Trash in fuel tank?

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Once bought an old farmall parts tractor that was stored in a goat pen. Somehow they lost the gas cap and the goats had droppings half full in the tank. We floated it out with a garden hose. That might be tough without tank removal.
 
Remember that the gas vapors in the tank are still explosive.
 
Without more info about what kind of trash and how much, it's hard to advise.

On our IH 684 (a saddle shaped tank behind the seat) had a fair bit of crud in it.. the sending unit is on the right (I removed it), filler on the left, so I had a transfer pump (which has a filter), and I used that to circulate the fuel from one side back to the other. That works really well for organic types of crud like pine needles, etc, but for heavier stuff maybe not so much (rust flakes, etc)
 

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