# Using Vise Grips for Lifting and moving 55 gallon drums,

**URL:** http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/using-vise-grips-for-lifting-and-moving-55-gallon-drums/8180
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**Created:** [March 10, 2025, 4:46pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/using-vise-grips-for-lifting-and-moving-55-gallon-drums/8180 "2025-03-10T16:46:49Z")
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### Author: ![spaco](http://forum.driveonwood.com/user_avatar/forum.driveonwood.com/spaco/32/28003_2.png) [@spaco](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/spaco)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2025, 4:46pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/using-vise-grips-for-lifting-and-moving-55-gallon-drums/8180/1 "2025-03-10T16:46:49Z")

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A while ago i had a several 55 gallon drums full of coal coke to move. They weighed about 400 pounds each, partially because they had filled with rain water when their old metal grainary blew down during a storm. After wrenching my 85 year old back trying to horse them around to slide them onto a tractor bucket, I came up with this idea:

[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/928Iefj82eE/hqdefault.jpg "Using Vise Grips As Vertical Plate Clamps #195") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=928Iefj82eE)

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### Author: ![madflower69](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v2/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@madflower69](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/madflower69)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2025, 2:00am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/using-vise-grips-for-lifting-and-moving-55-gallon-drums/8180/2 "2025-03-11T02:00:32Z")

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neat idea! It works better then a handtruck for stacking barrel on top of each other. 🙂