There are two ways to fill your tractor. The best is to have a liquid propane pump. This how your delivery truck handles the fuel. The other is the bleed off method. You let the pressure push the fuel from one tank to another. This takes a little skill and you do lose some fuel vapors.
The bleed off method. The tank you are going to be filling from has to have a liquid line to fill with. It just is a line that pulls the propane from the bottom of the tank not the vapor from the top. Most tanks have both fittings.
What you are doing is letting the vapor/pressure push the liquid out through the liquid line. Then on the tractor you are filling you have to open the bleeder to let out the vapor so the liquid fuel can enter the tank. How much propane/liquid you can transfer this way will be affected by two things: 1) how full the main tank is. 2) the temperature this changes the evaporation pressure of propane. The hotter the higher the pressure. You usually can't get the tractor filled to the 80% mark like you would with a pump but you can usually get over 50-60%.
I have filled my grill tanks for years this way. I was terrified the first few times I did it. Now it is not big deal. Handling gasoline is really more dangerous but we just do it more so we are more comfortable with it.
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