20L Diesel Jerry Can, Yellow, With Spout Pin

Twenty litres is the working size for carrying diesel to a generator, a tractor, a water pump or a lorry parked away from a pump. Yellow is the colour used for diesel, and that is the whole point of buying a coloured can. On a farm or a site where a petrol brush cutter and a diesel generator are fuelled from the same store, colour is what stops the wrong fuel going into the wrong machine.

Putting petrol into a diesel engine is an expensive mistake, and it happens because two identical cans sat next to each other. A yellow can and a green can side by side remove that risk without anyone having to read a label in poor light. Beyond the colour, a jerry can is built for fuel: it takes the pressure that builds as the contents warm in the sun, it seals at the cap so vapour stays inside, and the handles let one person carry it or two people hand it over a fence. The spout pin supplied with it lets you pour into a tank without a funnel.