On a humerous note, the outfit I worked for on the harvest used air pressure to empty their portable fuel tank when they were first getting started and didn't want to spend the money for an electric pump. I think he said the tank was a regular 300 gallon fuel barrel. He always filled the combines himself and he used very low pressure. One day one of the young men on the crew decided to fill his combine without the boss's permission so he took the air hose, plugged it into the tank and then got sidelined and walked away. The tank made a bang when one of the ends bowed out and it was then that he saw the error of his ways but he was afraid to unplug the air hose from the tank so he ran and hid, along with the rest of the crew. When the tank let go a seam broke loose and let the fuel and pressure out without an explosion so there was no big dramatic ending but the boss said it was quite a sight to see the crew hiding behind machinery, peering around the corners at the tank.
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