All in an evening's work.

[Callieslamb]

or - how to unload a propane tank with wife only being decorative....
1. Bring tank home in trailer - next time, get it loaded in the right orientation for unloading. It will save some trouble. it will save a LOT of trouble.



2 Using a socket handle to suspend the come-along.....


3. Ease trailer out - back it up- load tank back on- move the scaffolding. Okay, here's where the wife is NOT just decorative. That thing is HEAVY.



4. Raise and lower tank one more time!


it's in place now, but will stay on the higher blocks until it is sanded and painted. Then...raise it back up, remove the blocks and finally.....lower it down. Now let's get that wood back over to the greenhouse project!

[used2bcool13]

Hey Callieslamb,

That thing looks HEAVY, great job getting itset up well.

Are you adding on to your propane (storage/prepping)? or replacing a tank? I can only imagine how much that costs to fill - arghhh.

[Windy in Kansas]

Must have been empty or you wouldn't have budged it with the come along.

I've moved a lot while working for a dealer and if they had much fuel at all in them it was about all two of us could do to lift it with a chain hoist. The trailer did require lifting the entire tank at once and not just one end at a time.

I bought a 500 gallon tank with 250 gallons of fuel in it and had a terrible time getting it unloaded with my Ford 1720---one end at a time.

If it isn't too late you should turn your blocks so that the weight isn't on the empty cells, but is on the sides and web of the blocks. They may very well crumple when fuel is added if left like they are even though you have spread the weight out some with the wood. Just my opinion you understand.

[agmantoo]

Callieslamb

Those cinder block on the top rows need to be oriented differently as they are prone to break as they are currently positioned.

[Callieslamb]

The cinderblocks with the holes will be gone when he gets it painted. They are only there to give him access to the underside. We will raise it back up, remove the blocks with holes and set it down on the solid blocks.

We are adding it as a 2nd tank since the gas company wouldn't give/sell us a 1000 gallon tank. We'll hook this one up to the generator and keep it full. 1000 gallons is more than a year's supply so we hope it will do us. It was empty when we moved it. If we had the tractor finished, it would have been a much easier job.

[geo in mi]

Save that frame! Good butchering station, patio swing........

geo

[Callieslamb]

Originally Posted by geo in mi

Save that frame! Good butchering station, patio swing........

geo

No!!!! It's the posts and bed edges to my greenhouse! Do not give DH the idea of ANYTHING else to use my posts for! LOL!!!!! I've been waiting over a week to get my posts back. Today, it's raining so we're working inside on the tractor (not the GH) boohoo!

[geo in mi]

Tractor engine hoist.....

geo

[Callieslamb]

What engine? It's a block of metal in the garage - the tractor, I mean. Actually, I added the bar in the back. One part I couldn't mess up while DH was working on the front.