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Storm Preparations and YTDOT

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john in la

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What part of in La do you not understand
With a storm approaching it is a good idea to stock up on non perishable foods and batteries for your flashlight.
In more modern times that includes gasoline for your generator.

So a friend sent me these pictures from past storms to remind us how NOT to do this.
But we all know in the end.....
You can not fix stupid.

Kinda feel like this does not pass YTDOT criteria either.


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One Farmer ......... Hmmm, I don't think I'd like to see it, why would anyone want to watch a fireball take lives?
 
No the guy with the ford is going to wash his truck. Take it down a couple of back roads as the gas sloshes all over the place.
 
Some of my jeep cans leak even with a gasket on the bung. What are these guys thinking? Like you said you can't fix stupid. Stan
 
I can't stop myself at garage sales these days. I buy every old school plastic 5 gallon gas can I see that is $7 and under.

None of this EPA-approved crap, but the old kind that had a spout that didn't spill gas all over.

You can never have too many gas cans that work so if a storm is coming I can store all the fuel I need.

Grouse
 
Cigarette won't ignite the liquid, toss it in, will go out. Concentrated vapors, yes, don't want to be around that.
 
(quoted from post at 10:05:18 07/12/19) Cigarette won't ignite the liquid, toss it in, will go out. Concentrated vapors, yes, don't want to be around that.
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Billy there tends to be concentrated vapors directly above contained liquid gasoline.
 
I saw a guy brag about that one time. By the time the fire was out. It cost him a truck,two tractors and a barn full of hay. Never say it can't be done.
 
If done in the open it will not light but if done where the fumes can build up yes it can and one does not even have to flip it in the gas one just has to be in the area smoking
 
I hauled fuel in truck and trailer the one huge no-no is plastic 5 gal pals if you where caught bringing one into the load rack you would be locked out , static electricity rubbing on pants can and has started on fire , knew of a machinic that almost burnt to death because of plastic buckets
 
Hmmmm again Farmer ...... Don't want it to happen but if it does..... then you want to see it? So maybe you don't want your neighbour to lose his life in a car accident for example .... but if he does then you want to see it? Still scratching my head on your "want to see it" comment.
 
Desperate people can and will do desperate things. I feel sorry for what those folks might have to go through this weekend and next week.
 
Might almost be safer and easier than the new gas cans, made of plastic, that have so many screens, valves, locks, and catches that they don?t work.

I ran out of diesel in my furnace last winter, it was minus 25 out was getting some diesel fuel from the bulk tank. It wouldn?t flow into the gas can the anti flame screen gelled it up and blocked it. I had to go find something else to get the fuel. In minus 25 degrees.....

(Set the gelled fuel in the basement for an hour or two to warm a bit, and it flows again, and works in my tank for the furnace.)

Paul
 
(quoted from post at 11:29:11 07/12/19) If done in the open it will not light but if done where the fumes can build up yes it can and one does not even have to flip it in the gas one just has to be in the area smoking
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Hey old, could you please post a vid of yourself trying to light a puddle of gasoline "in the open" to show us that it is safe? The NFPA has a lot of literature to rewrite. Your son probably knows someone who could record it and post it.
 
Yep. The Navy sent me to school to test fuels, once upon a time. Basically we put a sample fluid in a heated chamber, and monitored the temperature as it was heated. During the heating process we'd move a flame over a port in the chamber. When the sample flashed into flame, we knew the flash point.

One thing for certain, liquid gas will not burn. Heck, I tossed a quart oil container full of gas into a burning brush pile once. It landed on a spot near the fire that caused the side to melt out of the container as it lay there. When the flash point was reached, the vapors started burning off the top of the liquid. It was actually pretty cool to see that happen after what we're always told about gas.

None of this is to say gasoline can't be deadly when someone does something stupid with it, because it can. BUT, the environmental conditions have to be right for anything to happen, regardless of the degree of stupid.....
 
Who said anything about taking lives, besides you? I would just want to see the fire..."IF"... it was to happen. I've had front row seat to several barn fires. One in second grade right across the road. Another a close by neighbors barn. Smoke to flat on the ground in 20 minutes. One I was in and have the skin grafts to prove it. I was bummed that I didn't get to see the rest go down. Bummed to this day it happened but sad I didn't get to watch the rest. Doesn't mean I want it to happen but if it does I like to watch.
 
OK, no reference to a death but let's refer back to the original post of a guy filling up open top containers with gas and I believe you said something about that you'd like to watch it if somebody in the vicinity tossed a cigarette but into the fray. Here's your reply .....

"I don't want to be near these guys when another driver flicks his smoke into the barrel. But I'd like to see it!"

By now I'm sure you should get my message in my reply (I hope), if you don't then it's hardly worth continuing. If that isn't death then I don't know what would be.
 
Nothing to fool with, gasoline and a source of ignition. This person must not have been so bright so as to not think what if.

Just saying, every time I've seen it done, and or done it the cigarette goes out.

A good friend and neighbor, former Navy man, operated a heavy truck repair shop and often times worked on tank trailers that carried gasoline. He'd do things that would make people get away from where he was working.

Bottom line is don't play with gasoline and fire, don't need anyone getting the wrong idea here.
 
A man after my own heart. I love flea markets and those Eagle cans show up now and then. Found a brandnew 5 gallon plastic wide mouth can for race cars several weeks ago. Only $5.oo. Such a deal. I must have 15 five gallon cans by now. Also have a bunch of one gallon and even smaller size cans. Very handy.
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Yes to a point. Still see idiots show up with empty milk jugs and the gas monkeys fill them anyway. Actually ...if you spray paint that milk jug fire engine red, ,they will fill it. The local guy knows me so when i show up with a couple of 5 gallon cans he just hands me the hose. I always by hi-test because it will hold much longer and better than that regular crap.
 
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