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Old 03-13-2023, 06:28 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by rohrmann View Post
Like it or not, when these rigs are in extremely cold weather, you really need to use the furnace a lot, because not just your tanks and drain valves can freeze, but also all the water lines in the belly area, so tank heaters will not help with the water lines. We've been in single digit weather, and never had anything freeze, but of course we ran the furnace and did use a lot of propane, but did not have an even higher expense of repairing damaged plumbing from being frozen.
Some very sage advice that Bob is offering. Like him we have been in single digit temps for several days and never had anything freeze, but we went into the trip realizing we were going to burn a lot of propane.
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