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The Sokoke skid steer/front end loader magnetic sweeper is a scaled-up front mounted magnet based on the Meerkat. The Meerkat was built specifically for use on skid steers or track loaders with universal skid steer quick attachment plate mounting systems. Whereas the Sokoke magnet is designed to work on front end loaders and skid steers. Multiple mounting options are available for different models of front-end loaders, Bluestreak Equipment offers five different brackets that fit many common mounting systems.
The Sokoke features a swing-out clean-off pivoting magnet system that uses gravity to separate the three magnet assemblies from the stainless-steel debris pan when rolled forward like a normal bucket. Which then separates collected debris from the magnetic field to the ground or into a scrap bin, eliminating the need for manually handling any metal debris.
The three pivoting magnet housings allow the Sokoke to pick up a 2.5” inch nail from 12.5” inches off the floor. Therefore, when operating the Sokoke in the recommended 4” inch -7” inch sweeping height range, there is plenty of power to retrieve any kind of metal debris. This versatile attachment is built to cover large spaces quickly, with a sweeping height that allows for terrain variations, it can handle offroad conditions while still collecting as much metal debris as possible.
The Sokoke skid steer/front end loader magnetic sweeper has mounting points that allow for the use of the Debris Digging Rake accessory to dig up debris that may be embedded in the ground so that it can be collected in the magnetic field. The Debris Digging Rake also smooths out rough terrain while providing a clear visual indicator of what areas have been swept.
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| Sokoke Series | Sokoke 92 |
|---|---|
| SKU | SO92 |
| Maximum Lifting Height | 12.5″ |
| Sweeper Weight | 1491 lbs alone or 1800 lbs +/- with DDR and Mounting Bracket |
| Shipping Weight | 1600.4 lbs |
| Sweeper Width | 92″ |
| Sweeper Height Adjustment | Yes, continuous with lift arms |
| Clean Off Method | Swing out clean off pivoting magnet system, gravity powered |
| Terrain Surface | All Terrain |
| Pricing Range | $23,394.00 CAD |
A: Various mounting brackets available
B: 3.0” x 3.0” x 0.1875” (3/16”) wall steel frame tubes
C: 0.250” (1/4”) thick stainless steel wear plates at 4 locations
D: 0.104” (12 gauge) thick 304 stainless steel bottom
E: Fully welded steel/stainless steel magnet assemblies
F: 0.25” (1/4”) thick steel frame ribs x4
G: UHMW pivot bushings
A: Magnet width
B: Total width
Sokoke Dimensions Back View
A: Step
Sokoke Dimensions Side View
A: A = Distance from Magnet (Sweeping Height)
Note: Gauss (G) shown as the peak gauss measured in the center of the magnet at each distance.
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Get a quick preview of the Sokoke magnetic sweeper in the video below.
A: Caterpillar Integrated Toolcarrier (IT) Coupler Bracket E bolted to the Sokoke main steel frame for use on CAT backhoes
B: Heavy-duty stainless-steel debris pan with wrap around function to retain debris in the event of a ground strike
C: 29” x 9” x 6.25” (x3) (H x L x W in inches) Magnet housings pivot on UHMW bushings to separate debris from the magnetic field
The video below shows the Sokoke skid steer/front end loader magnetic sweeper attached to a Case 570MXT backhoe with a description of the key features of the Sokoke explained throughout.
This is a demo of our Sokoke magnetic sweeper by Blue Streak Equipment. This is basically the upscaled version of our previous Meerkat magnetic sweeper, which was built for skid steers, but as you can see on this one, we have it on the front of a loader or backhoe.
So this unit is 92 inches wide and weighs about 1,490 pounds, making it an appropriate size for something like this loader. It will also work on a skid steer, but you’ll need to make sure your skid steer has sufficient lifting power and can support this much weight on the front of it.
This is the construction area of a local landfill, and we come here every once in a while to test our sweepers and clean up the nails. On the way in here, I saw about a 1952 International pickup truck. He was coming in ahead of us, and while we were getting this magnet set up onto the loader, he was at a stop sign and I saw he had a flat tire. So obviously, in a place like a landfill, especially in the construction area—which I think is where that guy was going—you’re going to get a lot of metal debris on the ground. That’s why it makes sense to have a magnet like this to clean up this area.
This thing has 6 by 8 magnet assemblies in it—three of them—and you can see he’s kind of running it at anywhere between two to about six and a half, seven inches off the ground. This magnet did pick up a roofing nail—which is our standard test—from twelve and a half inches off the ground. So when you’re in a recommended sweeping range, which is like three to six inches or three to seven inches, it’s going to perform pretty well.
As with all the Blue Streak magnetic sweepers, this Sokoke has a wraparound function. All that means is because the magnets are fully packed in these assemblies, anytime that magnet hits the ground and could potentially wipe the nails off the bottom of it, they’re just going to snap around to the back of the magnets. You see stuff like this on the ground all over the place. You could put this on a skid steer as long as it’s got the right lifting capacity, and the reason you would do that over the standard Meerkat magnet is the increased holding power you get from this thing.
So this is a 92-inch sweeping width, and what that means is there’s more surface area for the magnets to hold on to any nails or anything you pick up. With this 92-inch sweeping width, you can see on the back of that loader it just goes outside the wheels. With this thing on the front of your loader, you’re not going to get a flat tire while you’re doing this cleaning job.
There’s an optional debris digging rake attachment we can see on the front. All that’s going to do is just kick up the dirt, get anything that’s stuck in the ground out of it, and onto the magnet.
After four minutes of sweeping, we’ve got a pretty decent collection on the bottom there, and you see on the back the wraparound function keeps everything stuck on the back.
It weighs 1,491 pounds compared to the 737 of the Meerkat. As well, with the 92-inch sweeping width, it’s quite a bit wider, but a difference from the Meerkat is the size of the magnets. The magnets on the inside of this Sokoke are nine inches by six and a half inches by 29 inches. There are three of those magnets, giving you a total sweeping width of 92 inches.
The way the Sokoke cleans off is the same as the Meerkat, where all of those nine by six and a half magnet assemblies are on pivots, and when you dump the magnet forward—like you’d be dumping out a bucket—the magnets pivot away from the debris pan, which separates the magnetic field from the debris stuck on the pan, which then allows you to drop everything off into a dumpster.
You can see it’s taking a pretty good chunk out of that concrete. He’s got to run right into the ground there, and that’s going to demonstrate our wraparound function, as all the nails that were on the bottom would have got wiped off if we didn’t have the wraparound function.
You see the top is pretty flat because he hit the bottom a few times, and there is no visible metal debris on the surface, which means all of it was retained on the back of the debris pan. So everything we got on the other side of the yard, when he just touched down with that magnet, pretty much got wiped to the back of the magnet, so now the whole debris pan on the front is empty. So we should be able to collect a lot more material, but that just shows the power of these assemblies over a smaller design. These things can hang on to pounds and pounds of nails and other metal debris before you’re going to run out of pickup power.
That’s why, even at this between five and six inch sweeping height, he can run around with this thing at a fairly high rate of speed, and it’s still going to be picking up lots of debris.
The Sokoke magnetic sweeper is all made out of powder-coated and painted steel and stainless steel. Most of the construction is pretty heavy-gauge steel, with the debris pan and the magnet housings being stainless steel. All the pivot points on it are UHMW bushings.
With a solid welded and bolted construction, this thing’s not going to break. It’s very well constructed, and it doesn’t look out of place on any heavy machinery.
You can see those rakes on the front also double as a kind of a plow-type deal, like you’ve got those big rubber mud guards on the front that prevent stones from getting flung into things you don’t want to plug into, and that also works just to push stuff that’s on the ground. So even if you’re trying to clear a trail, clear fields, clear a construction area after you’ve been working and there’s some plywood or some wood on the ground, those rakes are going to work in tandem with the magnet to get everything out of the way.
When ordering the Sokoke magnetic sweeper, you will have to purchase a mounting bracket to make it work with your equipment. Bluestreak Equipment offers four different brackets for use on popular mounting systems on backhoes, loaders, skid steers, and tractors with lifting arms. Bluestreak also offers one blank bracket that can have blank hooks that match your machinery welded to it. These hooks are available from equipment dealers. The purpose of this blank bracket (Bracket A) is to adapt the Sokoke for use on a machine that has a mounting system that won’t work with an existing bracket Bluestreak offers. The names of brackets from Bluestreak are listed below with the names of the corresponding mounting systems they will work with as named by the manufacturer.
Be sure to review the dimensions of each bracket in the documents linked in the table below and measure the attachment point on your machine to verify that the bracket will fit your machine before ordering.
| Bluestreak Equipment Bracket Name & Dimension Documents | Name of Mounting System from Manufacturer |
|---|---|
| Sokoke Mounting Bracket A | Blank – No Hooks on Bracket, Needs Blanks Hooks Welded on to Match Equipment Mounting System |
| Sokoke Mounting Bracket B | Universal Skid Steer Quick Attach |
| Sokoke Mounting Bracket C | Alo Quicke Euro Global Coupler |
| Sokoke Mounting Bracket D | Case Ford New Holland FFC Coupler |
| Sokoke Mounting Bracket E | Caterpillar Integrated Toolcarrier (IT) Coupler |
| Sokoke Mounting Bracket F | JRB 416 Coupler |
If none of the brackets above will fit your equipment you can purchase the blank bracket (Bracket A) and have your equipment dealer supply you with blank hooks to fit your machine with the Sokoke magnetic sweeper. More details about bracket system are in the following manual:
This video shows the designer of the Sokoke magnetic sweeper giving a brief explanation of how the bracket systems work.
Okay, this is the Sokoke magnetic sweeper by Blue Streak Equipment. We’re going to talk about the mounting bracket system that’s a little better.
The Sokoke comes with just two big steel tubes along the top of it, and there are four main steel ribs along the width. Along those four ribs, you have to have a bracket on the back of it to attach the sweeper to your machine.
On this bracket here, we’ve made one for this Cat backhoe. We’ve also got some blank brackets, so you just have this ladder tube frame, and then you can buy a pair of blank hooks from your equipment supplier for whatever type of equipment you have to mount the machine—mount the magnet onto your machine.
We’ve got five brackets in total right now that we sell standard. We’ve got a skid steer, we’ve got what’s called a Euro coupler, which fits most tractors, and then we’ve also got a Caterpillar, a Case, and—I can’t remember—oh, the other one’s just a blank one. The blank one is just the frame where you can weld your own parts on that you can get from your dealer, so that this magnet will fit your piece of equipment.
So, the frame is removable and then it bolts back onto it once you—yeah, this frame is completely removable. The reason it’s removable also is because with these large magnets in here, all the steel becomes magnetized, and it’s difficult to weld in a magnetic field. So that’s why the brackets are removable—so you can get it out of the way, do all your welding on it, paint it again, reinstall it, and then everything looks good, and you didn’t have any problems with the magnetism when you’re welding.
Right, so then once you’ve got your brackets kind of set up, it’s a pretty quick attachment process. Yeah, once you’ve got it attached—once you’ve got your bracket installed—it’s really easy to get it on and off your machine, just like any other attachment you’d have.
A: Universal Skid Steer Quick Attach Bracket bolted onto the Sokoke frame for use on a Track Loader
B: Steel reinforcement ribs increase rigidity without sacrificing pickup power because the magnetic field overlaps in the space between magnet housings
This video shows the Sokoke and the Meerkat side by side with a description of key features to help show the pros & cons of both magnetic sweepers.
More information on the difference between the Sokoke and Meerkat below.
Here are the features of the new Sokoke magnetic sweeper by Blue Streak Equipment. So, this unit is based off of our existing Meerkat magnet, which is a small unit designed more for a skid steer. This unit was designed with loaders and larger skid steers in mind. It can also be hooked onto tractors.
So, this Sokoke comes with three 6.5 inch by nine inch by 29 inch magnet housings, and these all pivot on UHMW bushings that run across this rod that runs through the pivot point of all the magnets. This allows you to clean off the magnet in a similar way to dumping out a bucket, the same way as the Meerkat. With these larger magnets, it allows you to sweep faster and work at higher heights than the Meerkat magnet. So, this thing’s recommended sweeping height is between four and seven inches.
This will allow you to get over rougher terrain and have more ground clearance to prevent stuff from hitting the bottom of the magnet assembly. But when you do touch down with this Meerkat, it’s all made out of stainless steel and heavy-duty steel, which is all bolted and welded together. So, this thing can take a hit off the ground if you do touch down. Also, if you do touch down on the ground, the magnets are touching this back pan here. What that does for you is, when you hit the bottom of this plate onto the dirt that you’re sweeping over, any nails or debris that’s stuck on the bottom will just get wiped off onto the back of the magnet assembly here.
This unit does weigh 1,490 pounds, which makes it a bit heavy for a small skid steer, but we have a T66 here, a Bobcat, and it’s well within its lifting range. So, this Bobcat can lift 2,500 pounds, so we can easily put the Sokoke on the front of it.
The Meerkat does look a little more in place in front of the skid steer just because of the width of it, but if you’re trying to cover a lot of ground quickly, you’re going to want to go for the Sokoke because you can go faster because of the stronger magnets and work at higher heights. Also, it is a 92-inch sweeping width, rather than the smaller Meerkat.
You can see this thing’s construction: this is all really thick steel, and these ribs along the middle here provide a lot of support. So, if you do hit anything with it, it’s not going to break it. It’s built tough; it’s built to be on the front of heavy equipment. Also, with this Sokoke, if you’re trying to empty off into a bin this size, you’re going to need something that can lift pretty high. We haven’t checked it yet with this Bobcat, but it might be tight for a Bobcat of this size to get over an eight-foot bin like this. This loader here does it no problem. We’re going to test a couple other loaders to make sure it all works out fine. But yes, if you’re looking at this attachment for a skid steer, you need to consider the weight and whether it will work for your clean-off situation. If you want to dump into a low bin, that’s no problem. Higher bin, you’re going to have to consider how high your Bobcat will actually lift.
So, on the front of this particular Sokoke, we have our optional debris digging rakes. These are all 3/8 inch spring steel, and they’re built to just level the ground like we’ve done here already. Not only does it make a nice groomed surface to drive on and work on, but it also kicks any debris that’s stuck in the ground out of the ground and onto the magnet. These are adjustable at three different heights, so you can have them just slightly below the magnet pan, up in the upper position like they are now, or drop it all the way down so you’re really digging into the dirt.
To set the height of the Sokoke is a little different for each machine, but in general, what we found is just running it into the ground, lifting it up just a tiny bit, use your best judgment, you can see from the cab where you’re at, and just try to put it in that four to seven inch range. Obviously, you’re going to bounce around as you’re driving, but you can continuously adjust it using your hydraulics while you’re driving to maintain the right height.
Now, to attach this to your machine, we offer a couple different options for brackets that bolt on. This bolts on; this big frame back here bolts onto the magnet. We offer a couple options, like a skid steer adapter, a couple different ones. In this case, we have a Case one, and you’ll have to find out if those fit and work with your machine. If they don’t, what you’re going to have to do is just order the blank frame from us, which just comes with this big rectangle ladder-shaped frame, and then go to an equipment dealer or fashion your own kind of hooks that are going to get onto the front of your machine.
So, this thing has no onboard hydraulics, which means there’s no maintenance needed on this thing. The only thing we’d recommend you do is if any of the paint gets damaged, as it probably will, touch it up before it starts rusting. That’s just the case with any machine you’re working with.
It’s made to work in off-road rough conditions. We’re on a pretty flat spot right now, but any kind of rough concrete, concrete yards, construction areas, mining, processing places, any kind of rough terrain you think about working on, this thing is able to take the hits from hitting the ground on the front of this loader. So, it’s a great option for working in rough conditions, and if you need to clear a large space quickly, the almost eight-foot sweeping width is really going to help you with that.
All the parts are available online, and you can see more at BlueStreakEquipment.com.
The Meerkat magnetic sweeper was designed specifically for Skid Steers and was built to be a less expensive alternative to the Ocicat magnetic sweeper. The Swing Out Clean Off pivoting magnet system lends itself perfectly to being attached to the front of a loader or backhoe which don’t always have auxiliary hydraulic ports to power a hydraulic clean off system.
With the same simple gravity powered clean off system and no hydraulics to maintain, the Sokoke is a heavier duty magnetic sweeper built for tougher jobs and bigger equipment. It is built to be highly effective despite the increased speed, and less precise height control that comes with operating heavier machinery like loaders and backhoes. Because of this, the Sokoke works well in many applications and on many vehicles if they have sufficient lifting capacity. The variety of applications and the utility of having a magnet this powerful makes the Sokoke an invaluable addition to any major metal debris clean-up effort.
A: Case/Ford/New Holland FFC Coupler Mounting Bracket bolted to the Sokoke frame
B: Optional Debris Digging Rakes (DDR) attached to the Sokoke magnet
C: Swing-out Slean-off pivoting magnet system can perform ground to bin clean-off into eight foot tall bins
This video shows what its like to operate the Sokoke magnetic sweeper on a skid steer, in the video comparisons between the two models are made and the benefits of the Sokoke are further explained.
Okay, so this is the Sokoke on the front of a Bobcat T-66 sweeper, and the way this one’s built, just like the Meerkat, is you can roll it all the way back to the stops like this, drop your arms all the way down, and then you’re close to the right sweeping edge. So right now, the bottom line magnets are going to be about four inches off the ground, but I’m going to try to level it out a bit to simulate if I have the rakes on. It’s a drop-down—level the front, lift the magnet up a bit, tip it down, and that should be close enough to good. Fire in the front, dot.
All right, so now I’m going to take a little trip around our dump area here. So this thing is a lot wider than the Meerkat magnet. The Meerkat is meant to be just about as wide as the skid steer. You know, this thing’s sticking out a little bit further than the skid steer. That’s going to give you a little faster sweeping speed, as I can cover more ground quickly.
Another thing to help you figure out where you’ve gone—which we’ve already done this area—but if you have the debris-digging rake attachment set down, it’ll let you know where you’ve been because it’ll leave little groove marks all over the place.
So with this Sokoke compared to the Meerkat, you can actually drive a lot faster because it’s a bigger magnet. This thing has six-and-a-half by nine-inch magnets on it that are 29 inches wide, and what that’s going to give you is just a little more power. It picks up at twelve and a half inches with our standard nail test, compared to, I believe, nine on the other one. And it’s just a lot faster and bigger machine. It’s also heavier, so our Meerkat can fit on any skid steer—even the mini loaders, it’ll fit on that thing—but this one weighs 1,500 pounds, or just under 1,500 pounds, which means you’re going to have to get a skid steer and make sure your skid steer is ready to handle this kind of load.
Now, with this extra weight, the Sokoke is also a lot heavier duty, so I don’t have to worry about bashing this thing in the ground. I can just drive around, and if it hits down, it hits down. The only thing that’s going to happen is the skid steer might slow down a little bit. It’s a pretty handy little unit. You can get anywhere you need to or just run around this landfill cleaning it up a bit.
And I can hear the nails and all the other debris getting onto the bottom of this thing. I’m going to take a couple more laps around here. See, right in front of me, here’s a pile of shingles, so I’m just going to run over that, push them around a little bit, try to pull all the nails. You can hear stuff clicking, pull the nails out of the bottom of the magnet, pull all those nails out of the shingles, and just keep going—just drive around.
Fall day today, but you know, if it was a sucker, this would be a hell of a job for somebody—just sit in this thing, drive around on a nice air conditioning.
See there, we just hit ground, and it’s not a big deal. This thing is made out of pretty sturdy steel, so once you hit stuff, it’s not a huge issue.
So we’re going to run through what this guy just left over, just generally get ready. See, this is a nice, easy job with this thing. You can go fast; it doesn’t matter if you hit the ground, doesn’t matter if you hit anything. If you hit, it’s going to get stuck on the magnet anyways, thanks to the wraparound function.
Take another pass at that, get all the leftovers, drop the magnet a little bit—there you go. I pressure it all; there’s no external hydraulics. All you do is just get in and run it around, and then when you’re done, you decide you’re done—dumpster and drop everything.
The two videos below show connection to a Case backhoe with the Sokoke Mounting Bracket B – Case Ford New Holland FFC Coupler bracket and connecting/disconnecting a John Deere loader to our Sokoke Mounting Bracket C – Alo Quicke Euro Global Coupler. The videos below show how easy it is to connect the Sokoke to a loader once the proper bracket is installed
Connecting Sokoke Magnetic Sweeper to Case Backhoe
So this is another example of attaching the Sokoke magnetic sweeper to a front-end loader.
So we have a Case 570 backhoe here, and it’s just going to hook into a bracket that has been welded onto our ladder bracket that’s available on the website. So this bracket was custom made using stock blanks from a dealership, and that just allows the thing to hook up easily and fairly quickly onto the magnet.
Sokoke Magnetic Sweeper Connection and Disconnection Demo on Tractor
So Blue Streak Equipment is going to sell this bracket system for the Euro-style tractor bracket. This is pretty common to many different makes and models of tractors, so if you buy this from us, you can pretty easily put on and take off the Sokoke magnet. It’s just like attaching any other bucket or a set of forks you have.
So on this particular tractor, you just have to line it up with the hooks and hook it all up, press the hydraulics to set the safeties, and he’s good to go. So there you go—got the front hooks on, rear hooks on, and then it latches, and he’s ready to go start sweeping again. There’s a Sokoke attached to the front of this tractor, and we’re going to be sweeping the grounds of this farm here.
This is the Sokoke magnetic sweeper on the front of our John Deere tractor here. This is attached using one of our brackets that we sell, the Euro-style bracket.
Right now, we’re sweeping the outsides of a ginseng field, which tend to have some metal clips left over. So when the netting is taken down, there are some clips left over in the ground and we’re picking those up so there’s no chance of getting a tire puncture while driving through the fields.
So here’s the result of going through the field once with the Sokoke magnet. You can see there are a lot of nails still that we pulled out of there. Now, I was driving around it slightly higher than it should be, and we retrieved all these nails. So we’re going to dump these off and make sure they don’t get back out in the fields.
Blue Streak Equipment is going to be selling this Euro-style connector. This one is common with a lot of tractors, so if you have a tractor with a scale connector, you can buy this right from us and then it makes it fairly easy to connect and disconnect our magnetic sweeper from your attachment.
So just like that, dropped off the Sokoke, and he can go put on another bucket.
A: Wrap around function keeps debris on the Sokoke even if the magnet hits the ground
B: Alo Quicke Euro Global Coupler bolted to the Sokoke frame use on a tractor loader
The Sokoke magnet has mounting points to accept Bluestreak Equipment’s Debris Digging Rake accessory.
The 3/8” inch spring teeth on the rake are built to disturb the ground as you sweep to dig up any debris that is stuck in the ground after being run over by heavy equipment. This ensures that you can pull metal out of the ground and collect it with the magnet even if it is hidden below the surface. If you have a visible problem on the surface, there will be more hidden underground that can come up to the surface over time. The rakes also help the operator see where they have already swept by providing a clear visual indicator while leaving a smooth groomed surface. To adjust depth of the rake tines you can change the pin location to one of three locations and also roll the Sokoke forward to dig deeper or backwards to dig less.
This video shows the Debris Digging Rakes in action on the front of the Case with a demonstration of how to deploy the rakes on the front of the Sokoke.
Okay, so this is how you deploy the debris digging rake system.
All there is on the front of these is there’s three little bars here that hold up the rakes, and it’s just a cotter pin holding a tractor pin in there.
All you gotta do is, with the bucket slightly raised, pull the pin out, drop them down to the third pin setting—which will be the deepest digging—put that back in, and repeat on the other side.
What that’s going to let you do is kick up anything that’s slightly embedded in the soil, and because we’re at a landfill here, lots of traffic—and lots of traffic means that you are gonna get all your metal debris kind of stuck in the ground.
So, we ran around for about five minutes without the rakes down, and now that we have the rakes down, we’re going to go around again and see what the result is.
With these rakes down, you’re going to be digging up a lot more of the ground and hopefully getting any of the stuck debris out of it, and you can see these things are really getting into the ground.
It leaves a nice little trench of groomed area, so it helps flatten out the surface a little bit, but it also really makes a difference with digging—kicking up any debris that’s stuck there.
UHMW bushings allow smooth movement of the three 29”-inch x 9”-inch x 6.25”-inch magnet housings as they pivot while the sweeper is rolled forward in the same motion as emptying a standard bucket. Gravity then causes the magnets to lose connection from the rear frame of the Sokoke and swing forward. The collected debris on the stainless-steel pan will separate from the magnetic field allowing it to fall into a pile on the ground or into a bin. Depending on the lifting height of your machine, the Sokoke skid steer/front end loader magnetic sweeper is capable of emptying into an eight-foot scrap metal bin as shown below in a video demonstration with further explanation.
So the Sokoke magnetic sweeper works a lot like the Meerkat magnetic sweeper. You can see inside of there, it’s got three pivoting magnet assemblies. So those assemblies are, right now, magnetized to the back of this pan here. There’s a lot of steel on the back, which it’s going to stick to, but what that also means is it’s stuck to all of this debris on the bottom. So because these magnets are sitting in the very back of the assembly here, anything that hits the ground—when we hit the ground with the magnet—it’s generally going to get brushed off, but with the Sokoke it won’t get brushed off because the magnets are all the way stuck to the back of the machine, which forms our wraparound function that keeps all the collected debris on the sweeper even if you hit the ground.
So to clean off the Sokoke, it’s the same thing as the Meerkat with the three pivoting magnet assemblies. So all you have to do is empty it like a bucket. So if you’re going to tip forward, once the sweeper assembly starts going forward, these swinging magnets are going to come out, come off of that debris pan wall, and as they come off the wall and start swinging, everything on the back here is going to get pulled out of the gravitational field.
So you can see the first one went—it’s swinging—and with a little more tipping, the other two will go as well. So we are over in, uh—and with this Sokoke you can just easily get over it, drop everything inside. No handling the material more than once. You just drop it in there and it’s gone.
Now, this will also work with a skid steer, but you’re going to need to make sure your skid steer lifts high enough to get this thing clear of the dumpster as it dumps over.
In the Bluestreak standard max pickup height test, the Sokoke skid steer/front end loader magnetic sweeper picks up a 2.5” inch nail from 12.5” inches off the ground, this power allows the Sokoke to have excellent performance when operating at speed over various terrains.
This is a Sokoke maximum pickup height video.
We have the sweeper set up at 12 and a half inches off of the ground.
We’ve got a two and a half inch eight penny nail, and we’re gonna go ahead and push it underneath.
To demonstrate the power of the Sokoke skid steer/front end loader magnetic sweeper this video shows it picking up and dropping an approximately 80lb I-Beam the Sokoke magnetic sweeper can pick up the beam without having to make contact with it. This power is comparable to the Ocicat which accomplished the same feat but from slightly higher.
So this is the Sokoke magnetic sweeper. We’re going to be picking up this I-beam. We’ve used this I-beam for a couple of tests with the Meerkat and the Ocicat magnets, and we’re going to see the performance of how the Sokoke does picking it up.
So you pulled it off the ground, not quite touching it. So that’s just a kind of view of how powerful this magnet is.
And then to unload it, he’s just going to tip it forward, and that will cause these magnets inside to swing away from the wall, which will then drop off the I-beam.
The Sokoke is very effective at picking up various types of debris the video to the right shows the Sokoke on the front of a John Deere loader, check out how the debris (in orange) start being attracted toward the Sokoke while the magnet is still well above the nuts and bolts.
To set the sweeping height on a skid steer, all that is required is rolling the Sokoke all the way back and setting the lift arms on the lower stops, from there the bottom of the debris pan will be at the correct height. The next step is to roll the Sokoke forward to a level position and that will be the proper sweeping height in most cases. If Debris Digging Rakes are equipped you can roll the Sokoke back and forth to change digging depth.
Setting the sweeping height on a backhoe or loader is slightly more complicated than on a skid steer. The lift controls are less precise, and the attachment is less visible from the cab, the wheels on a loader have more bounce than a skid steer or track loader so sweeping height may vary more while sweeping.
Check out the video below to see our recommended method to finding the right sweeping height and finding level with a Sokoke on a Case backhoe.
The way that I set the level on the magnet is you don’t want to have it tilted back too far or running forward too far. But to set it up level, what I found works good is I just tilt it back a little bit, and then I’ll set it down on the back edge of the sweeper. I can feel the machine lift a little bit, and then I just tilt it forward, and then I can see the back heel come up. Then I level it out a little bit, and that way I can tell I’m level. Then, once I get it level like that, I just lift it up off of the ground—about three or four inches is pretty optimal for your sweeping height. Once you’ve got that set, you can just go ahead and drive around and pick up your metal debris.
The Sokoke is built for heavy duty use so it needs to hold up to heavy duty abuse, offroad conditions are no problem for the Sokoke thanks to its reinforcement ribs and wrap around function that keep the magnet safe and the debris in place when the ground is struck.
Since the lifting arms are so far in front of the wheels on a loader and the wheels are softer than a skid steer’s, there is often some bouncing which can cause the Sokoke to strike the ground. This is not a problem with the Sokoke because of its heavy-duty construction and four reinforcing ribs that make the Sokoke very durable.
Since the lifting arms are so far in front of the wheels on a loader and the wheels are softer than a skid steer’s, there is often some bouncing which can cause the Sokoke skid steer/front end loader magnetic sweeper to strike the ground. This is not a problem with the Sokoke because of its heavy-duty construction and four reinforcing ribs that make the Sokoke very durable.
Wrap Around Function on Sokoke magnetic sweeper keeps debris on the magnet; even if the main debris pan touches the ground, all collected debris will snap around to the back of the magnet.
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