Propane tanks

For those cleaning with propane, what is your tank set-up? Manchester belly tanks....Tall RV tanks....etc?

I know that Les Judson has been working with manchester to make a larger belly tank that is DOT rated, but I don't know if that has happened yet. I am going to propane heat soon and I am a little worried about the access to propane since I mainly work evenings on 6-8 hour jobs. So far, I can only find 2 locations that will fill a belly tank and they are a long distance apart of each other and the 30-40 lb exhange tanks found at gas stations wouldn't last all that long feeding a #4 LG over 8 hours.

What are the preferred set-ups out there?

This is the tank I've got for my Little Giant 3HT
It is listed as a 10 gallon or 40lb tank, but only holds 7.5 gallons when full. I haven't checked my consumption since I cleaned the jets in the heater so I can't give you a good figure yet. Maybe Ryan can give you a good consumption figure and how often he refills. Also your 4HT has 50% more output than a 3HT and I don't know if that's 50% more fuel burn or not. I would look into a dual tank setup so you don't leave yourself in a bind if you can't get to a filling station.

We ordered a 50gal for the box truck, it should be arriving here in about 1 week. Its a long skinny design to give more ground clearance.

Here the thing about propane tanks, at a certain point they hardly go up in price. It was like another $40 to go from a 30gal up to a 50gal

I went to an RV equipment and repair shop, they ordered it from somewhere on the east coast.


This tank is going to run the new tnt and the #4 LG, and feed the #3 LG when we need it to for dual wanding

the consumption of the #4 I think was tested at about .5 gal/ per hour of actual trigger time.

This is great information guys, thanks

oh ya, I would have it set up so you can keep an emergency bbq tank on board and hook that up if you find yourself running out on the large tank

I've always had a 10 gal. belly tank on my van, and that my preference as I don't normally like carrying tanks in my van......

But I do sometimes throw in a 5 gal BBQ tank if my belly tank is low and I'm afraid I might run out.....I put a fitting on to connect a hose to my belly tank that enables me to connect to a BBQ tank and feed from that if I need to.   

Get the biggest one you can get that will fit under the van Mil and don't forget to check out the RV section of your local wrecking yard you can get them for pennies on the dollar

I have plans later this week to do that very thing Mo...I know just the yard too.