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Where can I get a barrel?
1 of 5: Hopefully, you left some barrels on the cargo lift as you rode across it.
2 of 5: If so, you should be able to pull one up to you with the gravity gun.
3 of 5: If you can't pull one up, you'll have to go back across the white pipes, climb down the ladder, pick up a barrel from the lift, drop it near the base of the ladder, climb up the ladder, pull the barrel up to you with the gravity gun, and recross the white pipes. Whew!
4 of 5: If there aren't any barrels on the cargo lift at all, you'll have to get one from the floor that's way below you.
5 of 5: The only way to get back down there is to painfully drop to that floor, but before you do that, try standing in various spots on your level and pulling in a barrel from below. You should be able to do that, though it's a bit of a pain.
