stevenf
Platinum Member
Steve\'s post of the year, smart folks please reply
I've got a diesel tank mounted on its side on a stand for my tractor that if full holds 300 gallons, it is 45" up and down (from one side of the circle to the other), 50" long side to side and 143-1/2" or almost 12' around. Picture a very big coke can laying on its side, 6' in the air. It has a flapper type fuel fill outlet on the top that I can check the amount of fuel left in the tank by sticking a stick straight down to the bottom of the tank. Starting at 1" thru 45"s how much fuel per inch do I have? Obviously the only thing I know for sure is at 22-1/2"s I have 150 gallons, other then that its a guess. I realize this is a math question and something to do with pie and computation but when you engineers were doing algebra, trig, physics and calculus I was learning how to operate a printing press and all I needed to worry about was keeping my hands out of it when running, I didn't learn to do that right away either but one finger less and I figured it out real quick (they did sew it back on, it works but I can't feel a thing).
Steve
I've got a diesel tank mounted on its side on a stand for my tractor that if full holds 300 gallons, it is 45" up and down (from one side of the circle to the other), 50" long side to side and 143-1/2" or almost 12' around. Picture a very big coke can laying on its side, 6' in the air. It has a flapper type fuel fill outlet on the top that I can check the amount of fuel left in the tank by sticking a stick straight down to the bottom of the tank. Starting at 1" thru 45"s how much fuel per inch do I have? Obviously the only thing I know for sure is at 22-1/2"s I have 150 gallons, other then that its a guess. I realize this is a math question and something to do with pie and computation but when you engineers were doing algebra, trig, physics and calculus I was learning how to operate a printing press and all I needed to worry about was keeping my hands out of it when running, I didn't learn to do that right away either but one finger less and I figured it out real quick (they did sew it back on, it works but I can't feel a thing).
Steve