The Tank Farm

[torker]

Hey guys..this is what I've been up to...building a bunch (10) of these 90 gallon auxillary fuel tanks for a fleet of 5100 Gradalls here in town.
Shows the bent up sections as sent in the from the tin basher

I talked them into letting me put this baffle/divider in the tank to stop it from flexing and cracking.

Heres the prep on these...holes for bungs and the "hidden" holes for the plug welds that hold the divider

Here...welding the bungs on the inside...a good way if you can..they never leak..

[torker]

Here's the finished product..all primed and painted ready for delivery in the morning. This is the second load...

Russ

[boslab]

nice job, we have a couple of gradals in work to clean the mouth of the furnace, blood big claw on the end of them.
last tank i made was for hydraulic fluid, the baffles inside were perforated sheet to knock the bubbles out and stop the sloshing
mark

[hardtail]

That is a nice job, learned a tip about plug welding the baffle,,,,,,,did you weld the fittings from the outside also??? What guage was the metal?

Nice crewcab, buddy just bought a Vega on the weekend to start cutting it up for the drags and the guy has a nice crew dually sitting there, remember they used to be standard for the fuel teams of the 70/80's, hard to find them nowadays...........

Funny the Vega appears in the worse car thread numerous times and we're looking for them, it was his first car that he put a 350 in and my first was a 73 Pinto that I shoehorned a tunnel ram 289 into.........must be a reliving your wasted youth thing. Sorry to get off topic.

[Weston Bye]

Back in the late '40s - early 50's my grandad hit upon building oil tanks in-place in the coal bunkers when commercial buildings were changing over from coal to fuel oil. All was going well until a city inspector got the notion that the tanks should be pressure leak tested. Grandpa attempted to discourage the notion but the inspector was adament. Knowing what would happen to the tank, Grandpa blocked the sides and top of the tank against the walls and ceiling of the coal bunker and fed the air per the inspector's instructions....

Realization finally dawned on the inspector when hairline cracks started appearing in the terrazzo floor in the lobby above the tank.

The air was quickly released and no more tests were required, and the inspector was pretty scarce.

[bhjones]

Nice truck Torker. Is it yours? I have an '86 GMC ton dually 4x4. It's a standard cab (wish it was a crew). I don't use it much these days. A few lumber/landscape material runs in the summer months and plowing duty in the winter. It's due for a paint job and I'm thinking about building a dumping flatbed for it. I'm a big fan of these trucks.