wreckerman893
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I have a 12 volt pump that I got from Tractor Supply that will lift fuel.
If you had several feet of hard PVC pipe sections with threaded ends that you could carry with you it would solve the problem of a hose collapsing when sucking fuel out of an in ground tank.
Putting a strainer on the last piece keeps chunkys from being sucked into the pump.
Another idea would be to have a portable genny with you and to splice into the stations switch box (after disconnecting it from the grid). You could then pump the fuel out normally. Depending on how the pumps are wired you might be able to energize just the one pump you need.
For research purposes only
I have made mental notes about all the stations in my area and how the fuel tanks are accessed. Several of them have above ground kerosene tanks which, as we all know, will work in a multi-fuel just fine with the addition of a little WMO.
On one of them (a real 500 gallon honey pot) the cap has a lock on it but the whole cap can be removed with a large pipe wrench since it is threaded onto the pipe that is threaded to the tank itself. Somebody did not put a lot of thought into the security of that design.
Since I plan to shelter in place I have several hundred gallons of waste fuel stored in totes.
Getting caught out on the road without fuel would suck.
There's more than one way to skin a cat....there's just no way to make him like it.
If you had several feet of hard PVC pipe sections with threaded ends that you could carry with you it would solve the problem of a hose collapsing when sucking fuel out of an in ground tank.
Putting a strainer on the last piece keeps chunkys from being sucked into the pump.
Another idea would be to have a portable genny with you and to splice into the stations switch box (after disconnecting it from the grid). You could then pump the fuel out normally. Depending on how the pumps are wired you might be able to energize just the one pump you need.
For research purposes only
I have made mental notes about all the stations in my area and how the fuel tanks are accessed. Several of them have above ground kerosene tanks which, as we all know, will work in a multi-fuel just fine with the addition of a little WMO.On one of them (a real 500 gallon honey pot) the cap has a lock on it but the whole cap can be removed with a large pipe wrench since it is threaded onto the pipe that is threaded to the tank itself. Somebody did not put a lot of thought into the security of that design.
Since I plan to shelter in place I have several hundred gallons of waste fuel stored in totes.
Getting caught out on the road without fuel would suck.
There's more than one way to skin a cat....there's just no way to make him like it.
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