Just another tidbit from our daily life at work today.
Please bear in mind we are a working property with an owner and myself with an MV bent and an MV collection to boot, we are not a museum.
We use exclusively steel jerry cans for mobile fuel usage on the properties I manage / work at.
We detest the North American plastic civvy fuel containers as they do not stand up to handling and abuse and expose to sun etc etc.
Because we do not have enough cans to have dedicated gasoline (petrol) or diesel cans we drain and refill as required. We have about 20 Cans but when things are going full tilt and we are supporting equipment working away from the "home base" workshops where bulk fuel is we transport it in cans and fill up the dozer and excavator etc from these. It works very well for us.
We do not want a bulk tank in the back of the pickup as some do because that ties up space. Also we quite often pre locate a piece of kit for work and leave the machine fully fueled but with fuel for a days work in reserve.
Well, recently a minor mishap befell us and remarkably the first time in 8 years of doing this, someone plonked gasoline into a diesel vehicle. Thankfully the culprit thought something was wrong and stopped after only a few litres and the kit was bone dry so dilution was the easy way out with no adverse effect.
As a result we have been brain storming on how to mark cans and have come up with the criteria that the marker must be re useable, and stay with the cans, and not require any modification to the can.
This is the prototype made in UHMW which is cheap. Basicaly its a small coupon with a slot cut on the table saw and a forstener bit recess on either side for a paint pen colour mark.
We will secure it with a lanyard to the can. Right now it relies on friction fit but a MK2 version is in the works.
I know the MOD makes tin labels but we dont have them and this is our simple effective "farmer fix".
Any input gratefully received.
As a slight side bar we bought these 5 litre double jerry can sets with a cleaning kit in between a few years ago. We use them as a set, one per chainsaw when they go out. One can carries 5 litres of mixed fuel the other bar oil and chains and spares etc go in the clamshell. Best $20 we ever spent on those!
Regards
R