That's fair, Rigging a barrel is a trick. It's actually pretty neat to watch an experienced rigger belt strap some oddly shaped item.

You can do a barrel knot, though with a modern metal barrel, you can also generally just do a hook on top an bottom and lift horizontally.

My comment was more about the goofy shit people do to make the failure mode simpler next time instead of eliminating the failure mode all together. Some of the places I've worked would probably have made one of us get trained on the lift or something instead of make sure we have the fittings on had or a fuel pump and hoses with 17 floors of head pressure. That would be the temporary fix and then when they got the quote for the pump it would become the fix.