminum tank, and it will do 0.5 gal per stroke. That means for every complete out-in stroke cycle, I move 1 gallon of fuel.

I just recently bought a 12V diesel pump from Northern Tool -- it was on sale and I used a $20 off $100 coupon to get a real good deal. I plan to install that on one of my generator fuel barrels so I can dispense fuel to my tractor and RTV. That will let me use up that generator diesel before it gets too old, and I can cycle fresh diesel into those storage tanks.

 

[Oldpath05]

scuckmotor "What became of Mudd's women?"



[Stardate 1329.1] All three women married the lithium crystal miners of Rigel XII.

And that' why I stop using Dylithium Crystals, those women took over the business and declared that girl power thing, equal pay, a women can be President, bla bla bla., wusses, they jacked the prices way up on the Crystals so only Star Fleet can afford them. Gotta go wife told me to get off my donkey and go to the store.

 

[Oldpath05]

While I use an aluminum transfer tank to procure fuel and store it in my barn, I use 55 gal plastic drums as fuel tanks for my generator. If I remember right, they had several sizes of these drums from 15, 30 gal on up to 55 gal. I ordered mine from Gemplers:

Closed-head Polyethylene Drums | GEMPLER'S

Grainger also sells them, as does Rural King and a few other places. I ordered a couple barrels at once since it made the shipping more reasonable.

A lot of people find these on Craigslist, but I had no luck -- I was looking for a barrel with threaded caps on top.

Be warned, these are not approved for transfer of fuel over the road, so you could possibly get ticketed.

Also, be wary of putting a hand pump on a plastic drums. The threaded cap holes are pretty thick, but I doubt they'd hold up to repeated cranking or pumping of a lever on a manual pump. A crank pump would be less stress on the drum than a lever pump, but the crank pumps generally have a lot lower flow rate. I put a lever pump on my aluminum tank, and it will do 0.5 gal per stroke. That means for every complete out-in stroke cycle, I move 1 gallon of fuel.

Lot of good points ya have here, thanks now you got me re-thinking plastic vs steel 30ish/gal barrel with a hand pump because of the plastic threads. And I would of thought a rotary pump would be quicker, guess not when I see on Northern there 12 rev/1 gal., I usually re-fill my tractor 6 gal. at a time, that would be 6 x 12 rev.= more then I'd like.

 

[Oldpath05]

the offerings at Northern Tool[/URL]? They've a 14 gallon solution for $110.

That' a good price if it was 25 gal, 14 gal. doesn't quite float my boat. Kind of strange 10 more gal tank and the price more then doubles to $310.00, I don't get that.

 

[stuckmotor]

And that' why I stop using Dylithium Crystals, those women took over the business and declared that girl power thing, equal pay, a women can be President, bla bla bla., wusses, they jacked the prices way up on the Crystals so only Star Fleet can afford them. Gotta go wife told me to get off my donkey and go to the store.

Little wonder they use lithium as a psychiatric medication. I wonder how the separate the di away from it.

 

[bcp]

I've been thinking a pickup bed trailer with dual fuel tanks still installed would be pretty handy.

Bruce

 

[Wagtail]

Little wonder they use lithium as a psychiatric medication. I wonder how they separate the di away from it.

Dunno. :confused3: All that I do know is that dilithium (Li2) is a molecule composed of two covalently bonded lithium atoms.

The closest we've come to replicating the process is via the common Turbo Encabulator... but that's stuff that you would've learnt back in HS Automotive Shop.