Got to be a better way.

SDcampowneroperator wrote:
Under nfpa 58 & 1194reg's, tanks must be mechanically secured. To alter the mfgr design opens you to liability.

Maybe the op needed to know that, but it don't seem to help him with the original problem......which is how to make his life a little easier(while still toeing the line with lawyers and police).

I camp in a fiver, so the suggestion to use 20lb tanks instead of 30..is a good one for me since my tanks are secured with bands around the middle of the tanks, and are easily adjusted for smaller tanks. They clamp down with a simple lever which is easily released and reclamped.

Maybe there is a way to secure the tanks on a travel trailer using that type of band, and in a way that makes all the lawyers and anal people happy.

Under nfpa 58 & 1194reg's, tanks must be mechanically secured. To alter the mfgr design opens you to liability.

Get a shorter rod

I would say that getting rid of the thirty pounders and going down to the 20 pounders is not going to cause that much hardship. Unless you are winter camping, 20 pounds still lasts a long time.