No Car - Need Petrol

Get a neighbour or friend to give you a lift with a can?

If it is for your garden tools you can get some formulated for them delivered in 5l containers. Expensive but supposedly stores better. Have a google for Aspen fuels.

GH

I just add Briggs and Stratton Fuel Fit to a 5 litre container of E10 petrol. It claims to stabilise the fuel for around 3 years

Shop around as it can vary in price 3:1, depending on retailer. Approx £7 for enough to treat 25 litres of petrol (250ml of Fuel Fit)

Get a battery-powered mower? It depends on how big an area you need to mow, but after the initial expense of buying the mower, charging it costs very little. And there's no servicing required.

My neighbours are even older crocks then I am - and seem to have given up driving, too! No Local friends, either. Or family.

At £78 per 10 litre, Aspen must be beatable.

I do walk the distance - but not carrying 10L of petrol. A wheeled shopping bag might be worth trying. Depends if the wheels can take 2 miles of road surface!

Most of the petrol goes into a blower. I have about an acre of land with 50+ mature deciduous trees. That's a lot of leaves. My experience of electric blowers is pretty damning.

Peter Able snipped-for-privacy@home.com wrote in news:vkkafg$3403i$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:

Taxi?

A common problem nowadays, but one of the upsides of social media such as facebook is that many communities have a local page for things like lost dogs, reminders to put the bins out and requests for help with things. If you joined such a group you and made a request “would anyone get me some petrol you would likely get a favourable response, equally you may be able to help others with advice or mending something .

Off course if you are a miserable bugger who has pissed everyone by complaining about little things such as kids balls in your garden then you may not.

Can you try it first? Often the handle on cheaper ones is just a tad short to be comfortable.

GH

Don't think that that is me - although I'd never know around here! I have noticed, though, that I'm the only user of the one bus that serves the village twice a week!

No kids around here. The house prices exclude those of a child-bearing age!>

IIRC Argos will accept no-fault returns, so I'll be able to check the wheels for survivability - and the extended handle for ease-of-use. (At arm's length the dimensions given suggest that the wheels could be 2 foot behind an upright me!).

OK to take me (for £8!), but not the petrol!

Have you got a wheelbarrow?

Carry a plastic 5 litre fuel can in a backpack - you won't notice 4-5kg on your back once you start walking.

I sometimes use a wheeled carry-on bag - suitcases tend to be sturdier than wheeled shopping bags, and the handles are generally longer.

Peter Able snipped-for-privacy@home.com wrote in news:vkm6u5$3js1i$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:

Have you checked? Petrol in an approved container should not be a problem in the boot of the taxi. Ask the driver not the phone monkey.

On the subject of the shopping trolley my feelings on such folding articles would be that they would have shaken themselves to bits before travelling a mile fully loaded.

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Indeed, 5kg is nothing (if you can carry a petrol powered leaf blower).

I have a sack barrow - but its wheels are too hard to survive a couple of miles on UK roads and pavements.

Could get a more resilient one, I guess.

I've backpacked general shopping from down in town and it is OK for a couple of Kg. I'd like to ship at least 10L of petrol so am casting around for new ideas. I'll experiment.

Actually, I've carried a weed sprayer on my back. I'll try it out with

SG of petrol is about 0.75 ... so you should try it with 7.5 litres of water, not 10 litres. However, a 10 litre fuel container would be a pain in a backpack - I'd make two 5 litre trips and work off a little of the excess Xmas pounds.

(Even) I would walk 2 miles with a 5L can of petrol in a rucksack . . .