Getting Diesel Home

[kokosnood]

Hi Guys,
So, due to medical issues, I can't lift a five gallon fuel container when full. I also don't want a transfer tank setup in my truck "permanently."
What is the best way to get diesel from the gas station to my house? I know you shouldn't fill gas containers in the back of your truck; they need to be grounded (on the ground) when filling. How about diesel? Is that safe? If not, what do you'all recommend... I really don't want to fill a bunch of 2 gallon containers on the ground and lift them into my truck...

I'd like a small (maybe 30 gallon) poly transfer tank and a storage tank of the same size. I'd like to be able to load the empty poly tank into my truck bed, fill it at the gas station in the back of my truck (not on the ground), then (when I get to my barn) hand pump the diesel out of the transfer tank into the storage tank, and then remove the transfer tank so I'd have my whole truck bed for other stuff. Then I could fill my tractor and UTV from the storage tank (preferably with a hand pump.) Is that a crazy idea?
Thanks!

 

[bcp]

To not precisely answer your question, my first thought is to call your local fuel distributor and see if they will deliver a 55 gal barrel of fuel. Or maybe you could pick it up if you can unload it.

Bruce

 

[Tractor Seabee]

Do you have pallet forks for your FEL? If so, that is your solution. I have a 50 GL transfer tank with a hand pump set up on wood skids (prevents sliding around). Go to station, fill up in PU bed. Lift in and out of the PU with the tractor. I have the same problem as you. Mine is rotater cup in both shoulders. Diesel is flammable but not volatal like Gasoline. Some jurisdictions may require the tank to be placarded. I have the same
setup for gasoline to fuel my generator and other small engines.

FEL w/forks is a life saver for us old duffs.

Ron

 

[tookielee]

Static electricity is not going to ignite diesel. Fill them in the back of your truck.

 

[Wagtail]

OP, you mention in your post that you have a truck (pick-up or ute, you don't say where you're from)... I've noticed a few utes around here that have a 'davit' on the rear corner of the tray/box. These same davits are installed on rock-lobster/oyster fishing boats.

You could use one (davit) to lift 20ltr (5 USGal) jerry cans in and out of your truck.

 

[seville009]

Fill them on the ground and ask someone in/at the gas station to help put them back in. When you get home, put a board on the tailgate and ground and slide the containers down the board ( could actually slide them up a board at the gas station if you had the strength for that - maybe glue plastic/laminate to the board to make it slippery)

 

[Maxify55]

My local fuel distributor just last week delivered 100 gal of diesel into my shed tank for $2.68 per gal.
I think it was.
6 mo. ago it was $3.30 pg.

https://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200395489_200395489
Hose, handle & 12v pump were all from Amazon.

I've had too many spinal fusions and can't lift the 5 gal cans either.
That & too many birthdays :thumbsup:

 

[Diggin It]

OP, you mention in your post that you have a truck (pick-up or ute, you don't say where you're from)... I've noticed a few utes around here that have a 'davit' on the rear corner of the tray/box. These same davits are installed on rock-lobster/oyster fishing boats.

You could use one (davit) to lift 20ltr (5 USGal) jerry cans in and out of your truck.

He means one of these doojawahggers:

HF and Northern Tool sell them fairly cheap.

 

[downsizingnow48]

I've used the 5 gal can method for years with the tractor, but with a new diesel backup generator needed a better way. I bolted a transfer tank (with pump) to a pallet. Load the pallet in the pickup, fill at the station. Use the tractor to move the pallet out of the pickup and into the generator shed. Fuel the generator. As a side benefit I can now fuel the tractor with the same setup.

There are warnings that current formulations of diesel fuel are more likely to have static problems than in the past. I use a long wire with big clips to make a ground to the truck frame or generator or tractor.

 

[Jchonline]

Do you have pallet forks for your FEL? If so, that is your solution. I have a 50 GL transfer tank with a hand pump set up on wood skids (prevents sliding around). Go to station, fill up in PU bed. Lift in and out of the PU with the tractor. I have the same problem as you. Mine is rotater cup in both shoulders. Diesel is flammable but not volatal like Gasoline. Some jurisdictions may require the tank to be placarded. I have the same
setup for gasoline to fuel my generator and other small engines.

FEL w/forks is a life saver for us old duffs.

Ron

This is exactly what I do. Transfer tank 110gal with a hand pump. I just throw it in the back of the truck when I need to refill it.