Time for a new gas jug

[Jim_Rogers]

Yesterday morning, while getting ready for the day's custom sawing, I filled up my gas jug for my sawmill. On my mill; I can remove the jug from the tray and place it down on the axle plate and pour in 5 gallons of gas:



 

I then have to lift that full jug up and place it back on the tray. Usually I put the head down to the bottom so that I don't have to lift the jug very high to get it back in the correct position.

During this lift yesterday, the gas in the full sawmill jug sloshed back and forth a bit, and when this happened the gas squirted out a bit from a crack in the upper corner of the jug. I wasn't aware that that corner of the jug had such a large crack in it.
This squirt of gas hit me in the face, on my cheek and very close to my left eye. I was wearing glasses but not my regular work safety glasses, my regular reading glasses.

Very close call.
As the title of this story says, "time for a new gas jug".....

Jim Rogers
PS maybe I should post this in "did something dumb today" thread.

[Old Greenhorn]

We should maybe start another thread called "I got lucky today". :D

[mike_belben]

Ive had gas and brakekleen in the eye a time or two.  Its not fun but youd have been okay in ten mins.  I was afraid your mill had burned.

[doc henderson]

we start to take for granted our safety when we have done something a hundred times and did fine.  we all work with powerful equipment and potentially dangerous chemicals.  we should all be glad each day that we do not loose a hand or crush a foot.  glad you turned out ok.  we are good and lucky most of the time, it only takes that one time.

[Tom the Sawyer]

Another version of 'needing a new gas jug'.  Monday I had just returned from a mobile milling job and stopped in our local station to gas up the truck (at 7.5 mpg, that happens often) and while gassing up a guy came over and said that he was helping someone who had run out of gas on the highway and that the station didn't have any gas cans (which I knew to be true).  He saw my 5 gallon can on the bed of the truck and asked if he could use it.  

He seemed sincere and was driving a marked company truck so new it had still had temp tags, so I loaned him the can, which also had about 4 gallons of non-alcohol, 91 octane, in it.  I pulled over to the side and waited for him to return.  Yep, you guessed it, after 45 minutes, no gas can.  The station knows me and would have called me if it came back.  The company truck, can't find a business by that name anywhere within 75 miles... 

[Jim_Rogers]

Sorry to hear that story.

Lost jug and lost time waiting.

Jim Rogers

PS. I got my new jug and cover from WM recently. Now I just need to install them.

[Peter Drouin]

Another version of 'needing a new gas jug'.  Monday I had just returned from a mobile milling job and stopped in our local station to gas up the truck (at 7.5 mpg, that happens often) and while gassing up a guy came over and said that he was helping someone who had run out of gas on the highway and that the station didn't have any gas cans (which I knew to be true).  He saw my 5 gallon can on the bed of the truck and asked if he could use it.  

He seemed sincere and was driving a marked company truck so new it had still had temp tags, so I loaned him the can, which also had about 4 gallons of non-alcohol, 91 octane, in it.  I pulled over to the side and waited for him to return.  Yep, you guessed it, after 45 minutes, no gas can.  The station knows me and would have called me if it came back.  The company truck, can't find a business by that name anywhere within 75 miles...

No good deed goes up punish.

[Skip]

Must be the THING similar story, cept got me for a couple of bucks . Hope they get theirs next time Karma wheel spins . :-[

[kantuckid]

The best current day pour snout I have is the original on my 5 gallon Rural King gas jug. It has a spring loaded gizmo with a small tab which when placed on the edge of the fill hole with the fuels weight downward allows the fuel to flow freely. 
Maybe it's a design that the lawyers haven't seen as yet but it works great? I do have a small plastic cap I place on it to keep rain out.  
Rural King also sells a bunch of made in USA gas snout kits for your old cans but they don't have an airflow device built in to tame the gurgling down on non-vented jugs.  ;D