Diesel fueling made easy (easier, anyway)

[JimWalch]

And what in the world do you keep 36, 55gal plastic drums pressurized between 8-10 PSI year round for?

 

[jimmer2880]

I have a floating dock that lifts my ski boat out of the water. The barrels are pressurized to keep them from colapsing (some of the barrels are supporting additional barrels under themselves), and so I can visually inspect which ones might have a leak.

the dock is pulled out of the water every fall, stored in a field, and returned to the water each spring.

Aren't you sorry you asked

BTW - When I found this forum, I told my wife that I found where I now belong. She was less than thrilled to learn that I found a place where people make cup holders strong enough to lift the tractor

 

[dfkrug]

Like you, I have a rubber heater hose attached, and for sure it's starting to get a "little" spongy. I am thinking of replacing it with some double walled braided polyethylene tubing or something like that.

I just replaced my heater hose with 5/8" EDPA oil-safe hose from my
local hyd hose store. Over $2/ft. I also considered the vinyl hose they
have at the hardware store, but they did not have 5/8"

Speaking of HF hand pumps, I DO use one of those lever-handle oil pumps
that replaces the lid on a 5-gal plastic bkt. I use it for hyd oil and it
works great. It takes a lot of pumps to do 5-gal, but it has a clear vinyl
hose and a steel hook-shaped end that is very convenient to access the
tractor's oil fill hole. I tried to find it on the HF site a few days ago, but
no dice.

 

[LBrown59]

When the drum is empty, I load it in my pickup by hand. I fill it up at a gas station, and and
1*hoist it off the truck using my FEL and a nylon strap.
2** Piece of cake.

1*I unload my 55 drum off the truck like so.
2** Bigger piece of cake with more icing!

 

[LBrown59]

Dave,

Like you, I have a rubber heater hose attached, and for sure it's starting to get a "little" spongy. I am thinking of replacing it with some double walled braided polyethylene tubing or something like that.
Larry

I used automotive fuel line hose from an auto parts store on my pump and drum set up.

 

[LBrown59]

1*I generally get two 55 gallon drums filled and then transfer to a 2 1/2 gal can to fill the tank.
2*I just have a simple crank pump for transfer.

1*With getting two 55 gal. drums filled why don't you just hook up a 12 Volt pump to one of them and get home delivery ???
2*why not pump the fuel rite out of the 55 gal drum directly into your tractor with the pump and skip the 2.5 gal can altogether ?????

 

[LBrown59]

I did not build this but it does work well 29 gal gas caddy sold at northern

This thing at 400 dollars cost 100 bucks more than my drum and 12 volt pump set up did.

You still have to hand pump the fuel and the caddy won't unload drums of fuel off a truck.

 

[LBrown59]

Ideally, I would want a large
II D fuel hose .

My 12 Volt Elect. pump has 3/4 ID fittings.
I Wanted to use 1/2 inch i d hoses so i installed a 3/4 x 1/2 bushing on the inlet and outllet of the pump.