1*I am thinking about another way to haul diesel. I use about 10 or 15 gallons weekly.
2*I have seen those 30 gallon and 10 gallon tanks at Northern that look nice, but just can't decide.
3*I don't want to have fuel delivered, since my place is pretty far out and I don't live there.
4*A 30 gallon tank would be hard to handle
5*Any clever ideas to lift a bigger tank out of a truck bed,
6*I would consider a 12 v pump .
1*That's 40 to 60 gallon monthly and certainly qualifies you for home delivery.
Usage of 10 to 12 gallon a month justifies installing a fuel station.
2*You can do much better for less money.
3*What's this got to do with who how the fuel gets there??
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4* Not if you set things up rite.
The secret is don't handle any drums with fuel in them.
I use 30 and 55 gallon drums in my rig but never have to handle anything with fuel in it. .
5*Yeah empty it first.
6*I wouldn't consider anything else.
Go with the 12 volt pump so you can lift the fuel with it.
One of these or something similar and an old battery charger for 12 volts is what I use.
7* As far as bulk storage that will be a constant challenge unless you get several barrels and justify a run by a fuel truck.
8*I have a 150 gallon tank that fills once a year with no problems.
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7*The OP uses more than enough fuel to justify home delivery.
8*I could have an almost unlimited storage capacity by adding more drums to the system but I'm currently only storing 55 gallons at a time .
9*Since you use 10 - 15 gal a week get the electric pump and the 30 gal container. Make sure you secure it well as now you're talking over 210 LBS just in the weight of the fuel that you don't want sliding around.
9*Yes Yes by all means get the 12 volt pump.
You need it to unload the container off the truck.
10*I got an overhead 500 gal. tank and started having fuel delivered.
11*If you have a FEL a 30 gal. barrel would not be hard at all to move out of a p/u bed.
12*A hand pump would transfer the fuel easily. 12v electric fuel pumps with hose, wiring, and nozzles start around $200.
10* you can't beat home delivery .
If you do it right you can even get small amounts delivered and forget those 100 200 300 gallon minimum delivery requirements.
I get 55 gallon deliveries and could get as little as 25 gallons delivered even though they have a 150 gallon min delivery policy.
11* If you have a 12V pump ya don't need a FEL.
12*A hand pump is not the best idea and you can't unload the truck with it.
A 12 Volt pump will do both. You can buy one for 140 bucks at Northern tool.
Just bought a fill rite FRV700 pump this afternoon for the same reason. Going to put it on the oil tank for the house heat (common up here) and hard pipe it through the basement wall to a hydraulic quick connect that I'll put on the hose.
13*If anyone sees anything dumb in this idea, please point it out!
13*It's the only way to go.
What would be dumb is to it any other way.
Wait a few minutes and LBrown 59 will post all about his set up.
14*Or better yet you could do a search using his ID.
Wedge
14*Great Idea: Anybody contemplating about fueling his tractor deserves to hear/learn. about the neatest slickest small storage system out there.
Not necessarily dumb, but there are a couple of issues:
1) You don't pay sales tax on heating oil, at least in Maine. It may be different where you are.
15*Heating oil is sales tax exempt
but off-road diesel (which is the same thing) is taxed.
So if the oil company gets wind of this, or some local authority, you could be in for a fine.
2) I accidentally spilled some heating oil into the fuel tank of my tractor once (OK, maybe twice) last Summer. It ran fine, but had a real hard time starting when the cold weather came. And this was with Power Service mixed in. I switched to highway diesel and the troubles went away.
16*Heating oil will gel in cold weather much easier than winter diesel. As long as your heating oil is in the warm cellar it flows good, but get it cold and you've got jell.
Good luck!
15*Here in Ohio Home Heating oil and off-road diesel are exactly the same thing.
There is no sales tax or highway road tax on either one.
16* Since our heating oil off road diesel and on road diesel is all the same stuff there is no difference in gelling
between them.
If it were me,
17*I would at least hide your pump set-up somehow; those oil delivery folks can be 'funny'.
17*Not a problem here in Ohio but I'd still put the set up in a locked small storage building or something to guard against theft
18*The reason that I still use the 5 gal cans is that the distributor will not deliver unless I have a 300 gal tank.
19*At this time I am not using the tractor full time so my needs are not as great as others.
18*If you do it right you can even get small amounts delivered and forget those 100 200 300 gallon minimum delivery requirements.
19*If you use as little as 5 to 10 gallons of fuel a month it's worth having a fuel station just to get out from under those nasty heavy 5 gallon cans.
