Pour and store
I like to mix our 2 cycle
fuel in this small 1 gallon container on the right.
The cap is a plastic switch.
You push pour to open and store to close it.
I was a bit dubious of the
design when we first got it, but after a few years of field use I'm
ready to conclude I prefer the pour and store type because it makes it
impossible to lose that yellow plastic cap. It's also nice to know
you've got exactly one gallon when adding the oil.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Mark, I detest those things! Try pouring a five gallon'er in to the tractor, glurp,glurp,glurp! Takes forever. I far prefer the fiver on the left, or better yet, take the cap/spout all the way off and use a funnel. I understand the EPA wanted to meter the amount of vapors going in to the atmosphere, but am I really harming the environment with my few five gallon cans?
I do however use individual gallon jugs for my small engine mixes, one for the stuff that takes 50:1 and one for the older stuff that I use 32:1 in. I use a paint pen to label them as it doesn't come off like marker will.