First, all cylinders irregardless of what the contents are, should be transported in the UPRIGHT position and securely chained or secured with heavy-duty ratchet straps. Second, NEVER transport a cylinder without a safety cap. Third, if you must transport a cylinder laying down, always put the valve to the FRONT of the bed - NOT the way you show it in your photos. If the tailgate were to open while enroute and the bottle were to slide out, when the bottle hits the ground it could shear off the safety cap & valve and would become an un-guided missile.
Also, NEVER lay down an Acetylene bottle, ALWAYS transport in an UPRIGHT position. The reason for this is because an Acetylene bottle contains a sponge-like material which is saturated with ACETONE and the Acetylene Gas is dissolved into the Acetone. When you lay down an Acetylene bottle the Acetone gets into the valve & when combined with pure Oxygen becomes an EXPLOSIVE combination - YES, it will detonate spontaneously.
Years ago I witnessed the classic reason why everyone should learn the proper way to transport pressurized cylinders. In 1966 my first job after getting out of the Air Force was in the R&D Lab of a large munitions plant, where I tested the burning rates of solid propellants for JATO motors and Sidewinder missiles. Our burning rate machine used Dry Nitrogen to purge the system, and while waiting outside one day for the truck to deliver 8 bottles of Dry Nitrogen; the driver of the stake-bed truck hit a chuck-hole in the road causing the bottles to roll across the bed. Their combined rolling weight sheared off the tail-gates allowing the bottles to roll off the bed of the truck. Three of the bottles hit on their caps and sheared off the valves. One of the bottles went completely through a 3 foot thick steel reinforced concrete wall. Another bottle went up through the bed of the truck, through the back window and out through the roof of the truck. We found that bottle a mile and a half away on the other side of the mountain. We never did find the third bottle.
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Today's Featured Article - Madison's County - by Anthony West. Philip Madison has been a good friend of mine for quite some time. He has patiently suffered my incessant chit chat on the subject of tractors for longer than I care to remember, and on many occasions he has put himself out, dropped what ever it was he was doing, to come and lend a hand cranking handles, or loading a find onto a trailer. Although he himself has never actually owned or restored a tractor, he was always enthusiastic and always around helping with other peoples projects.
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