You Know You Are Old When

[Jstpssng]

Must be pretty tough to tilt the 50gal cube into the tractor.

There is a reason they call him "Armstrong".

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

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[masscity]

Must be pretty tough to tilt the 50gal cube into the tractor.

I have pallet forks, but not in the winter. It takes me less than 10 minutes to fill the 6 cans at the gas station and 15 minutes to empty them into my cube.

To take the cube to town. I would have to roll up my tonneau cover, remove the plastic containers full of stuff, take the bucket off of my tractor and install the forks.

Now instead of 6 five gallon plastic can of diesel, I have a 2' x 2' x 2' steel cube with 50 gallons of diesel in the bed of my truck. To be safe it would have to be pushed all the way to the front and strapped in.

I drive 60 mph, the most common accident in this area is someone pulling out in front of you on the highway. I had two very close calls already. It is way more work to take the cube to town than simply fill my diesel cans.

 

[scootr]

I'm allergic to those 5 gallon cans. I welded a couple of 3x8 tubes under my 100 gallon tank for the forklift. I fork it into the truck and carefully haul it the backway to town. And I put it on a dolly in the barn. No lifting, drive up and insert the nozzle to fill. It's one of the best tractor mods I've done. Just like the big boys now

 

[goeduck]

And a 20 meg hard drive was considered huge, more space than you'd ever need!

Hard drives also put an end to having to handle all of those floppy dicks. Hey, that's what the girls called them.

 

[WinterDeere]

My tractor sips such small amounts of fuel per hour doing typical loader, snowplowing, and fertilizer spreader chores, I can't imagine wanting to store more than a 5 gallon can or two of diesel at home for personal use of a CUT. Farms, or guys doing contract work (@Hay Dude, @Sawyer Rob), for sure. But the average land owner doing 100 hours per year of personal chores on a CUT probably uses what... 30 gallons per year?

Now, gasoline for my mower, that'd make sense to store on-site if wasn't so volatile and didn't go bad faster. My mower burns gasoline at a rate of two gallons per hour, whereas my tractor probably takes 6 - 8 hours to burn the same amount of diesel.

 

[masseyrider]

My tractor sips such small amounts of fuel per hour doing typical loader, snowplowing, and fertilizer spreader chores, I can't imagine wanting to store more than a 5 gallon can or two of diesel at home for personal use of a CUT. Farms, or guys doing contract work (@Hay Dude, @Sawyer Rob), for sure. But the average land owner doing 100 hours per year of personal chores on a CUT probably uses what... 30 gallons per year?

Now, gasoline for my mower, that'd make sense to store on-site if wasn't so volatile and didn't go bad faster. My mower burns gasoline at a rate of two gallons per hour, whereas my tractor probably takes 6 - 8 hours to burn the same amount of diesel.

Glad to know this has helped you age gracefully.

 

[mike69440]

Don't forget to include ground work. It's getting so far away I have trouble reaching it.

If i can loosen up, I will try the motorcycle again.

 

[masscity]

My L3540HSTC probably uses 3 qts per hour, my B7100DT uses about 1 pint and hour. Total I probably use 50 gallons a year.

I'm 78 and I have arthritis in every joint in my body. To fuel my L3540HSTC with a can I put a rag on the hood, now pick up a 5 gallon can of diesel, set it on the hood. I use a No Spill can and press the button. With my B7100DT I have to hold the can in the air to fill the tank.

Where as, once I dump 30 gallons in my cube I'm good for 6-8 months of fuel. My electric pump on the cube pumps 12 gallons a minute, so it takes no time or effort to fuel my tractors. Filling the 30 gallons of cans at the gas station and dumping in my cube, probably takes a total of 22 minutes of my time.

 

[Jstpssng]

the average land owner doing 100 hours per year of personal chores on a CUT probably uses what... 30 gallons per year

In my case, 50 gallons. I use 2 quarts per operating hour. Yet I am looking 30- 50 gallon tanks. It would be nice to get diesel twice per year, and not replace cans every 5 years the way that I do now.
One of my 2 already has a bubble between layers in the plastic.