Canned Gasoline?

[newbury]

The best part about canned gas is it's labelled well. I run 50:1 in most 2-cycle but 40:1 when I'm doing CSM. So I've got a couple of cans and occasionally my son "borrows" a saw and an Alaskan. Then he gets the 40:1. If he's just borrowing the saw he get's 50:1. And I refill the cans with ethanol free/quality oil mix.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Can't you buy ethanol free pump gas?

No, but even if I could find "premium" non E gas, it still wouldn't be the same as canned fuel and it wouldn't have as long of a shelf life as canned fuel either...

SR

 

[jel1988]

Last year after having problems with both 2 and 4 stroke small equipment I switched to premium gas. No e-free gas is available in our area and purchasing canned gas is too expensive (we use at least 5 gallons a day). I have had no more issues since switching. At the end of our season I drain every piece of equipment (approx. 30 units) and run them dry. I'm not a stabilizer fan after having to clean a number of carbs. I don't believe the work as well with e gas.
PS I add Kleen Flo to the tractor!

 

[MossRoad]

I don't know..... I've been running E10 in everything I own for close to 30 years as that's pretty much all we have at every station in "regular" grade. The only problem I ever had was fuel line in a chainsaw going mushy. And that was after 5 years and 30+ cords. No other piece of equipment has ever had a fuel related problem. Lawnmowers, weed eaters, tillers, my PT425 for 14 years, cars, trucks, snowblowers, etc... and the only piece of equipment that I ever drain is the chainsaw! The only piece of equipment I put stabilizer in is the gas powered generator. Other than that, nothing gets treatment. Nothing gets drained. Nothing get ran dry after use except the chainsaw, which had one mushy fuel line.

Here's something else... I have only maybe twice had to adjust carbs on machinery. They just plain keep on running fine. I often wonder, after witnessing many people that purport carb and fuel problems, if they are not self induced by messing with things that don't need messing with? Most of my machinery has the original spark plugs, for that matter. Maybe I'm just very fortunate and have good luck?

But I just cannot see paying double and triple for gas in a can VS just buying pump gas and rotating the stock at home on a regular basis. I have three 6 gallon cans. So 18 gallons. I fill them about 5 times per year, so I go through about 90 gallons of fuel between my saw, mower, weedeater, log splitter, tiller and tractor. One fuel problem in 30 years of owning my own home and the associated gas powered tools all running E10. And I know of no one else in my family or friends that has fuel related problems. Is it a regional problem, perhaps? :confused3:

 

[Copperhead]

I get the feeling that canned gas has some similarities to bottled water from a marketing standpoint. Gasoline is a hydrocracked, blended product. Quite different from the old heat column method of days gone by. This is why gasoline degrades more quickly than in the past, and ethanol has nothing to do with it. Most bottled water is just basically tap water that they bottle up and sell for a 1L bottle of water at the same price as a gallon of gas. It does beg the question, and I am sure we will never get a straight answer, if the canned gas is nothing more than general cracked gasoline just like at an E0 pump. Yet, they charge double or triple the price just because they can and there are those who will pay it. Gotta give the marketers credit for dreaming up a solution to a problem than hardly exists.

 

[newbury]

I view it as buying a small gas can, well labeled, for chainsaw use so the other idiots use the right mix.
I once had a guy "help" and filled my lawnmower w/diesel. Could NOT get it to fire. Almost threw my arm out pulling. Finally smelled the fuel.
Handwritten labels make things fool proof, but not idiot proof.

 

[2458n]

Tractor Supply has the canned gas 50-1 and 40-1 on sale now for 5.00. Premium gas is under 2.00 so I am still mixing my own. If you ever get the sticky fuel line and collapsed primer bulb you will understand; why people need a fix.

 

[MossRoad]

I've learned you can only make things idiot resistant. After that, it gets too expensive to weed out the last 1%.

I actually fired a kid that lit a 350 gallon fuel truck full of 100LL aviation fuel on fire by checking the level of the tank in the dark with a lighter while sitting in the middle of a 50,000 gallon fuel farm. Absolutely unbelievable. It reminded me of a cartoon!

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Gasoline is a hydrocracked, blended product. Quite different from the old heat column method of days gone by. This is why gasoline degrades more quickly than in the past, and ethanol has nothing to do with it.

It does beg the question, and I am sure we will never get a straight answer, if the canned gas is nothing more than general cracked gasoline just like at an E0 pump.

That would be the part EVERYONE here is missing, it isn't! There's your "straight answer"...

That's why I've called it "fuel" in all of my post here, and not "gas"...

SR

 

[MossRoad]

Chainsaw fuel line is less than a dollar per foot. Even if we had to replace it once a year (mine lasted 5 years) the savings of using canned gas over pump gas wouldn't break even in the first 1/3 of a gallon of canned fuel. If you like to use fuel treatment, it's only about $.60 per gallon for fuel treatment like Stabil (not on sale).

So pump gas for $2.00 plus $.60 for fuel treatment is $2.60 per gallon VS $5 for canned gas. Its double the price for nothing gained but MAYBE saving a dollar's worth of fuel line once per year. And the more canned gas you use, the more money you spend, not save. Has anyone ever seen any measurable savings on using canned gas VS pump gas? Can anyone point to a study that shows the actual cost savings of using canned gas VS pump gas? I'd like to read it.