Diesel prices are through the roof (2.3€/L) but my backup fuel storage is ripe for rotation. Hopefully the prices have gone down a bit once I finish the last canister.

I always struggled with these 30L canisters and only strained my back and made a mess trying to pour it manually. This 14€ pump sure makes thing easier.

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    So… you just have a bunch of simple plastic canisters filled with diesel permanently standing around on open gravel ground?

    I am utterly speechless… 😳

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        Yeah, maybe I did you wrong and you have a suitable storage space with containment basin just around the corner.

        But, forgive me here, state of the shed/garage (?) you took the photo in didn’t quite look to me as if this was very likely…

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          ACHKTUALLY

          It’s like watching a mild version of a wife beater telling her look at what you made me do.

          Just say you made a shitty assumption without trying to justify.

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            You got me wrong, I am still beating OP.

            Mainly because I still have the very strong suspicion that he is an actual wife beater here (“wife” being environment/society).

            I just wanted to give him a decent way out to perhaps show us how this open-diesel-canister-balancing-on-a-wobbly-bucket-above-porous-ground-scenario just was a fluke and he usually handles the stuff responsibly.

            As of now, OP hasn’t taken this chance but only responded evasively.

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                Wow.

                Seems like I wasn’t that far of but really have touched a nerve here, I guess.

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      The simple canisters are specifically designed and intended for safe transportation and medium term fuel storage.

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        I did ask if they had any complex fuel canisters but unfortunelately no - it only has two parts: the container itself and the cap.

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        The simple canisters are specifically designed and intended for safe transportation and medium term fuel storage.

        They are not intended to balance with open cap on top of a wobbly bucket above porous ground, though.

        My reasonable guess is that the storage situation is not much better, seeing that OP did not even bother to do the fueling-up on some sealed surface area where he at least would have had a chance to deal with possible spillage.