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Topic: Barrel lifter

Posted By: HD6GTOM
Subject: Barrel lifter
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2018 at 7:30pm

Anybody have one that slips on the front of your forks. What brand? Looking for one to lift and move 55 gallon drums of honey, 8-900 lbs maximum. I see I can get one from Northern Tool. Would you buy another like you have? I am talking about the one that squeezes the drums, not the chains that hook over the top lip of the drum. Thanks guys.

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Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2018 at 7:36pm

this kind of thing ....

https://www.uline.ca/Product/Detail/H-5733/Drum-Handling/Drum-Tilt-Ring?pricode=YD801&gadtype=pla&id=H-5733&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI_vfN36Gt3wIVD9vACh2HqQ9lEAQYAiABEgLziPD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds" rel="nofollow - https://www.uline.ca/Product/Detail/H-5733/Drum-Handling/Drum-Tilt-Ring?pricode=YD801&gadtype=pla&id=H-5733&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI_vfN36Gt3wIVD9vACh2HqQ9lEAQYAiABEgLziPD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

.. only $100 Canucks but I'd steel rather make one than buy...really simple to fab up...

course my luck I'd spill the 800# of honey and man that would NOT be a good thing...hmm, maybe buying IS better ...

Jay

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3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112
Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor)

Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water

Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2018 at 8:09pm

I use web slings

Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2018 at 8:52pm

Tom...go to MECO. they are in Omaha, they have several different types look under drum lifter (meco.com)

Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 20 Dec 2018 at 10:25pm

Thank you guys.

Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 21 Dec 2018 at 5:51am

Are you fixin to ship a drum full of honey to Arkansas???😃😃😃

Posted By: wfmurray
Date Posted: 21 Dec 2018 at 9:43am

Had one at work that slipped over forks .Had two shaped peices that look like cow horns .Set it over barrel and pick up and it would squesse drum , set drum down and it would release it .Worked real well.

Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 21 Dec 2018 at 1:24pm

Thad, I need to move them around in the shed. Been setting them on pallets and moving then that way. I want to bee able to pick them up and put them on a 4 or 6 wheel drum mover. We sometimes meet to move them around in the shed. Darned old gal threw a fit when we put up the new honey house. I wanted it longer and she said "if you make it longer the feed truck won't be able to get in the lot and put bulk feed in the barn for my goats." Boo Hooo Hoo!!! Well she hasn't bought bulk feed since we put up the shed. Now I gotta fight to move stuff around every time I need something at the other end of the shed. WF that is the kind I want. I can order them from Northern Tool, just wondered how anyone else liked them.

Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 21 Dec 2018 at 1:56pm

Damn Goats Again!

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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 21 Dec 2018 at 11:57pm

Tom....does yer woman make goat cheeze?

Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2018 at 5:58am

OK, wondering.. does the shed have a concrete floor ? If so, use barrel dollys. I got 30 of them, used, free( of course)...great for storing sets of tire and other things, cause they move....

course as I'm typing I get the nagging feeling the shed floor is dirt or gravel....

just thinking of options,stuff to make life a tad easier...

Jay

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3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112
Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor)

Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water

Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2018 at 8:27pm

No shameless, no stinky goat cheese made here. I'm gonna get some of these barrel dollies but I do need to lift some these drums up and move them around.

Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2018 at 11:57pm

I got one that has two arms that grab top of barrel and the lift force squeezes curved metal pieces against sides and catch under rim at top. Hook it with a chain and front end loader.You could do same on one fork. Was around $50 5-6 yrs ago. Can't remember if bought online or at Rural King???