An easier way to refuel your tractor

jmc · Oct 25, 2019

MNBobcat said:
My favorite way to fill the tractor though is to drive it into town and pull up at the gas station. You get a lot of looks driving a diesel tractor through a round-about on main street and then pulling into the gas station! It's fun as heck!

Reminds me of the time I was driving my tractor to volunteer us for some kinda project in town. Our county library has an outside pickup window similar to a fast-food drivethru. While heading towards town, I received a text message that a book I'd asked for was available for pickup so I drove my tractor to that window and handed them my library card. While the librarian was fumbling with the paperwork, I asked him if they get many tractors thru there. "Not really", he said. "The whole staff has come over to take a look at you!"

MNBobcat · Oct 25, 2019

MNBobcat said:
I set the can on the hood of the tractor and use a jiggle siphon. It doesn't get any easier than that! I walk away and do other things while it's filling. I use the same technique for my bobcat.

My favorite way to fill the tractor though is to drive it into town and pull up at the gas station. You get a lot of looks driving a diesel tractor through a round-about on main street and then pulling into the gas station! It's fun as heck!

Ha! Good humor! I bet they still talk about that!

When I go to the gas station on the tractor, I laugh when the pump asks if I want a car wash! Maybe one day I should try it...probably end up with really white teeth!

LouNY · Oct 26, 2019

MNBobcat said:
I set the can on the hood of the tractor and use a jiggle siphon. It doesn't get any easier than that! I walk away and do other things while it's filling. I use the same technique for my bobcat.

My favorite way to fill the tractor though is to drive it into town and pull up at the gas station. You get a lot of looks driving a diesel tractor through a round-about on main street and then pulling into the gas station! It's fun as heck!

Seeing tractors on the roads here is quite common including going through the roundabout and right down main street, very few fill up at the service stations because the fuel is cheaper at home.

5030 · Oct 26, 2019

LouNY said:
Seeing tractors on the roads here is quite common including going through the roundabout and right down main street, very few fill up at the service stations because the fuel is cheaper at home.

Not so here. The local filling station offers off road red dyed diesel with the pump set up just for fueling ag equipment. Their PPG is less than if I have it delivered to my bulk tank because I pay a delivery charge. Not unusual to see more than one tractor 'filling up' there plus almost everyone replenishes their beverages too.

I believe the station owner saw a profit orientated market and took advantage of it. Only station around here to do that.

5030 · Oct 26, 2019

jmc said:
Back in the 50's, our store sold automobile grounding straps that just looked like rubber strips hanging down from the car and dragged on the ground. Don't know what they were supposed to solve. They did have lightening bolt graphics molded into them and we stocked them in the Go-Faster section, along side the mud flaps, fuzzy dice, curb feelers, girlie steering wheel spinners, porta-walls, pine tree air fresheners...

The other thing static electricity brings to mind is the unfortunate women who operated industrial sand blasting cabinets- the kind with a window at eye level and built in rubber gloves. You leaned against the cabinet to operate it and if somehow the cabinet lost its ground connection, the static electricity grounded thru the nipples.

Have them on both my tractors.... The gal's dress comes off when you spin the wheel.....

jmc · Oct 26, 2019

5030 said:
Not so here. The local filling station offers off road red dyed diesel with the pump set up just for fueling ag equipment. Their PPG is less than if I have it delivered to my bulk tank because I pay a delivery charge. Not unusual to see more than one tractor 'filling up' there plus almost everyone replenishes their beverages too.

I believe the station owner saw a profit orientated market and took advantage of it. Only station around here to do that.

Extra credit to your gas station if they also see the need for E-zero gasoline.

5030 · Oct 26, 2019

jmc said:
Extra credit to your gas station if they also see the need for E-zero gasoline.

Actually, they have that too. Problem is, it's more expensive than premium e-gas so I don't buy it. I just use Marine Stabil and call it good. Michigan is a bit different when it comes to non e-gas. Lots of outlets here. If yu look on Gas Buddy, you'll see that. We also have high octane racing gas available (aviation gas).

Diggin It · Oct 26, 2019

MNBobcat said:
I set the can on the hood of the tractor and use a jiggle siphon. It doesn't get any easier than that!

IF you can safely lift and position a 40 pound liquid load which you'll find many posts here from people who say they cannot.

jmc · Oct 26, 2019

5030 said:
Actually, they have that too. Problem is, it's more expensive than premium e-gas so I don't buy it. I just use Marine Stabil and call it good. Michigan is a bit different when it comes to non e-gas. Lots of outlets here. If yu look on Gas Buddy, you'll see that. We also have high octane racing gas available (aviation gas).

The difference in E-0 availability between MI and IN is interesting. Wonder if it's political pressure within Indiana, a bread-basket state? "Pure Michigan, Pure Gasoline" (TM)

Last I checked online, our only two local pure gasoline outlets are marinas, far from town. A friend stumbled across a local filling-station but that place isn't listed online .