Fuel handling is one of those chores that looks trivial until you try it in the rain at the back of a property with no fuel station within ten miles. Picking the right container decides whether that refuel takes two minutes or twenty, and whether you are dealing with a pump that still works after … Read more
If you have ever tried to top off a diesel tank by hand, you already know the part nobody advertises: you are holding a 2.5-gallon jug of diesel exhaust fluid above an opening, trying not to spill it on your running boards while your shoulder burns. That is the whole reason people buy a DEF … Read more
Moving diesel by hand is slow, messy and hard on your back. A 12V diesel transfer pump turns a twenty-minute job with a siphon hose into a four-minute push-button transfer, and in there are more of them on the market than ever. The short answer: the Fill-Rite FR1204H is the best 12V diesel transfer pump … Read more
A transfer tank for a truck is a DOT-certified secondary fuel container that mounts in the bed or on a service body, stores diesel or gasoline, and dispenses it to a generator, tractor, or machine through a pump, hose and nozzle. It is not plumbed into the truck’s own fuel system, which is the single … Read more
A transfer tank is a portable fuel reservoir you carry in a pickup bed to refuel equipment that never sees a fuel station, a skid steer on a remote job site, a compact tractor on a ranch, or a generator during an outage. An L-shaped transfer tank is the version cut with a stepped profile … Read more
Standing water in a basement is not a plumbing problem, it is a volume problem. A standard sump pump is built to move clear water off a floor, and the moment that water carries grit, mud, leaves or plaster chunks it clogs or burns out. A trash pump is the tool built for that job, … Read more
A utility pump is a portable, usually submersible electric pump that moves water out of places gravity cannot drain on its own: flooded basements, window wells, pool covers, hot tubs, ponds and construction pits. It draws water through a bottom inlet and forces it up through a discharge hose to a safe drainage point. That … Read more
A submersible water pump is an electric pump sealed to run entirely underwater, with the motor, impeller and intake contained in one cast iron, stainless steel or thermoplastic housing. Because there is no air in the pump chamber, a submersible cannot lose prime or cavitate, which is why it outperforms above-ground jet pumps in deep … Read more
A sump pump is the cheapest insurance most homeowners will ever buy. It sits in a pit under the basement, wakes up when groundwater rises, and moves water out through a discharge pipe before it reaches your finished floor. The problem is that most people only think about it after the flood, and by then … Read more
The worst part of a basement flood is not the water. It is the water that arrived while your sump pump had no electricity, because the storm that dumps a foot of rain in an afternoon is often the same storm that takes the neighborhood grid down. A battery backup sump pump is the second … Read more