Do any of you have a portable diesel tank for refilling a tractor or oil tank? Say 20 gallons? We are in a spot right now, and I went into town today with our three 5 gallon diesel cans to fill them up with diesel. When I get home, I have to get on a ladder to hold the cans up and pour them into a funnel to put the diesel into the oil tank. Not the safest method. Oh our oil tank is on old open buoy. Holds about 400 gallons. Stands taller than a standard tank. I'd like something that would allow me to stand on the ground and pump and the diesel from the unit into my oil tank. Yes I've seen the units that farmer's have in the back of their trucks used to filled farm equipment. Those are far too big and expensive for what I am looking for. This happens maybe 2 or three times per year. If I could reign my wife's spending in, I'd build a freakin proper emergency fund to handle when I need to fill the oil tank. Hey the is another story for another day. Jason from RI
If your handy find a small electric motor and an old power steering pump out of an old truck . Has to be one with out a reservoir. Mount them to a plank or some scrap iron and you have a transfer pump for any fluid .
While it's not the answer you're looking for, here's what I do. I simply fill a cleaned out clear jug (washer fluid jug is perfect) from the 5 gallon pail, and go up the ladder and dump. If your sweetie fills another jug while you do this, you can keep filling quick n easy and stay up the ladder. While a 5 gallon pail isn't extremely heavy, once you walk up the ladder, twist, and try to balance and pour, it sure is. For the few times a year where we need to go pail at a time, this works well enough. Might seem silly only a gallon at a time, but your back will thank you.
I use a small 110V water pump frim home depot with garden hoses to move hydraulic oil, it would work perfectly for fuel too.
fuel as in diesel do not try this with gasoline. also there are inline type pumps at auto parts stores that run on 12 volts about 50 bucks
I got 1 still works about 10 years old. They sell them at plumbing supply stores to empty abandoned oil tanks
Even if you have an emergency fund, it doesn’t mean you have to use it to fill the tank when the prices are up. I dumped 31.5 gallons of diesel in my tank during the cold snap so I wouldn’t have to buy 150 gallons while the prices are high. Hoping that will last me with just hot water usage til late spring. The price per gallon I paid, with the almost $0.48/gal road tax, was still almost $0.10/gal cheaper than I could buy HHO for today. if you get the northern tool fuel caddy you can still refill that with the 3 diesel cans that you have... let us know what you decide to do...
I heat the church I pastor with waste jet fuel from the daily tank sumps at work. I carry the kerosene home in 5 gallon jugs that the engine cleaner comes in. I pump it into the tank of the church and personage with one of these pumps Battery Operated Liquid Transfer Pump Or with a juggler type syphon Self-Priming Copper Jiggler Pump The filler for the church is about head height, so I have a step ladder to place the 5 gallon jugs on, the personage filler is waist height, SI I can just stack two jugs and put the one being emptied on top. Jet fuel sellers must take a sump sample from each tank of fuel daily, and only stop the flow when the fuel runs clear with no water in it. All of the tanks at work are above ground exactly because of that, between the tanks and fuel trucks, I can get up to 40 gallons a week.
I can't speak for this, but I've been told that if you save your recipts, you can write off the road taxes since it was for heating.
It’s a small enough amount that I’m not too worried about it... besides, I may or may not have put a few gallons of dyed kerosene in the Duramax during the cold snap earlier this month as my truck would have died on the highway without it. so it all balances out... just need to make sure that is worked through the system before my next inspection....
Granted, its different where i live, but the only people that dip tanks out here are the DOT. I have heard of them setting checkpoints and dipping the tank of every truck leaving farm shows or things of that sort in the Midwest though.
I buy from a private company. No contract. Putting diesel into my tank is not an issue. I'm not breaking any contract, and no agencies are checking tanks around here. What is illegal around here is filling your diesel trucks from your oil tank. There are different taxes and additives from what I am told. No expert when it comes to the difference between home heating oil and diesel from the pump. What is obvious is that the gas station diesel has more taxes applied.
