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MATCHING THE
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SWEEPER
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Which works best for the job
C ommercial sweepers are valuable to asphalt paving contractors . They perform necessary clean-up to ensure a project jobsite is safe and attractive . They perform a variety of tasks , but which type of commercial sweeper is best for each jobsite and task ? Pros in the field were asked what contractors should know about the performance features and benefits of the available equipment options . “ There are a few styles of sweepers that are commercially available , and then there are a few technologies to do the actual sweeping ,” stated Tim Letts , product manager at Elgin Sweeper , Elgin , Illinois . “ When it comes to styles , the market could be broken down into three options : 1 ) compact 2 ) parking lot or 3 ) truck mounted .
“ The compact sweeper style is common in Europe , where it performs well on narrow city streets and other urban areas , like bike paths and alleys . Due to the tight size restraints , the sweeping technology for this style sweeper is typically vacuum .
By Jeff Winke
Parking lot sweepers are a fairly broad style and these sweepers can range from sweepers that are pulled behind pickup trucks or small class 5 size trucks . There are mechanical sweepers , as well as vacuum and regenerative air technologies are also used . The truck mounted sweeper style encompasses the larger class 6 or 7 sweepers . These sweepers are mounted on commercially available truck chassis and are going to be used for street sweeping . Like parking lot sweepers , truck mounted sweepers can be found with all three technologies .”
Bill Bensink with Bensink Manufacturing , Salem , Oregon , offered their take : “ There are basically two general types of commercial sweepers . The most commonly used sweepers are the horizontally mounted units . They vary in size from approximately 8-feet wide and 36-inches in diameter for large sweeping surfaces to as small as 24-inches wide and 12-inch diameter . The bristles on these units are generally a poly bristle assembly or a poly / steel configuration . The larger units are either truck- or
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