How do you refill diesel into your tractors?

[traktorz]

We don't buy diesel in 190 liter barrels anymore, and the two gas stations in our small village has closed long time ago. I therefore need to bring fuel in jerrycans (we call them jeep-dunk in swedish). The fuel tank of the FT404 tractor is about 38 liter (~10 gallon), which is almost the volume of two jerrycans.

My first thought was to use the tractor's front loader to elevate the jerrycan above the fuel tank ceiling level, and with a tube refill the diesel easily.

I then found a fuelpump, which adds pressure to the connected jerrycan, and easily and quickly moves the fuel up to the tank. I'm going to look for this one to buy.

[GuglioLS]

Hi Traktorz,

I use a 55 gallon (208 liter) plastic barrel and two 15 gallon (56 liter) containers. To transfer fuel from the containers into the tractor I use a hand crank barrel pump. Those pumps work very nice without the worry of having to connect it to a power source, well except for hand crank power that is. I connect a rubber hose to the spigot of the pump then insert the other end into the fuel tank filler neck, then crank.

This is a thread showing how I get the fuel home: CLICK HERE

Here is the hand pump:
CLICK HERE




Larry

[jeep]

I use one like larry has to pump from jerry cans to tractors from my pickup used old drain hose from washer just the right size Jeep

[traktorz]

Thanks for sharing your tools and refueling techniques. That barrel pump seems convenient.
However, we've just bought the fuelpump earlier mentioned which connects to the jerrycan. But our new tractor yet only has 14 hours, so the fuel tank meter is still just below the ½ marking and we haven't refueled yet. Time will tell if the bought pump works well.