Bins and Barrels

I was wondering..... I see a lot of posts about leaving bins and barrels at businesses. What bins and barrels are you using and how do you move them when full?

The barrels I use are only steel, the plastic just do not keep there shape and also do not in my opinion look professional. All my barrels have my company's name on them, have a set to numbers for inventory, and also my phone number I had a few stencils made over the years. As far as moving them today my route trucks have tailgates, and barrel hand trucks, they are made just for moving barrels around. But when we first started I bought thru grainger a round base that had wheels and would have a springing thingamajig that would lower itself to get under the barrel,I also bought a round steel cuppaling that would lock right under the rim of the barrel, I also bought a hand cranking arm from I think it was Harbor Freight Tools, once the barrel got to the hand cranking winch that we mounted on the truck just start cranking the barrel went up pretty easy the winch has a moving arm and lock in place pin once you got the barrel up just push it in truck and I almost forgot the bed liner of the truck has to be diamond plate or sheet steel not wood. Now you might read this and say that's just to much work and money out of pocket, That is the tipical scrapers answer but let me just say if you riged up something similar to what we did and you could move the full barrels of steel around pretty easy you might have something a little different from the rest, let me also add to this that today with out going into the numbers I have two trucks that go out six days a week just picking up barrels of steel, and they leave a empty or two depending on the shops volume so next week the barrels when full can be picked up. I hope this help you, you look like a newbie good luck happy scraping 1956.

Mainly use 55 gallon plastic drums. Can be purchased for $10 ea at the surplus store (used) or picked up at one of the numerous farms from anywhere free to a couple dollars apiece. Move with dolly and use a trailer with a drop down gate, Pretty fast and easy.

Cool, thanks for the info guys. I like the steel barrel idea and I have a steady stream of fresh ones if I need them. My main problem would be getting the into my truck. Unfortunately there's no way I'm bolting a crane to the bed of my truck. Although I may do it to my trailer. Hmmmmmmm....... The only issue with that is how to connect to the barrel. Gonna have to get the wheels turning!

Originally Posted by smashing

Cool, thanks for the info guys. I like the steel barrel idea and I have a steady stream of fresh ones if I need them. My main problem would be getting the into my truck. Unfortunately there's no way I'm bolting a crane to the bed of my truck. Although I may do it to my trailer. Hmmmmmmm....... The only issue with that is how to connect to the barrel. Gonna have to get the wheels turning!

Go to grainger online catalog they have the I think it's called the barrel lift you can mount it to a trailer for sure,

Every bin I have has come from a storage locker . Local auctions have a lot as well usually $2-$6.A piece. I'm just starting to use trash cans and 55 gal plastic barrels for select items . I have found mine from local farmers and craigslist . I prefer the tubs because when they are full I can still move them easily .

I just got those 3 large metal bins for free that you can see in the other post. Around my shop I use anything I can find (garbage cans, recycling bins, large cardboard boxes, washer drum, etc). I have a nice Magliner 2/4 wheeler and a pallet jack as well as a few home made board things with wheels.

Garbage cans that are really heavy I use one of these that I got scrapping a while back

I have not figured out how, or if, I will be getting the big red things onto the truck aside from a fork lift. Most likely just wheel them over to the truck and start unloading it.

That roller is a lot better then the ones I used when doing Shipping/Receiving. We had the ones that you can squish to make shorter. Stupid things liked to eat your fingers if you weren't paying attention!

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