How do you transport your gas bottles for refill?

[Arc weld]

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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Only acetylene has to be standing upright because there is liquid acetone in the cylinder that you don't want to be drawn out. Propane has to stand upright too since it's a liquid in the tank. Oxygen is a gas so it makes no difference.

 

[Shield Arc]

Only acetylene has to be standing upright because there is liquid acetone in the cylinder that you don't want to be drawn out. Oxygen is a gas so it makes no difference.

A lot of rig weldors have their oxygen bottle mounted horizontally on their trucks.

I own all my bottles, but when I take them into the welding supply I never get the same bottle back. I aways keep the acetylene bottle up right. Why screw over the welding supply, or the next guy?

 

[Sodo]

If you put a gas bottle in your van or SUV open two windows and leave them open all the while theres a gas bottle in your vehicle. Don't make an "enclosure" around a gas bottle.

 

[Arc weld]

They even recommend opening your windows for dry ice in a vehicle. I used to sell dry ice out of a big plastic tote. When it was getting low, you could tell that it was hard to breath reaching into the bottom. There was car with an acetylene B tank in the trunk that blew up when the owner used his remote starter. Thankfully he wasn't in the car when he went to start it.

Yes, a lot of welding rigs have the oxygen horizontal. Some big projects don't allow it anymore. Like I said, some of the safety police are getting ridiculous. They always measure the acetone in a cylinder before filling. That's why acetylene is often sold by the cubic meter/foot. If you look, there's usually a little sticker on it with a number like 3.5 or 4.1. That's how much they put in so you can charge the proper amount.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

I started to take a photo the other day in Farmersville, Texas at the Brookshires. Pipeliner rig, late model four door C or K 3500 with a SA 200 and custom pipeliner style bed, white. What caught my eye was the cutting rig strapped down with cheap straps across the back deck. Gauges on bottles and the acetylene bottle was laying flat beside the oxygen bottle.

I came about that close to pulling the Iphone for a shot to post on all the welding websites. Unbelievable. I could see it with a ratty old pickemup and a Weldnpower Lincoln in the back of the truck, but a pipeliner rig?

I carry two large oxy bottles on roller bearing slides horizontal under the Legend on my truck. The acetylene bottle is vertical with the floor made with expanded metal, acetylene sinks, no chance of a gas build up with a leak. If you're using the oxy/gas mostly for cutting you will find you use two large oxygen bottles for every 140 cf acetylene.

 

[Bird]

All good information in this thread as far as I'm concerned; oxygen bottle OK horizontal, acetylene and LPG upright. And of course that's something else that changed over the years. My dad's job from 1943 to 1950 was driving a flat bed truck selling and delivering welding supplies in southern Oklahoma, working out of Ardmore. He spent one night a week in Oklahoma City where he left the truck overnight at National Cylinder Gas for them to remove the empty bottles and re-stock the truck with full ones. And ALL were hauled lying down, stacked, and chained down. Of course they all had caps on them.

I think tailgate lifts had not yet been invented and he didn't use a 2-wheeled dolly. The bottles were moved around by tilting them towards yourself and spinning them. He could "walk" 2 at a time; one in each hand, but I remember him saying there was a guy at NCG who walked 3 at a time; one in each hand and the third one in the crook of one elbow. Of course the reason Dad left that job was because he was having back trouble. He'd probably have stayed if he'd had the kind of trucks they now use.

 

[ETpilot]

I have an old bottle cart that I do not use. I tie it to the bed of my pick up. Bottles are transported upright. I exchange two at a time. I used to lay the O2 down until refill company said that was a no-no. Acetylene was always upright.

 

[muddstopper]

I hual my bottles to be refilled, laying down and secured in the back of my pickup. At work, our trucks had tool body beds and the cutting bottles have their own enclosed compartment. They are secured in the upright position. The enclosure does have louvers at the top for venting. They no longer allow acetylene at work, strickly propane. Been thinking about converting to propane myself, it seems to me that a propane bottle will out last a similar size acet bottle, dont know if that true, but it seems that way to me. Plus, If I run out of propane, I can just run down to the local convience store and get a full bottle on a late Sat nite to finish a project.

 

[woodlandfarms]

I know acet needs to be verticals due to the other stuff in the tank. But why does propane need to be?

 

[Shield Arc]

Good question! You always see propane bottles horizontal on fork lifts, man lifts, etc.