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I just don't want to wind up missing a digit or limb. I can sometimes get in a hurry to get results.
Looks good to go Don, that pad lock installed in the pot metal will at least let you know some one helped themselves while you were away.
Looks good! Where are you putting it? Under a shed or a canopy or??Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Quote from: Bigdave_185 on May 26, 2017, 11:57:33 PMLooks good! Where are you putting it? Under a shed or a canopy or??Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkI'm thinking four posts, with a platform. Tank resting on platform with a roof over headWould be simple enough to construct and inexpensive
I think a concrete slab would be better than a wood type thing to hold all of that fuel weight....?
Quote from: Flyin6 on May 27, 2017, 12:38:14 PMQuote from: Bigdave_185 on May 26, 2017, 11:57:33 PMLooks good! Where are you putting it? Under a shed or a canopy or??Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkI'm thinking four posts, with a platform. Tank resting on platform with a roof over headWould be simple enough to construct and inexpensiveHave you decided how you'll refill it? Just thinking if you plan to trailer it to refill making the platform for easy on/easy off the trailer might make sense. Maybe even something where the "platform" releases from the posts so you back the trailer right under the canopy....lift platform and tank together and away you go. Or skid it on & off. But you might need an anchor off back side of said platform for ease of skidding. Also thinking the height should be for when the tan is on the trailer full as opposed to when it's empty- easier to skid an empty tank "uphill" vs a full tank "uphill". Course if you're having fillups brought to you you can ignore everything I just said. Ha. I just like the idea of being able to take it and fill it where you want to.
Don, here's an idea you might want to consider. More often than not these fuel tanks get stuck beside a building or structure. Structures can burn, lighting etc. on my grand dad's farm we mounted our fuel tank to a wooden skid. The idea being in event of fire to the adjacent structure we could hook onto it with vehicle & get it away and save the fuel. Knowing the premise of this location I think it would be a good idea. We built ours from heavy beam and both ends were cut at an angle so we could pull in either direction.
Still couldn't hurt to make the mount movable, you never know.
Started already with the wind chimes...My artsy-fartsy side. When I get bored, I use them as .22 targets!
Quote from: stlaser on May 27, 2017, 02:45:22 PMDon, here's an idea you might want to consider. More often than not these fuel tanks get stuck beside a building or structure. Structures can burn, lighting etc. on my grand dad's farm we mounted our fuel tank to a wooden skid. The idea being in event of fire to the adjacent structure we could hook onto it with vehicle & get it away and save the fuel. Knowing the premise of this location I think it would be a good idea. We built ours from heavy beam and both ends were cut at an angle so we could pull in either direction. That would probably work, but I just plan to hard mount it down near the woodline. It will be some distance from structures. Afterward I'll cut the trees from around it and slice them up for barn wood.
Nice temp rise and decent organization.Guard dog?
Wait, how long has it been since Don broke something?
I won't ask you to divulge anything in a public board where anyone plodding around on the net can see it. But with the serious $ you have invested in equipment at the site and its location which at times would allow bad guys lots of time to do bad things I think a decent security camera system would be in order. I don't know much about them but ones with multiple cameras and run a feed to the cloud on a continuous basis. Maybe with a 3 hour overwrite or something. Plus some I have seen would allow you to see what's going on there from an app. I think they've gotten good enough power wise you could run them from an inverter, deep cycle battery and solar panel. My thought is have one or two on the driveway so you see anyone who came in poking around. But also a couple looking at the trailer, the shed and the implement parking lot you have (including fuel tank). Just my $0.02 and no need to acknowledge if said system is in place.
There's the missing CARREP.Coming along nicely Don. Silly screwdrivers...do you have a set of pry bars?They would be more appropriate I'd say. Past experience here, I have driven screwdrivers into flesh as well when they break. Pry bars handle the stress better. I'd also second the security cameras thing, if it is needed. That I don't know. The old geezer would likely work too.
Well I am prying like a two fat women trying to open the frig door trying to get to a single snickers bar hidden in the ice maker, when the handle of one screw driver comes off, allowing 50,000 pounds of force to spring back and drive the other screwdriver through my finger. I didn't actually feel it at first, it had happened so fast. And it only stabbed in to be correct, did not come out the other side. It was the blade screwdriver that failed and the #2 phillips that stabbed me. So I upped the ante with bigger toolage and accomplished the mission.