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Need a tool - 10/20/2013 3:53:17 PM   
Hillwilliam


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Status: offline 		Here's the short end of it.

I've started working as a Chemist/QA/QC for a company that recycles/disposes of toxic materials. Warehouse/Industrial environments have a lot of hazards and I'm working on minimizing the ones on the shop floor but I can't seem to find a tool for one of the prevalent ones.

Periodically, a barrel will fall off a pallet during transportation.
These things can weigh 500+ pounds when full and aren't easy to right.

I'm just waiting for a workman's comp claim for a blown knee, broken foot, shoulder injury, etc.

Is there a tool that can be hooked to a fallen barrel and used to lever it upright so a forklift can set if back on the pallet?

I've searched Northern Tool, Harbor Freight and Grainger with no success.

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RE: Need a tool - 10/20/2013 3:57:35 PM   
petitespot


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Status: offline 		Try uline. They have a bunch of stuff for pallets.

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RE: Need a tool - 10/20/2013 4:00:42 PM   
petitespot


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Status: offline 		BTW. If you go to their site search for their mini wrap.
Its great for bondage. They have wide widths too. 8)


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RE: Need a tool - 10/20/2013 4:02:19 PM   
petitespot


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Status: offline 		And...I thought you had a tool.
A rather large one according to your picture.

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RE: Need a tool - 10/20/2013 5:20:58 PM   
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Status: offline 		Get two heavy duty ratcheting cargo straps, and rig up a handle extension for leverage. When you can't pull up anymore with the first, let that hold the barrels in place, and use the other. Repeat until everything is back as it should be. Use one high, and one low to square it off if you need to. A wooden block under the dangling barrel edge wouldn't hurt.

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RE: Need a tool - 10/20/2013 5:24:42 PM   
Hillwilliam


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Status: offline 		If I can't find one, I may just draw one up and have one of the welders fabricate it.
Be a nice patent for the company courtesy of the FNG.

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RE: Need a tool - 10/20/2013 5:30:38 PM   
TheHeretic


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Status: offline 		Oops. Re-read your question. The above is for the "barrel hanging off the pallet" problem. For what you describe, you just need a standard forklift with hydraulic adjustment of the fork width and tilt, and a competent operator.

Why the hell aren't the barrels wrap secured to each other for stability on the pallet to begin with?

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RE: Need a tool - 10/20/2013 5:32:08 PM   
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Status: offline 		I was watching the local farmer pick up the big round hay bales. They weren't using the typical spike like in the past, instead they had a giant pair of tongs on the front of the tractor. I can see that being used for barrels which you say weigh about the same. Try tractor manufacturers.

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RE: Need a tool - 10/20/2013 5:38:38 PM   
outlier


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Drum Handling

There are a lot of options there.

Steel drums, cardboard, plastic.

Many different ways to pick them up: Bands, clamps, top clamps.
Some that use hoist, some for forklift,

The tool you want is there somewhere. If you need
any more specific help let me know.

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RE: Need a tool - 10/20/2013 6:26:50 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam

Periodically, a barrel will fall off a pallet during transportation.

Would that sort of event be considered a Fukuppy?




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RE: Need a tool - 10/20/2013 6:39:07 PM   
kalikshama


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Drum Positioner Forklift Attachment, 55-Gal Steel Drum



Drum Carrier/Rotator Forklift Attachment, 1,500-lb. Capacity



(Former forklift operator)

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RE: Need a tool - 10/20/2013 7:38:58 PM   
Focus50


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quote:

ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam

Here's the short end of it.

I've started working as a Chemist/QA/QC for a company that recycles/disposes of toxic materials. Warehouse/Industrial environments have a lot of hazards and I'm working on minimizing the ones on the shop floor but I can't seem to find a tool for one of the prevalent ones.

Periodically, a barrel will fall off a pallet during transportation.
These things can weigh 500+ pounds when full and aren't easy to right.

I'm just waiting for a workman's comp claim for a blown knee, broken foot, shoulder injury, etc.

Is there a tool that can be hooked to a fallen barrel and used to lever it upright so a forklift can set if back on the pallet?

I've searched Northern Tool, Harbor Freight and Grainger with no success.


I'd go a different route....

I work in an industrial environment, myself. So yeah, when spills happen you need to be able to safely handle any cleanup.

But when, as you say, something is going wrong "periodically", we'd look to developing a better/safer way to handle/transport the item *before* it needed recovery options. The latter is still important, but prevention is even better than cure. Or to put it into its proper perspective, consider the day when one of these 500 pound barrels inevitably ends up on top of someone.

Sounds like you have the wrong pallets for the cargo - I'd start there....

Focus.

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RE: Need a tool - 10/22/2013 6:56:05 PM   
Hillwilliam


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ORIGINAL: Focus50



Sounds like you have the wrong pallets for the cargo - I'd start there....

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Indeed we do. The problem is that I can only control my end "Receiving".

We have tools to put on the forks of a forklift but typically all 6 are in use and switching tools on the lift takes several minutes if a forklift can be pulled off the present job plus, they are for use on a drum that is vertical. I need to change a drum from horizontal to vertical..
I'm looking for a lever type that one man can use to right a tipped drum.

I have one drawn up. I just need to hit up one of the fabricators to weld up a prototype.

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RE: Need a tool - 10/22/2013 9:13:30 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hill,if you know what logging tongs are...fabricate something similar to them except it having points it has slightly curved flat metal bars that fit under the lip of the barrel's top. As you pick up on the barrel,it grips it tighter. Here's an image...just add something at the top with a piece of rectangle tubing to slide over the fork. If a forklift wasn't available, you could buy/build a cherry picker like used for lifting auto engines out of cars as the power to lift the barrels.




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