Question. Im moving into a new storage space and looking to upgrade my current situation. Right now, I order a pallet of 15gal drums (9 total) have it forklifted into the back of my truck, and then haul each one out by hand from truck bed to my storage unit. It’s doable but would like to not get hobbled one day from lugging around 150lb drums.
Some day I would like to skip my chemical supply warehouse and bring up 275 totes full of SH. I cant have anything delivered to my storage unit so will need to get a trailer or bigger truck that can hold that kind of a payload so I’m kicking that can down the road a little longer and sticking with the smaller more manageable drums.
Having a dedicated forklift in my storage unit seems like overkill so I was I thinking about trying to find something like a forklift but less hardcore and came across this line of stuff.
Have you guys ever used these? Grainger says they will ship to me for 300$ so I’m thinking this might be a good thing to use in the interim until i get a boat condo. Would love your thoughts.
Get you an empty IBC tote and then just rig up a small transfer pump. Back your truck load of barrels up close to the tote and then just transfer the SH from the barrels into the tote. That’s what I do when I pick up drums of SH. I transfer it from drum straight into my SH tank.
As suggested, I’d just have a separate tank and transfer it. I just use a 5gpm 12v, but, if you had multiple 12v pumps all running at the same time (not in line) it’d go faster. Better yet, if the tote that’s full is up on the trailer/truck rig up a hose that connects to the dump valve near the base of the tank and let gravity transfer most of it into the empty storage tank on the floor in your shed/warehouse. Then 12v what’s left.
Or, rent/barter a skid steer with forks on it for 20 minutes.
I’m also not the DOT police (and they may not even exist there ), but I believe at 135# you’re over the legal hauling limit for us everyday folk…although not by much, so you could probably feign ingorance on the measuring if they can could that high should you see one.
I get you and I’ve thought about it. The distributor will deliver but since I’m trying to keep a more on the downlow storage situation I just grab it myself. Also they tell me they are delivering it, so I stay home all day to receive and they change to a other day…at the end of the day. The less that I have them do=the less hassle I have.
Some things just are what they are I guess. I’m trying over here
if there’s air handy, try a Yamada diaphragm pump. That’s what we’ve always used as our primary transfer system. Swapping fittings on the 12v is always a viable backup plan in a pinch.
Just regular 12v 5gpm transfer pumps. PM me your shipping address and I’ll send you one. I have a few laying around that I say I’m keeping for parts but realistically I’ll never pull them apart so you may as well get some use out of them.
I use a transfer pump - 12v 5.5gpm unit to transfer from barrels to tank on trailer. Flush with 5 gal bucket of water and put away.
If you do go the way of a forklift or some other device, check out pelican hooks. At the manufacturer’s warehouse that is what they use to move drums, not pallet forks. I’m not buying them, I already have 4’ industrial pallet forks for my tractor, but if I was just starting out…
WOw, that things is $144, I would definitely look somewhere else to buy it.
Oh yeah, be careful about what type of drum mover you get, some are designed for metallic drums and plastic drums would get smushed. Expensive mistake and stinky.
), but I believe at 135# you’re over the legal hauling limit for us everyday folk…although not by much, so you could probably feign ingorance on the measuring if they can could that high should you see one.
