Fueling skid steer for light residential guy

[patrailer]

I use my bobcat around my house for various projects. It's a T595. I use it a few times a year.

How do light residential guys keep there machines fueled? Filling the 5 gas containers seems like a lot of work. I was thinking about getting a transfer pump and just pumping straight out of my trucks fuel tank in to the bobcat. Is this a thing?

edit something like attached picture. Drop the supply side directly in to my trucks gas tank? Is that foolish to think that hose will reach down in to the tank? I am guessing there is some anti theft stuff to prevent that from being done? This is 2011 chevy

 

[Rmart30]

amazon battery operated pump for about $12. Mines lasted 3 years.

 

[patrailer]

What do you pump out of

 

[Tomtint]

I have my Kubota tractor, Cat Skidsteer and a Bobcat mini x. I probably use 50/75 gallons a year and its a pita to load them up on a trailer to go fuel them, So I goy a 45 gallon L shaped tank that would go in the bed of a truck and put it in a small 4x6 trailer with a battery operated pump. When I need to fill something, I just connect my battery jump box to the pump cables. When the tank gets low, I just bring it to the station and refill. A couple times I have had the heating oil guy fill it while they were filling our house tank.

 

[WranglerX]

I'd stay with a fuel caddy of some sort, out there in Cali red diesel (off road) is about 50 cents a gallon cheaper than road fuel..... BUT I'm fueling a SCUT, and only burn maybe 20-25 gallons a year so two 5 gallon cans works for me....

 

[bigtiller]

I use my bobcat around my house for various projects. It's a T595. I use it a few times a year.

How do light residential guys keep there machines fueled? Filling the 5 gas containers seems like a lot of work. I was thinking about getting a transfer pump and just pumping straight out of my trucks fuel tank in to the bobcat. Is this a thing?

edit something like attached picture. Drop the supply side directly in to my trucks gas tank? Is that foolish to think that hose will reach down in to the tank? I am guessing there is some anti theft stuff to prevent that from being done? This is 2011 chevy

My 2007 GMC has anti theft stuff preventing siphoning, I've already tried it.

 

[truckdiagnostics]

we use one like this had it for years. load it in and out of truck.

https://www.amazon.com/Orion-Motor-Tech-Portable-Transportation/dp/B0DKTBSST6/ref=sr_1_3_sspa?crid=IYEFHM85KI77&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ovqEKGD3_IARBQ6vBjPBcqWw12M3KjRInwVY0LWWU4R1gMAWhFFYKCmKIELAntcMrBkAyAJ--AhNGVLcGgwo2VLQxPsRTAb0VSnry1PhXSUOy9ot-YxW1gOdnxSlbTDk8bGUtUS5pbYXnSYeFGMiGjYxoj8kLdI1kR94YSpFHCdD8NBy79_buZT2BKKbFa2WiQTiX5l0xAkY1ANs4X41SyDN_lt1jJfDvV5ejuk-thghRTmLMuvmAJvhLvWQEXVEUDUC4CO7Joe9e0tXA3FPXGz5nd36hXG6dr3vYXMsz0k.vPq7sIIGy3io0uUOJNbm8P6l4US0wVS06vfXHIhXagg&dib_tag=se&keywords=diesel+fuel+tank&qid=1731548314&sprefix=diesel+fuel+tank%2Caps%2C257&sr=8-3-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&psc=1

 

[nyone]

275gal heating oil tank with a hand crank transfer pump. Also just a home owner. Filled the tank at $1.28gal in 3/2020 and it's still 1/2 full. No algee or water in it. I do have a goldenrod filter on it.

The whole setup cost under $120.

 

[scootr]

Go big or go home. I bought a 100 gal steel tank. I take it to town and fill it a few times a yr.

 

[arto98607]

I use about 50 - 60 gallons a year and have few 55 gallon poly drums & 12V GPI Diesel fuel pump, fill up empty drums when the off-road Diesel price is low and use the same pump to transfer the fuel to drums in the barn.

3 - 4 drums in the back of pickup truck are filled at a local station no problem.

 

[BlueKnife]

I use my bobcat around my house for various projects. It's a T595. I use it a few times a year.

How do light residential guys keep there machines fueled? Filling the 5 gas containers seems like a lot of work.

For that level of use, most just use 5 gallon jugs. It's inexpensive, easy to do and certainly less mess and hassle than trying to insert and remove a diesel covered hose into and out of the fuel tank on a pickup.

 

[rScotty]

I tried that pump and hose solution. Kept the whole pump and hoses in a 5 gallon pail. It worked fine the first time, but what a fuel soaked mess to keep it all clean.
For what I do, several 5 gallon fuel containers are a better solution.

I did buy a number of containers with poor caps & spouts until I discovered the heavy poly "no-spill" type.
They are expensive, but often on sale. The spout caps are sold separately for about $12. Get a spare.

 

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