How To Dispense From Industrial Oil Totes [VIDEOS]

Posted by Hannah Broaddus

Are you new to industrial oil totes? If you’ve only worked with smaller sizes like drums or jugs before, industrial totes can feel both large and overwhelming.

In light of that, I’d like to show you a few videos, filmed in our warehouse in Kent, WA. In the video, you’ll see our Production Manager, Kevin Smith show you how to attach the dispensing valves, how the cardboard and plastic totes may dispense differently and other details on how to set up totes in your facility.

Kevin is the king when it comes to knowing how to use these totes: he runs all of our packing and production in-house and knows this type of packaging inside and out. Let’s get watching. 

 

Before You Get Started

It doesn’t take much to get comfortable with the tote packaging if you’ve never used it before.

All you’ll need to get started is:

  1. the ability to use a fork lift or pallet jack
  2. a good tote dispenser (here’s what we recommend)
  3. some basic how-to visual instructions (that’s what this article is all about!)

 

Access To A Fork Lift or Pallet Jack

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You’ll have to take care of the first point yourself — if you don’t have a fork lift in your facility, I wouldn’t recommend trying to use the tote packaging. 

You’ll want to be able to move the tote (which weighs approximately 2200-2600 lbs) to either to lift it up or put it on a shelf to gravity-feed it. Because of it’s substantial weight, there’s no good way to move it other than by using a fork lift or pallet jack.

 

The Tote Dispenser We Recommend

Plastic-tote-dispensing-instructions5.jpgTwo years ago, we had a hard time pointing customers in the right direction when it came to tote dispensers. Since then, our owner, Tom Franz and the rest of our production team have put their heads together to create a tote dispenser from scratch that our customers would love. 

This tote dispenser attaches a valve and hose to the tote so that you can pour oil as if it was a simple garden hose. This makes dispensing from the tote much easier for all involved!

We recommend these resources on our tote dispensers:

The Tote Spigot (Informational Page)

Article: The Best Bulk Oil Tote Dispenser We've Ever Seen 

Basic PDF Instructions for attaching the valve to the Bag in a Box Cardboard Totes 

 

The How-To Visual Instructions

Once you have all of the tools that you need to use these totes in-house, it’s pretty easy to start. 

That said, I think it always helps to see a picture (or even better, a video) of how to use them in action.

Here are three videos that I recommend:

 

How To Dispense From A Bulk Oil Caged Plastic Tote

 
 
 
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This video will show you how to dispense out of the IBC Tote (this is a hard plastic caged tote).

 

 

How To Attach A Bulk Oil Tote Dispenser [A Video]

 

This video will show you how to dispense out of the BIB cardboard tote, instead of the plastic version above. The valves are slightly different, so take a look at both of these videos if you’re deciding between the two.

 

 

How To Pump Out Of Bulk Oil Totes Using Gravity

 
 
 
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This video takes it to the next level — after you attach your dispenser, it will address how to set up the totes in your facility.

Many people don’t know this, but if you’re choosing to “gravity feed” out of your totes (meaning that gravity is pushing the oil out vs. having a pump that sucks the oil out), you’ll need to make sure that gravity can physically do it’s job. This means you’ll need to raise the tote above the level that you’re dispensing the oil, so that the pressure of gravity can push the oil out. This video will explain exactly what you’ll need to know.

Topics: Packaging

 

 

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