Banning mogas at the airport...

Around here if you farm less than 500 acres it's a hobby farm.

"Jim Macklin" wrote in message
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A lot of small farmers like to use the 1950's Ford and Allis
Chalmers or John Deere tractors because they are cheap and
do the light jobs, such as mowing, or the garden without the
complexity of the new $50,00+ tractors that can't be fixed
outside the factory shop.

You can put a fuel caddy on a trailer or a tank in your
pickup truck without getting involved with EPA fuel storage
licensing issue. Just as long as it is on wheels. But a
mounted tank or buried tank system gets very expensive.

State, federal and sometimes local jurisdictions will have
rules. There are fuel storage rules and fuel dispensing
rules under EPA and fire codes.


"Morgans" wrote in message
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| "Dave Stadt" wrote
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| It would be very easy to prove or disprove. Drive
around and count farms
| with stationary tanks and those without stationary
tanks.
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| Be my guest! g
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| Farmers don't
| have to pay road tax so filling up at the local gas
stations us just plain
| dumb and bad for business. Most pickups with tanks I
see are for
| construction companies not farmers. Besides, very few
farm implements and
| no construction equipment that I know of run on
gasoline. Vast majority
| run on diesel and that's also easy to prove. You walk
up and smell 'em.
| I'll bet 99 percent or more of those tanks you see are
full of diesel.
|
| You seem to think that all farm operations are100,000 acre
farms, with 10
| full time employees. Around here, the norm is a farmer
that has a day job,
| doing construction, or something that has enough
flexibility to be off when
| he has to be. There are a lot of small tractors out there
(most as old as
| our airplanes) that are still gas powered.Granted, there
are a lot of
| diesels coming into use.
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| They probably don't use enough fuel to justify a permanant
storage tank, and
| maybe be able to afford it. As far as the road tax goes,
there is an easy
| form to fill in and send in and get every penny of the tax
back.
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| I really am not making this up. That is the way it is,
around here, and I
| suspect many other places, too.
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| Jim in NC
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