What we need is a better solution to the CARB/EPA gasoline can bung hole threaded neck problem

Dan Espen wrote, on Fri, 12 Sep 2014 20:58:59 -0400:

I service *any* pretty lady I can, especially the wife, who cooks like a dream come true!

A 55 gallon drum full of gasoline is, what, a little under 400 pounds. It would be tough to get into the trunk. Or out.

The thought of trying to move or carry a 50 gallon drum is not that attractive to me either. How do you get it in and out of your truck?

That's what the transfer pump is for. There's all kinds of pumps and gas caddy's and tanks that fit in the trunk (and can be pumped out from there) to suit your needs.

So now we have 2 55 gallon drums and I am pumping gas between them.

Since I am using the gas in my boat, I still have to transfer it again into something I can carry or have a 35-40 foot fueling hose. (a tank like this has to be >25 feet from the water) I would also have the problem of this tank collecting water over time stale gas etc.. Since I am filling and emptying my jerry cans regularly, condensation is not an issue.

Who is "we"? You fueling your wife's car at home? I don't care if you fuel your boat using 5-gallon jugs.

I've heard of other guys using portable cans to keep wife's car gassed up. Remember, this is the same Danny D who was going to set up as a water hauler for his neighborhood.

My uncle used to keep a 250-gallon tank of ag gas for his Poppin' Johnnies. It was on the highway, 100 yards up the road from the house. Delivery charges must have been reasonable because he had a big pickup and a flatbed and could easily have rigged a hoist. I'm sure companies still deliver ag gas, and they probably deliver road gas.

gfretwell wrote, on Fri, 12 Sep 2014 23:20:55 -0400:

I wasn't clear. The drum is bought new, and transported empty. Once in place on the concrete pan, it is filled from a delivery truck.

The problem, of course, is getting a truck to delivery 50 gallons of gas which is a puny amount for them.

The other option, of course, is to just empty the ten 5-gallon portable gas cans into the 50-gallon drums, so that the wife can fill the car from the electric pump on the 50-gallon drums.

That would be slightly easier than me siphoning the gas, which is what I do now (which is pretty easy so the electric pump isn't all that much an improvement on the process).

Vic Smith wrote, on Fri, 12 Sep 2014 22:57:59 -0500:

Exactly. The wife can then fill her own car, but without having to drive to a gas station.

Stormin Mormon wrote, on Sat, 13 Sep 2014 09:04:21 -0400:

The neighbors solved their water problem with a new well.

Our *new* community problem is that the darn county is ripping up all the blue reflectors we had carefully epoxied into the middle of the road on the more dangerous curves, so that non-resident cars would stay to the side on blind curves.

Note: The road is too narrow for a center stripe so they won't paint it. (I also removed the names of the people in the pink slip of paper in this photo.)

Why is the gas station such a problem for her?

You dope! Those blue reflectors are to indicate the location of a fire hydrant. No wonder the county is ripping them up.

Well, she's driving something with a 50 gallon gas tank.

Blue is the wrong color but they would get ripped up regardless of color. Government does like this sort of action by regular people even when everything is done perfectly.

OK a truck stop ;-)

Government is also lazy. They might not remove other colors, but blue could cause firefighters to waste precious time looking for nonexistent hydrants.

They aren't lazy about this sort of thing. It's like union work. You better call in the electrician to change a light bulb or else.

Wow, you do some good, and the county comes along and rips up the reflectors. That sounds like a bad place to live.