John Dow Industries FC-25GC-A 25-Gallon Steel Gas Caddy (UL Listed), 1 Pack

Overall nice construction but disappointed in the pump… leaks after 2nd use.

This item is well worth the price. This is a replacement we bought. The other had been working for eight years. Someone dropped the old one and broke off the pipe on top. The pump and tank were fine. It is used daily. Don't waste your money on those others that cost a quarter of this one because they will break within 6 months.

Yesterday I arrived home and found my new JohnDow 25-gallon fuel caddy on the driveway pad in a tattered carton. Oh, oh. Now I already bought a JohnDow caddy (SN 15779) early in 2102 for diesel fuel. Its (TIG?) welds were smooth and straight down the middle of the heavy gauge steel seams. The circular hand pump has worked flawlessly for more than six years. So, I was confident in the product—it was foreign made for an Ohio company. My confidence was misplaced. In places the welds on the new caddy (SN 22119) were, I’m guessing, too cold (piled high on the surface, uneven, and lumpy) and therefore may not have penetrated well, and in some places didn’t even cover (!) the seams. (See photo.) This tank should have been rejected clear back in Shanghai, or wherever it was fabricated. Then, somewhere in its odyssey to my house from the Orient, the carton was dropped, splitting it open and damaging the caddy. (Somebody somewhere then performed a bad packing-tape job to keep the carton together.) Both aluminum shoes on the front skids were sheared completely off; one of the skids hit so hard that it shoved into the tank and dented it, with the result that the foot no longer reaches the floor; and the plastic fuel gauge dome was fractured on one side. It took three hours to make repairs and assemble the tank (I also bought a filter kit). Until I put fuel into the tank, I won’t know whether or not it will leak. So, for this really, really expensive fuel caddy, in the great chain of manufacturing and transportation, no one took responsibility for dubious quality or bad handling; and the result is that the buyer, who pays for the manufacturing, for the transportation, and for various people’s profits in his purchase price, is left with the disappointing result of everyone’s negligence.