Not when I'm drenched in it....

Ran my gen tests tonight. Day tank ran dry. Had to manually fill tanks. Used the pumps for low pressure steam boiler fuel/oil feeds to fill 5 gallon jugs. Couldn't get those to prime UNTIL they just decided it was time. No psi to 60psi in a 1" hose. Blew the hose out of the jug. You know the rest. The diesel tank is 10,000 gallons underground and about 50 yards from the pump that fills the day tank. Once again we run into problems with having a pump trying to pull fuel instead of a pump pushing it.... Don't know why they designed it that way... maybe they were Dodge engineers....

Oh well, now I've got to mop the boiler room down...

 

been there done that, while changing fuel sight hoses on some early 90s arial lifts you always get drenched. This ingenious desigin puts a clear hose on the outside of the tank, that fills up with fuel to show that level of fuel in the tank, not after years of service the diesel fuel will dye the clear hose making it hard to impossible to read and of course when ever you mess with a fuel tank it always has to be full, long story short unless you really quick about this fuel shoots everywhere. I only with I would have thought to market diesel as cologne!

 

And the scent has staying power...

I got a diesel bath in college while working for transportation services at Texas A&M. We were training new bus drivers and I had one put the nozzle into the tank to refuel while I was talking to the other drivers about fueling procedures. Apparently he didn't get the nozzle in all the way because I see it come out of the tank at full flow (it was one of the large hi-flow nozzles). I rushed over to grab it and got a head to toe bath before getting it shut down.

Don't remember how long it took to get those clothes clean, but the smell did linger for a while.