adding fuel

[GitchiGummi]

These high quality metal cans have a large bore flexible filler spout that would work well with the TC fill angle. This is a good solution if you want to use small volumes of "fresh" fuel, run back and forth to the filling station when you need diesel, and lift up 5 gallons of fuel to fill your machine.

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There are many portable Fuel "Caddies" (Caddy) that hold various volumes, have wheels and pumps that would also allow easy fueling, small volume storage and be relatively portable for trips to get fuel.

You could have your tank checked/inspected for contamination and then install a good filter and water trap on the tank.

Gadget nut described what I was going to suggest which is buy for the season and allow the fuel to blend in the tank. You can add conditioner and antimicrobials as needed or preventively. There are many delivery services in your area that will bring out relatively small volumes of off-road diesel to your tank. Then you can save on highway taxes too!

Gasoline tax information - Wisconsin Gas Prices

Follow this link to see what you pay in fuel tax in WI ( and other states too): $0.329 per gallon. Perhaps you can get off road at our local filling station.

 

[brittgers]

Gadget - still no toolcat but its on the wishlist and I am constantly researching. I have a Bobcat 873 with a few attachments for most of the chores.

brittgers, you're great, you inspire me! Although it has been a relatively mild winter (no snow, no power outages, some sunny 45 degree days, etc.), I've learned from my first two years here that the ToolCat easily gets stuck when it sinks into the overwet saturated ground. So this is a fairly quiet time for Bobcat here at the Farm. Did you see these photos-- last Spring I nearly deposited ToolCat into the lake.

What Friends Are For

The same friend who pulled the Bobcat out of the mud helped me build a 15 foot wide by 55 foot long addition onto my shop-- it's open air on three sides but roofed and that's where I've stored most of my Bobcat tools out of the rain. I also added heat in the shop, so now ToolCat is parked inside, dry and happy. I use the forklift a great deal-- I also use it as an elevator to lift pallets full of items up and into a hayloft storage area in the shop. I've kept the 84" angle broom attachment on for the last few weeks, in case I wake up to a light dusting of snow, but that hasn't materialized. I purchased the angle broom to sweep a long asphalt driveway and it works extremely well, removing sticky pine needles and even moss. In another month or so I'll use ToolCat as I gather the deadfall that blows out of the trees every winter and we'll start mowing again in April.

I've been focusing on other things, I got a new RV recently, and I've been away from this forum-- I'm mixed up, do you operate a ToolCat now or a different Bobcat animal? You caretake a large property in Minnesota, did they buy a ToolCat?

Sorry-- back to the regularly scheduled programming: adding fuel