Sorry, I was trying to find a way to do that without altering your quote.
Let me do it without the (official) quote box.
This was what you said:
But I agree with others: why not just buy more gas cans and ferry them in the bed of your truck? For someone not mechanically inclined, that seems like less fuss than Joey’s method
I was suggesting this instead:
But I agree with others: why not just buy more gas cans and ferry them in the bed of your truck? For someone with a pickup truck, that seems like less fuss than Joey’s method
I was just suggesting that, as long as he has the truck, it would be a lot easier to toss the gas cans back there than trying to defeat the anti-siphon device.
Buy one or more 5 gallon tanks. Put them in the bed of the pickup. Fill them at the gas station. Use the contraption of your choice to siphon the gas out of them and into the generator. Much better than trying to tap into your vehicle’s gas line, which will require more mechanical knowhow and could end up with damage to the vehicle due to mistakes (or lack of knowhow)
Get one with a spigot (or install a spigot), then back the truck up to the generator and hang the containers off the edge of the bed. You can probably even find a way to attach a few feet of garden hose if you can’t get close enough.
Keeping gas around means that I will have a lot of bad gas, giving that losing power is a rare event.
The best option is to pour my stored gas into the family cars every three months and refill the stored gas cans at the station. I’ll jut have to regularly do that.
Thanks, everyone.
I have a 4000 VA Honda generator that has a gasoline engine. In fact, I used it today to power our home when the electric went out. Which is really important, since (like the OP) I need to run the furnace. I also need to run the well pump.
I have two, five gallon safety cans that I keep gas in. I simply pour the gas into the generator. The generator runs fine with gas that is six months old.
Several years ago when I lived out in the woods, the power was off for a week. I ran the furnace, the well and satellite TV off the generator. I don’t remember where I got all that gas.
A buddy of mine has a generator the size of two chest freezers. It’s impressive. He hates power outages. I don’t know why.
The “unit” is hard wired in. It sits near his AC unit on the side of his house. If his power goes out, it kicks on automatically. Ideally it is seamless, but the lights do flicker just a bit. Kinda like a computer uninterrupted power supply.
Cracks me tf up. If our power goes out I build a fire in the fireplace and collect water from rain barrels or our pond to flush. Then on 1-4 hours it’s back on!
Also to the OP, many generators can be easily converted to natural gas. Basically remove the carb, install the NG ‘carb’ and run a line. They typically will produce slightly less power, perhaps 10-20%. But also don’t have the fouling issues of gasoline.
Twenty months later.
I bought a transfer pump. There is a tube that fits in the car’s filler tube, and a thinner tube with a pointed end that you lubricate with WD10 and wiggle past the siphon trap on t he gas tank. Now I can fill the generator and lawn mower from my car and not worry about bad gas.
I’ve not had to run this generator. At my previous residence it was about a gallon a day for another gas generator to run the electronics of a gas furnace, some lights, a TV and a satellite receiver. This prevents me from relying on a couple of cans of gasoline that may be too old.
