Using a homemade lift to make filling equipment with gasoline easier. Email us at oneeyecustoms22@gmail.com Amazon Affiliate Link to Flo N Go gas dollie’s www.amazon.com...
I added a Schrader air valve to the fill cap, pressurize it to about 6-6.5 lbs and don't have to worry about siphoning. When I'm done fueling, I open the fill cap to release the pressure. Keep up the great work.
@@Rhamlin7 he pumps air into the container and when he pushes the lever on the handle the air pressure pushes the gas out so no pumping the handle required.
Loving your channel. Looking forward to all the content you’ll be putting out because I’m intrigued by your logical ingenuity. Thank you for sharing this video. Currently, I use (5) five gallon gas containers to keep gas for my zero turn and 2 Polaris Rangers and at least one of them always leaks expensive gas around the nozzle. I’m checking into the Flo-N-Go in a moment. Side note - your lawn is so beautifully kept, I’d love to watch a video on how you maintain it… even cutting the grass. Take care!! 👍👍
Thank you!!! I’m sure I’ll be doing a video on my lawn maintenance. I enjoy a good cut lawn. Mine just happens to be an old corn field that has take years to get into good shape.
I have the same gas caddy with the same idea, but for $20 and 10 minutes of my time I hung a block and tackle pulley from a 2x8 rafter and used axle straps. Yours is portable though. 😉
Great video Doug, that sure is a clever way to hang the portable gas tank. Your channel will be a big success with practical solutions for doing things. Keep making good videos.
Doug your my new favourite RU-vidr. I can't wait to see where your channel ends up. I'd love to hear a story of how you got to where you are, I'm guessing you've been pretty successful in your business life. Love all your ideas and I look foward to sharing my channel with you one day. Cheers Mick
Ausome Solution for me and my situation Dugger. In order to fuel my compact tractor I need to lift the "gerry" can up to the open station and then balance/hold over the steering wheel to fill tank. 20 liters of diesel is heavy when combined with my size 8 boots on the deck with not a comfortable place to stand. After filing for the first I only purchase 10 lts at a time. This makes my fuel costs more expensive as now I make more frequent trips to the pumps. Will absolute..ly look into this. Thanks a bunch for the vid Ontario Canada
Dude you’re a legend! Very intelligent and creative. I’ve got a tractor on the way (tall hood) and I have one of these dollies and I’m trying to figure out how to get a full dolly 6’ off the ground. Might just put a shop vac up blower against the vented nozzle. Or load the the fuel dolly in the tractor loader and lift it up 5’ off the ground and just reach over and fill the gas tank on the tractor. Easy way to get it higher than the tank. Thanks for all the clever ideas! Also great job on the tag label and also the aluminum lift. Cheers
You should wrap the plastic Wheels with several layers of duct tape. (3)+ That way the wheels never wear out. I have done this 4 years on different coolers and it works fantastic. And occasionally you do have to change the duct tape but it's cheaper than trying to replace the wheels. This is for cheap plastic Wheels typically the hollow ones.
Obviously, it’s a gravity fed system. Some people I’ve seen pressurize the tank so it would push the fuel out instead of pumping and there are many ways to achieve that. In my case though, I used a facet fuel-it transfer pump (no longer made) which is a 12v battery system. I don’t have to worry about gravity or pressurizing in order to pump gas. There were a few more hacks I did to the fuel caddy. I replaced the vent cap with a pressure valve with a pressure reducing cap so that if the tank sometimes builds up pressure inside it, the pressure reducer would release it automatically. Obviously, when I replaced the hand pump with a battery powered one, I also upgraded the fuel hose and added a quick disconnect at the bottom fuel valve so I could remove the fuel pump when I bring the caddy to the gas station to refill it. I didn’t want to have to lug a pump, battery, long hose just to refill the tank. And one last upgrade were the wheels. Those wheels I hated the moment I got the fuel caddy. I replaced those plastic wheels with non-flat rubber ones. I’ve seen people completely remove those wheels and axle and attach the caddy to regular hand trucks. More ergonomic I guess. But I was satisfied with just replacing the wheels with full rubber ones. I’ve seen more upgrades people have made, but the ones I made served me well.
The lift idea is brilliant! I've been using a ladder to set my 5 gallon cans on for years to get gravity on my side. We been using the Flo-n-go for 10 years+ on 5 gallon cans. The weight of the large cans and getting them high enough to flow stopped me from buying one. You've solved that problem! THANKS!!
Hi Doug. Thanks for another great video tip. I bought one of those to hold diesel for my tractor. I store it out of the way and when needed I put it on a pallet and use the forks on my front end loader to raise it up. It works but your idea has given me a new way to build something where it will be a lot more accessible. I’ll build mine out of wood. Thanks for sharing. Stay safe
Really enjoying the content here and am getting inspired by your great ideas. You should consider signing up for the Amazon affiliate program and provide links when you call out products like this. I never knew these existed, and if I were to buy one you deserve a cut.
Good video, and great idea. If I may offer what I hope is construed as constructive criticism, the video could be tightened up a little in that you reiterated several points two or three times. And, PLEASE, lose the rap music or whatever it was at the end. Your framing of the shots, presentation to camera, and speaking voice are really good, so don't change that :)
very good to see Autumn being a trooper, and helping you on the videos !!! I would like to have one of those tanks, but I just don't have enough equipment to be worth having that much fuel.....although, now that I think about it, for my GENERATOR....never HAD to use so far, after 4 or 5 years owning it.....it might be a good idea, with electric power getting less "reliable" all the time....(GLAD I am not in CALIF...!!!) and I am in HURRICANE territory....Jacksonville, FL
My son has two in his equipment storage bay. Built wooden racks and raises the full one with an inexpensive cable come along and the second one is for mixed 2 cycle fuel that all his two cycles use at same mix ratio. He mixes 10 gals at a time raises with come along but suspends on Rachel strap so he can shake the mix before dispensing it great vid be safe and be careful.
I actually think a regular tank with a old style brass shaker-ball siphon hose works the best - keep it simple, for my boat the siphon works best and for my ATV's, just place the tank on the rack, put the siphon hose into the tank and into ATV - shake the ball to start the siphon process - very easy.
Several times I have thought about getting one. I have a large race can that we use with the flexible hose, but when its full it is hard to hold the can and direct the flow. I like the idea of hanging it from the wall.
By adding air pressure you take a chance at having a static discharge with an oxygen enriched atmosphere which will cause a fire. The only thing you should use to pressurize a fuel tank is nitrogen.
A couple people mentioned it. But I actually thought youbwere going to add an air hose adapter and pressurize it. I like the stand. I'll have to show my neighbor. I don't have a garage but he has a shop. They are 165 on Amazon now but I like it. I hate the new cans. I literally just bought one from lowes. It catches water in the rain And it leakes when filling. The new style ones are ridiculous. Keep up the good work doug!
Greetings Neighbor Doug & Mrs. Neighbor Doug. Great set-up Doug. You ought to apply for a pattern for your hoist. You are right it does make it a lot easier fueling things up. Until next time have a great day
Those cans are pretty nice. I definitely need to get a couple. Quite the contraption you built. Impressive stuff Doug! Im starting my first aluminum project today. We’ll see how it goes.
Ha ha i knew that sounded bad but i would never say anything inappropriate about your wife. She is a very lovely women though. I really did mean the gas cans.
I think a great idea for a mini series on your channel would be your solutions to everyday problems/5S things like this, would be great to see, even though you've covered things in Hometown Acres shop tour video, it wouldn't be bad to do your own version.
You’ve had these a couple years. I’d rather hear your take on these than someone who just received them to make a review. I believe your thoughts and opinions would be more useful. Thank you and keep the good work.
Neighbor Cliff hqs a pretty good neighbor in you, your skills and your equipment... keeps Melissa happy i guess, being able to swim in their pool.... enjoyed watching...
Great idea I am guessing the average fill up on my riding mower probably cost me 50 to 75 cents in spilled fuel. Looking for ways to install a gravity feed system because of your video content. Fuel is to dam expensive to waste a drop at this point.
Just to let you know Doug the cost on Amazon US is $177.94 + shipping to the UK of $365. On the UK site the closest I could get was a 53l tank @£216.18 including tax (20%) and shipping. Dough’s inventive creation process.
I bought the cheap Chinese knock off version of that and you get what you pay for. I ordered 2 of them off of ebay and when they arrived, they have this super cheap thin flimsy hose that kinks and was not in the photos online. The pump handle leaks everytime you pump gas, and 1 of the 2 caddies leaked right out of the box. The shut off valve had a really bad leak, I drained out the fuel and luckily caught it before it made a really big mess in my garage and then I managed to fix the leak. One of the gaskets was completely ripped and folded over. Well after fixing it I noticed that there was still a small leak around the wheels. I had to pull off the axle shaft which was glued on, and behind the axle shaft was a small hair line crack in the plastic that leaks. I still have to fix this. For anyone that is thinking about trying to save a little money and buying the knock off of these, take it from me, not worth the headache that will come with it. Also worth mentioning that since I bought 2 of them I noticed that the cheap hoses aren't even the same length on the two caddies. The one caddie that does not currently have a leak does leak really bad when you are pumping the gas out and gets all over your hand and the thing you are pumping the gas into.
DOUG, I have one , use mine to hold non-ethanol fuel, for mowers as you also! Love the 'hoist'! Yours is definitely a better way to lift it. I ended up mounting a small block and tackle on the rafters, and wrapping a rope around the handle to lift it.(witch sucks for stability!) Then strap the tank to the wall on a shelf thats mounted to the wall studs. It's too bad these tanks ain't a little narrower that way they could tuck right inside a standard 16" on center wall cavity. I Will definitely revise my hoist system to duplicate yours! Good stuff , and yep!.. there is a better way! Thanks!!! Side note: wish there was a way to tell how much fuel was left in that tank when it's upright. Still trying to figure out how to install a 'sight hose', but the vinyl tubing may be an issue!
Nicely done, now if I only had your aluminium welding skills or lived next door to you. :) Jumping on Amazon now to price the fuel dollies.. Thanks for the tips.
Brandon gets his way you're gonna be replacing all those fuel tanks with battery chargers. You're gonna have to invent something to bring your charger to the middle of the field and quick charge your tractor and batwing lol. Thanks for sharing
Cool idea but an expensive solution to a $0.05 issue. Around the 8:44 mark there is ample elevation in the retaining wall in the background to make fuel flow down hill. The concept of "there's got to be a better way" is good. Don't over think it. Simplicity! Simple is always better and more cost efficient.
Thanks for the idea, but I don’t like to leave the fuel dolly outside in the sun. Plus I would have to drag it over there every time I wanted to fill something up then drag it back to put it away. Once it is up on the lift, I don’t have to touch it again till it is empty. But I do like your thinking of simplicity!! Thanks for the input!
Yes, you can take the fill cap off and insert your electric pump input line into the tank and pump away. In the alternative, you could remove the manual pump hose and attach the electric pump inlet hose to the tank where the manual pump hose attached.
I guess you use that hoist to get the fuel tanks out of the truck when they're full? I've got a harbor freight 110v electric hoist hanging off a metal beam in my shop I use to raise my zero turn up to clean my deck and get the blades off without having to lay down, I'm 67 and the floor is hard for me to get off of.
Great video Doug! I was just looking at the 100+ gallon fuel containers on Amazon yesterday. Lift it in and out of the truck bed with the forks on my tractor. Did you ever consider a bigger tank?
Another great video Doug. Wish we could get those fuel containers here in the UK. Just a thought, was the TV programme McGyver based on you? Because your outside the box thinking is astounding! Keep posting buddy.👍
Great video and cool invention! I knew you’d show us a better way! Your wife did a great job too. Is this the same garage that you and Adam have shown?
Thanks, this garage was built long before I even built my house. The land was our family property we used to farm and cut firewood on and my father had a pavilion built. I turned it into a garage about 30 years ago when I bought the property to build my house.
This is one of the worst products. Returned mine. Siphoning does not work for basic physics reasons unless the nozzle is lower than the bottom of the can. Very rarely is that the case. Also, spills all over the place.
