How do you transport your gas bottles for refill?

[k0ua]

Gas BBQ bottle goes in milk crate, and milk crate is bungied to pickup truck bed tie downs. It is very secure. The small acetylene and Oxy bottle's goes in a wooden frame made to grip the small bottles and fits in the square milk crate also for outside truck bed transport. The large argon bottle gets laid down in the car with things stuffed around it so it cannot roll. Cap on of course. Of course there is not reason not to use the argon after being horizontal, only the ACE needs to be kept upright or left overnight at least before use.

 

[k0ua]

This thread has made me think about how I transport the argon, I may think up of a brace in a stake pocket so I can transport it in the bed of the pickup also. If for some reason the valve of that 125 cu. ft bottle failed while in the trunk of a car or in the van we have now, it could suffocate you pretty quick, if you didn't notice it. It is not explosive or toxic and does not support combustion, but it can displace oxygen from the air and put you to sleep. Maybe permanently:shocked:.

 

[mfreund]

Propane, Carbon Dioxide are in a liquid inside the cylinder and should only be transported standing up because the pressure safety is designed to work with the gases not in the liquid of the product. In other words, if you transported it laying down the safety could rupture filling the vehicle with the gases. The danger is passing out with CO2 and fire with propane.

Acetylene is very shock sensitive, hence being dissolved in acetone. Do not lay them down. It could cost your life and the vehicle next to you.

Oxygen, nitrogen and argon(and all the mixes of the previously mentioned) are filled with compressed gasses. Think rocket if the valve were to be ruptured. There is between 2205 and 2400 psi depending on the cylinder and the valve has a hole the size of a pencil lead. If you lay it down be sure you know where it could be headed.

There was once a scrapper going through a demolition site after hours and thought the brass valve was too good a find to pass up. He knocked the valve off with a hammer. The 220 cf O2 cylinder flew about a city block and went through a concrete block wall into a retail store. Needless to say he got caught and was prosecuted for theft, vandalism, destruction of property. He was lucky no one was killed.

Many times I was sitting in traffic and would see people flick cigarette butts onto the open bed of my delivery truck. I would roll down the window and ask if they were really that stupid to think they would survive if the truck were to go up. It would take out the whole city block, under the right circumstances.

 

[muddstopper]

Correct answer is A. straight from the dot cdl test.

Correct
Q.5) When transporting compressed gases, you must...

A. Secure the cylinders in boxes or racks, or brace them down flat (Your Answer)
B. Cover the cylinders with an asbestos material
C. Secure the cylinders together
D. None of the above

 

[Industrial Toys]

There must be a lot of people transporting these cylinders improperly (like me). Funny you rarely hear of all these disasters that are supposed to happen on account of that. Just sayin.

 

[rsallen]

I call my supplier and like magic they appear.

 

[escavader]

here in Maine my welding supplier will not let you put them in an enclosed vehicle i put in the back of truck standing up trapped in a corner by my cargo bar and wrapped with bungees or straps hauling them torches hooked up is a real big no no by dot

 

[7879fordman]

Oxygen and Acetylene bottles I haul laying down strapped down .

And I see the pipe liners with them at a angle mounted to there trucks so I don't believe they have to be standing up to use them .

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[Gary Fowler]

I lay my oxygen cylinders down in my truck bed with the butt end against the cab end of the bed and block them with wooden blocks so that they cant roll around. My acetylene bottle is not more than waist high and I use two ratchet straps to secure it in one corner of the box. My Chevy has a strap attachment point about 4" off the bottom and I have inserts in the top holes in the bed. Attaching straps at these two points makes it very secure. I then drive extra carefully with no fast acceleration or cornering that might shift any of them around.

 

[Soundguy]

I am actually looking for specifics on this question. How and where you strap it? Do you use a frame or some other rig, do you put it in the corner of your bed? Leave the ranks in its dolly?

have an angle iron frame for bed. one bottle per 'seat' in the frame. then a ratchet strap holds them all in the frame. each with a screw on valve cover of course. frame is mounted ( removeable.. but pinned to my 5th wheel rails. )