Posted: 7/8/2010 7:15:49 PM EDT
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I finally have a lot of my preps squared away but I still have no fuel preps other than a single 5 gallon gas can next to my lawn mower. My primary location (bug in if needed) is a normal looking house in the suburbs. Can anyone give me any ideas on how to cache 25-50 gallons of fuel in a safe low vis manner? Just looking for ideas...
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measure the height of the gas cans... Get a 1/2 sheet of treated 1/2 inch plywood ( 4' x 4' ). Dig a hole say 2.5 ft. deep ( what ever the height is + 4" ) by 3.5 ' X 3.5' in the selected area. Put the gas cans in, cover with plywood... camo the plywood with the same grass / dirt you removed. You may want to line the floor with treated timbers or 12" concrete pads ( just to make it "nice" )....hahahah 
The good part is, it's much cooler... out of sight... safe ( away from the house ). I'd double dose the fuel with Marine Stabil. |
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OP, you need to look through here and the Survival DiscussionGear forums at all the gas topics. The summary of what you will learn is: get a super siphon; some of the hardware stores have these too. then get a way to hold the gas you will probably want a smaller can to fuel the genny from you could get a wally world can for this job, and here is a 2.5 gallon can from CTD Next get a way to hold the 35 gallons You could buy two of these 4 pack Nato gas cans from DO with free shipping You could buy Scepter MFC from Ebay––You will need to get viton gaskets too You could buy some Blitz cans from Northern Tool or you could get a 55 gallon drum. 36 Quarter bore built a small shed, or there are the patio boxes from rubbermade. 23 |
| I went with 55 gallon drums, leave a little bit of room for expansion, I just fill to 50 gallons, and they are stored in a barn/out building. the part of the building they are in has an open front so I built me a security gate out of 2.3/8" tubing and rebar. its protected from the elements, out of sight, and the gate will keep out the lazy theives. I do think though, that in a SHTF situation, a building that has a security feature like this will only make someone want to get in more to see whats in there. I know I would be curious. |
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This, medium priced; http://www.sceptermilitary.com/sites/scepter_military/images/160x/160_group_gas.jpg or this, high cost; http://www.thecarlsoncompany.com/media/GasCaddy.jpg or this if you want the least expensive way possible and have a way to move it around; http://www.globalindustrial.com/site/images/large_wco/657109_dim.gif ETA: This is a 30 gallon drum, not 55. 18 |
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Barrel dolly makes it easy to move around full barrels if you have a concrete floor in the storage area. I also have one of these so that I can lift and move full barrels with tractors. You can find barrels on craigslist for as cheap as $10. Clean them up and store away. 16 |
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I have a sort of thing that might be a barrel dolley but the wheels need some work to get to rolling again. I grabbed it because what it will do is let you roll a barrel onto its side and have the barrel a couple feet in the air or so. If you set things up with a spigot and what not you can now gravity feed to stuff lower. I also have a couple handpumps as well, but I figured being able to roll a barrel onto its side might be darn handy if the pumps are suddenly needed elsewhere. A lot of folks move full barrels by just rolling them on their bottom edge but I consider that a last resort to some extent, depends on how heavy the barrel is and a barrel full of liquid is heavy. If you go with a barrel or the rolling pump station I would get some smaller cans so you can get 10 or 15 gallons at the gas station at a time and fill your stuff up bit by bit. I know in the burbs I grew up in a few 5 gallon cans was no biggy but a drum or something got attention. Then again I got a lot of attention as a kid since I did things they say not to do with about anything that someone had said, "Don't do that" with something. 14 |
