[Farmall] Having gasoline delivered to your home was Re: Water in the gas

[john hall]

It's definetly not cheaper. Our suppllier will only come for a minimum of 
200 gallons.

John Hall

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Jones" <farmallsupera at earthlink.net>
To: "Farmall/IHC mailing list" <farmall at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 9:03 PM
Subject: [Farmall] Having gasoline delivered to your home was Re: Water in 
the gas


>
> Not to hijack an earlier thread, but how many of you are having gas for 
> your tractors delivered to a bulk tank at your home?  Do you get a break 
> on the price of the gas?  We get non-highway diesel delivered to our 280 
> gal. tank, the co. we buy it from will give you 4 cents per gallon off if 
> you pay in cash within so many days of delivery.
>
> I would like to keep at least a 100 gallon tank here to keep my antiques 
> and the chore tractors filled up.  Five gallon cans are such a pain, plus 
> one of our cans needs to be replaced, and the "safety" caps on all new gas 
> cans are an even bigger pain!
>
> When I was little, my dad and grandaddy had three 280 gal. tanks which the 
> local oil co. kept filled. This was in the late 70's and early 80's.  I 
> have fond memories of watching grandaddy use the old push/pull pump to 
> fill the old MF 300 combine up. They got to having such a hard time with 
> people stealing gas that they quit keeping gas on hand.
>
> Al
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