AOP
In Remembrance 2023
How are you guys refueling your airplanes? Out of 5 gallon Gerry cans? That's what I have always done, as the field I fly out of doesn't have a pump.
The reason I ask is because the nature of my injury makes it more and more difficult to lift 35- 40 pounds of gas can over my head to get it up there. I can get it part way up the ladder but not over my head any more. Yesterday I missed a step on the ladder and bashed my head on the concrete floor. Bled all over the place. I have decided not to do that any longer. I was looking at Cosco ladders and there are a couple that look reasonably stable and most importantly, they have a shelf that I can sit the gas can on, and it's just about even with the tank.
The problem now becomes how to get the gas from the conveniently positioned can into the tank. I went looking on Amazon and found a device called a Terra Pump. It looks like the cheapest hunk of anchor off a Chinese junk you ever saw, (Korean, actually) but the others are in the $300 range, or are only good for diesel oil. I decided to pop for one. $51.
I tried it out today, and it works. Immersion pump. It transfers fuel at about 3 gpm, so you can't be in a hurry. But it does the job. Doesn't say anything about a warranty which is the only potential hole I see.
The reason I ask is because the nature of my injury makes it more and more difficult to lift 35- 40 pounds of gas can over my head to get it up there. I can get it part way up the ladder but not over my head any more. Yesterday I missed a step on the ladder and bashed my head on the concrete floor. Bled all over the place. I have decided not to do that any longer. I was looking at Cosco ladders and there are a couple that look reasonably stable and most importantly, they have a shelf that I can sit the gas can on, and it's just about even with the tank.
The problem now becomes how to get the gas from the conveniently positioned can into the tank. I went looking on Amazon and found a device called a Terra Pump. It looks like the cheapest hunk of anchor off a Chinese junk you ever saw, (Korean, actually) but the others are in the $300 range, or are only good for diesel oil. I decided to pop for one. $51.
I tried it out today, and it works. Immersion pump. It transfers fuel at about 3 gpm, so you can't be in a hurry. But it does the job. Doesn't say anything about a warranty which is the only potential hole I see.