Cutting Gas Cylinders Open Safely - HELP

[brightspark]

Stick an axle on it and turn it into a towable smoker...start selling over priced ribs at country fairs.

or a water bowser

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Get heavy with the tank owners.

 

[Parm]

Bigger and badder things with way more dangerous things get cut up with all sorts of technology on industrial site.

it’s all about checking, preparation and the correct precautions.

anything is possible if it’s done correctly.

this bad boy is at the simple end of the spectrum

 

[Morrisman]

Maybe I missed something, but what's stopping you putting it on a dolly and wheeling it out? Also don't the gas suppliers own these things? They did when I had one.

It’s 40” diameter, about 6” bigger than the door out to the street.

It still belongs to the gas company and will be on their assut register.
You need to contact them to "Demand " their equipment is on your property. If it isn't removed in a convenient time scale.
You will have it removed at a cost to them.

How ever, depending on the house deeds it may be a fixed asset and has to remain, pending planning permission.


A quick phone call,recorded, will help a lot.

I may try that yet, but judging by their lies and BS stories when I first approached them to refill it, I don’t expect much good to become of it.

Next door had Avanti replace their similar cylinder, and though i never saw it, apparently a huge crane was used. I don’t know why she changed it, it was still within the certification period.

 

[brightspark]

yep fill it with water. cut the top open with a stihsaw then start carving it up working your way down no enclosed space no explosion

 

[merryck]

Stick an axle on it and turn it into a towable smoker...start selling over priced ribs at country fairs.

I've been on the lookout for a nice big gas bottle like that to build a smoker for the restaurant. I found a huge tank on a farm nearby but I think it may have been a slurry tank, and while I'm sure getting it dipped and blasted would clean it out sufficiently I'm still not sure I'd want to eat something I cooked in it!

 

[DAPPH]

I've been on the lookout for a nice big gas bottle like that to build a smoker for the restaurant. I found a huge tank on a farm nearby but I think it may have been a slurry tank, and while I'm sure getting it dipped and blasted would clean it out sufficiently I'm still not sure I'd want to eat something I cooked in it!

My pal Stig got hold of an old heavy steel air receiver that failed its annual test inspection . It was a good 3 foot in diameter and about seven feet long . He made a fantastic laid on it's side wheeled towable whole piglet roaster /smoker out of it . The clamped inspection plate in the base gave him an excellent low down hot smoke inlet too . It must have weighed 3 cwt or more when empty .

 

[Morrisman]

Oddly enough an Avanti guy came round last week, to check my cylinder. I pointed out it is empty, uncertified and disconnected, and I was going to chop it up to make a fire pit or two..... and he tells me it is their property and they need to come take it away, with a huge crane. Fair enough, but whether it happens or not is anybody guess.

 

[Hopefuldave]

Oddly enough an Avanti guy came round last week, to check my cylinder. I pointed out it is empty, uncertified and disconnected, and I was going to chop it up to make a fire pit or two..... and he tells me it is their property and they need to come take it away, with a huge crane. Fair enough, but whether it happens or not is anybody guess.

Tell 'em they have a month to remove it from your property without any tort or damage or it will be disposed of as you see fit...

Dave H. (the other one)

 

[Screwdriver]

I've been on the lookout for a nice big gas bottle like that to build a smoker for the restaurant. I found a huge tank on a farm nearby but I think it may have been a slurry tank, and while I'm sure getting it dipped and blasted would clean it out sufficiently I'm still not sure I'd want to eat something I cooked in it!

Well I am still selling this...

I should probably stick it in the for sale section but since you asked; let me know if it's the sort of size you're after. Tank behind is a regular 150 litre (?) Clarke jobbie for scale. This one is 60 gallons/275 litres.

 

[brightspark]

I've been on the lookout for a nice big gas bottle like that to build a smoker for the restaurant. I found a huge tank on a farm nearby but I think it may have been a slurry tank, and while I'm sure getting it dipped and blasted would clean it out sufficiently I'm still not sure I'd want to eat something I cooked in it!

you eatcrap when you die a bit now wont harm you

 

[merryck]

True, and to be fair I probably would eat from it, but if a farmer came by and said "Hey, that's an old slurry tank!" it probably wouldn't be good for business!!

@Screwdriver - what are the dimensions of it? I'm not sure it'll be big enough for what I'm after unfortunately, I've already built one out of two oil drums mounted onto a trailer (that wasn't a good idea - too top heavy). The next one I was hoping would be HUGE, a bit more like @DAPPH's mate's one. Hoping to make it a bit of a showpiece.

 

[Screwdriver]

True, and to be fair I probably would eat from it, but if a farmer came by and said "Hey, that's an old slurry tank!" it probably wouldn't be good for business!!

@Screwdriver - what are the dimensions of it? I'm not sure it'll be big enough for what I'm after unfortunately, I've already built one out of two oil drums mounted onto a trailer (that wasn't a good idea - too top heavy). The next one I was hoping would be HUGE, a bit more like @DAPPH's mate's one. Hoping to make it a bit of a showpiece.

Will be circa 1200x600mm which is not HUGE by your definition I should think. I can double check but it won't get much bigger than that.

 

[DAPPH]

True, and to be fair I probably would eat from it, but if a farmer came by and said "Hey, that's an old slurry tank!" it probably wouldn't be good for business!!

@Screwdriver - what are the dimensions of it? I'm not sure it'll be big enough for what I'm after unfortunately, I've already built one out of two oil drums mounted onto a trailer (that wasn't a good idea - too top heavy). The next one I was hoping would be HUGE, a bit more like @DAPPH's mate's one. Hoping to make it a bit of a showpiece.

Some folks used their od square all steel old 1000 oil fuel tanks to make pig, sheep roasters & /or smoke generators out of ...
Once the crud has been heated & fired for a several hour burn out cleansing fire , then you give the tank sides a decent wallop with a big mallet or lump hammer the crud falls to the bottom as ash and can be removed if you have cut an ash removal hole in one end , so make a hinged closeable door on the underside at one end big enough to get a shaped scraper in and also allow any power washdown water out when you give it the final clean out . If you make the chimney in the end , have it as a bolt on affair then it's easy to renew it in several years time . or a short /term repurpose as a massive hot or cold smoke generator box for sides of bacon racks of ribs etc.

Don't forget make only on hinges side cut frts then weld onthe heavy duty hinges . cut the opposite side of the opening , put the dor catches on place then finally cut th remaining tow cuts to make & keep door well set in place . I've seen a number of heroes who fully cut the door panel out , then tried to accurately put it in place to weld on the hinges & catches . It's how I tried to do my first doored cylinder too many many moons ago

 

[slim_boy_fat]

you eatcrap when you die a bit now wont harm you

How does that work then, afaik the mandible stops moving when you're 'brown bread'.....

 

[merryck]

Will be circa 1200x600mm which is not HUGE by your definition I should think. I can double check but it won't get much bigger than that.

Will be a bit small for what I'm doing. I'd take it for a later project but I'm on a strict 'no more projects' diet at the moment. I'm one of those people who always has far too many on!!