On-farm diesel tanks

[endlessclimb]

Yes. If you are following the truck and look underneath, most guys have a little strap hanging that drags the ground.

[B_and_B]

Yes, they are grounded. @endlessclimb probably knows better than I how it works! They are also very, very solidly bolted down. Or should be! And the good ones have baffles to reduce the fuel sloshing about.

[endlessclimb]

It’s those pesky tires that prevent the vehicle from naturally grounding lol. Even wiring up things in a vehicle you have to go searching for a dedicated ground nut.

[sascha]

Thanks!

[eightpondfarm]

We don’t own our farm diesel tank. I think there was a one-time rental fee decades ago. They’ve replaced the hose and nozzle a couple of times, tank needs painting i suppose lol, but i think it ‘goes’ with the shed pretty well just the way it is. 300 gal tank. Located on the East side ot this shed so doesn’t get direct sunlight from about 1 or 2pm in the heat of the summer, (gratuitous photo of my standardbred incl )

[Miss_Motivation]

Lots of this depends on how much diesel you use. We keep 60 horses on a small property (Southern California Horse Kennel, as my brother says!) and use our two 36 HP Kubota tractors a couple hours a day for dragging the four arenas daily and for pushing manure up in the rolloff box, and small chores like dragging tree branches around, etc.

I was tired of taking diesel containers to the gas station every two weeks so we bought two 55 gallon drums with a crank filler. They sit on plastic pallets that are built to contain spills, I can’t recall how much the drums and pallets were but under $300 a couple years ago.

A local fuel company comes and fills the two drums when I need them to. We save a little over the gas station getting ag diesel, but the time savings is what is well worth it, and not trying to drag 5 gallon containers around.

This is just for a small property and we don’t grow grass or hay (I wish, but realistically we live in the desert) so the simple setup of the two drums and hand crank, sitting on the spill-containment pallets, works great. Our deliver lasts us about 3-4 months.

Just an idea…