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From: "Mike Wills" <rv-4mike@cox.net>
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Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Ridge vent material
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 20:04:32 -0800
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Bill,

 My brother in law has a backhoe business and has one of those tanks and a 
pump in the bed of his pickup to fuel his backhoe. I remember seeing it 
thinking it was the perfect solution. Looking at it closer it has a big DOT 
tag saying diesel fuel only, not legal for transport of gasoline.  May be 
where I got the idea that it wasn't legal.

Mike

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From: "Bill Monroe" <aviator@stinsonvoyager.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 7:09 AM
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Ridge vent material

> This comes up a lot with the off-road crowd.
> My motorhome has 2 100 gallon gas tanks. One outfitted with a pump 
> intended
> to refuel other vehicles.
> Came as an option straight from the factory.
> I've seen many large 5-wheel "toybox" trailers with similar setups, along
> with many folks hauling out a large number of gas cans on their trailers.
> If there was a law limiting quantity, the CHP in California would be all
> over the folks on I-8 in socal heading to and returning from the dunes.
> Lord knows they fly-in-formation with every RV looking for stuff they can
> ticket you for as it is - ask me how I know.
>
> Back a few years I had a GMC truck with 3 gas tanks totaling just over 70
> gallons...
> I'm sure everyone has seen the construction and farm trucks running around
> with large tanks in the bed to service equipment...
>
> I keep hearing that "they" don't allow it, but no one seems to know who
> "they" are, or are able to produce any real evidence.
>
> I am aware that there are limits to what you can haul in a non-ventilated
> (like the trunk of a sedan) or passenger area of a vehicle.
>
> Looking at all the angles, I contacted my insurance companies (Geico and
> AAA), neither had anything in their policies about the *amount* of fuel
> being hauled, only that the "method" used to transport it not be in
> violation of any fed, state, local ordinances, laws.. blah blah blah....
>
> Today, I have a approx 60 gallon tank that I made from aluminum "diamond
> plate" so that it fits under the bed toolbox for the back of my Dakota.  A
> 12V pump from a catalog (I think it was Northern Tool) is strong enough to
> push the fuel up to the wing tanks on my Stinson.  MUCH safer than the 
> 6-pak
> of 5 gallon plastic Blitz gas "cans" I used to have to haul up a ladder, 
> and
> less potential damage to the wings.
> Since I'm restoring the Stinson now the tank is unmounted and with the 
> whole
> state of affairs with ethanol and 82UL and such, it's next life might go
> back to hauling gas to the desert  :)
>
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On
>> Behalf Of Ernest Christley
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 6:27 AM
>> To: Rotary motors in aircraft
>> Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Ridge vent material
>>
>> Mike Wills wrote:
>> > Scott,
>> >
>> >  Thought about doing this myself  because I'm tired of hauling gas in
>> > gas cans. But I've been told its against the law (federal law) to
>> > haul mogas this way. Anyone have any further info on this?
>> >
>> The federallies limit you to 50 gallons or so.  State and local
>> ordinances will be all over the place.  The rules will be kept in the
>> bottom drawer of a non-descript filing cabinet in the basement of an
>> annex to the local municipal building. (My apologies to Douglas Adams.)
>>
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