Fuel storage

Like clubhouse and trackrig, I use two "milk crates" each holding two plastic two-gallon cans. But they have to be secured (I use just a rope) during travel, as I found out the hard way: an empty can will be sucked out of a truck bed during travel unless it is tied down. And the "milk crates" can be found at Walmart in business supplies. They are not exactly the size of real milk crates, but are the right size to hold two Walmart two-gallon cans. (You can test it in the store.)

Thanks, folks. I had not seen the thin cans, that's pretty neat. The only availability concerns I had was from reading a blog and the many times this blogger was on unimproved campsites, and the ferry trips when propane had to be off. I understand the gen could not be run, then either, but you would need a regular way to recharge batteries. Can you tell, I'm new to this?

Store them in the truck bed. Run a cable through them with a lock for piece of mind. Two five gallon jugs will more than take care of you, gas is readily available.

Bill

These new style thin gasoline cans sure look interesting. With all the different slotted holes you have many different secure ways to carry them.



Being thin like they are I bet you could come up many ways to carry these in the back of the truck bed...


Roy Ken

First I don't "lock up" my generator fuel cans. Maybe a mistake, but nobody has bothered them yet.

I have an old milk crate, 6 1-gallon size, that I have tied into the bed of my truck. They easily fit either a 5 gal fuel can or 2 - 2 gal can. I prefer the 2 gal size since most trips I only use a couple gallons of generator fuel and this way I don't have fuel sitting around getting stale. On long trips I'll pack 2 crates, 1 for a 5 gal diesel can and the other for generator fuel. The crate keeps things from sliding and possible creating static electricity.

I guess if I was really worried about theft I'ld run a heavy cable and lock through the tanks. Same as I do for the generator.