L P gas usage
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Topic: L P gas usage
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Subject: L P gas usage
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2019 at 5:44am
| You guys burning propane might want to check your tank levals. I looked at mine yesterday and found I have used twice as much as a normal year |
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Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2019 at 6:34am
probably Shameless 'borrowing' it so he can run his **&* machine that dumped 5" of ICE in my driveways !! ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2019 at 6:49am
| gotta keep them bee's warm Tom! or maybe them sweet goats? |
Posted By: tomNE
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2019 at 1:00pm
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when u live in NE like shameless and I; we really don't know what a normal winter is. Now i will say that i'm going to burn a little extra propane. ------------- AC from the start of my families farming career till the end! |
Posted By: ac fleet
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2019 at 1:09pm
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Our's is lower than normal. I knew it was running a lot. The cook stove don't use much, but the ole 90+ furnace does! ------------- http://machinebuildersnetwork.com/ |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2019 at 10:44pm
| yep...we're just men enough to take it when it comes...huh TomNE? |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2019 at 4:41pm
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I just checked mine a few minutes ago. The 500 gallon tank is at 24% and they don't want to come till it's below 20%. It was at 40% back in October, or whenever it was I looked at it last. I guess that means I burned about 80 gallon so far, along with maybe 80+ bushel of corn. ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2019 at 9:46pm
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HA!! You guys don't know what cold is!! 500 gal tank was at 85% the first part of Dec and it's down to less than 30%. We get to order anytime, but it must be at least 100 gals. They'll be here Tuesdsay. Gal told me it was gonna be $1.79 per. SHEESH!! ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2019 at 8:42am
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We KNOW cold here Ted. Set a new State record just up the road from Don Slick with -38*F with the last cold snap. My Accurite indoor outdoor only showed -31 but it never has worked worth a hoot. It sure is nice that I have a corn burner and don't have to go outside to replenish my supply.  ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2019 at 9:01am
| None too happy with my woodstove troubles of late......couldn't have picked a worse time. The ol' propane is getting sucked down, at $2.00 here. |
Posted By: tomNE
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2019 at 6:32pm
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This is my last winter in Nebraska; so it's making it a dozzy! ------------- AC from the start of my families farming career till the end! |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2019 at 9:22pm
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DANG GLOBAL WARMING !! ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2019 at 9:22pm
| shucks...this house used to suck up about 400+ gallon of propane a month here just to keep the house at 65 degrees! this was why we went with allturative heating |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2019 at 9:23pm
| allturnitive (however ya spell it) not allturative….PffffT! |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2019 at 12:32am
| Back in the 1970's, early 1980's when I hauled LP gas, it was normal for people to use a full tank of LP in a month. I had a country church that had an old coal furnace converted to LP Gas. I had to fill that 500 gallon tank every 2.5 weeks. In 1985 I stopped to fill it on schedule and they still had 3/4 of a tank full. I stopped the following week and they did not need any gas. I had a key to the church on my key ring, opened the door went down the 4 steps into the furnace room and there were 2 new high efficiency furnaces. They saved the church about 550-600 gallons per month. |
Posted By: trace
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2019 at 7:01am
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checked our tank yesterday. 52% down from 80 last fall so about 280 gal so far. about normal for us with new furnace installed last spring. usually 3-400 gallons a winter. ------------- 1955 WD-45 WIDE FRONT W/ TRIP LOADER |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2019 at 12:10pm
| LP gas price is $1.30 per gallon delivered here today. Gonna stop in tomorrow and pay for some, if the darn wind doesn't blow old shameless white crap into drifting the roads shut. |
Posted By: Kenny L.
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2019 at 12:11pm
| I don't even check the lp tank anymore been on geo for the last 7 yrs the best thing we ever done |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2019 at 1:38pm
Shammers those are the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spelling for al·ter·na·tive.
 ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
shameless dude wrote:Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2019 at 2:55pm
| thanks! |