You just ain't got those redneck genetics. I went out to my brother's in CA one year for Thanksgiving. It was getting a little nippy coming down from Victorville so I decided to stay at a motel rather than going on. The clerk took my money and said "You can't bring the bike into your room.' Apparently he had some experience in the matter. Housekeeping must have bitched about the oil stains on the carpet.
How do you know? Thanks for the reminder though. A guy down the road has goats and has put up a sign offering goat milk. I've been meaning to stop and get some on my way home.
Somewhere I lived, 10 or 20 miles out in the country, in a hilly area, I aaw someone who built a ramp horizontally from ground level, where the ground itself dropped off. I didn't go into the property to see what was holding it up. Steel bars I suppose with wooden ramps.
Before that, when I lived in Brooklyn, there was a seemingly avaiable pit, and for years I sort of wanted to need some repair that would require the pit. Finally I had to do something under my car, change the steering box maybe, and at the foot of Vanderbilt Avenue at Flushing Ave. was that closed gas station, abandoned it seemed, with an outdoor pit for two cars. About a mile from where I lived. So I was working on the car there and the owner came by. I assured him that even if I hurt myself or the car, I would not sue him (and I meant it) and he left.
There were steps built into one half of the pit, but it was easier to get out by using my arms, and I did that about a half-dozen times until my arms got tired. The last time I didn't make it all the way up and I rocked forward on my partly bent arms and my nose hit the angle iron that reinforced the front edge of the pit.
I got out and got a paper townel out of the trunk. I was bleeding quite a bit from both outside my nose and inside. Big drops on the ground and in the trunk.
I wanted to go home but I hadn't quite finished the car yet. I finished the car and was drivign back and it was hard to turn the steering wheel. It turned late, so the car kept veering to one side then the other.
There was a triangle of skin that got pushed up. I coudl have washed my hands and pushed it back, but it made me sick to think about it. I could have gone to an ER, but I just wanted to lie down. Ended up with a little bump on my nose for 2 or 3 years. Now it's gone and the faintest scar was there last I looked.
I finished the car the next day, but I must have done it without using the pit.
I see that there is an auto repair place there now and a lot with 7 cars. Maybe the pit is still there.
I usually get a hundred gallons at a time which, at 40 cents, is a savings of forty dollars per fillup, and at one fillup a month, almost $500/year.
Sticker says Top Tier too! And there's never a long wait. Maybe a couple of cars in front of me, but depending on when I go, it's often nearly empty.
Boo boo. 4 cents times 100 gallons is only 4 dollars times 12 is only about $50 saved, but the Costco is Top Tier and convenient and nobody gets mad at me while I get a hundred gallons as there are three bays in front of me and four of those three bays to the sides, so I'm not holding up anyone's time.
That $50 saved buys me another few gas cans so I can get more gas per fill.
With the high price of gas ($5.30/gallon on my last fill), it helps a bit.
You might want to look into tossing a few of those plastic cans out, they look well past their use by date.
It's a joke from rec.food.cooking. A guy said any house without a basement is no better than a goat barn. Ed lives in a house in Florida on a slab. Ergo, goat barn.
I ASSumed your location requires deep enough footers that basements are customary in your area.
Some of that is in your vehicle. I'm not interested in storing that much gas in plastic jugs on my property. Unless used in other machines, I'm not interested in filling my tank from them too.
I hope your storage is far from your neighbors.
I could fill the gas tank from them but I just dump them into drums.
I checked all the safety codes. OSHA suggests a vented building with a drainage pan and the fire marshal suggested storing them upside down and open when empty so the fire crews know they're empty during a fire.
The police said there is only one state with laws regulating transport (NY) and transport is covered under the 600 pound hazardous material FED laws.
The EPA only regulates recapture of fumes when the size of individual containers exceeds 60 gallons. I fill my epoxy lined drums (notice they're not over 60 gallons) once a month and pump into the cars at will at home.
You can get all the parts at Grainger for a home gasoline pump but the problem is that delivery of only 100 gallons isn't worth the extra prices they charge. Which is why I fill up at Costco about once a month for that.
Most people make a huge deal out of nothing when it comes to storing fuel.
It's always people who have never even thought of doing it who tell you all the reasons why they can't do what anyone can do if they know how to do it.
Every neighbor, for example, is storing about 20 gallons in their car. For a typical four car family, they're storing 40 to 60 gallons inside their home (in the garage) and another similar amount in the driveway.
The fire marshal has approved my setup even though he didn't have to, he came by at my request, and that's good enough for me. Who approved yours?
The crappy ones are Blitz. They went out of business. Good riddance. It doesn't matter the outside peeling as that's just the pretty layer.
But the blitz cans tend to split along the top seam and their spouts will always crack and leak around the stem due to atrociously poor design.
The better ones are Spectre. You can buy them at Costco. They're great. The spout removes easily and doesn't stick out so it won't break easily.
You never need the nozzle anyway. You just use it as a bung hole as it's no good for pouring.
I couldn't get 100 gallons if I rolled the window down and stuck the nozzle in :) At 5 cents a gallon less than the other stations, that 40 cents is my savings for the entire fill up.
Yeah, 5 gallons is enough for me. That's for the lawnmower although I'll sometimes top off the bikes at the end of the season.
You can plug a tire yourself if you keep a kit with you. I run tires until they are thin and border-line dangerous. I'm mildly exaggerating, but light stress cracks on the sidewall of a 10 year old tire won't deter me from running it if it has good tread.
I just replaced my 10-YO tires. 38K miles. Minor cracks, but this is SoCal -- ALL our tires have minor cracks. Overnight flat. Nobody would repair it due to age. Turns out that there was a blown-out hole in the interior sidewall. Bought 4 new tires just like those. Excellent life and dry traction, I'm happy.
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