Storing/traveling with gas for portable gen

GordonThree wrote:
OP does your townhouse have a common yard? Maybe you can dig in a 50 gallon oil drum while your neighbors are away.


http://prepperswill.com/make-gas-cache/

Thanks for the replies so far folks. Most kind of ya’ll.

I live in “cement city.” No common yard of any kind. I have a small patio and my neighbors are all very close to me. The garage is the only secure place to store things unfortunately.

My genset is a Champion 3100 watt portable with the remote start. Weighs about 110 pounds when full. The garage is a very small,two car garage. I also have a washer and dryer down there along with the hot water heater. The only space I have to store the genset and the gas can out of the way where they won’t get bumped is about 8 feet away from the water heater.

I’m now wondering just how often I’ll need to run the AC and if I really need the genset at all. It’s the furnace we mostly use at night that kills our batteries when we camp. Solar helped in my old class C but wasn’t always reliable with tree coverage and winter hours. Perhaps that’s another thread all together but I have done that before so I know the drill. The new trailer doesn’t have solar on it yet. Just a portable panel I can deploy if needed to help.

Question #1. If I were to empty the genset and the gas can how do I make sure they won’t still have fumes escaping? According to some of the prepper web pages I have read, empty cans and gensets can be even more dangerous with trace amounts of gas left over after emptying.

Question #2. I know thousands of folks must be carrying gas in their trucks when they camp. Almost half of the RV’s at any NP are trailers and they mostly bring generators. I didn’t think much about them when I had the class C. How do you all who have trucks and trailers carry extra fuel when traveling? Where do you put the gas can in the bed of the truck? Where do you keep the gas can in between fills?