Rotatruck Self Supporting Drum Hand Trolley by Rotacaster

The Rotatruck Drum Hand Trolley is designed to carry 44 gallon drums with the ability to fully support them making manoeuvrability much easier and safer. Please contact Rotacaster or visit www.rotacaster.com.au if you are interested in this product or to see our range of hand trolley, hand trucks, dollies and omniwheels

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I worked in a cooperage and your faster and easier to just walk with the drum if its empty, you walk while spinning the drum like steering a car but easier you never cross your arms or the drum will fall and mostly on your shins. It takes about 5 month to master handling the drums. Plus we were moving whiskey barrels too and lifting them ourselfs to double them up. You can throw drums up 3 high but not a whiskey barrel they are really heavy, the drums are heavy to when you first start to lift them and i always thought they were wider at the top than the whiskey barrel and both were 45 gallon in the uk and 3ft in height. But america say there 55 gallon? Wich i cant work out, and neither do americans lol why? Becouse they dont hold 55 gallon. Its 45. But watching the coopers for a few minutes you just knew there was so much more to it than making a barrel go round out of wood. Wich people thought was brilliant, they were always asking me how do they do that and not make it leak thats amazing that. The geometry in it alone is amazing apart from the hard hammering those hoops down to tighten the barrel with a heavy hammer and driver and they only had a thread of space to hit the driver at full force onto the hoops, and theres 8 hoops to each barrel i thinck. In 1993 the coopers were earning £5.85p a barrel but they could make 2 or 3 an hour For a 45 gallon barrel. It was a really dirty job as well. One day a cooper said to me "it all depends what kind of work we get in some days are hard and some are easier. For example for 3 month we were getting in butts and puncheons wich are nearly the same, one is 5ft4 inches in height or 2 or 3 inches, and we were getting £12 for one but these hold at least 120 gallon and we were doing at least 12 to 14 a day. All we had to do was find the leak and fix it and we could do 2 in an hour or an hour and 15 minutes give or take, its great when you get work like that in and earning at least £700 a week" and that was 29 years ago. But ma dad told me coopers were always well paid, but they need to work in terrible conditions! It was hard and it was really dirty, black all over!!! And i was a labourer!