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Matt Thomas

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Years ago Dad bought a Super M on LP. It was during a time when I was not around to help with (or learn) anything about it. He has since passed on and the tractor is now in my care.

For those of you with experience, what is the best way to refuel LP in the field?
 
Back in the 50's and 60's when LP tractors were popular, most of the farmers that ran them in our area had a 250 or 500 gallon tank on a wagon running gear that they would pull to the field to refuel. Of course if you did that today and got caught by the local law, it may be quite some time before you would have to worry about fueling that tractor again.
 
matt it is difficult to do unless you have a tank sitting along the edge of your field. You may be able to find a tank that was in the back of a pickup (pickup used LP gas) and mount it to something to carry around. It would have to meet all UL and AStm standards to be legal and would have to have the proper liquid withdrawel hose attached. Those hoses have dates on them and are only good so many years.
 
I have a tractor I ran on propane. I have a 30 gal tank, that has a hose attached to the liquid valve. I would hook that to the tractor tank, and start filing. When the pressure equalized in both tanks, I would need to let some pressure out of the tank being filled. You will lose some fuel doing this, it is the only way to get a full tank of liquid. If you smoke,don't smoke doing this. Or you could just run the tractor until the pressure is down, and refill again. Some may disagree with this process of filling by letting vapor out, but it is what I did, and Dad did for many years before me. Dad had a 500 gal tank, it was easier for him. It got to be a big pain filling a transfer tank every day I used that tractor. I now use a tractor for discing that runs on gas. Stan
 
Do you refueling when your tractor tank is cool otherwise you will have to let more vapor out than when cool. We have in the past hook up the hose in the evening and let it hooked up all night and you don't have to bleed pressure. It will fill your tractor tank to 100% full because as it fills it will cool the tractor tank. You will have to start using your tractor before things heat up in the morning or it will pop off because of pressure building up with heat. With the tractor running it will bleed off the pressure fast enough not to pop off. You get to run longer on a tank this way.
 
We use a 500 gal. tank on a trailer with a liquid hose. We bleed vapor off of tractor tank so as to get the propane to transfer.
 

I have a Cockshutt 30 propane (after market). I bought an adapter that allows me to run a line to the fill port from a 20 lbs barbeque tank, or any tank with that thread actually. It will get me out of the field or allow me to chop a wagon load of green chop hay to feed. But a 20 lbs tank only holds about 4 gallons of propane so you aren't going to do a lot of work with it. I think the hose cost me about $40.00. Got it on line.

My propane supplier won't fill my tank when I need it anymore. So I'm switching to forklift tanks. I can refuel them at any place that fills propane tanks.
 
I had a 100 gal "nurse" tank on wheels. Could be pulled by p/u or behind implement with a hitch to the field. Agree weather extremes were unkind. Mine was a JD 4020, about 96 drawbar hp and I couldn't wait to get rid of that sucker. My first and last. It's diesel all the way for me now and has been since that one.

Mark
 
Propane delivery trucks connect two hoses: liquid fill hose and vapor return hose, and run a pump.

Bottle fill stations connect one hose, run a pump and use a scale to fill by weight.
 
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