MikeDahlager
Senior Member
I'm sure many of you already know this................
While I was preparing for my annual Elk hunting trip I was checking on my 3 propane bottles. I found that I had 1-20# bottle which was empty, one about 1/2 full and one about 3/4 full. Up to this time I always did an exchange of bottles at the grocery store at $19.00/ bottle. Since I had the 2 bottles with product still in them I decided to drive a couple of extra miles to the gas company and have all 3 of them filled. While the bottles were being filled I was talking to the guy filling them and found out that the bottles you get in exchange are only filled to 15#, not the 20# I assumed I was getting. He said that all exchange bottles are only filled to 15#. I sat down with my calculator and discovered that I have been paying twice the going rate for propane in exchange for the convenience of swapping bottles. In addition, when using propane as the primary source of heat and cooking you want to have full bottles to begin with as the nearest source can be many miles away.
I will be filling my present bottles from now on rather than doing an exchange.
Mike
While I was preparing for my annual Elk hunting trip I was checking on my 3 propane bottles. I found that I had 1-20# bottle which was empty, one about 1/2 full and one about 3/4 full. Up to this time I always did an exchange of bottles at the grocery store at $19.00/ bottle. Since I had the 2 bottles with product still in them I decided to drive a couple of extra miles to the gas company and have all 3 of them filled. While the bottles were being filled I was talking to the guy filling them and found out that the bottles you get in exchange are only filled to 15#, not the 20# I assumed I was getting. He said that all exchange bottles are only filled to 15#. I sat down with my calculator and discovered that I have been paying twice the going rate for propane in exchange for the convenience of swapping bottles. In addition, when using propane as the primary source of heat and cooking you want to have full bottles to begin with as the nearest source can be many miles away.
I will be filling my present bottles from now on rather than doing an exchange.
Mike