Means for engaging, lifting and transporting concrete pipe molds

A mold handling apparatus for removable engagement with a concrete pipe mold having at least three longitudinally hinged sections and adapted for attachment to a vehicle having a lifting mechanism, said handling apparatus comprising, in combination:

• a frame made up of a first pair of normally vertical rigid plates connected to one another and spaced apart by a pair of elongate, normally horizontal, rigid shafts;
• a second pair of normally vertical rigid plates mounted on said shafts and spaced laterally from one another;
• means on said first pair of plates for attaching said frame to the lifting mechanism of a vehicle, and
• means on said second pair of plates for removable engagement with said concrete pipe mold,
• said first and second pairs of plates each being removably and adjustably mounted on said rigid shafts, whereby the relative positions of each plate of each pair may be individually adjusted with respect to one another as well as the positions of the first and second pairs with respect to themselves,
• each one of the second pair of plates is C-shaped in side view whereby the upper and lower portions thereof extend outwardly of the first pair of plates and
• the means on the second pair of plates for removable engagement with the mold comprise stub shafts, said shafts mounted in opposition to one another on the outwardly extending C-legs, pointing inwardly.