Using an IBC for diesel tank.

[Turnip]

Saw this on ebay and first reacting was WTF?

IBC Tank Fuel Delivery System | Petrol, Oil, Gas, Diesel, Water | 1m - 15m Kits | eBay

This kit has a 2" Coarse threaded outlet attached to your desired length of 19mm SAEJ30/R6 reinforced fuel line with a fuel distribution nozzle at the end for your vehicle. We only dispatch to the UK.

www.ebay.co.uk

But then I thought why wouldn't you be able to use a double skinned IBC as a diesel tank.

Any thoughts as to why this would or wouldn't be a good idea?

 

[Chae1]

Fuel companies aren't meant to fill them. Some do....

I remember being in a Glasgow haulage companies yard and they had a curtainsider full of ibcs to fill there lorries from!

 

[JeepJeep]

We had IBCs we used as Plan B's If a yard ran out we'd take two over on the Sprinter. The same 2 were always full no issues.

 

[Turnip]

Would have been fun with the fuel shortages recently to turn up at a petrol station to fill 1000ltr IBC.

 

[davidroberts30]

Would have been fun with the fuel shortages recently to turn up at a petrol station to fill 1000ltr IBC.

 

[quattro]

Always try to keep some full in harvest in case of someone forgetting to order

 

[Two Tone]

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Jeez!
Our Esso in M-in-M gets snotty if we try to fill more than 1 jerry can at a time.

 

[KennyO]

Got one of red filled at our local depot one weekend at harvest when I ran out. They only put 950litres in it so it was legal to move.

 

[TheTallGuy]

Saw this on ebay and first reacting was WTF?

IBC Tank Fuel Delivery System | Petrol, Oil, Gas, Diesel, Water | 1m - 15m Kits | eBay

This kit has a 2" Coarse threaded outlet attached to your desired length of 19mm SAEJ30/R6 reinforced fuel line with a fuel distribution nozzle at the end for your vehicle. We only dispatch to the UK.

www.ebay.co.uk

But then I thought why wouldn't you be able to use a double skinned IBC as a diesel tank.

Any thoughts as to why this would or wouldn't be a good idea?

Double skinned isn't the same as being bunded. From memory for fuel storage the bund should be capable of taking 110% of the tank capacity & must not have any openings or hose ports below the top of the bund.

 

[delilah]

Remember going on the ferry to Isle of Wight and there was a normal IBC tank full of red perched over the water on the jetty, there's clearly not a red tractor equivalent for ferries.

 

[farmerofthenorth]

My dad's boss's home farm in Sussex had 3 fendt's 2 fully specked 724's with GPS (top one can never get it right if it's rtk or rtx) and section control for his 36m horsh sprayer and a 820 that runs the feed waggon (on something like 14000 hours on it) they have a 5000 liter deasil tank and a ibc full as they constantly have contractors in for silage as its a dairy farm so doing 3 cuts of silage a year over 5 farms and if its not in the pit its haylage bales (Square for feeding out farms easier) and they do 400 acres of maize silage, so they go through a lot of deasil a year so when they do run out in the tank they do have enough to go spread there own slurry (they use ambilical for 90% of there spreading with it but do have a tanker but needs replacing as it suckled its self into its self so needs a new one, again it was nearly 20 years old and was second hand)