55 gal. oil barrel ~ use to store/deliver off road diesel?

[Diamondpilot]

You just made LBrown59's week!

Chris

 

[LBrown59]

Coyote,

1*I am located in the Upper Valley area. I tried to call my local supplier since they deliver off road to a store about 5 miles from my house.
2*They will not deliver to drums and for customers who will use less than 1,000 gallons a year.
3*My only concern is hauling on the road to fill it and being DOT certified.
Mike

1*Since the store is only 5 miles from you why not just buy fuel from thim.
2*Boy am I glad they're not like that in these parts.
3*You are a private party aren't you?
I don't think private parties have to be DOT certified.

 

[LBrown59]

If I could choose only one T B N thread on the subject of Diesel Storage and Transferring it would have to be this one.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/oil-fuel-lubricants/114239-my-diesel-storage-transfer-set.html

 

[Highbeam]

Hi Coyote,

I use 55 gallon drums to dispense my off-road diesel into my Kioti. I started out by noticing that ORD was 40 cents cheaper per gallon, 55-gallon steel drums were available for free from the local JD dealer after being drained of their UTF, and a harbor freight hand crank pump was 11$. So on my first 50 gallon fillup of ORD I saved 9$ and each of the next fillups I save 20$ over the cost of On road diesel.

The real reason to buy bulk fuel is convenience. It is super convenient to fill your tractor whenever you want without having to bring your 5-gallon cans to the station.

Don't bother with delivery. Load the barrel into your pickup and go fill it yourself at the ORD pump. It's no big deal to move around a mostly full drum. You just roll it off of the truck into the loader bucket and then roll it onto the floor. Then tip it up onto the end when you get it to the final location.

When I first started out I picked up two barrels and I refill the empty one when the primary tank gets pretty low. I still do this so I have the empty barrel on standby. I touch up the barrels with spray paint as needed when they are refilled.

The HF hand crank moves 5 gallons with 80 easy cranks.

 

[LBrown59]

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1*I use 55 gallon drums to dispense my off-road diesel into my Kioti. I started out by noticing that ORD was 40 cents cheaper per gallon, 55-gallon steel drums were available for free from the local JD dealer after being drained of their UTF, and a harbor freight hand crank pump was 11$. So on my first 50 gallon fill up of ORD I saved 9$ and each of the next fill ups I save 20$ over the cost of On road diesel. 2*The real reason to buy bulk fuel is convenience.It is super convenient to fill your tractor whenever you want without having to bring your 5-gallon cans to the station. 3*Don't bother with delivery.
4*Load the barrel into your pickup and go fill it yourself at the ORD pump.
5*It's no big deal to move around a mostly full drum. You just roll it off of the truck into the loader bucket and then roll it onto the floor. Then tip it up onto the end when you get it to the final location.
6*When I first started out I picked up two barrels and I refill the empty one when the primary tank gets pretty low.
7*The HF hand crank moves 5 gallons with 80 easy cranks

1*I needed at least a 25 gallon drum to enable me to buy the cheaper off road fuel.
There are no service/gas stations here that sell off road.
With the drum I can go pick it up or even better yet get home delivery of off road un taxed fuel for the same price per gallon.
2*That and it cost less per gallon.
You will soon realize what a PITA the 5-gallon cans are once you get a fuel system.
It's worse than you thought /trust me !
3*Why should I bother running after fuel when my supplier will bring it to me for the same money?
4*Unless they will deliver the fuel for the same price per gallon.
5*There is no need or reason to move drums with fuel in them around when/if you have a pump.
6*I use 2 drums too but the main drum is always empty and so is the other one when I get fuel yet I am never out of fuel.
Also I never have fuel in both drums at the same time.
7*That's 880 cranks for a 55 gallon drum. My 12 v pump does it with 0 cranks.