Posted: 4/9/2026 1:01:16 PM EDT
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I have 2 diesel tractors and just acquired a big tracked loader, and need a better way to feed them Are any of those semi portable 15 gallon diesel cans worth the hassle? Would think its better than lugging around several 5 gallon cans. Been using one of those cheap battery powered fuel pumps so I dont have to lift them much. TIA |
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Originally Posted By ske714: I use a 55 gallon drum. I have a hoist and barrel tongs to get it from my truck to a dolly. Almost anything can be portable when you have a loader. How do you pump the fuel out of the barrel and into your equipment? Do you take it somewhere to refill it yourself or do you have fuel delivered? Thanks @ske714 |
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Originally Posted By Deuskid: How do you pump the fuel out of the barrel and into your equipment? Do you take it somewhere to refill it yourself or do you have fuel delivered? Thanks @ske714 Originally Posted By Deuskid: Originally Posted By ske714: I use a 55 gallon drum. I have a hoist and barrel tongs to get it from my truck to a dolly. Almost anything can be portable when you have a loader. How do you pump the fuel out of the barrel and into your equipment? Do you take it somewhere to refill it yourself or do you have fuel delivered? Thanks @ske714 I take it to the gas station and fill it. I have an air-powered diaphragm pump to deliver it, which works pretty good. I'd post a link, but it was given to me. |
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Me, I just use the 5gallon yellow diesel cans. But I see quite a few trucks with 30 & 55 gallon drums some with a manual transfer pump on top, some with rolled up short length of garden hose, these empty drums are sold fairly cheap around here. See a lot of trucks with the 50 & 100 gallon in bed tanks too, these tanks are $500+ |
| I like the idea of a 55 gal drum and using barrel tongs to lift it off my truck and into the barn. Will look into that and visit my local oil distributor and see if they can get me fixed up. My loader will easily pick up the filled drum I think. If not, I can rig up an overhead chain pulley to lift/lower it. Getting the diesel out of the drum and into equipment seems to have several options. Never used an air powered diaphragm pump before. Gotta hook an air compressor to it or something? |
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Originally Posted By Burnsome-: I like the idea of a 55 gal drum and using barrel tongs to lift it off my truck and into the barn. Will look into that and visit my local oil distributor and see if they can get me fixed up. My loader will easily pick up the filled drum I think. If not, I can rig up an overhead chain pulley to lift/lower it. Getting the diesel out of the drum and into equipment seems to have several options. Never used an air powered diaphragm pump before. Gotta hook an air compressor to it or something? Yep. Here's one from Vevor at Home Depot. I had no idea they sold one. Cheap, too. https://www.homedepot.com/p/VEVOR-Air-Operated-Double-Diaphragm-Pump-1-2-in-Inlet-Outlet-13-2-GPM-120PSI-PTFE-Diaphragm-Transfer-Pump-for-Oil-Diesel-YBGMBQBY-15PP0001V0/327401905?source=shoppingads&locale=en-US&fp=ggl |
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We have the same equipment at the farm as the OP. We have a 120 gal tank on a trailer. When it’s truly empty or the price is crazy low, we take it to the off-road diesel place. We have 7-8 5gal diesel cans that we take home with us and every tine we come to the farm we fill them up. When we arrive we top off both tractors, the skid steer and the Kubota runabout. Anything left goes into the tank on the trailer. Partner is headed there tomorrow just to spend a few days fishing and as everything should be full that will give us full talks on everything, a full tank on the trailer and every cab will be full. The trailer has a built in transfer pump, and we just gator flip it to the terminals when we need to pump fuel. We have a separate but similar system for gasoline. |