Recycling Propane Canisters???

[Navotifarm]

Okay, so I've spent the past several days trying to think if I'm a hoarder and totally nuts or just a packrat and sort of nuts. From the definitions I got here (thank you) and elsewhere, I decided that what I think and what somebody else might think are definitely divergent. I don't have anything nasty and rotten because I'm composting it, nor have anything hazardous except fire hazard from a gazillion books but I do have some things my frugal nature doesn't want to waste and I need help as to recycling. The. Biggest Problem is several trash barrels full and pile of those heavy metal small propane "bottles" or canisters which I used for light and cooking for years. They are not returnable.
I have been thinking I could use them as building blocks for like a mini cordwood wall? One thing I really need is to extend my deck. So how can I lay out these bottles and infill between them to have a nice deck? Obviously I don't want them rolling under my feet or to be slippery when wet. I fall down enough as it is! I also don't want one blowing up if it's not empty! I really like the idea of cleaning up this mess of propane bottles and having a low-cost deck. Since this idea is. Sensible to me but local workers (and probably the building inspector) would find serious flaws in my mentality if I mentioned this possibility to them, what would be the best way for a feeble old chicky to design, lay out and camouflage a deck out of propane containers and avoid any possibility it was an inadvertent minefield???

Thanks. I hope.

[TNHermit]

If they don't leak redo them into portable air tanks and sell them and buy your material for your deck

[Bearfootfarm]

If they don't leak redo them into portable air tanks and sell them and buy your material for your deck

I think she means the 1 lb bottles

[taylorlambert]

If buried they will rust through pretty quick. Take a pick axe and hack a big hole in the sides then burn them in a brsush pile and most recyclers will take them for 5 to 10 cents per pound. The oiler on my mini baler is made from one of these tanks. I also have a drip torch for lighting fields. I used to make tiki torches out of them by brazing a pipe tp the botom and drilling a larger hole in the top after purging them.

[Navotifarm]

Yes, not the tanks, just the little bottles for a single burner stove or camping light. They are made of steel, right? I,ve seen pictures of bottle houses made out of glass bottles. Of course these propane containers are all uniform size. I ought to be able to make something out of them. I was thinking I could make a deck outline with landscape timbers and lay these metal bottles like bricks. But then what? Or what else could I, with limited skills, do?

[taylorlambert]

theseare the little fat green bottles like goes on a camp stove or longer like a propane torch. Glass wont be affect ed by ground moisture. The reason I know they will rust pretty quick is they wil lsweat on the inside with temp changes. There was one a trespasser dropped at the landfill. the last year or so it rusted away. This is what we used as an oiler on my baler