fuel storage idea

[rockriver]

here's how one guy improved his fuel storage...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTn0ttUOS0c

i'm wondering if the guy that delivers fuel to farmers might make a delivery to save moving the tanks.

[prc-104]

Pretty much what I've done over the years.
Got past the 55 gallon drums except for transporting fuel in the pickup bed.
For the house I use the 350 gallon tanks or the 500 gallon farm fuel tanks with gravity feed out.
Something really useful for kerosene has been teh 17 gallon drums.
They have the same bungholes as the 55 gallon drums,
BUT
I can pick up and move the full 17 gallon drums and they fit in the back end of the bronco or station wagon.

Just a thought.

[rockriver]

17 x 8 = 135? plus container... hmm.
and a little awkward thing to pick up.

sometimes i learn to say "sir" to folks...

[rockriver]

visiting a small farmer nearby yesterday... he wanted to fill his truck, so we talked as he pumped from a 500 gal gas tank.
he realized his tank was getting low. sheet! he exclaimed as he picked up his phone to call his supplier. i could just barely hear the guy say, "we aren't working this weekend, but we'll be there first thing monday morning. this was the end of business day friday.

farmer was shocked. telling me that it is always 3-4 days until they get to him, unless they are doing a big farmer nearby then its a couple of days. farmer kept talking, gas has been going up and now it is over $3.00. i've messed up by waiting.. maybe that is why i can be first next week. maybe other folks bought the weeks before. hmm. but this is still unusual.. i've never been "first thing, next day."

his distributor is very big wholesaler.
i don't have an answer of why they are getting to him so quickly.
only know that they have no pending sales to farms or big homeowners, or businesses on monday morning..

the truck they use for this farmer is not the massive tankers that wholesaler uses for gas stations.

[Bill Foster]

A friend was parting-out a OTR truck a few years ago. He offered to give me one of the fuel tanks; I turned it down because, well, let’s not bring my wife into this. But, a 150 gallon fuel tank, made to hold fuel? Some are round, some are cubes with a handy step built in. I thought it was a great idea.

[FTG-05]

This is what I decided to do on my little farm last year, 135 gallon farm fuel tank in the front; 50 gallon gas tank in the back, on a small utility trailer:

[rockriver]

ftg, i like it...
my first effort at extra fuel was at a prior house in a subdivision on a large creek. i bought a used farm 200? gallon tank on a trailer. it needed lots of cleaning and painting. i kept it well behind the house.. trying not to arouse a fuss from the neighborhood.. my close neighbors knew what was there. all worked great. until a big flood came... a neighbor that knew me advised he saw it racing down the creek as the flood water level increased. yours looks much more civilized!