Question for tractor guys, part deux.

[NationalMatch]

I inherited the tractor and the fuel cans to fill it. The cans are for gas, with a correspondingly narrow tube in each.

The gas tank filler mouth is in an inconvenient location and is a chore to fill.

Other than buying a commercial tank/pump to haul in the truck, what do you use? To make it easier?

At this point, I'm thinking, a large funnel is the best I can hope for?

Thanks.

 

[Chance S]

One of these? https://www.google.com/aclk?sa=l&ai...OLu9caDAxXCmmoFHSgcDFgQ9aACKAB6BAgBEEU&adurl=

 

[hunter966]

Go to Atwoods or somewhere like that and get ya a couple of those race car fuel cans, the 5.5 gal. plastic cans with the long clear plastic tubes.

I did that and it’s working great for me, plus you can add an extension if the one that comes with it is still to short or awkward to get where ya need to.

 

[rickm]

I use one of those battery operated .pumps from HF Battery-Operated Liquid Transfer Pump with my 5 gal diesel cans.

 

[2busy]

I use one of those battery operated .pumps from HF Battery-Operated Liquid Transfer Pump with my 5 gal diesel cans.

That is what I was going to recommend. I have used one for hyd fluid also.

 

[Chief Sapulpa]

...those race car fuel cans, the 5.5 gal. plastic cans with the long clear plastic tubes.

 

[cowadle]

Harbor freight now sells steel jerry cans.

 

[SoonerP226]

There near the end, my dad would buy off-road diesel by the 55 gallon drum, and he had a hand pump that threaded into the bunghole of the drum to pump the fuel into the tractor. I was going to get him a 12V-powered pump, but before I could do it, he got sick, and I lived too far away to make the drum-o-diesel a cost-effective option, so we went back to what we had been using before--the ubiquitous 5-gal yellow can.

It doesn't seem like it would be, but those yellow cans were actually more convenient to use. I could toss a couple of them in the bed of my truck when I left, then fill them up when I was on my way back to the farm, plus I could stop by the tractor that needed fuel when I got back.

If you're doing tillage on a big acreage, running a combine, and so forth, it doesn't make sense, but all of my tractors could do a hell of a lot of work on 5 gallons of diesel.

 

[hunter966]

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That’s the one, once you start pouring it out it’s empty in no time at all.

After I bought mine at NAPA I went to Atwoods and they had the same can, possibly not the same brand, cheaper than NAPA.

 

[rickm]

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I thought about one of them but my fuel filler mouth is mid chest high and trying to lift one of them full with my bad shoudlers was out of the question i can sit my 5 gal can on the lift arms and use the battery power pump to fill with easier.