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lostagain
Senior Member Joined: 06 Sep 2016 Location: Quaker Hill, CT Online Status: Offline Posts: 2587 |
Topic: Propane Grill Posted: 06 Apr 2019 at 8:53pm |
Come on, Dave, we have 3 dollar stores in Dayton and 4 casinos for a little over 8,000 people. Well, really 5 if you count the one on the far eastern edge of Dayton, right where nowhere begins. But we are not really a town, rather a "designated census zone."
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DavMar
Senior Member Joined: 04 Aug 2017 Location: Lexington, NC Online Status: Offline Posts: 592 |
Posted: 06 Apr 2019 at 7:35pm |
Sounds like my kind of place lostagain! Trouble is the wife who starts to have the DT's if she is to far from the shopping mall! Just kidding!
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StephenH
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Posted: 06 Apr 2019 at 7:25pm |
If you have a Costco or BJ's near you, some of them have propane available. In Raleigh, NC, Costco is less expensive than BJ's. Both charge by the gallon. In Wake Forest, one place charges the same price no matter if you start with an empty tank or a partially filled tank. I don't go there.
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StephenH
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lostagain
Senior Member Joined: 06 Sep 2016 Location: Quaker Hill, CT Online Status: Offline Posts: 2587 |
Posted: 06 Apr 2019 at 6:56pm |
In little Dayton, NV, on the edge of nowhere, and only 2 stoplights, we have at least 4 places that sell propane by the gallon. I usually buy it at TSC, in Carson City, because they are cheaper per gallon, but their pump broke last time we needed it and I had to pay $2.39 a gallon at the local Valero.
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furpod
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Posted: 06 Apr 2019 at 6:24pm |
TSC, Southern States, the local gas company, most feed stores, including the one in my little one horse town... here, it's not hard to find a place that fills and charges by weight.. I like very much that I can take a half full tank over and get it topped off for $6-7... We never leave home without all tanks topped off. No matter if we only use a couple pounds, or empty all three tanks, I just pop by and get them filled when I get a chance..
While I don't use TSC very often, it's in town, 20 miles or so.. I have if I was going to be going by it.. currently $2.79 a gallon. But I am at the feed store almost weekly.. so.. they are +/- a nickle or so on price with TSC.. I can, and do, live just fine with that. |
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DavMar
Senior Member Joined: 04 Aug 2017 Location: Lexington, NC Online Status: Offline Posts: 592 |
Posted: 06 Apr 2019 at 5:15pm |
Dang, Offgrid, you must live in the middle of no-where'sville! I don't live in a big town but there is at least four places I can get my tanks filled. One of them has special's come summer season once a month where you can fill for $5! Another place will fill my tanks for all of $8 so needless to say I avoid cylinder exchanges. |
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offgrid
Senior Member Joined: 23 Jul 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 5290 |
Posted: 06 Apr 2019 at 1:49am |
Furpod, if I could buy propane as cheap as you can and used as much grilling as you do I'd make the same decision. As it is I don't use very much and the price of a cylinder swap is pretty high here so the convenience of just setting the grill on the picnic table and turning it on outweighs the cost saving for me. There is one place within an hour of me that will refill my cylinders and they charge....exactly the same price as the 4 or 5 places I can swap
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furpod
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Posted: 05 Apr 2019 at 5:39pm |
a 1lb bottle costs $3.99 here at walmart. Refilling a 20 pounder from empty, at the local feed store costs about $14, and unlike an exchange tank, they actually fill the tank. so $80 for 20 pounds.. or $14.. was an easy decision for me. We were going through 5-6 of the 1 pounders a season, if not more. We often cook for several people, we have a griddle that also came ready to use them. In the first season, we saved enough to justify the cost of converting to low pressure and buying a 20 foot hose.
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podwerkz
Senior Member Joined: 11 Mar 2019 Location: Texas Online Status: Offline Posts: 966 |
Posted: 05 Apr 2019 at 10:33am |
I have used camping stoves on 1# bottles, 4# tanks, 11# tanks, and 20# tanks...but in my comm trailer I use a 20# tank with a propane 'tree' to feed a Northstar propane lantern and also supply the camping stove. Since there is limited room where the stove is mounted, the 1# bottle would not fit on the fold out 'table' where the stove is. This is done mainly during winter camping and remote radio events during cold weather.
When I'm all done for the evening, I simply turn the knob on the 20# tank and it's safe to exit with no worries. But, if I'm cooking with the camping stove on a large outdoor picnic table in warmer weather, I generally use the 1# bottles...its a lot easier.
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offgrid
Senior Member Joined: 23 Jul 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 5290 |
Posted: 04 Apr 2019 at 1:45pm |
Do you guys who use a little camping grill that refill and/or use a 20 lb propane cylinder find the cost savings worth the effort? I got a little coleman grill last year and was concerned that I would run through a lot of the little cans but I camped for 8 weeks, maybe grilling 20 or so times, and only used a couple of the little cans up. Not nearly as big a deal as I orignally expected.
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