Oil & Fuel Fuel Transfer Strategies

[JoeR]

I would consider a fuel caddy just for hurricane season around here! Mention the word hurricane in Florida, and the gas pumps go dry at the filling stations!

Joe

 

[TMcD_in_MI]

Here are three possibilities I have been looking at in the latest Northern Tool & Equipment catalog:

1. 5 gal can with hose, nozzle, and pump for 27.99
or
2. Just the hose, nozzle, and pump for 16.99

These are listed for gas, so I don't know if they would be good for diesel.

3. A 10.7 gallon steel tank with hose and nozzle for 99.99. It's gravity feed and is listed for all fuels. The downside to this is getting it higher than the tractor's fuel tank. There's a handle on top that you could run a rope or chain through and hoist it with your loader. I'd really like it if someone would buy one of these and tell us how it works. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Tom

 

[2nstonge]

I went the smaller route, (2) 2.5 gallon diesel cans. They're easier to lift for my top filler JD 4110. I throw them in the back of the truck and fill them a couple of times a week. No big deal since I'm fueling the truck anyway. Another TBN'er posted this link a couple months ago, I bought the 'no spill' plastic jugs, real nice & the company was easy to do business with.

http://www.davidsonproducts.com/

-Norm

 

[penokee]

Why my wife laughs - she claims I wear the diesel out by handling.
Got to check into the smaller 2-2 1/2 size.
A picture attached of my complicated (make-work) process.
1. Fill 2 - 5 gal. yellow cans w/diesel, haul 20 mi. to camp.
2. Transfer 2 to 3 gal. into blue can so can lift and hold. Use Mr. Funnel.
3. Dump residue from Mr. Funnel into waste diesel bottle.
4. Add Power Service to tank/dump in diesel - use Mr. Funnel.
5. Again save residue from Mr. Funnel.
6. Transfer dirty diesel from Storage bottle into Spray Bottle.
7. Use spray bottle to start my 2 wood stove fires.
8. Sit down, have a Brew, contemplatimg that life has gotten too complicated for a Senior Citizen who always had gas engines.
penokee /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[AntrimMan]

Once I complained to her about supper, now I have to cook my own.
Once while fueling I spilled diesel on myself and she complained, now she fuels Buttercup, NOT.
Mine is a top fueler and a BIG PITA to do it cleanly, but with two 5 gal plastic jugs from Wally World and the patience of a saint, it works ok. Ten gals will last about 17 hours of hard use, thats a whole weekend for me and since it doesn't happen every weekend the filling of the jugs is no big deal. If you plan and work carefully there are no runs, no drips and no errors. I don't even take the jugs out of the vehicle when filling.
I recommend the 5 gal jugs, they are cheap and portable and hard to beat investment wise.
Bets of luck,
Martin

 

[CTyler]

If you go with a 30gal barrel you don't need wrestle it. Use your FEL to load and unload it. Put it on a barrel dolly to roll around in the shop or garage. I made my own for a 30 gal and 55 gal barrels for oil. Its easy to pump oil with a cheap barrel pump, deisel would be even easier.

For fuel I bought a 300 gal tank used for a $100. The fuel goes quick and its cheaper to have 100 or 150 gal delivered. I'm also putting alot of hours on the tractor.

 

[NY_Yankees_Fan]

Here is a link to a past thread on fuel storage.

web page

Please be very careful about using plastic containers for fuel storage, they do not hold up well in a fire. NFPA fire code limits combustible liquid storage in a garage/home to 25 gallons.

 

[oliver28472]

The 30 gallon barrels are not that hard to manage. I am an above knee amputee and my barn has a dirt floor. If I can do it by hand with no fel, most of you can too.

 

[jmc]

If I were trying to decide between two similiar tractors, and one tractor had a special fuel tank that was easy to fill, I'd be inclined to pick that one, no matter how many cup holders and electronic gew gaws the other one had.

That special tank might have a separate inlet, with its own small pump built in, to suck fuel out of my own container. Additionally, the tank would have a float switch to automatically shut off the pump when the tank is full. Simple stuff really, when done at the factory. Possibly even by redesigning the fuel pump to bring the fuel into it and pump it backwards into the tank?

Dream on.

John

 

[chatcher]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( If I were trying to decide between two similiar tractors, and one tractor had a special fuel tank that was easy to fill, I'd be inclined to pick that one, no matter how many cup holders and electronic gew gaws the other one had...)</font>

I wasn't going to mention this, because it really doesn't help with the originally posted problem, but my NH TC35DA is the easiest to fill piece of equipment I have ever used. The tank is in the rear, with a big opening you can walk right up to. I can fill it with a 5-gallon can with no spout or funnel, without spilling a drop. If I did spill some, it would end up on the ground or floor and not the tractor. This is not a brand difference, since most NH models aren't designed the same way. But it was a minor selling point in favor of the TC35/40/45 series. I have used other machines awkward enough to fill to make me wish for a pump and hose.