How do you fill your fuel and LUBE jugs/tanks?

[Banjo picker]

I don't want you all to hate me but being stationary has a few perks.  I fill either with this....after moving the mill to the far end

  I bought that fill rite pump at a discount store that said for parts only for $50.00.  The hose and spout were Worth that.  It had a broke blade on a terminal....cost about 5 cents to fix.  That tank holds 275 gallons.   Just filled it up today....should have done it last week.  Price went up 6 cents a gallon from yesterday.  

I also got this tank on my truck that holds about 90 gallons.

That's a hoss of a pump on the truck.  It will pump faster than most stations.  Banjo

[Magicman]

I had to make a change on storing my onboard ½" CPVC lube pickup tube.


 
I had dropped it in the space between the fuel & lube jugs and the head which seemed OK, but it was not.  When the head is raised to it's uppermost position, the chain bracket crushed the CPVC pipe.



So I added a piece of ¾" CPVC to serve as a scabbard.  We shall see how that works.  ??

[doc henderson]

the scabbard should keep the dip cleaner I would think, anyway.

[kantuckid]

Fearing mud daubers and plain old filth, I stick my magicman plastic suction pipe up into the nozzle and perched near the barn spot I fill in. 

[teakwood]

I don't want you all to hate me but being stationary has a few perks.

It doesn't get any better than that!

[teakwood]

Yes, I have seen neglected metal fuel cans rust on the inside and become unusable.  :-\



 
My 4 new metal cans arrived well boxed and unharmed.



Each one comes with it's own metal spout with a rubber/plastic tip.  The cap and the spout cam lock into the jug.

The cans slept outside last night and the temperature dipped down into the 30's.  I now have them inside warming before I spray 3 of them yellow.

@Magicman
are these OEM's? I don't know if there is a OEM for this cans but i call mine the original ones, i inherited this one from my grandfather, its from 1968 and has been used with gasoline since then, no rust after 52 years, doesn't get any better. I would love to buy more of these !
what is this brand? looks familiar

[Magicman]

Those certainly appear to be the same fuel cans that I am using:  LINK  I am very satisfied with them and glad to be rid of the plastic cans.

Since I am always portable I have been working toward mounting my fuel pump permanently on the sawmill.  This would be similar to the way I did my lube pump so that I will only have to deal with the suction and delivery hoses during fill up.  Even as it is, both the blade lube and the engine fuel pump idea has been very successful.

[TimW]

I finally (while installing my lubemizer) installed external battery terminals to run the diesel pump to fuel my mill.

 

 

 Now I just roll (once in the new sawmill shed) the tank over and hook up the cables and fuel up.
hugs,  Brandi

[doc henderson]

I really like those lugs, Bindian.  are they available for us lay people?  if so where, and by what name.  I have been using the fleet wire couplers so have it front and back of my truck, back of my log splitter, and front of my conveyor.  



 

 

[TimW]

Doc,
   They are from Speedway Motors.  https://www.speedwaymotors.com/Speedway-Remote-Mount-Battery-Terminal-Studs,1116.html?NoRedirect=true&OriginalQuery=69821504
hugs,  Brandi

[YellowHammer]

I'm stationary, and cut a 2" hole in the top of my lube tank, where its at its lowest due to sag.  So its like the real big hole in the middle of a shallow funnel.  Then I have a wide mouth 2 gallon oil jug, fill it with lube and pour it in about as fast as I can tip the fill jug over.  Then I have a rag that I lay on top of the jug and tuck both sides under the the bungies that hold the tank in.