Thread: fishing a stick out of a fuel tank

Originally Posted by 350RRC

There are so many ways of doing this, I'm surprised it needs posting. Good luck with it and let us all know the outcome.

DL

Well... you see.... I thought everyone could have a bit of a laugh at my expense.... being diesel, the stick will probably not break down for a long time. So i have plenty of time to "get to it"

seeya,
Shane L.

when i said "give it a bit of stick" thats not what i meant

I'd go with #7

If you can fish using only a stick and a bit of fishing line .. does it work the other way around too?
Attach fish to a bit of line, and get it to grab the stick.

Question is, what type of fish would be best to use to catch a stick, and would the fish survive a dunking in diesel just enough to grab hold of the stick.

if that's impractical, then #7 for me too .. handy tool they are.

Q. how large is the filler neck?(2", 4" ??) .. ie. what sized implement could be used to retrieve?

Originally Posted by AK83

If you can fish using only a stick and a bit of fishing line .. does it work the other way around too?
Attach fish to a bit of line, and get it to grab the stick.

Question is, what type of fish would be best to use to catch a stick, and would the fish survive a dunking in diesel just enough to grab hold of the stick.

if that's impractical, then #7 for me too .. handy tool they are.

Q. how large is the filler neck?(2", 4" ??) .. ie. what sized implement could be used to retrieve?

A dogfish should fetch it!!!

Then you would need a dogfish catcher !

Originally Posted by trog

Then you would need a dogfish catcher !

Could be easier to fish for a dogfish using a new stick, then to stick with a fish tho.

So a solution could be to chuck in a dogfish to fetch the stick, find another stick and fish for the dogfish hoping that the dogish fetched the original stick, and that the new stick doesn't somehow get pulled into the tank.
Of course the issue would be that if this fails after many repeated attempts you could end up with a tank full of fish'n'sticks .. which, actually, may not be as bad as it sounds.

Fill it with enough fish'n'sticks and using displacement theory, would then require less volume of diesel to fill it up.
Thus assisting with the issue of:

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

.... The damn tank hold 80litres I don't have enough $$$ to spare to fill it ....

Originally Posted by austastar

Hi

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Cheers

Best $2 I spent, retrieve fallen bolts in tight spaces many a time over the years