Fuel Transfer

[ctpres]

Anyone using Blitz fuel station? On sale Northern $63/99 10/15 gal. and free ship with $150. order. Thinking about one each to make free shipping. 15 gal for diesel and 10 gal for gas. Mounted to plywood it should be easy to move around with FEL.

 

[mchasal]

Looks interesting, but it's gravity feed. Do you have a plan for that? I don't think the hose is long enough to reach the tank from the FEL, but I guess that depends on your tractor. 15 gallons is a lot to pick up. I suppose you could just mount it somewhere high enough and just have a little filling station for the tractor.

I've been looking at some of the gas caddies from places like Handy & Todd, but they seem to run around $400, but they do have a pump.
http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_6970_533_533

Right now I'm just doing it with a 5 gal can, which works, but it would be nice to have more fuel on hand as well as a more "elegant" system.

Mike

 

[ctpres]

Plan- Move tanks between truck and hi shelf w FEL. Figure w plywood base an old man can slide full tank from truck bed to fel and from fel to shelf.

 

[mchasal]

If you mount them on a pallet instead of plywood you could lift them instead of having to slide it around. If you have pallet forks, that is. Though for this relatively small amount of weight you could make up a set of bucket forks.

Since this came up I was doing some searching around again and came across this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/FUEL...hZ002QQitemZ4653966305QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW
Neat setup that pressurizes a drum with a CO2 tank and pumps the gas out. Of course, it's $350 + shipping. ;(

Mike

 

[LBrown59]

I've been looking at some of the gas caddies from places like Handy & Todd, but they seem to run around $400, but they do have a pump.

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You can build a better one for less!

 

[LBrown59]

Plan- Move tanks between truck and hi shelf w FEL. Figure w plywood base an old man can slide full tank from truck bed to fel and from fel to shelf.

Why not just mount the tank on a wheeled dolly and run it directly off of the truck tailgate right onto the shelf ?

BETTER YET Have Fuel dlivered to the tank.

 

[LBrown59]

If you mount them on a pallet instead of plywood you could lift them instead of having to slide it around. If you have pallet forks, that is. Though for this relatively small amount of weight you could make up a set of bucket forks.

Since this came up I was doing some searching around again and came across this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/FUEL...hZ002QQitemZ4653966305QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW
Neat setup that pressurizes a drum with a CO2 tank and pumps the gas out. Of course, it's $350 + shipping. ;(

Mike

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If you mount them on a pallet instead of plywood you could lift them instead of having to slide it around.
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Better yet mount them on a dolly then you can either roll them right out of the truck or lift them off with forks.

You may even be able to get diesel delivered which saves fooling around with moving the tank or drum.

 

[mchasal]

After finding that ebay link with the pressure feed fuel system I thought that it would be simple to build with a drum, some hose, and a feed from my air compressor. I'll have to get cracking on that.
I also did look into delivery, but the 150gal minimum is probably 2 years worth of fuel for me. I may go in on it with a friend who uses more, but I would still need to transfer some to my place. I'm thinking a 30 gallon drum would be perfect.

Mike

 

[Highbeam]

I use a 55 gallon drum BUT I don't fill it all the way. In fact, right this minute I have an empty drum in my pickup to be filled with 25 gallons of off road diesel. 25 gallons is not too much to move around by hand. I actually use two barrels, one stationary in my shed, and the other to move fuel. I use an 11$ harbor freight rotary hand pump that takes 80 easy turns to fill a 5 gallon can.

I could either just use up the 25 gallons or I could pump one into the other and end up with 50 gallons in one barrel.

Running a rotary pump is very easy and cheap. My first 25 gallon barrel of off road saved me enough money in fuel cost to pay for the fuel storage and pump. Now it's all gravy. I can't believe I didn't do it sooner.

 

[LBrown59]

1*I thought that it would be simple to build with a drum, some hose, and a feed from my air compressor.

2* I also did look into delivery, but the 150gal minimum is probably 2 years worth of fuel for me.
Mike

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1*After seeing the 150 to 275 dollar prices on 12 volt pumps I'm considering going the air route myself. It's quicker simpler and a whole lot cheaper than the 12 volt pumps as all you need do is to install a valve stem on the tank.

2*But they will still fill tanks of less than the 150 gal min.
My 2 distributors and the local bulk plant will top off my 30 gallon tank whenever they are making a delivery in my area even though they all three have a 150 gallon min.