Lifting operations and equipment safety. JPR 1700.1 8.5-1 Rev. J, Change 2 (August 2011) Verify this is the correct version before you use it by checking the on-line version. This could be you . . . A crane load fell 3 feet from a 20-ton overhead crane hook. The operator was concentrating. on the load itself and not on the path of travel. A section of the hoist rope hung up on an air.
| Reference.com. https://www.reference.com/vehicles/weight-hydraulic-oil-per-gallon-4aed52915a98a07d. A gallon of hydraulic fluid weighs 7.2 pounds. It is slightly less dense than water, which weighs 8.2 pounds per gallon.
Gallons measure volume and grams measure mass (weight, in common parlance) so they're not interchangeable. It's a bit like asking what your height is in pounds. Water (the usual standard) weighs 1 kilogram per liter so a gallon, which is about 3.78 liters, would weigh 3780 gm. However a gallon of cooking oil would weigh less because it's less dense, while a gallon of mercury would weigh a heck of a lot more. 10 people found this useful.