[AT] Gas Tank sending unit needed

[Mike Sloane]

When I ran a service station back in the '60s, we used that method to 
find out how much gasoline was in our tanks (so that we could arrange 
for deliveries). I am sure that this method is still used today: The 
sticks were very long and marked in inches. We would "stick" the tank, 
note how many inches of fuel we had, then go to a chart provided by the 
tank manufacturer to convert that into gallons. I assume that similar 
arrangements were used on long haul truck saddle tanks, because I 
acquired a similar (much shorter) stick with a rawhide loop that is 
marked in inches with an ad from a long gone truck stop. I would think 
that it would be easy enough to start with an empty tank, and add fuel 
by the pint and mark the stick appropriately to provide an accurate 
measure of how much is in in the tank. Then you have to paint the stick 
and markings with something that gasoline won't attack.

While I freely admit to using the old stick with the "yeah, that looks 
like enough to finish this field" method on most of my tractors, I have 
no doubt that the engineers among us would benefit from the approach 
outlined above. :-)

It is now 6:30 AM, and I am already looking forward to a turkey sandwich 
for lunch. :-)

Mike

Cecil E Monson wrote:
>> I'm even more crude but maybe slightly more resourceful!    I use an old
>> yard stick. That tells me how many inches of fuel are in the tank 
>> directly.
>> I only put notches in my gun stocks!  
>> Dean A. Van Peursem
>> Snohomish, WA 98290
> 
> 
> 
>     I'm even "cruder" than Dean. I took a 2 foot piece of 1/2" X 1"
> stock, drew lines every inch with a carpenter's pencil and drilled a hole
> near one end so I could hang it by the shop door. It has never failed me.
> 
>     BTW, I got a new calendar from the JD dealer this week and it
> features a remote control tractor on the cover. Cabless with no place
> for an operator, it must be really something. I was reading in another
> article where this farmer takes a 9000 series JD tractor around the field
> one time and then hits the auto pilot button and from then on just sits
> there and reads or watches TV or something while the tractor takes care
> of the rest. In reality I suppose he spends his day on his cell phone
> making sure the rest of the "farm" is going OK.
> 
> Cecil

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