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Birken Vogt

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Is that an actual butane tank, like 100 psi service pressure?

Having worked in the propane industry, I have heard of butane fuel but seen precious little evidence of its existence. Never come across an actual butane tank in the wild except one I can think of that is being used for diesel fuel.
 
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Butane ran it's coarse with the old multifuel engines like Hall Scott. When those engines became
obsolete so did the idea of butane as fuel.
 
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Looking at that dump truck some more, the boxes appear to be the same size so no chance of transferring. I see now the truck has frame sticking out the back which would mean the material has to fall through it when dumping so I guess there's no reason the trailer can't do the same. I'm guessing someone looked at a short logger and said why can't we do that with a dump truck? Must have had to climb a steep winding road on the way to the mine.
 
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John started hauling produce in the late 50's, his pride and joy was this Kenworth. He bought this truck with out a sleeper and on one of his first trips south he had this Mercury sleeper installed, for 50% less than Kenworth in Canada wanted.

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Old Doug

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Truck Shop said:
I had posted this in the Any Brand Log Truck thread under Logging Equipment also.
Same Pete years apart, the color photo was taken in the last ten years I'm thinking.

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I would like to know if it has a 2 tanks. My truck has 1 tank that is bigger than that one with half the engine. In reality i can go as far as a truck running on gasoline but do to accessibility of places to refuel it seems like a very small tank. I need another tank maybe 20 gallons. Then i could go another 50 miles. Propane was $2.00 a gallon and right now gas is just over $3.00. They say they use more propane i have worked around 3 place that run propane trucks but no one cared about mileage so i dont know.
 
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From past experience, I can tell you that propane results in terrible fuel mileage. The cost can , and usually is, made up by the much cheaper fuel cost/gal. In 1996 school buses, with Allison automatics and 366 V8 engines, we got around 5 miles/gal. In Bluebirds, with V10 engines and Allison automatics, we were getting 4 - 4.5 MPG on propane. Not very fuel efficient for sure, but, the Feds were paying about half the cost of each new propane-powered bus. Plus giving the schools some rebate on propane purchased. Today, propane power is not really the answer to anything, unless subsidized by Fed,(read taxpayer) money.
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There is a huge box van that delivers uniforms/laundry to the next shop over. It is propane powered. For a couple weeks it was a whole lot of crank-no start, you could tell the driver had some kind of rhythm to it and could get it to go eventually. Otherwise it seems to work all right.
 
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The thing propane likes is high compression, it works well with 11.1 ratio.
Lower compression ratio engines don't do well and have poor mileage as
a result.
 
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