Need to lift a full ibc tote tank safely, how to

[digger doug]

Noone said it was an extendahoe and if lift fails i dont want to smash my pickup , it will be in my newer chevy Colorado not my ram 2500 where would i have to go to get free totes ? Im paying 50. Near me and they held vinigar or olive oil

Your going to put a 275 gallon tote full of water in the back of a Chevy Colorado ?

 

[stinky64]

I must be missing something, why don't you just drive that Dodge up next to the camper and fill it? If you set that clear/opaque tote out in the sun it'll be lovely shade of green in a week. Why not fill it 1/2 way and not wind up in the overload of the day section? Gonna break that Colorado in half.

 

[crane operator]

2,300lbs of water in the back of a colorado would get a big "no" from me dawg. About the time that water sloshes around a little on a corner or coming to a stop, you'll know what you done wrong.

 

[aighead]

Good catch guys!

 

[Tinkerer]

I used to lift pallets of concrete blocks with my 680 front end loader.
I slid 4x4's through the pallet where you would normally slide the forks.
I then put 4x4's on top of the blocks for spreaders to prevent the chains from pinching the blocks.
It worked quite well.

 

[skyking1]

@aighead my understanding is he has no hook on his bucket like that, hence my suggestion of wrapping a chain around the bucket.

 

[aighead]

Oh, yeah, that makes sense. My loader bucket has some holes in there that I tie off to, usually, I didn't think about not all buckets being that way. For better or worse I've added a beefy d-ring kind of thing to two of the holes so I don't bend things up too bad. I don't know the name of the ring thing, but it's the kind that screws open and closed. Not a carabiner, I don't think but like that.

 

[HarleyHappy]

Huh, I have never had any bucket, that the first thing I did was weld chain hooks on, if it didn’t have them already.
I only have 1 on the hoe bucket thats on it now but I have a slip hook and a grab hook on my front bucket.

 

[T-town]

Hey Aighead..... is that a 'stone screed' you have rigged up there....?? or are you in the parking lot business?

 

[aighead]

More or less a stone screed! My neighbor acquired a big pile of them (that are now mine if I go grab them) and I was attempting to use them for leveling dirt or the driveway or whatever. There are probably 12 in varying states of disrepair in a pile over there. I'm not sure what I'll do with that many other than maybe use them as weight to put on top of wood slabs, should I ever mill something.