[TheForge] Propane Users tank sizes and usage

[Jerry Smith]

Dann,

Your right those big ones are 500 gallon, not pounds.
The local supplier with maintain the tank, and for a
couple of extra dollars will run the line in to the
shop.

Maybe later I will post some picture of where I want
to put the foundry building and where the shop
building is. As a reference for every one.

Jerry
--- Dann <dann at wctatel.net> wrote:

> Jerry,
> 
> Actually, I think that fire codes would want even a
> 100# cylinder 
> OUTSIDE the building with gas lines piped into the
> shop.
> 
> The 500# tank kind of confuses me. Guessing that you
> are actually 
> thinking of a 500 gallon tank, which holds something
> like 2,000 
> pounds of LP when filled to it's 80% capacity.
> 
> The LP tank  can be in between the road and the shop
> for easier 
> access by the tank truck. My 1000 gallon propane
> tank is about 50 
> feet from the house, with a shallow underground
> copper line running 
> into the home.  I've got a 500 gallon LP tank, but
> haven't gotten it 
> plumbed into my shop yet.
> 
> For me, buying LP in bulk is 1/3 to 1/4 the cost of
> bringing it home 
> in those small BBQ 20 pound tanks.  I've got 5 or so
> of those BBQ 
> tanks too, and use them on occasion.  The 20 pound
> LP BBQ tanks  hold 
> about 5 gallons of water, but LP they only fill to
> 80% max 
> capacity,  so if you figure 4 gallons of LP at 4
> pounds  per gallon.. 
> that would be about 16 pounds of gas.
> 
> I paid about $16 to get my last lp bbq tank filled,
> about a dollar a 
> pound for LP.  That isn't the only thing, as I've
> made special trips 
> to take and retrieve a BBQ tank.--- additional cost
> would include the 
> time and hassle to get a BBQ tank filled.  Compare
> that to bulk 
> delivered LP cost to my home at about $1.5 per
> gallon.
> 
> A 500 gallon LP tank holds 400 gallons LP ( 80% fill
> ) but if LP 
> weighs 4.2 pounds per gallon.. that is just under 
> 1,700 pounds of 
> usable gas.
> 
> Dann
> 
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