Fw: [KYHAM] Re: BPL, Ham radio and the EOC

[c.b.]

----- Original Message -----
From: "c.b." <gooberl at logantele.com>
To: "Blake Bowers" <bbowers at mozarks.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 6:55 PM
Subject: Re: [KYHAM] Re: BPL, Ham radio and the EOC


> BLEVE boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion
> not a pretty site
>
> propane is dangerous no question about it
> Diesel is the safest combustion fuel available
> propane tanks have lifitng lugs for empty tanks only
>
> I am the retired safety director of TVA power plants
> everyone of which has TWO diesel motors on stand-by for emergency fire
> protection
> each motor and pump is test ran each week
> sure there is some problems
> but for reliability and safety Diesel is hard to beat.\
> W4HNI
> Charles "Goober" Lehman
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Blake Bowers" <bbowers at mozarks.com>
> To: "Fred Flowers" <fred_flowers at bellsouth.net>; "N4AOF" <n4aof at arrl.net>;
> <kyham at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 6:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [KYHAM] Re: BPL, Ham radio and the EOC
>
>
> > It's done all the time Fred.  Many propane companies
> > do it.  Chain the two hooks together, lift on the chain.
> >
> > No difference from a cradle, it lifts from the same
> > points.  Very often tanks are in positions where
> > you cannot get a cradle to it.
> >
> > Propane is very safe if handled properly.
> >
> >
> > > it is loaded.  BTW, let me know when you load the 500 gallon tank with
> > > your backhoe.  I want to be in the other end of the state.  EMS will
be
> to
> > > busy, with earthquake victims, to respond to your crisp butt.  A
propane
> > > tank is a bomb that hasn't gone off....yet.  It should be treated as
> such.
> > >
> >
> >
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