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Not everyone has a pickup. I have 2 company cars. If I had a pickup truck I would have to pay for car insurance, taxes and the truck. So for me hauling a drum of fuel is not possible. I will use Jerry cans and my home heating oil tank to fill my diesel storage drum. I have considered another...

My oil tank is about 125 feet from where the generator will live. So for my purposes I will probably haul the fuel manually. That is why I have thought about either a 15 or 30 gallon drum. I could move that on a hand truck, refill it and wheel it back. Just make a hose that will reach outside so...

Propane is a good choice. The negatives are you need a tank to store it and you can't refill it yourself. Propane has roughly 10% less power per gallon than gasoline. If you already have a propane tank then I would go with propane to power a generator. I would just go with a larger tank. In my...

You do not want water in your diesel. The algae makes a mess of fuel systems. if I didn't have a heating oil tank I would fill a 55 gallon drum and seal it. I will either get a 15 or 30 gallon drum and seal it for emergency use. Then beyond that I would tap my heating oil tank. The lowest I run...

This is one reason to periodically run your equipment, no matter what it is. Most residential backup generators are propane or natural gas powered. The fuel does not go bad in storage and does not gum up injectors, carburetors, etc. You can store diesel long term but you have to watch for algae...

If you want to run all that at once you will need a monster. If you are planning to be prepared for an extended outage. Hurricane Sandy here on the east coast left people without power for 2 weeks. Fuel was very hard to come by. Even when stations had gasoline most did not have diesel. You do...

Wet stacking I am sure is more of an issue with the water cooled models but you want to occasionally load up near 100% to really burn the fuel hot and clean. Storeman is right. You need to decide on what your needs are. I have a 7500W petrol generator. it served me well last October with a 7...

You can do a search for generator sizing. There you can plug in all your loads and it will help decide on the size. Square footage really does not matter. It is the items you need to power. I have and oil fired hot air furnace, electric hot water heater, and the usual loads such as microwave...