Minnesota Outdoorsman
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: mike89 on June 06/24/22, 08:32:38 AM
-
well I got contract for this coming winters propane and as I figured it's up.. Summer fill $1.85, winter contract $1.95 becuse I own my tank... yikes and this place has always been the most reasonable around here for price!!!
so the question is what are you all seeing or hearing for prices???
-
i have electric heat so i dont follow it at all, still be interesting to hear what others say!!!!!
we have the call in to fill the tank at the cabin, so i'll see what it says then!!!!!! :scratch:
-
About the same. Im getting summer fill, and about 400 gl of contract. It can pay off or it can be a bust or a wash. Vegas has better odds
-
based on the information we got from cenex.........i'm, thinking there's not going to be much wheeling and dealing, special offers on propane anywhere this year!!!!!!! just my opinion though!!!!!! :doah:
-
Hearing about the same up here Mike.
-
Thera never special offers its on nation set prices and transportaion and compition.
-
CONSPIRACY!
-
Thera never special offers its on nation set prices and transportaion and compition.
:pouty: :pouty: we've always been offered some summer special if we filled during a certain time frame.........except his year. and then pd in 10 days!
-
Yup thats a standard practice tho...but i hear ya..
-
CONSPIRACY!
No doubt! Gotta be it!
-
Our co-op here in Blue Earth County, did summer fill for $1.89/gallon. No word on our contract price.
-
1.89 aint bad
-
Ours is at $2.09 :sad:
-
I think we paid $1.89 for summer fill too. The winter pre buy here I don't know how much yet. But we get in on it too.
-
Aint bad really.compared to what fuel oil heater are gonna be taking.
-
Anyone fill a 20 lber lately?? What are they charging for those???
The fleet supply in paynseville is usually the cheapest in the area.
-
We did & I think :scratch: he said WM in GR was still the same price.
-
Just got the winter pre buy from our supplier, $2.10
-
noticed they filled the tank at the cabin, couple days later i seen an email we got the statement, it was 2.09. 418 buckaroos later. oh well we shall stay warm this winter!!!!!! :happy1:
-
Just got our pre buy in the mail too. It is $2.09. So if the rack price drops we get that price or else the $2.09. Whichever is cheapest at time of filling. Like I said propane has to be about $1.79-1.89 or else it is cheaper to use electric when it is off peak prices like we have.
-
We also got a notice from Minnesota power that electricity may increase 17%.
-
I'm thinking wood might the way to go, right jb?? :happy1:
-
I'm thinking wood might the way to go, right jb?? :happy1:
Ya. I am wondering about that too. Going to be $130.00 a cord delivered this winter he said with the fuel prices. Multiply that 24 and it has me thinking.
-
You go through 24 cords a year JB?
-
Yes sir. Last year was a hair more than 24.
-
I had thought about getting one of those outdoor wood stoves but kind of glad I didn't. Although you heat a shop and a house so that is pretty nice.
-
Yes sir. Last year was a hair more than 24.
holy crap.....thats alot of propane you could buy...........do a half and half thing????? my quick math says that wood would cost 4200 smackaroos alone?????/
-
$3120 for 24 cord. I am adding propane boilers this summer to do the half and half thing. Run the propane in the fall and spring. Then in the really cold months burn wood. We are heating the house and garages too like LPS said.
-
That sounds like a good plan JB. Every year older things get a little harder and take a little longer.
-
Boy you got that right LPS! :happy1:
-
Sheez!! I spose if you don't have access they got ya. I got to know a fella in HD's area that would let me cut and take fresh stuff for 50 bucks whatever I could haul, the 3/4 ton even had a backseat full. Usually ran a year ahead so it worked great. But I'm not heating the whole house either.
-
Yes sir. Last year was a hair more than 24.
holy crap.....thats alot of propane you could buy...........do a half and half thing????? my quick math says that wood would cost 4200 smackaroos alone?????/
:scratch: Is that a union calculator your using? :sleazy: :nerd: :evil: ;) :rolleyes: :laugh: :laugh:
-
Maybe!! :mooning: :mooning:
-
The last 2 winters we have been paying to have it delivered. Otherwise before that we would buy it at the landing for $60 a cord. May have to go back to that. Down side to that is we would spend 4-5 weekends cutting and hauling firewood. That was getting old too. Will have to see what happens this winter.
-
got my winter contract confirmed and just got my summer fill.. all set I guess...
-
anyone got an idea what there getting nowadays for filling a 20 lb tank??????? i got 3 that needs filling, and before i do anymore canning i need at least one filled!!!!1 :scratch: :scratch:
-
$9.00 on Wednesdays here yet....
-
$9.00 on Wednesdays here yet....
sheez for that i might drive up to visit!!!!!!!! :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
-
2.059/gal for a couple thousand gallons here. ROBBERS
-
I thought we paid 1.89 but the wife just said no it was 2.09. It is a rip off. If the price goes down before then we get the lower of the two. Roons do you use that much at your farm in a winter?
-
Between the old farmhouse and a 4000 sq ft shop we do. And that is supplementing with wood in the shop and a pellet stove in the house.
-
That is one heck of a shop. You win that category hands down. That is one heck of a lot of heat. Dotch should come over in his spare time and do some insulating for you. :rotflmao: :rotflmao: What do you do in that big shop Roony?
-
Putz
-
It was my full time cabinet/millwork business before I got a real job 6 years ago. When I retire from my undercover boss job it will be my full-time occupation again minus a lot of the stress I had back then.
-
It was my full time cabinet/millwork business before I got a real job 6 years ago. When I retire from my undercover boss job it will be my full-time occupation again minus a lot of the stress I had back then.
and yet the warden still rules the roost!!🤭 :sleazy: :happy1: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
-
Up urs
-
Up urs
oh my??? :confused: :pouty: :scratch: :doah:
-
With a rubber hose
-
With a rubber hose
oh no not that!! :confused: :rotflmao:
-
AGAIN??? :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
-
My bother ordered a fill late last week, they've not been here yet though. The price he was quoted is $.15/gal cheaper than what their fall fill special was on the flyer we got earlier.
-
I wonder if the price of propane will fall like gas is?
-
Good question! But I have also heard gas is supposed to go up again this fall. Time will tell. Hope I heard wrong.
-
Good question! But I have also heard gas is supposed to go up again this fall. Time will tell. Hope I heard wrong.
Prolly start going back up the second week of November.
-
I am trying to negotiate my winter lp contract. See what happens.
-
I am trying to negotiate my winter lp contract. See what happens.
:sleazy: :sleazy: need some help!!!!!!!!!! training-087 training-087 :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
-
I dont want to get laughed at.
-
I dont want to get laughed at.
HA :mooning: :mooning: :rotflmao:
-
Gas was $4.05 at the convenience store in Squaw Lake yday & we were told it's been like that for 2-3 weeks. Seen $4.08 in Cohasset today & $4.13 in GR.
-
Propane is a byproduct of making gasoline, so the price should go down..... except for the price gougers. :doah:
-
That is what I thought too.
-
When Dotch's customers get their big machines running & fire up the dryers, I doubt it will be going down much more IMO. A lot of seasonal people in this area will be pulling the plug for the season too & will want to get their tanks filled as well. Supply/demand rules & yes there are some taking advantage of the situation. That being said, my brother found gas for $3.89 in Squaw Lake today when he went for a ride on his bike.
-
Gas was $4.05 at the convenience store in Squaw Lake yday & we were told it's been like that for 2-3 weeks. Seen $4.08 in Cohasset today & $4.13 in GR.
GR is always higher. 15 or so years ago it would alternate between being higher and lower than gas in the metro. They even had a sort of renegade type of operation pop up when the Super One on the south side of town was a Cub that openly claimed to be fighting the trend of higher gas prices. In the last few years, I have avoided buying gas in GR because it’s always higher. Makes a trip to Hibbing or Nashwauk worth the extra miles for us.
-
Same thing in deer river fishwidow!! :pouty:
-
We normally get almost all our gas at M&H in GR as DR is usually higher. We like the $.05 off for going in to pay too, I guess it's $.010 if you pay with cash or by check, but we seldom do that. A full tank in the car, 2020 Escape, will last 2weeks for us & even then it's rarely more than 13 gallons. We use almost as much in the wheeler, boat, & mowers as that.
-
$3.89 in Park Rapids
-
We talking gas? I paid 3.54 coming thru Des Moines last Saturday , this mountain town in Colorado has ya by the balls, 5.29 we filled up with today.. :taz:
-
Hey if ya got it spend it!!! :mooning: :rotflmao:
Sorry Mikey made me. :pouty: :confused:
-
I am fortunate to be hooked to natural gas. The past 12 months gas bill totaled just under $900. So far, the "pipe" has not run dry.
-
when we had the house built back in 1979 they didnt have a gas line coming up are street and if i remember right i would of had to pay for it from the current line up to my house so we have baseboard electric heat.
we are on a budget plan so it helps.
-
The situation over in Germany won't let our energy prices go down very far until it is resolved either IMO. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/scholz-visit-nord-stream-1-gas-turbine-germany-2022-08-02/
-
$3.89 in Park Rapids
WCCO said it was $3.29 in Buffalo, Mn this AM.
-
I am fortunate to be hooked to natural gas. The past 12 months gas bill totaled just under $900. So far, the "pipe" has not run dry.
Hopefully that's a relatively new line and one the gas company plans on maintaining a while. I wouldn't put anything past the gas company in rural areas. When we first bought our place, we were hooked to natural gas via a farm tap. It was cheap and we never worried about running out. We had ~ an 1100' line that ran from the tap on the main line down in the field to our house. We'd noticed some peculiar sudden spikes in our consumption & bill late one summer. When we confronted them they said they just figured we might've put in a swimming pool or something. :scratch: Consumption came back down, we paid the bill, and in February they showed up, announced there was a gas leak by our house (in our supply line from the farm tap) and promptly shutting our gas off, telling us too bad, so sad, you'll just have to switch your furnace over to LP. Have a nice life! Our furnace was probably over 30 years old and there was no "just switch it over to LP" to it. It took 3 days before we were able to get someone out there to install a new one. I could've switched back to natural gas again but I would've had to foot the bill for the new line to the house. Wouldn't have been cheap. Just the material alone was more than what I could afford at the time, not to mention the cost of trenching it in. In retrospect, probably a good thing I didn't do it.
The gas company is as I write this, in the process of abandoning the main line I was hooked into. It was an old line, put in back in the 1920's sometime if I remember reading my abstract correctly. They are rerouting & connecting other existing lines while making one helluva mess in several farmers growing crops. It has some of them really PO'ed as their buildings & corn dryers were hooked into the line they're abandoning. They've been trying to get the gas company to run another line for them but that ain't gonna happen even though the contract stipulates they probably should. The gas company has a lot of high powered attorneys on retainer. They operate like railroads I've concluded. They're so big and powerful, they do pretty much whatever the hell they want.
I did finally discover what happened to cause our gas leak. A couple years after our natural gas had been disconnected, I came across a pipe on the soil surface in what had once been part of the field. We added some additional acreage after our initial purchase for windbreak, pasture, wildlife habitat, etc. The galvanized pipe was bent at a crazy angle and I couldn't budge it. It puzzled me for a minute then the light bulb came on. Due to years of erosion, the supply line from the house to the farm tap worked its way closer to the surface and the guy running the ground most likely hooked it with his deep ripper in the fall. The pipe either developed a pinhole leak in it where it was crimped or where it was torn it loose at one of the threaded connections somewhere underground. I should probably yank it out someday. Dunno what I'll do with it but I sure know where I'd like to put it... :angry::evil:
-
That's what the corporate world thinks of us as individuals. Absolutely nothing. Unless there is a law suit and they have to redo it they won't. What a hassle to those that depended on it. Sure would think they would have a responsibility to restore service to them. On their own dime too.
-
Dotch,
That's quite a story. I never realized they can just abandon a line. I'm in the township but not too far from town so probably not an issue.
Back when I lived in Coon Rapids the gas company went through and replaced all the lines from the main pipe to the houses. They didn't have to dig up the lines but simply attached a line and pulled it through the original line. Fun to watch.