Ever use a drum lifter?

I have used two pair of vise grips clamped over the drum lip with a small chain I think it was put thru the large part of the jaws. Worked good. Truck dealer I used to work at did it all the time to put the oil drums into a dolley to push around the shop.
 
don't know if I would use the vice grips they're selling these days. $39 bucks from northern looks to be fairly cheap. Bill
 
We have this exact one. Very handy. We mainly use it to lift barrels full of scrap iron so I know they weigh more than one full of fuel. A lot safer way of handling them for sure
 
For regular use I'd sure go with the ones posted or something better.
I just thought if they needed to move one right away I'd mention the vise grip method too.
 
I haul fuel back from the co-op in a 55 gallon drum. I got tired of fooling with a make-shift harness to pick up the drum and bought this exact lifter from Northern Tool. Money well spent. It grips the drum rim very securely, I don't worry about it slipping off.
 
No sir. I have never used the style you are looking at. We used this style of a clamp for 15 years to off load 55 G.Drums of Turbine Oil (MOBILE JET II),and other lubricants.
It never let us down.
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It's strange how the eye to brain connection works sometimes. When I first read the subject line, I thought what the hell is a drum filter?
 
When I hualed diesel in drums I just wrapped a log chain around em hooked it and used the loader or chain hoist to lift em off
 
I drove for a freight line and saw a lot of barrels dropped with the use of the ones that grip the lip of the drum. I would rather drop them on a stack of truck tires and never broke one drum doing that.
 
YUP.
I was lifting barrels of used motor oil with chains, ropes and sliding the close enough so the barrel would sit on them. Then a barrel slipped off one fork and fortunately only put a huge dent in the rusty barrel.
So I bought one of those and it works really well.
 
I prefer this type of barrel lifter. You don't have to hook up anything. Just drive up to the barrel and once the arms are wrapped around the barrel gravity holds the arms tight against the barrel. It's so simple I wish I had invented it. The price is right too.
Drum Lifter
 

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