Oil & Fuel EZ Way to Refuel?

[RadarTech]

It has to be kerosene. After all, no smurfs were injured in the making of this thread.

Really?
I thought smurfs were made of some kind of sand... At least that is what I remember when they made smurfette....

 

[Hoosier Hay Man]

Thats a great idea but I use 45 gallons a year so I guess they could deliver every 6.5 years or so - Might go bad before then!!

:laughing:

Buy 6 more tractors.:laughing::laughing::laughing:

I do use around 300 gallon a year so this was the best investment I have made. You can also add a filter. I also have a 12volt version and fill a couple 55 gallon drums for the rented farm. I have the large tank delivered and have taken the drums to town and fill at a station that sells off road. Handling a full barrel isn't too bad though. You don't have to fill all of the way up either. The pump is a Tuthill/Fill Rite made in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. They also have hand pumps as well. Not for everybody, but I used to fill by cans and finally bit the bullet.:thumbsup:

 

[dcyrilc]

Buy 6 more tractors.:laughing::laughing::laughing:

I do use around 300 gallon a year so this was the best investment I have made. You can also add a filter. I also have a 12volt version and fill a couple 55 gallon drums for the rented farm. I have the large tank delivered and have taken the drums to town and fill at a station that sells off road. Handling a full barrel isn't too bad though. You don't have to fill all of the way up either. The pump is a Tuthill/Fill Rite made in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. They also have hand pumps as well. Not for everybody, but I used to fill by cans and finally bit the bullet.:thumbsup:

I suspect that will be the route I eventually go, but it might be with the barrels or a 50 gallon fuel tank on skids.

 

[RadarTech]

I suspect that will be the route I eventually go, but it might be with the barrels or a 50 gallon fuel tank on skids.

Mud skis?
They make them?

You might outta get some for the farm!

 

[easygo]

WOW. Where did you get a tractor that runs on Kerosene?

Yeah! It is Kerosene. :confused3: Why? Is that a problem? :confused3: I always use that magic can to turn the cheap Diesel into expensive Kerosene. The tractor loves it. :licking::licking::licking:

 

[ecoslik]

The flexible funnel tube from one of my 5 gallon cans is at the bottom of my fuel tank. It fell off the can and into the tractor tank one day. Doh!!

 

[santa2u]

Looks like we've pretty well run the gambit on fuel refilling methods, so I would like to temporarily hijack the thread to ask a related question.

Some of you have mentioned storing your fuel for a year or more. I would like to know if it ever goes bad. I realize it has been sitting far below the earth in some form for eons, but once it has been refined and mixed with additives, is there any sort of shelf life for diesel fuel or gasoline for that matter?

 

[keyman1808]

I dont leave my fuel for longer than a few months. After that I throw it into my heating oil tank and refill my containers. Maybe there would be no problem but why chance it.

 

[dcyrilc]

Yeah! It is Kerosene. :confused3: Why? Is that a problem? :confused3: I always use that magic can to turn the cheap Diesel into expensive Kerosene. The tractor loves it. :licking::licking::licking:

I gotta get me one of those magic fuel cans.

 

[IslandTractor]

I dont leave my fuel for longer than a few months. After that I throw it into my heating oil tank and refill my containers. Maybe there would be no problem but why chance it.

I have kept fuel in a thirty gallon poly drum for about nine months. I use more than that but just top off the tank periodically so some portion of the fuel is old. I do add stabilizer (marine) and I have a terminal water/fines filter on my dispensing pump. No problems. Tractor runs fine and the tractor fuel filter remains clean.