Yeah Bird,
They probably laugh at me when I show up with a Jeep Cherokee to pull back a fertilizer trailer that weighs as much as the Jeep, but the Jeep is Air Conditioned and the a/c on my pick up quit working! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif Let's see, I have a 18 foot 12,000# GVW and a couple of small 8 ft trailers. The all have their uses and at one time or another they all get used. The truck sometimes goes several months without ever driving on a highway, but it is sure nice to have around the place for everything else. I put a headache rack on the truck so I could carry 16 and 20 foot lumber and steel, and that is really handy at times to not have to take a trailer to bring back supplies. I wouldn't want a big truck that could carry what the big trailer can carry. Just costs a few dollars to license it and it does not need to be used very often.
I am going to get either an overhead tank or use a couple of the 35 gallon poly barrels for diesel. Now I just take 5 Five gallons jugs and put them in one at a time. That is pretty dumb way to do it, but have done that for about 7 years now. The 5 gallon jugs just get heavier each year when you have a fairly high fill tube on the tractor.
<font color=red>I believe everyone missed a very important thing that is wrong with using 5 gallon jugs. Most of us also keep gasoline in Red jugs and try to use Yellow for Diesel, but always have some diesel in Red jugs. Just make that mistake ONE TIME and it will cost you about $5000 and you can't shut it down before it tears up. Now that will pay for a lot of diesel, tank, pump and someone to bring it to you for the next 25 years and still have enough left to buy two or three new implements.</font color=red>