INDUSTRY NEWS
BENEFITS OF
Commercial Sweeping
Bucher CityCat 5006 compact
vacuum street sweeper
The value of keeping it clean
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this article. They won’t be need-
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about commercial-grade sweeping and
power sweeping equipment and ser-
vices that paving and pavement main-
tenance contractors need to offer or
employ regularly on the jobs being
completed.
Sweeping is of value to the property
manager, a municipality or a paving/
construction manager.
Paving contractors use sweeping in
the process of completing their work
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or as a separate profit-center business.
Sweeping can be accomplished with a
purpose-specific attachment to a piece
of heavy equipment, such as a wheel
loader or a skid steer loader, or as a
stand-alone piece of equipment... a
dedicated sweeper machine.
“I would think that a sweeping at-
tachment would work well for spot
jobs, like a ‘pre-pave,’ or lots that are
too small for a sweeper,” stated Da-
vid M. Dyck of Masco Sweepers, San
Jose, Calif. “There is a shoe for every
foot, but if you are interested in hav-
ing a ‘sweeping route,’ a dedicated
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machine is the way to go. Consider
that a sweeping business might run
sweepers up to 40 hours of run time
in a seven-day week. For instance, our
sweeper was developed in 1976 just for
parking lot sweeping. It features a light
weight truck with a powerful sweep-
er that high dumps into a dumpster.
These all factor in to the total amount
of sweeping that can be done in one
night or a week.”
In addressing the advantages of ma-
chine attachments vs. dedicated ma-
chine Matt Starnes, product market-
ing manager with Bucher Municipal
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