What did YOU do today?

[sgtsandman]

If you are not using an engine out of a retired MIG you are doing it wrong...

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I don't have a runway to deice.

 

[sgtsandman]

The torching of the gravel driveway worked well. So well, I did some more of the driveway. Now about half of it is done. The only thing slowing things down is the tank freezing and needing to be shakken from time to time to aggetate the gas so it vaporizes better. I've run across that with propane stoves in the cold. So, it was not a surprise whennit happened with a 20# tank.

 

[Li'l Work Truck]

The torching of the gravel driveway worked well. So well, I did some more of the driveway. Now about half of it is done. The only thing slowing things down is the tank freezing and needing to be shakken from time to time to aggetate the gas so it vaporizes better. I've run across that with propane stoves in the cold. So, it was not a surprise whennit happened with a 20# tank.

Forgive my ignorance, but what does that do?

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

If you can, wrap a battery blanket around the tank. I do that to my 100lb tanks when it gets below - 15C.
@sgtsandman

 

[sgtsandman]

Forgive my ignorance, but what does that do?

It melts the ice either into the gravel or into vapor so both vehicles and people can get traction.

For here, needing to torch a gravel driveway is not a normal thing. By now, there would have been a couple stretches of days warm enough to melt the ice natuarally.

 

[sgtsandman]

If you can, wrap a battery blanket around the tank. I do that to my 100lb tanks when it gets below - 15C.
@sgtsandman

I had thought about it but since I only have a couple hours of time to do it after work. And being it's a 20# cylinder that I'm carrying around, it might be more trouble than it's worth. Shaking the cylinder every so often is cheap and one less thing to drag around.