[AT] Fuel cans and dispensing - ideas requested

[william.neff.powell at comcast.net]

I use the plastic 5 gallon containers mostly. I do have a Gerry can, but that does leak around the spout, so many times I put the containers on top of the tractor and use a siphon to move the fuel into the tractor tank. (Remember, if you don't have a squeeze siphon only use your cheeks to suck the fuel into the siphon line that way you won't suck it into your longs if you mess up, don't inhale with your lungs. Longer clear line is the way to go) 





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From: Mike Sloane <mikesloane at verizon.net>
> I am sure that there are many solutions, Carl. I don't use all that much 
> fuel either, so I put diesel in those 5-gallon plastic cans and then use 
> a small (3 foot?) aluminum step ladder to get me up to the height of the 
> filler on the Farmall 560. For the gas tractors, I use the red plastic 
> cans and use the same step ladder. The little ladder is light enough to 
> be handled easily and puts me at the right height for filling. A couple 
> of years ago, the various colored cans were on sale at Agway, so bought 
> a couple of the blue ones (they were out of yellow, and since I don't 
> use kerosene, I just wrote "diesel" on the sides with a Sharpie pen). 
> The only limitation of the step ladder is that it needs to be on firm 
> even ground.
> 
> This reminds me that it is time to put diesel fuel "conditioner" in the 
> 560's tank for the winter and top it off after using it to power the 
> generator at the house during the last power outage caused by the freak 
> snow storm on Tuesday.
> 
> Mike
> 
> carl gogol wrote:
> > Now that fuel prices are less unaffordable, am just wondering what others 
> > are doing for fueling their tractors?  I have been using 5 gallon military 
> > surplus cans, but the flexible nozzles are slow and generally leak a little 
> > to a lot.  Using a big funnel is ok for the smaller tractors, but still puts 
> > the full can out at 2/3 of an arm's length.  Hefting the can while balancing 
> > on the drawbar and lift arms of the big tractor is even more of a 
> > problematic task at my tender age, and probably an impossibility 5 or 10 
> > years down the road.  I don't use enough fuel to justify even a 55 gallon 
> > drum of diesel and I doubt a truck would stop to fill that for me - would 
> > they?  I use maybe 60 - 80 gallons a year of diesel, and don't want it to 
> > set for nearly a year.   Any good ideas for say a 5 - 15 gallon container 
> > and possibly a pump that is not hundreds of dollars?  Something that can be 
> > hefted in and out of an SUV by one person.
> > Lets approach this as an exercise in cheapness.
> > Carl Gogol - Manlius, NY
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