Garden Hose for transfer of K1 Oil ?

[HeyBub]

It's interesting to contemplate why someone would even ask this question.

[James]

Why ?

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It's interesting to contemplate why someone would even ask this question.

[James]

75 gallons, twice a year. Can't drive a car down the mountain side to the tank. Can get within 50 feet.

I thank everyone for their comments. I plan to try the garden hose, and monitor its condition from year to year, and always monitor when I am pumping , to assure there are no leaks, etc. I am in a remote place in the mountains, and most inspectors could not find their way home if they ever got to this place. Hee hee

Thanks again everyone.

james

[Cwatters]

Neighbour of mine had an oil leak recently and lost the contents of their heating oil tank into the ground. The clean up operation has taken a two weeks so far and is costing them a small fortune not to mention the fine.

[George]

Usually you just call someone and they show up with a tank truck with a pump and a hose on a hose reel all designed to dispense liquid fuels into your tank.

[Stormin Mormon]

Maybe a gas pump, 12 volt, for transferring small ammounts of liquid. And then pump it through neoprene gas line.

[Stormin Mormon]

A couple thoughts come to mind. First, you don't want to collapse the hose, and cut off your siphon action. I'd suggest to build a tube out of PVC, and a couple elbows on top, so that the garden hose doesn't have to go around a corner. So the hose doesn't collapse flat. Make a "shephards crook". You can adapt PVC to pipe thread with plastic adaptors, and then to garden hose thread. Stick the crook / cane tube into your tank. Use a shop vac or something similar to start the siphon action.

I don't really know for sure. But maybe you can use a shop vac to blow some air through the garden hose. Dry it out when you're done. So the kerosene isn't in there, softening the rubber in betweeen times.

[HeyBub]

Sigh.

Oil COMES from the ground. The government goes to great lengths to put a bunch of it BACK in the ground.

But let an individual do so, and it's the end of the world.

[stan]

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Yes that can happen. Especially in an urban area. In more rural areas it is amazing how far leaked oil can travel, polluting drinking wells along the way! In one case here the large hole (many dump truck loads) that had to be excavated to remove oil polluted soil was used to build a basement onto which a rentable extension to the house was built. One failure mode (of outside tanks) has been when unprotected oil lines have snapped off due to ice and snow, thus leaking the oil onto the ground. Where tanks have leaked (usually due to internal rusting) inside a house it has soaked into concrete basements floors. The smell (and possibly health hazard?) never goes away. Regulations for installation of oil tanks has been improved and that along with greater use of electricity, due here to lower cost, is reducing the hazard. Oil leakage insurance can be expensive even when the oil tank replacement has been done in an approved/certified manner. There have been a few hospitalizations (in a population of 500,000 persons) due to ingesting oil. And problem is that once a well has been polluted it may be years, if ever before, it is fit for use again..

[The Ranger]

Your ignorance is staggering. I truly hope you drink water that's been poluted because the "nanny state" wasn't there to force that individual to clean up the mess he created.

The Ranger

[willshak]

Then you have to pay for delivery. It's cheaper to go get it yourself.

[RBM]

Why would they be "fined" for having the misfortune of a fuel tank leak?

[James]

George, you haven't seen where this mountain property is located. If you did, you would seek to cancel your message. Otherwise, it would make sense. Fuel trucks don't go up there, not for a million dollars.

James

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Usually you just call someone and they show up with a tank truck with a pump and a hose on a hose reel all designed to dispense liquid fuels into your tank.

[James]

good ideas Christopher.....

James

[Kansas]

[PeterD]

For failure to meet codes? Which would have prevented contamination from the leak... (Think dual-wall tanks.)

(see how snipping past comments makes this post easier to read?)

[Cwatters]

because they should maintain it so it doesn't leak. Old ones should be replaced by bunded tanks (twin wall).

[James]

Yes Kansas, there is a filter on the 12 volt pump, and I also have a filter on my big oil tank, before it goes into the house.

James

[RBM]

Why would you assume that the tank he had, didn't meet codes? There is no code where I live, requiring me to replace my existing tank with any special type. Over time, if it's left in the ground, it too will become porous.

[RBM]

You use the word "should" as though you are the authority. I'm sure every state,city, county, and town have their own rules, and it seems that Stan's neighbor could have been in compliance, in his jurisdiction, when the leak occured. He certainly didn't indicate that he wasn't