A guy at the wrong place at the wrong time!

[A930Rocket]

I can’t embed this, but you have to see it.

Looks like a guy is at the gas car wash, when the car next door explodes and a propane tank, jets out of the car, bounces off the wall and back, hitting the guy in the overalls.

https://twitter.com/lonestarmango/status/1642704843457323008?s=20


Edit. It’s on Twitter but you don’t have to have an account to see it.

[Norm K]

[GH85Carrera]

Evidently that happened in Russia. The guy in overalls was indeed killed.

When natural gas was super cheap, and gasoline prices were really climbing I looked into a conversion to go to a dual fuel CNG or Gasoline conversion for my El Camino. The real costs are for getting a safe, certified tank, and all the fittings to make it safe. In the end the cost would only be justified if I drove 20,000+ miles per year, and I have never driven that much.

My neighbor that lived across the street had pickup that was a commercial conversion. CNG was 40 cents per gallon, and gasoline was up to over $2.50 a gallon. The MPG was pretty much the same, so he used CNG in town. For road trips, he just used up the CNG in the tank, switched to gasoline, and kept on driving.

[masraum]

Holy sheiße!

I'll bet the guy is feeling like Wile E Coyote.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Evidently that happened in Russia. The guy in overalls was indeed killed.

When natural gas was super cheap, and gasoline prices were really climbing I looked into a conversion to go to a dual fuel CNG or Gasoline conversion for my El Camino. The real costs are for getting a safe, certified tank, and all the fittings to make it safe. In the end the cost would only be justified if I drove 20,000+ miles per year, and I have never driven that much.

My neighbor that lived across the street had pickup that was a commercial conversion. CNG was 40 cents per gallon, and gasoline was up to over $2.50 a gallon. The MPG was pretty much the same, so he used CNG in town. For road trips, he just used up the CNG in the tank, switched to gasoline, and kept on driving.

Many, many years ago, I had a boss that had a Ford Truck with the 300ci i-6 that was LPG, I believe. I road in it once, and it was surprisingly torquey. I have to admit, I have always thought it seemed like it would be a little unsettling to have a tank of that sort of gas. In his case, it was a big tank at the front of the bed, so unlikely to be an issue in an ordinary fender-bender.

[stevej37]

A farmer who lived a couple miles from me was moving snow with his skidsteer and lost track of the driveway in a blowing snowstorm. His bucket clipped the end of a 500 gal propane tank.
It ruptured it and flared out a huge ball of fire. He was all clothed up good except for his face. He got out of the skidsteer and walked a couple hundred yards to the house where he died within minutes. He was 45 years old.

[GH85Carrera]

One of the guys I used to work with had an old Dodge pickup. He drove in to work from his ranch 90 miles away. He was there on time, every day, good weather or bad.

One of his best friends owned a propane delivery business. He only delivered to customers when they placed an order for a certain amount. Often they had ordered more than their tank could hold, so he charged them for the full delivery, and kept the rest. He would sell that extra to my co-worker for a discount super low price.

He converted his Dodge to run on propane, and it burns real clean. He could get the engines to go 350,000 miles before it needed a rebuild. He did not remember if he had 800,000 or 900,000 miles on the truck and the odometer had turned over so many times it did not matter much. It was not a pretty truck, but it got him to and from work every day.

It was funny to see other employees come in an hour late when the winter weather hit. And of course Darrel and I both, was there ever day on time or early and did more work than two of the others. I only had a 15 mile drive, so it was easy.

[Tobra]

I had a friend in Texas who sold propane and propane accessories, ran his trucks on it. The oil came out of those engines after 10000 miles looking brand new.

[flatbutt]

That's about as bad as luck gets. Poor guy. RIP.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Tobra

I had a friend in Texas who sold propane and propane accessories, ran his trucks on it. The oil came out of those engines after 10000 miles looking brand new.

That's what my old boss said that when you tore down a motor that had run on LPG, it usually looked new, at least in the bores.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

That's about as bad as luck gets. Poor guy. RIP.

When it's your time, the reaper will find a way.

[wdfifteen]

Wow. That poor guy. He was killed?

LP fuel was popular in farm tractors for a few years in the early 1950s. The LP manifold had better heating to keep the fuel vaporous in cold weather and the compression was increased about a point. HP was a little higher than the gasoline versions and way higher than diesels. They claimed the engines lasted forever.

[Brian 162]

I used to work for the local natural gas utility. The vehicles were dual fuel. A co-worker was filling his natural gas tank which filled to 3,000 pounds. He was sitting in the van when the tank ruptured. No fire and he walked away, I think he had some hearing damage. The van buckled and was written off.
It was found the fiberglass tank was defective.

[LWJ]

I started my career selling compressed gases. Watched far too many explosion movies for training. I have a very healthy respect for some chemical reactions.

[unclebilly]

Growing up, all of my dad’s trucks ran on propane. He always had a dual fuel conversion but never ran gas.

On a 78 dodge that was passed on to me, it had a 400 with a Holley carb and a propane carb on top and lots of miles. The cylinder walls in it were so tapered that I had to start it on gas and then switch to propane as it wouldn’t draw enough vacuum on a cold start to trip the solenoid to turn on the propane.

He had several ex government 3/4 ton 4x4 suburbans too, all converted to propane.

In the summers in the 80s, it would get down to $.08/L. I did burn clean but there was cylinder wear as mentioned with the dodge above, I eventually put a 440 in that truck out of an early 70s New Yorker.

[herr_oberst]

Sheesh. When your number is up. That tank had eyes.