This might be a long shot but……….
I just ran into an AmeriGas employee. I asked him what they do with used 500 and 1000 gallon tanks. He said they have them refurbished and put them back in use. I explained that there is a growing demand for such tanks to store hot water for heating systems and that there are folks having trouble finding them. Then he says “well there’s a family owned business just a few miles away that refurbishes them also”. He goes on to tell me that this business is owned by an Amish family. I found that last bit of information significant because the only other family business I know of that refurbishes tanks (Fishers Services in Loysville Pa) is also an Amish family business.
Instead of doing computer searches and calling all those companies in the Yellow Pages maybe you should just ask a few Amish folks about used propane tanks (if of course you have Amish in your area). I’m going to track down the place that the AmeriGas guy told me about. If this new source has what I need he will be much closer than Fishers and Fishers is really not that far away for me. I’m thinking that if there are two Amish businesses that close together, doing the same thing, then maybe there are a lot of them that we (non Amish) just don’t know about. The “old order” Amish don’t have electricity. They frequently use gas for cooking, lighting and even their refrigerators run on gas. Fishers Services in Loysville sells gas appliances and I noticed that he had gas operated lighting fixtures in the office of his shop.
Bottom line is. Ask the Amish in your area. It’s worth a shot.
Ron
I just ran into an AmeriGas employee. I asked him what they do with used 500 and 1000 gallon tanks. He said they have them refurbished and put them back in use. I explained that there is a growing demand for such tanks to store hot water for heating systems and that there are folks having trouble finding them. Then he says “well there’s a family owned business just a few miles away that refurbishes them also”. He goes on to tell me that this business is owned by an Amish family. I found that last bit of information significant because the only other family business I know of that refurbishes tanks (Fishers Services in Loysville Pa) is also an Amish family business.
Instead of doing computer searches and calling all those companies in the Yellow Pages maybe you should just ask a few Amish folks about used propane tanks (if of course you have Amish in your area). I’m going to track down the place that the AmeriGas guy told me about. If this new source has what I need he will be much closer than Fishers and Fishers is really not that far away for me. I’m thinking that if there are two Amish businesses that close together, doing the same thing, then maybe there are a lot of them that we (non Amish) just don’t know about. The “old order” Amish don’t have electricity. They frequently use gas for cooking, lighting and even their refrigerators run on gas. Fishers Services in Loysville sells gas appliances and I noticed that he had gas operated lighting fixtures in the office of his shop.
Bottom line is. Ask the Amish in your area. It’s worth a shot.
Ron
