Propane - The Bad and the Good

It turns out that it was a case of good news/bad news... I now have enough "on the books" for a delivery; but, due to some irresponsible idiot, they'll no longer deliver to a tank that's only used to fill bottles... I don't know if it was one of their customers; or, a customer of some other company that their insurance company insures; but, apparently, someone "blew themselves up" filling a bottle. Their insurance company made them sign an affidavit swearing they'd only service tanks that were connected directly to a structure. Before they'll bring the truck out, I'll have to get that area by the septic tank head cleared, get the 16x16 up, and get a line piped in over from the tank to a heater there... I can only hope that I'm not going to have to pay sme "licensed plumber" to sign off on the line... (The copper tubing is going be expensive enough!) {exasperated snort}

On "the up side," they DID offer to fill any OPD valve bottles I bring to them (WEST OF SHAWNEE - about 25 miles each way!!!) for the "100 gallon price," as long as the money that's on the books now holds out. I'm not thrilled about making a 50 mile round trip with a car full of 5 gallon propane bottles; but, it beats "freezing our asses off..." I'll just take back roads; and, drive VERY defensively... I was going to try to get over there with a batch of bottles today; but, my friend Adam made it over to (try to) get the antenna pole up. We got the antenna head hung up in a couple of branchs; and, he had somewhere else that he needed to be before we got things straightened out; but, hopefully, it'll be up within a couple of days...