What does your yard require when taking large oil tanks or air compressor tanks?

What dumb operator loads a 1000 lb propane tank to begin with. The tanks are 10 feet long and 6 feet around you would have to be an idiot to load that into the shredder. I also hope whoever checks the loads, the yard manager, the crane operator, the guy in the shredder pulpit were all fired that day. What a bunch of knuckleheads. I had a guy bring in a sample load to the yard I am working at of 500 gallon propane tanks told me they were empty but you could still smell propane and there was still residual in it. The guy said he sells them all the time with just the valve removed. I laughed and said yeah right that is why you are looking for a buyer and the owner kindly said thanks but no thanks and that was the last I saw of that guy. That's still not safe enough and any residual gas can catch fire or in this case explode. Use your head if you have one and think for a minute before cutting into anything that is sealed.

You're right Pistone, residues can be extremely dangerous. A kid was killed in a shop class explosion up here. He was cutting into a drum that had peppermint oil residue in it. I believe charges have been laid against the school, the teacher and the board. Won't bring the kid back though. It always amazes me how stupid people can be. I find it hard to believe a shop teacher couldn't be aware of the dangers involved in this type of activity.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa...-leighton.html

Originally Posted by PistoneScrapProcessing

What dumb operator loads a 1000 lb propane tank to begin with. The tanks are 10 feet long and 6 feet around you would have to be an idiot to load that into the shredder. I also hope whoever checks the loads, the yard manager, the crane operator, the guy in the shredder pulpit were all fired that day. What a bunch of knuckleheads. I had a guy bring in a sample load to the yard I am working at of 500 gallon propane tanks told me they were empty but you could still smell propane and there was still residual in it. The guy said he sells them all the time with just the valve removed. I laughed and said yeah right that is why you are looking for a buyer and the owner kindly said thanks but no thanks and that was the last I saw of that guy. That's still not safe enough and any residual gas can catch fire or in this case explode. Use your head if you have one and think for a minute before cutting into anything that is sealed.

World is full of dumb people, once I happened to come into a yard and the foreman was about to blow out the injectors lines from the oxygen tank, I asked him if he could wait until I had left the yard before proceeding. He looked at my like I lost a screw, then I pointed to the gauge on the oxygen bottle were it says use no oil.

Then I suggested he contact their gas supplier to get the facts on pure oxygen and petroleum products, they don't mix well. This is one reason why I love my plasma for cutting up oily scrap like large hydraulic cylinders or into the base of an old crane filled with oil, with an oxygen torch you get tremendous blow back with burns to your face if your too close. The plasma torch does not do this as it does not use pure oxygen to burn the metal.