Kerosene transfer pump

[Aerofoil]

Hi all, looking to find some sort of pump (as cheap as possible but needs to be up to the job, don't mind manual if it will work) or moving Kerosene between 2 tanks. They are about 20 metres apart, so ideally something I can put between 2 hoses. I tried one of those drill pumps, and after priming it and getting a mouth full, and having the drill running for 4 hours....ideally would like something that I can just turn connect up and start going. Closest thing I have found is this which is a little more that I wanted to spend:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fuel-Transfer-Pump-600W-...

but most of them don't work with petrol/kerosene.

[randlemarcus]

Sounds daft, but have you thought of hiring a bowser from HSS or similar for a day? I did a thousand litres of boiler fuel in about half an hour that way.

[astroarcadia]

I did exactly this with 1000l of heating oil just last month. 2 tanks. 20m apart. Pump in the middle, with hose to each tank.

My local hire centre (Ermin Plant) had a fuel transfer pump that cost me £23 over the weekend. No point buying one unless you do this sort of thing regularly.

It was an amazing piece of kit, so simple yet the only real way to move that quantity uphill.

1000l took about 5 minutes to move.

It came with 2 hose's was mains powered and looked like this:
http://www.speedyservices.com/product/23_0175-h/fu...

http://www.hirecentres.com/product/transfer-pump--...

Edited by astroarcadia on Tuesday 16th October 09:02

[Dogwatch]

Instructions for drill pumps say they shouldn't be used for flammable liquids.

[thinfourth2]

How much and how often?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rotary-Oil-Hand-pump-dis...

I use on of the above to shift a few hundred litres at a time between our tanks so i can get one completely empty before getting them refilled.

I empty the tank so i can give it a good wash

[poo at Paul's]

I just moved 250 litres of heating oil from a friends house using 2 50 litre drums and siphoning them into my tank from the garage roof! Not easy carrying near 50 kg up a ladder to the garage roof though!, wish I had got a pump.

[Manks]

There's a team going round our local villages emptying oil tanks about once per night. They are obviously good at it because no one has seen them do it yet. If I see them I'll ask if they can offer any tips.

[ColinM50]

Car fuel pump from a breakers yard? Ideally from a diesel car or van and a couple of lengths of hose should do the job.

[Aerofoil]

Hadn't thought of hiring, its generally needed when we run out of oil, normally just as winter hits...! Yes I know tank should be checked more often

So wanted something handy in the shed just to take out about 50 litres from one to the other. Plus I can fill up in Summer when its cheap into both tanks, and then move it across during the winter. So yes its a one off job once a year I was looking for, probably just need to plan it better and hire from the links above. Given the difference between 40p and 60p per litre in the winter, it should more than pay for itself.

[thinfourth2]

Aerofoil said:

Hadn't thought of hiring, its generally needed when we run out of oil, normally just as winter hits...! Yes I know tank should be checked more often

So wanted something handy in the shed just to take out about 50 litres from one to the other. Plus I can fill up in Summer when its cheap into both tanks, and then move it across during the winter. So yes its a one off job once a year I was looking for, probably just need to plan it better and hire from the links above. Given the difference between 40p and 60p per litre in the winter, it should more than pay for itself.

Any reason you can't couple up both tanks?

We have 3 tanks all feeding the central heating

[Aerofoil]

thinfourth2 said:

Any reason you can't couple up both tanks?

We have 3 tanks all feeding the central heating

We are getting rid of one of them as its an old metal style one and not many years left in it, so a bit of the waste to do that. So this was more or a interim step.