Steve Bowman
Well-Known Member
Use the forks with two nylon straps - easy and safer than just using the forks underneath it.
Why take the chance with a full tank and the dinky lifting eyes? Use straps or some other method to support the tank.
1,000 propane companies around the country do it on a daily basis. I have never so much as heard a rumor about a failure lifting by the eyes.
No problem on lifting them loaded, but in my state DOT does not allow you to haul a tank on the truck with more than 5% out to the customer and that might be only up to 500 gal. I think that for a 1000 gallon tank that it should be 0%. We could fill out a silly permit to haul a loaded tank back to the yard only where it had to be pumped below 5% before delivery. Again I don't think 1000 gal qualified for this. We would have either brought an empty 1000 and pumped the gas from your tank over into it, or pumped it into a delivery truck. If you haul a tank on the road loaded like this it needs to be supported by saddles and not its own feet. But off road anything goes.
The silly permit is just a sheet of paper you fill out yourself and are supposed to stick in a drawer and produce if some g-man wants to see it.
But one strap, there is no way no how I would haul any tank any size at any level of fill with only one strap. Pretty sure a 1000 needs three if not four straps, I don't remember now.