Need more propane for longer stay in one spot.

We spent two winters here in Billings before we settled down.
The first one was in a Class A motorhome, with a 100 pound propane cylinder. Back then, I was young enough that hauling that thing to the propane supplier once a week or so was acceptable.
The second one was in a fifth wheel, with a 100 GALLON tank delivered, hooked up, and kept full by a local propane distributor. That was great! No muss, no fuss, just check the gauge now and then and call when it gets low.
I still have that tank, hooked to the house for the kitchen range.

We wintered in ours and used a 100# cylinder a week in the dead of winter. Did the extend a stay and every Monday I went and got another cylinder. Kept us warm and toasty, nothing froze and no problems.

We were in Alaska last April and saw a number of rigs hooked up to 100# bottles by the local propane dealer. Just a phone call was needed and they delivered the tank, hose and necessary fittings, and hooked it all up. Removal was just as easy. Although I use a setup similar to the "Extend-A-Stay", it is not the same. I created mine out of common brass parts available at a local hardware store because the "Extend-A-Stay" contains a flow limiter in their piece. When both my furnaces and a hot water heater would run together, my gas flow would shut down. By building my own setup I had no problems. Also, be advised some 20 and 30 pound cylinders also have internal flow limiters that will shut off gas under "all appliances running" conditions. The design of the OPD valve in some cases causes this to happen. The engineers at Manchester Tank directed me to tanks with the correct valves, and I've had no problems with 20# tanks I use in 8 years.

There are 4 options.
1: Go get more (But you said you can not)

2: The "Extend-a-stay" (No longer made but there is a replacement, MOST RV stores will know what it is) is a very good way to hook in an external tank. It is what I do when I need to use an external tank.

3: A Propane installer can close off your on-board tank and hook you to an external tank or Tanks. for long term parking. I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS.

4: IN SOME places. ... I was "Stuck" in Georgia unable to move, for like 3 years. Of course I needed propane. Turns out the local Propane service delivers to RV parks and Motor homes. NOTE NOT LEGAL IN ALL STATES. SO contact the local Propane services, or better yet the park and see who delivers THEIR propane and see if they deliver to motor homes.

Busskipper wrote:

dalenoel wrote:
Long term parks we have stayed at will have a local propane dealer who will come out to the park and fill the motorhome.

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THIS would be the most convenient.
And maybe the least expensive too in total.

How are you able to stay two months inside a National Park? I thought they limited stays to two weeks? Are you an employee, work camping? Just curious.

Last spring we returned to Indiana early so I could have back surgery. Not wanting to move the rig to fill with propane, DH ordered an extend-a-stay from Amazon and installed it himself. Once in Indy, we bought a 30 lb cylinder and ran off that for gas stove and heat. We had to refill it a couple times. . . so much easier than moving the rig which at that point I could not help with. We stayed like that for almost 3 months. Worked like a charm.

Dale

dalenoel wrote:
Long term parks we have stayed at will have a local propane dealer who will come out to the park and fill the motorhome.

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Eyeland wrote:
Advise I will be heading up to the cold country for 2 months. Can't unhook and go find prop. I heard of extend a Stay connector that is used to hook to spare prop tank. Is that the only way to go or is another option out there? We will be in Glacier NP.

We've been to Glacier NP during the Winter and found that we only had access to the East or West sides. The Going to the Sun road, which is the main highway through the NP, was only partially open so that we could not drive through the park. If we wanted to go to the other side of the NP, we had to drive around the park, rather than through it.

For winters on my home base site I have an external 150 gallon tank that I borrowed from my nephew. I hook it straight to the RV bypassing the onboard regulator. I did have the regulator on this large tank checked for proper pressure before I started using it. The local propane company fills it when needed and I just got 81 gallons a couple of weeks ago. If you don't own a large tank you can rent one from most propane suppliers for not a lot.

This is my 8th year full time.