Thank you for all the feedback! I’m going back to the drawing board and looking at doing a freestanding gantry. The load is just under 1000lbs but has the potential to have up to 100 gallons of liquid. I plan on only loading empty but was going with full as a safety factor. Plan on creating columns and beams out of triple 2x6 and 2x8 beams. Will have knee braces from beams to columns and columns to ground. I will build a shelter around this as budget allows and just cover equipment with a tarp until that time.