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Discover Bluestreak’s comprehensive lineup of pickup truck magnetic sweepers. Easy-to-install hanging magnets with proprietary bracket systems or heavy-duty trailer magnets with onboard hydraulics. Bluestreak covers all your metal debris clean-up needs. Visit the following webpage to see how Bluestreak bracket systems simplify mounting pickup truck magnets without fabrication.
There are 3 types of magnets for pickup trucks differentiated by their mounting position:
Front mounted magnets are mounted similar to a snow plow, they allow you to pick up debris before you drive over it, but they also tend to be more expensive.
Tow behind truck magnets come in a number of varieties to suit different uses. Can be swapped between tow vehicles easily and work better for situations with the need to pick up bigger debris at higher speeds.
Hanging magnets can be mounted easily using trailer hitch receivers, either on the front or rear of a truck. These magnets for trucks are a simple and reliable way to prevent flats.
The Wrasse hanging magnetic bar is designed for use on “flat terrain”. It is extremely versatile because it comes in many different sizes, in terms of strength and width. The Wrasse hanging magnet bars are available in widths from 26” – 98” inches and in 3 different magnet housing sizes: 2” x 5” inches, 3” x 3” inches, and 4.5” x 4.5” inches each level of housing size offers more magnetic strength than the previous.
The Wrasse can hang from almost any piece of equipment if the ground the vehicle traverses is fairly even so that the magnet bar doesn’t hit the ground all the time which can cause damage to the housing. The Wrasse hanging magnet bar functions very well at allowing the equipment operators to clean environments while they do their normal tasks.
There are also optional Quick Clean Off Sleeves available for the Wrasse. A PVC Quick Clean Off Sleeve is available for the 3″x 3″ inch and 4.5″ x 4.5″ inch models which makes cleaning debris off the magnet bar easy. A Heavy-Duty Aluminum Quick Clean Off Sleeve is available for some 4.5” x 4.5” inch sweeping widths, this sleeve also assists in cleaning debris from the magnet and increases the durability of the sweeper.
Available in 3 magnet housing sizes: Wrasse 2″x5″, Wrasse 3″x 3″, Wrasse 4.5″ x 4.5″
Available in 7 sweeping widths: 26″, 38″, 50″, 62″, 74″, 86″, 98″
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The PYR hanging magnet was designed for flat terrain and “on road” type uses where not much ground strike prevention is needed. “On road” type bump wheels are provided on the ends to eliminate magnet strikes due to occasional potholes and speed bump type obstacles.
Choose from 2 different models with different magnet strengths, and 6 different magnet lengths from 3 to 8 feet, to get the perfect setup for your application.
Maximum lifting height of 6” inches (using a 2 ½ inch nail) for the PYR 3”x3” model, and 9 ¼” inches for the PYR 4.5”x4.5” model. Measuring Magnetic Sweeper pickup power and performance.
Also includes 4 stabilizing chains with 8 quick clips to hang the PYR from your vehicle.
Standard debris clean off method is to wipe the magnet clean with a glove or rag. However a black PVC Quick Clean Off Sleeve accessory may be purchased separately for quick and easy debris removal.
Available in 6 sizes: 38”, 50”, 62”, 74”, 86”, 98”
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With 10” inch x 3” inch wide flat proof Bumper wheels. The EIGER was designed for those slightly more off-road surfaces with more uneven surfaces such as dirt and gravel where potholes and bumps exist.
Designed with wide wheels to stay on top of those surfaces, and also designed with a greater minimum sweeping height of 2.5”inches to prevent the sweeper from hitting the ground.
Comes standard with black PVC Quick Clean Off Sleeve for easy debris removal, and 4 hanging chains with 8 quick clips to hang the EIGER from your vehicle.
Available in 6 sweeping widths: 38″, 50″, 62″, 74″, 86″, 98″
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The ISO magnetic sweeper is a hanging magnet design specifically designed for highway maintenance operations.
The ISO design allows you to leave the magnet permanently mounted, enabling you to lower and deploy the magnet for use when needed, and then easily raise and secure it when not needed or for transport between locations.
High end “bumper wheels” keep the magnet off the ground and multiple mounting points keep this magnet where it should be.
A Quick Clean Off Sleeve makes cleaning debris off the magnet easy!
Available in 4 sweeper widths: ISO 62″, ISO 74″, ISO 86″, ISO 98″
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The KHAMSIN hanging magnet was designed for more “off road” applications such as gravel, sand, and dirt roads and yards, or grass covered areas. Ideal for rural roads or gravel roadsides. Ideal for gravel parking lots and driveways.
The KHAMSIN design allows you to leave the magnet permanently mounted, enabling you to lower and deploy the magnet for use when needed, and then easily raise and secure it when not needed or for transport between locations.
Larger 10” x 3” flat proof bump wheels keep the magnet from hitting the ground or sinking into softer ground surfaces.
The KHAMSIN has a slightly higher minimum sweeping height of 2.5” inches compared to the ISO’s minimum sweeping height of 1.75” inches, in order to operate more effectively in off road applications.
A Quick Clean Of Sleeve comes standard for quick and easy debris removal.
Available in 4 sizes: 62”, 74”, 86”, 98”
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With outdoor rated IP65 12-volt DC actuators rated at 562 lbs each and 7.5” inches of up and down movement for remote controlled raising and lowering of magnet from raised travelling to lowered sweeping position.
The ALPHA is the same as the AETHER magnetic sweeper but with the addition of the remote-controlled electric actuators for up and down movement.
Like the AETHER the ALPHA was designed for those off-road dirt and gravel situations where more ground strike prevention is needed.
The 10” x 3” flat proof bump wheels on the ends prevent the magnet from hitting the ground and from sinking into loose surfaces, and the wheeled outriggers provide additional ground strike prevention in the middle of the magnet’s overall length.
Maximum lifting height of 9” inches (using a 2 ½ inch nail).See Gauss strength measurements at various sweeping height distances also available.
Comes standard with a black PVC Quick Clean Off Sleeve for quick and easy debris removal.
Available in 2 sizes: ALPHA 86”, ALPHA 98”
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The Yacare magnetic sweeper is a 72 inch wide, durable off road tow behind magnetic sweeper with an easy to use Spring Assisted Clean Off system and torsion ride suspension that smooths out rough terrain!
The Yacare clean off system is entirely different from both the HOG and RHINO. It replaces the Quick Clean Off Sleeve system with an easier to use, more durable long term solution that’s especially helpful for heavy debris conditions.
More power and advanced durability provided by all steel and stainless steel construction and easy effortless clean off with dual debris release levers provide sound rationale to move up from the Rhino to the Yacare.
Yet the Yacare keeps all the features that makes the Rhino so popular; the pick up performance in off road conditions provided by the “wrap around” design, the adjustable sweep height, flat proof tires, adjustable hitch height and optional debris digging rake accessory. The suspension system also increases towability of the Yacare magnet through rough terrain, reducing strain on the chassis of the sweeper and tow vehicle.
Replacing the safety flags on the Rhino are the RED colored lid and “MAGNETIC SWEEPER” signage on the back of the Yacare unit, to ensure that high visibility is maintained.
This thing is built like a tank! Check out the CAD drawings.
Available in 1 sweeper width: Yacare 72″
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The Caiman magnetic sweeper is one step up from the Yacare magnetic sweeper.
It is like the Yacare because it has an enclosed magnet and Dual Spring Assisted Debris Release Handles, but it’s wider at 82 inch wide and has much more power with 50% more magnets.
More power and wider sweeping width makes it a good choice for towing behind pickup trucks, larger tractors and UTVs such as John Deere Gators, Kubota side by sides, etc.
The Caiman also has solid pick up performance in off road conditions provided by the “wrap around” design, the adjustable sweep height, flat proof tires, adjustable hitch height and optional debris digging rake accessory. The torsion ride suspension system increases control in rough terrain and reduces stress on the sweeper and tow vehicle’s chassis.
Available in 1 sweeper width: Caiman 82″
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The Aardvark Magnetic Sweeper is designed for landfill sites, construction sites, access roads, rail trails, mining areas or any larger rough terrain areas. With urethane foam filled flat free wheels, heavy duty construction. With a 12” maximum pickup height using a 2.5” nail the Aardvark has plenty of power to clean up metal debris in the toughest conditions.
This unit is packed with off-road features, such as sweeping height control, inset wheels and a torsion ride suspension system to smooth out rough terrain. The Aardvark Heavy Duty Tow-Behind Magnetic Sweeper also features a 12-volt automatic push button clean off system which makes cleaning off debris from the sweeper easy and automatic.
The magnet housing is fully enclosed, offering a level of protection around the magnet. This means you don’t have to worry about metal getting all over the magnet. The Aardvark also has wrap around function which retains collected debris even if the 14-gauge aluminum debris pan hits the ground while sweeping. This makes the Aardvark magnetic sweeper an excellent option for cleaning up metal debris when terrain gets tough.
Available in 1 size: Aardvark 96″
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Built to Retrieve Ball Milling Steel Abrasive Material
The Mammoth magnetic sweeper is built to clear big spaces quickly, the powerful 12” x 12” x 68” alternating pole C8 magnetic assembly can hold huge amounts of metallic debris before needing to be cleaned off and can pick up a 2.5” nail from 16” off the ground. The Mammoth can retrieve even the most elusive debris types including the nickel/steel balls used in material processing from within its 2” – 7” sweeping range.
Height adjustment and clean off is just as heavy duty as the magnetic power, these functions can be controlled from the tow vehicle using a wireless remote that activates the 12v 3000psi hydraulic system that controls magnet position and trailer height.
Comes standard with lights & fenders, on-board battery charger, and pintle ring hitch. Debris digging rake and grader attachments are optional accessories that extend the function of the Mammoth to grooming roads and industrial yards with gravel or packed surfaces.
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Available in 1 size: Mammoth 68″
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The Piranha magnetic sweeper is designed to hit the road! It’s the tow behind magnet to choose when you need to pickup metal from large areas like airport runways, roads or other flat surface applications.
It has lots of power, to allow greater speed while still picking up debris.
The Piranha has on board debris bins since when cleaning large areas, you could be a long way from home when you need to clean off the magnet. You can store the debris in the debris bins until you reach a dumping site. It also features larger highway rated tires to allow you to pull the unit down the road from location to location. Since the Piranha was designed for flat surfaces, the sweeping height is adjustable from 2″ to 3″ inches.
Available in 2 sizes: Piranha 96″, Piranha 120″
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The Seeker Airmag FOD Control Magnetic Sweeper was designed in association with some of the biggest international airports in Ontario. The London International and Toronto Pearson International Airport gave input on features they needed for effective FOD control at their facilities. With these inputs in mind, Bluestreak Equipment built the new industry leader in metal FOD control.
A massive 12” x 3” x 60” inch alternating pole C8 ceramic magnet has twice the magnetic power of the Piranha magnet assembly and more surface area to hold onto collected debris so clean-off doesn’t have to happen as often. Clean off is accomplished by a counterweighted lever that needs to be manually pushed down to swing the magnet housing up and away from the stainless-steel debris pan to release the collected debris. From there debris can be collected using included Powerstik Pro Elite magnets and dropped into onboard FOD containment buckets.
The Seeker Airmag is built to pick up metal debris from runways at speeds up to 25km/h or 15mph but is stable at higher speeds so the magnet can get off the runway quickly if needed, and can cover ground around maintenance areas and the apron faster.
Available in 2 sizes: Seeker Airmag 60” & Seeker Airmag 180”
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Pickup Truck hanging magnets quite frankly would be my last option, only because truck suspensions cause a lot of bounce, that can cause magnets to hit the ground. You don’t get that with front mount or trailer tow behind units. So if you need to use a hanging magnet, make sure there’s some protection from hitting the ground.
Tony – Bluestreak Equipment
Trucks obviously have suspension and they absorb bumps but when they do, the height of the truck from the ground changes, and therefore any hanging magnet can hit the ground. The rougher the ground, the more likely this could happen. So what’s going to prevent the magnet from hitting the ground if your truck suspension compresses 4 inches, or if it does what will protect the magnet? It’s something to consider when selecting a hanging magnet.
If you have an extensive debris problem that will almost certainly cause a flat tire if you run over the debris, then a front mount magnetic sweeper or hanging front mount is a necessity and may be the only consideration in your choice of magnet. A front mounted magnetic sweeper will pick up debris like nails before you run over it, something that seems obviously and practically much better than running over the debris before picking it up.
Hanging magnets are the most cost effective because a hanging magnet is essentially just a big magnet bar without most of the other mechanism’s that accompany a tow behind magnet or Front Mount magnet.
A Pickup Truck has to be used for other tasks. Therefore it’s important that the magnet can be mounted and dismounted from the Pickup Truck quickly and easily, or alternatively, the magnet can be locked into a position where it will not interfere with normal operation of the truck when not being used for sweeping. If not, then the tow behind solution may be best for you because it can be easily and quickly hitched up when needed.
A magnet may work really well at picking up debris, but how easy is it to clean off? Think through how you would clean the magnet off step by step. Make sure it makes sense to you and your situation. We try and do this for you so that clean off isn’t a difficult or time consuming task, but some manufacturers don’t. Pay attention to the details of how this will work from start to finish, right up to the point of getting the debris in the garbage or scrap bin.
You are not going to be cleaning your magnet off constantly, so it’s important that when your magnet does pick up a nail or screw that the magnet secures the debris so that it won’t fall off if the magnet is suddenly shaken because of a bump or if the bottom of the magnet hits the ground and the debris is wiped backward on the magnet. The last thing you want is for the debris to fall off again. Make sure your magnet has some feature like our “Wrap Around Feature”, it not only makes sure debris doesn’t get wiped off the bottom of the magnet, it makes the debris holding capacity higher and you’ll find in practice that most of your debris ends up on the side of your magnet not the bottom of it. And that’s a good indication to you why we have this feature.
It’s important to know how far off the ground you will position the magnet and also how far off the ground the magnet will still perform. For most of our magnets we give you the “Maximum Lifting Height” in the specs. This will tell you how far off the ground the magnet will perform. We want to make sure our products meet your expectations. Make sure you take a look at the magnet’s specifications for “Maximum in Lifting Height”. We bench test every one of our magnetic sweeper models to determine their maximum lifting height using a two and a half inch standard nail. Everyone knows what a two and half inch nail looks like which is why we use this standard measure of magnet strength and it will give you a very good idea of magnet performance. Many times we have videos of our products picking up various other materials so take a look at the videos in the video galleries. They give you a chance to “kick the tires” and see how the products perform. Many of these videos have been submitted by previous customers. See our Comparison Chart to compare lifting height.
The rougher, dirtier terrain your Pickup Truck operates in the stronger the magnet your likely going to want, because the magnet will have to be set higher to avoid constantly hitting the ground. The magnet will also need to pick up debris through some dirt therefore you need a stronger magnet. The rougher the terrain that exists because of things like bumps and pot holes, more you will want or favor a magnet that has some protection built in to the design to either deal with the abuse of hitting the ground or being able to move out of the way when it does hit the ground in order to prevent damage.
The maximum lifting height of the Pickup Truck Magnets;
For more information on Pickup Power follow this link: “Measuring Pickup Power and Performance in Magnetic Sweepers”
Sometimes a pickup truck is the only vehicle available to use for magnetic sweeper. But pickup trucks are versatile and magnetic sweepers can easily be attached to them because they have a high load capacity for towing and front mounts.
If it is the only vehicle available and a serious debris problem exists, this can mean that you have to use a front mount magnet to protect the tires from flats. Pickup trucks are also great for towing larger magnets to clean large areas regularly to keep them free from debris.
All of our products are designed and manufactured on site at our facilities in Ontario, Canada.
We have manufactured and developed application driven magnetic products since 2005.
Working from rural southern Ontario, our business has grown and now sprawls over several properties using former agricultural buildings.
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