Abstract: An article handling device particularly suited for use in the removal and installation of hoods for motorized vehicles, such as automobiles and the like. The device is characterized by a bar mounted at the distal end of a pivotal, dolly-supported boom, in transverse relation therewith having extended in mutual parallelism from the opposite ends thereof suspension rods adapted to capture and support one end of the hood, and a retainer rod extended in substantial parallelism with the pair of suspension rods adapted to capture the opposite end of the hood.