Fuel storage

[Don87]

Hi everybody, I am shopping for a tractor and I need some ideas about fuel storage.
I will only buy a diesel tractor so diesel will be the only fuel I will be buying. My first idea was keeping a 55 gallon barrel of off-road diesel with a 110 volt pump in the garage, but I dont want to risk a fire. My latest idea is buying a small trailer to park beside the garage and to keep the barrels and pump inside the trailer. What does everybody else do with their diesel fuel?

Don't really matter whether it's inside, or beside the garage.........if it catches fire, the garage is gone either way. Only difference I see is the extra trailer you are buying, burning up also.

I would store it inside myself.

 

[oliver28472]

I use 30 gallon plastic drums. When one starts getting low I can take the other one and get it filled. I use a barrel pump that was made for motor oil. I can lay a full barrel on it's side and ease it off the tailgate of my F-150, then horse it around to where I want in my open barn. Have been using this system for years with no additives and no problems. I am about 50 miles north of Charlotte.

 

[olivedrabflorida]

I use 30 gallon plastic drums. When one starts getting low I can take the other one and get it filled. I use a barrel pump that was made for motor oil. I can lay a full barrel on it's side and ease it off the tailgate of my F-150, then horse it around to where I want in my open barn. Have been using this system for years with no additives and no problems. I am about 50 miles north of Charlotte.

I like that idea, but does the diesel react with the plastic in the drum? Where do you store your full barrels?

 

[LBrown59]

1*Hi everybody, I am shopping for a tractor and I need some ideas about fuel storage.
2* My first idea was keeping a 55 gallon barrel of off-road diesel with a 110 volt pump in the garage, but I dont want to risk a fire.
3* My latest idea is buying a small trailer to park beside the garage and to keep the barrels and pump inside the trailer.
4*What does everybody else do with their diesel fuel?

5*I used to fill with 5 gallon jugs but I had enough of that with a tractor that took 14 gallons.
6*I went to a 55 gallon plastic drum with a manual pump.
7*Diesel is not the high risk gasoline is.
8*I don't worry about having it in the barn.
Ken

9*Besides fire risk, consider the risk of fuel deterioration. 10*Diesel is subject to fungus growth along with other degradation.
11*So, one doesn't want to have mass quanities of fuel stored getting old and degraded.
I have two 55 gallon barrels. I fill them about 3 times per year.
12*I store them in a detached shed.
13*I have a 12 volt pump, solar cell and a battery to dispense fuel.

14*Don't really matter whether it's inside, or beside the garage.........if it catches fire, the garage is gone either way.
15*Only difference I see is the extra trailer you are buying, burning up also.

I use 30 gallon plastic drums.
When one starts getting low I can take the other one and get it filled.
16*I can lay a full barrel on it's side and ease it off the tailgate of my F-150,
then horse it around to where I want in my open barn.
17*I use a barrel pump that was made for motor oil.

18*I like that idea, but does the diesel react with the plastic in the drum?
19* Where do you store your full barrels?

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

PICTURES comparing my new set up to the old one - TractorByNet.com 2*Put in it in a small out building like this out away from the house garage and all other buildings.


3*The trailer would work but don't park it anywhere near the garage or other structures.
4*See 1*-3*.
5*Didn't take me long to get off the can .
6*I have a 12 V elect pump.
7*Yeah people get all up tight about it for nothing.
8*I feel even better having the ULSD in this little building out away form all my other structures.
9*The fire risk of storing ULSD is nil compared to gasoline especially if stored away from other structures.
10*Properly stored filtered and treated that's not a problem .
11*See 10*
12*So do I - see photos.
13*I have a 12 V pump that I run with my Battery Charger.
Makes a perfect way to store the charger out of the way.
14*True.
15*Parking the trailer next to the garage just adds more fuel to the fire.
16*Don't do that use the pump.
17*If you use the pump you wont have to wrestle and hoss the 30 gallon drum.

http://s283.photobucket.com/albums/kk286/lb59/?action=view&current=photos034.jpg
Here is how I avoid lifting 30 and or 55 gallon drums.
18*Most drums are the same thing as the 5 gallon cans sold at the big box stores.
If you can't trust the drums you can't depend on their cans.
19*Here

 

[Ken45101]

The fungus growth comes from water getting into the fuel. Some can be atmospheric moisture. I prefer to keep mine inside the barn so as to minimize heating and cooling. I also use a spin on sediment and moisture filter now. But I never had a problems prior to the current setup.

As for a fire harzard, as has been said, diesel isn't a big risk. Besides, the risk is higher with 25 gallons in the plastic tractor tank since the risk of a vehicle fire is probably higher than a container just sitting there by itself.

As for the plastic contaminating the fuel, no one has reported that. All of your store bought fuel cans are plastic, as are most fuel tanks in the tractors these days. HDPE (high density polyethylene) is the commonly recommended material.

Ken

 

[oliver28472]

I like that idea, but does the diesel react with the plastic in the drum? Where do you store your full barrels?

No reaction, made out of the same stuff as the plastic 5 gallon cans. Stored in the barn, not in sunlight. I have never used an additive yet and have been using them about ten years.

 

[olivedrabflorida]

Thank you so much lbrown59, you have answered ALL my questions. I am definitely going to use the barrel setup in the attached pictures.

 

[LBrown59]

Thank you so much lbrown59, you have answered ALL my questions. I am definitely going to use the barrel setup in the attached pictures.

Thank you .Glad I could help.