[TheForge] Lp gas bottles

[Roger R Degner]

>From being on the set up take down crew for the last 3 ABANA conferences
I can tell you it all depends on the local fire marshal.  At Lacrosse
the coal forges had to be on sand and outside of the tent.  At Richmond
it didn't seem to matter.  At Seattle the 100# tanks had to be inside a
container in case the gage blew up no shrapnel would get the crowd.  So
we had to cut 55 gal barrels in half and weld tabs on so it would stack
on a second barrel.  These were placed around the tanks.  Don't know
what would have happened if the tanks leaked filled the barrels and then
caught a spark (can you say pipe bomb) but that was what the fire
marshal had to have.  I think there also the coal forges had to be
outside the tents but the gas forges could be anywhere except no fires
in the large hanger.

There was also talk the demos would have been in the large parking lot
down the hill from the dorms but it was built on a land fill and they
were afraid the forge fires could ignite methane gas but people getting
out of there cars and throwing there cigarette buts out would not.

Roger R Degner


I bet the rule is no propane in enclosed buildings. The demos would 
probably want to be in open sided livestock buildings anyway, which by 
my theory would allow propane. I did look, but couldn't find the rules 
to confirm.

Hello 

I would suggest that it is a federal law no gas bottles larger than 1
pound.

lynn