Gas cylinder launches like rocket in junkyard - GIF

**Altair** · Jul 13, 2021, 01:56 PM

Gas cylinder launches like a rocket in junkyard.

Previously:

Gas cylinder lifting device - video and patent
Exploding gas cylinder chain reaction - video
Spinning/rolling gas cylinders to transport them - video
Gas cylinder welding fire - GIF
Oxy-acetylene gas bottle crash explosion - video

**gargoyle** · Jul 13, 2021, 08:17 PM

And on the next episode of "You Stupid.....Mutha....Forgers...."

**Ralphxyz** · Jul 13, 2021, 08:37 PM

That guy walking out the door must have p*ssed his pants or more!

Ralph

**gargoyle** · Jul 14, 2021, 01:35 AM

I'd go back and choke check the nimrod that placed it on the ground without its cap. In a doorway, where something clearly fell across the valve body like a guillotine. The dumb in that set-up was astrological in quantity.

**Christophe Mineau** · Jul 14, 2021, 02:46 AM

it's me or there was a Guy sitting on the bottle, white t shirt ?

**NortonDommi** · Jul 14, 2021, 03:31 AM

I was following a truck across the viaduct in downtown Auckland years,(1979), ago when a large bottle of Oxygen fell off the back. I saw it start to go and hit the picks.
It hit the ground bounced did a 1/2 circle and took off across the harbour. A friend who worked at the Navel Dockyard on the other side of the harbour said it hit the sea wall. That is a Hell of a long way. Probably skipped a couple of times.

**gargoyle** · Jul 14, 2021, 03:51 AM

Long time ago in a career far, far away, at a remote nuclear reactor site i was taking deliver of the weekly stock. One of the bottle was Sodium Hexaflouride. Its a REAL dense gas, the densest i ever managed. This also means that they are extremely heavy. Considerably more than O2, Acetylene, H2, He, NH3, or any of the other myriad consumable you find around a remote research h nuclear reactor.

So, the yokel unloading the pallet of five cylinders neglected to check his manifest for the weight of this pallet and "ASSumed" the forklift that he had on the back if his flat bed was up to the task.

Nope.

Long story short.

He dropped the pallet as soon as it cleared the step bed. Lift plunged forward to the ground, and two cylinders that didn't have their caps all the way on broke the valve bodies.

These two cylinder flew over a mile each.

This guy did NOT get the chance to drive the truck home. We made his supervisor drive out.

**Hoosiersmoker** · Jul 14, 2021, 08:33 AM

That's why there are rules for lashing / chaining all pressurized cylinders to the wall or a stable cart. Imagine if LP cylinders didn't have that collar on the top protecting the valve, and the idiots that buy those cylinders for their grills, the Darwin awards would likely go into the millions per year! It would be a daily news report or tally, (in my best newscaster voice) "It was a good day in suburban areas, only 7 deaths due to mishandling of LP cylinders, tune in tomorrow for our daily LP fatality update". This is exactly why the GHS has a special classification and pictogram for pressurized cylinders!

**marksbug** · Jul 14, 2021, 10:07 AM

Ive gotten oh somany of those propane tanks that had bad /hard,dried,cracked,chunks missing seals in them. but they did have a fresh coat of paint and new blue rino plastic wrapper!!! one of my kids Friends parents home 3 blocks from me burned down due to those propane tank ****/dead seals...I kinda doubt the propane company was held responsible.

**Hoosiersmoker** · Jul 14, 2021, 12:04 PM

When I used gas in my grill back in the day, I had a baling wire loop full of new seals for just that reason. I always used Worthington tanks though, better made. I learned that from trying to change a forklift tank outside in January... frozen seals are just as bad. We always kept a box of warn, fresh seals and changed them every time we changed a tank in the winter.