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The Erebus Offroad Heavy Duty Hanging Magnet is built to work in the toughest terrains. It features protective steel outriggers with 4×4” plastic wheels that protect the clean off sleeve and magnet housing from oncoming terrain. The magnet housing is also protected by the aluminum clean off sleeve which won’t crush or deform from the pressure of collected debris and can withstand heavy impacts and abrasions from ground strikes.
10.5” x 3.25” Carlisle flat free wheels on both ends of the magnet roll on custom 5/8” UHMW bushing that can withstand impacts better than typical ball bearings. These bump wheels are only meant to touch down when traversing over changing terrain, so the aluminum sleeve and magnet housing don’t hit the ground while sweeping.
The permanently charged C8 ceramic magnet in the Erebus Offroad Heavy Duty Hanging Magnet can pick up a 2.5” inch 8 penny nail from 8.25” inches off the ground. This provides plenty of pickup power when operating at a sweeping height that prevents ground strikes while still effectively collecting stray metal.
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| Erebus Series | Erebus 62 | Erebus 74 | Erebus 86 | Erebus 98 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SKU | ER62 | ER74 | ER86 | ER98 |
| Maximum Lifting Height | 8.25” | 8.25” | 8.25” | 8.25” |
| Sweeper Weight | 248.5 lbs | 291.8 lbs | 327.3 lbs | 357.6 lbs |
| Sweeper Width | 62” | 74” | 86” | 98” |
| Sweeping Height Adjustment | Via Chain and quick links, 2-4” recommended | Via Chain and quick links, 2-4” recommended | Via Chain and quick links, 2-4” recommended | Via Chain and quick links, 2-4” recommended |
| Sweeper Wheel Type | 10.5” Flat Free | 10.5” Flat Free | 10.5” Flat Free | 10.5” Flat Free |
| Clean Off Method | Aluminum quick clean off sleeve | Aluminum quick clean off sleeve | Aluminum quick clean off sleeve | Aluminum quick clean off sleeve |
| Terrain Surface | All Terrain | All Terrain | All Terrain | All Terrain |
| Pricing Range | $3,949.99 USD | $4,149.99 USD | $4,389.99 USD | $4,629.99 USD |
Erebus Heavy Duty Construction
A: 0.125” thick aluminum magnet housing
B: Enclosed profile for pull handle
C: Stainless steel wheel bolt with stainless steel retainer
D: 10.5” OD flat proof wheel with UHMW bushings
E: 0.250” thick steel outrigger frame
F: 0.125” thick 6063 aluminum clean off sleeve
G: 3.75” OD Heavy duty plastic bump wheels
H: Machined aluminum latch bushings
I: 0.3125” zinc plated chain with 0.375” quick links
Erebus Heavy Duty Construction
A: Retractable Handle for debris clean off
B: Hard PVC wear strips in each corner of the Quick Clean Off Sleeve
C: 0.250” thick aluminum welded on end caps
D: 0.125” thick aluminum welded on rib
A: Bottom of Sleeve to Bottom of End Wheel
B: Bottom of Sleeve to Bottom of Outrigger Wheel
Erebus Gauss Measurements
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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The Erebus hanging magnetic sweeper and Hanging Bracket D work together to create a comprehensive and easy to use metal clean up system perfect for cleaning road shoulders, rough construction sites, and mining access roads. The durability and convenience of the Erebus Offroad Heavy Duty Hanging Magnet are complimented by the easy attachment and height adjustment granted by Hanging Bracket D. This video shows how they work together on a local township’s motor grader.
So our new Erebus magnetic sweeper is hooked up to our bracket number D, not E, like I said in the other video. So this is the difference—uh, between this one and E is just where these tie-off points are for the chains. It makes a difference with these outriggers because you’re hooking into the outriggers instead of the, uh, D-rings like on the Nyx. So this is a new style of bracket. We’ve had these, uh, hanging brackets out forever, like A and B and C; they’re all the same, sort of. But this one’s a bit different because now we have these actuators on the side. So this action is very similar to like our ISO magnets or the Alpha, where you just stick a drill on this side. I can just show you.
So what this does for you is it allows you to adjust the height of the sweeper a lot easier. So instead of getting a guy to lift this thing up and then adjust the chains while he’s holding it, all you have to do is just stick your drill on here with your 13/16 socket—not recommended to use an impact, it’s not a great idea—but all you have to do is screw it up like this.
So once it’s at the height you want, or actually a little above the height you want, you would just undo these quick links and, uh, take or add or remove another link from it to get the height you want and then you set it back down like this. So it’d be the same on the other side. So when you get these all the way down, you see how loose this blue thing is. These should be holding the weight—the chain is supposed to be holding the weight, not this, uh, blue winch cable. But you do want a little bit of tension on it, so just go until you’ve got a bit of tension like that. That just helps with stability—both side-to-side stability, see this thing doesn’t move at all, and also back and forth. It also provides you extra support. You want them tight, you don’t want them really flopping around.
So it’ll be the exact same on this side—um, just to bring it up and down. There’s up, it’s reverse, adjust your chains, and then back down. And then you got a little slack here, just crank her back up just a bit, you got some tension on it.
So this bracket is going to work with, um, looks like our Ather series. It’s going to work with anything that has these outriggers. But, uh, yeah, it’ll work with this Erebus for sure, and then I believe the Aether. I’ll put it on screen, whatever magnet this works with because I don’t have it on me at the moment, no one told me. But yeah, we just got it hooked on the back of this grader with a custom bracket we made just for this application so we can test it out. I don’t think we’re going to be selling this—this is just a, you know, it’s just a bunch of tube steel welded together with some bolts in it, not very complicated, but it just gives you an idea of what you can do once you have this, uh, our hanging bracket assembly hooked up here.
So there’s your hanging bracket; that’s how it’s stuck to the back of the grader. We’ve been running this thing for about 45 minutes now, picked up some nails off the road, it’s doing a great job. Uh, these don’t really seem to be doing a lot, but if you’re in tougher terrain they would be a good option just because it gives you just an extra little point of contact where you’re not hitting the aluminum housing off.
So this aluminum housing is really built for really heavier gravel. We’re on really sandy stuff right now, but if you’re on heavier gravel and you’re running this magnet and it’s, uh, scraping around constantly, you’re going to be glad you had this aluminum sleeve rather than the plastic one we normally sell—just because it’s going to stand up to a lot more hits, like we showed on the Nyx videos where it’s whacking in rocks all the time.
And then, like that, you’ve got these big outriggers, got the better wheels with the UHMW bushings in them instead of bearings for more, uh, impact resistance, and then the new Carlisle wheels, which are also an improved product. So this magnet’s working really well. We have it hung a little bit too high right now but we’re going nice and slow, so we’re picking up some nails. You can see over here we collected them all on this side.
Um, yeah, it’s got 8 and 1/2—no, sorry, 8 and 1/4 inch pickup height. We’re running it at about 6 inches, which is really the top of where you’d ever want to run this thing, but it’s what’s going on right now. We didn’t really adjust it that great, but we know this company’s been—or this township’s been—running our other Blue Streak magnets on this exact road all summer, so now that it’s fall there’s really not many nails left. We just wanted to bring it out to see it on the side of the, uh, grader here.
But yeah, these guys had a bit of a nail problem in the summer. They got some gravel that was contaminated with, uh, obviously nails and metal and like that, so they bought some magnets from us after testing them out from another company. A customer we had bought some from us, ran them all summer, and now we’re just getting in talks about getting a grader magnet for them just because then you can do two jobs at once.
So they had a trailer magnet going behind the grader all summer. That requires two people, two pieces of equipment, and obviously more labor cost and more time. So if you have something that can work on the grader all the time and just be easily deployed like this. They’ve got hydraulics on here so you just lift it up out of the way when you don’t need it, drop it down when you want to use it, and, uh, this could work for them if they needed for that.
And, um, yeah, this is a little bit of a big grader for this magnet. We’ve got an 86 inch here, we should really have a 98, but it gets the point across. You can get a bigger one than this—plenty of pickup power for any of these little nails and stuff you’re going to find in this gravel.
So there you go, Erebus magnetic sweeper. All parts are available online. Get them—all good Erebus magnetic sweepers are sold, and, uh, yeah, it’s got chains, comes with chains from the factory. If you don’t opt for this bracket with the purchase, you just get D-rings. You get two sets of D-rings and then you get more chains with it, so you just hang it off your chains, put it on a pickup truck, put it on a tractor, put it on the front end loader, put it on a grader. Anytime you’re doing heavy-duty off-road and you want to pick up some metal and not have to worry about breaking the, uh, clean-off sleeve or picking everything off without a clean-off sleeve—that’s your guy. It’s going to work nice. It’s got the, uh, extra outriggers and the wheels to work on it, so for extra protection and, uh, that’s all I got to say about…
A: 4.5” x 4.5” C8 magnet picks up nails from 8.25” off the ground
B: Fully packed magnet housing will hold on debris on all sides so it won’t get wiped off
The Erebus Road Clearing Magnetic Sweeper can be hung from a grader by simply using chains, or fabricating a custom bracket to work with Bluestreak’s Hanging Bracket D. The latter was done for the township of Blandford Blenheim’s CAT grader so Hanging Bracket D and Erebus could be hung from the quick hitch to collect embedded debris from the gravel that is turned up by the blade.
Here in the Blandford-Blenheim Township, working with their roads crew, this is their grader that they run over the gravel roads yearly. I think it’s once in the spring and once in the fall. So it’s fall time now, so we’re running these roads, just tilling everything up, loosening it up, making it nice for the next year, and making sure everything’s ready for the winter.
On the back of this grader, we have our new Erebus magnetic sweeper. This is similar to the Nyx, similar to the Aether, in that it has the aluminum sleeve like the Nyx does, but it also has the onboard outriggers to prevent damage like the Aether. This also has their updated UHMW bushings and new, improved wheels, so it’s a little different than the Aether in that way, but it’s still got the same aluminum sleeve. You see it hanging on the back there—it’s suspended by two chains. The blue wire is hanging on our new bracket E, so Bracket E allows you to change it up, change the height very easily without having to lift the sweeper. You just crank up the bolts on the end there, and the blue wire will raise the sweeper so you can adjust and change the height.
On these roads, the township lays down new gravel every year, and sometimes the gravel you get is a little bit contaminated with metal. That’s what they noticed this summer—they were having quite a few flat tires out on these roads, and that’s why they reached out to us to get a magnetic sweeper to run these roads. Now, what they’ve been using so far is our Piranha series and an ARA that’s hooked up to loader forks, like the forks on a loader. We got them this Erebus magnet just to try out on the back of the grader because it makes more sense to do a two-in-one job. You don’t have to have two people working two pieces of equipment on one road to do the job. You don’t have to have one for grading and one for picking up the metal when you have the magnet on the grader. With this magnetic sweeper on the grader, you’re getting two jobs done at once.
They also told us that, once the grader is fluffing up the gravel like you see back there, it actually kicks up and dislodges any of the metal that might be in the ground. So it kind of works like our debris digging rake—same kind of purpose—where it fluffs everything up and allows the magnet to pick up any of the metal that’s stuck in the dirt. Having a magnet on a grader like this is just a more efficient way of cleaning up an area because you’re already doing the job of grading. You already have a machine that’s going slow, and, you know, to do proper magnetic sweeping you should be going slow, so you already have a machine that’s going slow over the place you want to sweep. Might as well stick a magnet on it and let it do two jobs at once.
The Erebus we have on here is our 86-inch model—that’s just what we have on hand right now, so that’s what we’re using—but it’s a little too small for this. We would like to have a 98-inch model because, obviously, you can’t see the magnet coming out behind the wheels, so it’s a little too short. We’d like to cover that whole width. On the bottom of that grader blade are teeth; it’s not actually solid, so the nails and stuff can actually get past it. Once he gets by here, I’ll get him to stop. We just did one concession, basically; once he comes by here, I’ll get him to stop and we’ll see if it’s actually collected any nails at all, which I believe it has.
So here’s the Erebus again, still on the back of this grader. We just did one pass of this road. The grader is going to turn around now and we’ll see it lifting up there at the back. We got it hooked to the hydraulics on the back of the grader so that when it needs to back up or turn around you don’t have to worry about the magnet dragging or catching on the beam or anything like that. That’s just using our bracket E and then a custom-made bracket we made for this particular application. That allows you to lift and lower it without doing anything, and our bracket E, like I said before, allows for easy height adjustability. You just use a drill to crank up the ends on the actuators, and that’ll let you adjust the height so you can change the chain length and affect the sweeping height.
You can see the wheels working on the Erebus there as he’s going over different bumps, different heights; the sweeper is just bouncing along using the wheels so you don’t hit the aluminum housing off the ground. So we’re going back down, second pass on this concession. The magnet has picked up a couple of nails, which you can see on the back there, and all those could easily cause a flat tire to anybody who’s driving down this road. It’s a little bit of a busier dirt road because it leads to a highway, but we’re just going to keep grading here and see what this magnet ends up collecting. Once we’re done, I guess we will do a clean-off video.
If you can see that thing working there, the wheels are just barely touching the ground. Like I said earlier in the video, this new Erebus model is very similar to our Aether series that we’ve had out for a while, but it’s got a few key upgrades. Instead of bearings, like ball bearings on the wheels, it now has UHMW bushings—they’re going to stand up to a lot more abuse before they start going bad. UHMW is incredibly wear-resistant, so it’s a good material to use for a bushing. As well as the UHMW bushings, we have a new higher-quality wheel on it. It’s a 10-inch wheel, Carlisle flat-proof, so that’s just a higher-quality wheel, a little better materials in it—you know, better materials, better pizza, Papa John’s. That’s going to stand up. That’s why we’re showing this on a grader, because it’s best for more heavy-duty operations where you’re in the dirt more often and you’re more likely to take some hits. This is a pretty flat road, but if we were on a very hilly or bumpy road, that magnet would be touching down a lot just because it’s on the back of a grader. It’s pretty far back away from the rear wheel, so there’s a lot of distance there for where the grader is moving up and down to where it gets translated into the magnet hitting the ground. That’s why we got the one with the outriggers on it and the new heavy-duty wheels and bushings—just because we anticipate these guys are going to take it on some steeper roads that have big drop-downs or washouts or something like that. When that’s the case, because the magnet’s so far behind the wheels, it’s going to result in a big touchdown for the magnet, which is why we recommend this for more heavy-duty applications than the Aether, because it’s got the aluminum sleeve and then all the upgrades here.
So there it is going by. That’s the second rundown with the grader, and then we’ll run back and spread the gravel back out. There you go, we’re starting to spread there. While the Erebus magnet is behind the grader, it’s behind the blade—that’s not really much of a concern because a lot of this metal is actually deep into the gravel. When the plow—or the grader—goes over it, as you can see, it’s kind of flipping it up and around, so once it gets flipped it actually brings everything from the bottom to the top. There’s actually teeth on the bottom of the blade that nails can slip between, so when he comes by here, I’ll zoom in on the nails that are actually on the back of the grader, already on the magnet. So it is effective even though it is behind the blade, which surprised me, but I guess that’s what these guys told us, and that’s what works. Tried to get him to stop, but you can see those nails on the back of that magnet—it actually is picking stuff up. Let’s see if we can catch something in action here.
So here’s our grader with the Erebus. You can see it right under the wheels there, working through the back. We’ve done a full job already of grading and spreading this road, so we’re just making a return trip to move on to more roads now. The Erebus is set up a little too high on this grader, which is just our fault, but they’ve already been sweeping it with our magnet so we’re not too concerned about picking up too many nails. But we did get a couple.
On this grader, it seems to have worked pretty well. The teeth on the bottom of the plate kick up the gravel and, in turn, kick up all the metal that’s in the gravel, so this thing’s been doing a good job today. It hasn’t really had too much wear on it just because it’s pretty soft terrain, but it doesn’t look out of place on this thing. That bracket on the back that’s holding it to our bracket E is a very simple one to make, so if you have a grader like this and you wanted to put that on the back, it wouldn’t be too tough a task. That’s just some 2×2 steel welded together with some bolts gone through it.
So there’s the last shot of the Erebus going down the road with the grader, and I think we’re going to get out of here quite soon, but overall it worked very well today. If you have a grader, even a smaller one than this, it’s something to consider—works pretty well for doing two jobs at once. You don’t have to go down the road with two people; just one guy in the grader, one piece of equipment doing two jobs.
The Erebus Heavy Duty Off Road Hanging Magnetic Sweeper comes with an aluminum clean off sleeve that is built to protect the magnet housing when sending the Erebus out into rough working environments. Being able to take hard hits from rocks was a key focus of the design, but also being able to withstand crush forces that make PVC clean off sleeves hard to remove when full of debris was also a consideration. The aluminum clean off sleeve is shown in this video on the Nyx magnetic sweeper but this sleeve is a standard part that is also comes with the Erebus and is compatible with other 4.5” x 4.5” magnetic sweepers.
From the other side of going down the hill, and there you go—yep, that’s why we got an aluminum sleeve. If we get sorted—and there’s a perfect demonstration of why you need the aluminum sleeve—a nice hit like that off some rocks might crack a PVC one. So that’s one of the reasons we made this thing. It just makes your hanging magnet a lot more of a durable component of your machine or system, rather than something you always have to worry about cracking. It’s a nice thick aluminum with good bushing, so it won’t crush in on itself when you get it loaded full of debris, and just a lot of benefits over the PVC.
Watch, you hit the ground again. There you go. See, it’s scraping down, so this will be more protected on the Erebus because it has the outriggers, and so it’s got something central to kick off the ground rather than the sleeve. But, you know, that’s why we got the sleeve—to be able to hit things.
So after hitting all those rocks there, I just cleaned the sleeve off completely. It was covered in mud just to see if there’s any damage. So we hit them pretty good. We hit them about four times going up and down, so eight times total, and the only damage to be seen is there’s a couple little nicks out of the aluminum here. There are some small abrasion marks here, which hopefully you can see on camera, but there’s just little tiny nicks all over. And on the front where it actually impacted, there’s pretty much nothing at all. So there are some scratches there going down the middle; that would have been where it hit on the edge and then just dragged across.
But because there’s nothing holding this magnet down—it’s just chains—it can go up, so once you hit something, it just comes up and over, and you don’t have to worry about punching through the aluminum because it’ll just lift the sweeper before it goes through the aluminum in most cases, unless you hit a piece of tungsten or something.
But, yeah, that’s the view of the sleeve after hitting the rocks and running through the yard a couple of times with all the nails on it. Nails haven’t left any marks that are notable. The only real notable marks are just kind of on this edge here—just those little nicks out of the edge and those scratches. So, yeah, that’s the aluminum sleeve. If you had a PVC one, you’d probably be ordering a new one from us, so consider it.
All right, here’s a durability test for the new aluminum sleeve that fits our new hanging magnetics. So that’s a Massey 265, and we’re going to back over it to see what it does to the —big hit. It hit hard—got to go.
All right, here we go, take two. There you go, up and over. Let’s see if we got any damage on that thing. So we just ran this new magnet over with the new aluminum sleeve. We ran it over with a 7,000 lb tractor, right on the front wheels, where there’s a lot of weight from the engine and everything. So this aluminum sleeve fits on all of our hanging magnets that are the 4-1/2 by 4-1/2 size.
So, after running it over with the tractor, it should still work fine. It’s got the plastic bushings in the corner to prevent friction from aluminum on aluminum, and if we did dent anything, there might be a small amount of aluminum, like, touching the housing, but it should still be riding on those plastic bushings, so it’ll come off easy.
So we’ll see. This one’s the new NYX magnet, so to take it off, just got to pull the linchpin out, see the bushing, then the wheel, and then there’s a latch on either side that holds the sleeve on—this comes with all sides already done. Hopefully, the audio is okay, and we’ll see if we can still pull it off after running it over with a 7,000 lb tractor. Pretty smooth. So there you go—there’s your durability of our new aluminum.
A: Steel outriggers with plastic bump wheels provide additional ground strike protection
B: Ribs on sleeve aid clean-off and prevent debris from accumulating on one side of sleeve
C: 0.125” 6063 aluminum quick clean-off sleeve protects magnet housing and allows for easy debris removal
The Erebus Heavy Duty Magnet’s aluminum quick clean off sleeve allows magnetism to pass through the sleeve to pick up debris but keeps it separated from the magnet housing so the debris can be slid off easily. Built in ribs on the clean off sleeve prevent debris from accumulating on one side so less debris flips back onto the magnet housing when the sleeve is removed. This video shows the process for cleaning debris from the Erebus magnetic sweeper using the clean off sleeve.
So our new Erebus magnets are on the back of this grater here, down in Blandford-Blenheim, and we’ve just gone up and down the road. We did one, two runs with the grater and one run spreading, and we’ve collected quite a few nails off this place, obviously. So we’re just going to clean this off and see what we got, and I’ll show you how to clean it off.
So, there are latches on either side of the sweeper that hold this new aluminum sleeve on. These are just retained by little studs on either side, so both of these have got to be flipped, just like that. And then there is a lynch pin that holds the wheel on, so that’s got to come out. You can stick that right on top of the magnet if you want, and then there’s a little spacer that has a hole drilled through it, and your lynch pin actually goes right through that hole. This hole lines up with a hole on the axle, or I guess wheel bolt, whatever we call it, and then your wheel comes off.
So, once you’ve got all the latches pulled up and the wheels popped out, there’s a nice little grab handle here for you to pull. That comes out so you can pull it up nicely—you don’t have to bend over the whole time pulling it—and you just slide her out. Now, you don’t have to take it all the way off the end; it’s actually easier just to leave it here because a lot of the time the nails that are on the back of the sleeve are just going to pop back onto the magnet. So from here, you just pull everything off with your hand if there’s excess, and it also will prevent any… leaving the sleeve on a little bit will prevent any nails from actually flipping onto the magnet housing, which will cause pain when you’re trying to put the thing back together.
So there’s our nails we picked up. Then, to put it back on, just reverse the process. I mean, you can pop this in or out, doesn’t really matter, but I’m just going to pop this in and just slide her on, just like that. The steel handle goes over this little retainer, pop your latch back on this bushing, and then lynch pin, which—this one kind of sucks, but this will work, so then you put your lynch pin in. Try to line up the holes—it’s always tough to find the hole; sometimes happens to a lot of us—there you go, and you’re ready to keep going.
So, we’ll get Brian to pull up here with the power stick, pick these nails up, and then we’re going to continue.
A: Screw driven cable actuators on optional Hanging Bracket D allow for easy height adjustment
B: Custom bracket linking grader quick hitch to Hanging Bracket D
C: 10.5” x 3.25” Carlisle flat free wheels with 5/8” UHMW bushings
The Erebus Heavy Duty Hanging Magnetic Sweeper comes with 10.5” x 3.25” flat free Carlisle wheels that have a strong foam filling and high-quality rubber that can take impacts from changing terrain as the sweeper operates. These bump wheels prevent the clean off sleeve and magnet assembly from hitting the ground when you drive over bumps and potholes. The high-quality wheels roll on custom 5/8” UHMW bushings that are highly abrasion resistant and can take repeated hits from the terrain while still rolling smoothly.
The Erebus Heavy Duty Off Road Magnetic Sweeper is slightly more complex to set up because the out riggers need to be supported. Despite this, it can be hung from nearly any piece of machinery with proper ground clearance. Using a Bluestreak Equipment Hanging Bracket makes the Erebus simple to mount but may require custom fabrication if one of the existing mounting systems doesn’t work with your equipment. The magnet can be mounted on the front middle or rear of a machine so the limit to mounting the Erebus is what you can come up with while its still effective at cleaning metal debris. This video shows a dead simple way to hang the Erebus Heavy Duty Off Road Magnetic Sweeper from a backhoe’s loader mounting point.
We’re back at the Oxford dump and this time we’ve got our Erebus heavy-duty off-road magnet hooked to a Case backhoe. So this is our most heavy-duty unit in terms of hanging magnetic sweepers, and that’s just because of the outriggers on the front and its aluminum sleeve.
That aluminum sleeve prevents any chance of breaking your plate, like our old PVC sleeves would crack if you hit them off anything. So this one works to prevent that, and also it doesn’t crush when you get a bunch of material on it like the PVC one normally would, or used to anyway. So what that allows for is easier clean-off and a more durable magnet because you don’t have to really be concerned about breaking your sleeve all the time.
So in this landfill is where they dump all this construction stuff. You see the big load of pallets and shingles behind me—well, beside us here—and the Erebus is just getting used for sweeping up any nails. These guys actually have one of our magnets already that they do the exact same thing on—they have our RRA series—but this is just a bit of an upgraded unit. We have videos of it on the grader already, so we’re just coming here to get some more videos on different machinery, just to show what you can use it for. These hanging magnets are just about the cheapest and most versatile options we have.
So you see it going there. He’s got it set at about—a little too high right now—but once we get into changing terrain it’ll be a lot better. So there you can see it coming up. But yeah, these are really easy. We had the same—uh—we had the Nyx magnet hooked onto a tractor in a similar fashion, just right on the front forks. This one doesn’t have forks. It obviously has a loader attachment, but the bucket was off, so we just tipped it down and it made almost a perfect hanging bracket setup.
So here he comes. We just did one pass around the dumping facility there, and I think we’ll do a clean-off video to show how the aluminum sleeve cleans off compared to our plastic ones. But yeah, these hanging magnets are really easy to set up. These ones with the outriggers, like the Aether and the Erebus, are a bit more difficult just because they have the outriggers that need to be supported. Yeah, you need to support the front and the back of these outriggers, so we found if we just tipped that loader attachment point there down, it makes like a perfect hanging bracket. So we do sell hanging brackets that support this properly, but we didn’t have anything that goes to this specific loader, so we just kind of rigged it up with some chains. This thing comes with six chains and twelve quick links when you order it—unless you get the one bracket with it, and then it comes with four and some other ropes.
But yeah, these hanging magnets are just about the cheapest and most versatile option you can get for magnetic sweeping, and with some more work and fabrication, we could hang this in the middle. We tried hanging it between the wheels, which makes it a lot easier to control and you can set your sweeping height more, but we found that there were no really good mounting options, so we just went with this. But with some work, if you drilled a couple holes and made some adapters, that sort of thing, you can get it done pretty easily just using chains and whatever, and then make it like a semi-permanent attachment.
Look at that—the outriggers actually did something here. These are 4×4 wheels attached to big steel outriggers, and all these are for is if you got on really humped kind of terrain, you’re not dragging your magnet housing all the time; you would be running on these, which are going to last a lot longer than just running aluminum on, say, gravel, because, you know, it’s a wheel—it’s going to spin instead of drag. But this new aluminum sleeve is a lot more durable than our old PVC options, so that gives you a lot more peace of mind when you’re out here running into stuff like, you know, this.
It’s harder to control the sweeping height when you have it mounted like this because it’s so far out in front of your wheels, so whenever the wheels are doing anything like hitting a bump, this gets translated to a lot more motion on the magnet. So that aluminum sleeve is almost necessary just to prevent from breaking sleeves all the time, and it protects your main magnet housing.
The Erebus magnetic sweeper, now on a loader at the dump. So we just did a pass through the construction area over there—you see Trash Mountain—so we went through Trash Mountain and we picked up a couple treasures. To clean this thing off—I don’t know if I’ve done a video on this one before, I think I might have done a few on the Nyx, but it’s the same process—you’ve got clips on either side, so those slide out—one here and one there. I guess I’ll leave that one on that side. And then you want to pull from the side with the stainless steel pull handle. You can swap it between sides if you want—we just have this one on this side, so that’s what we’re going to do. All you have to do to pull the sleeve off is remove the wheel. So, pull this pin out and there’s a bushing, and then the wheel comes out. So this wheel has—the ball bearings have been replaced with a 5/8 UHMW bushing, so that’s going to take hits a lot better, and then it rolls smooth for a nice long service life. You don’t have to worry about lubricating your bearings or getting dirt in bearings or anything like that; it’s just nice hard plastic.
So once those are removed, this stainless steel handle just comes out—it’s kind of retained by this bushing on the wheel bolt—and then you’ve got a nice stainless steel pull handle that seems to be stuck—there you go. So you’ve got a nice stainless steel pull handle that allows you to pull the sleeve off without bending over the whole time. The inside of the sleeve has these PVC rails on it and that prevents aluminum-from-aluminum friction, and we found it’s easiest to just leave the sleeve on a little bit at the end so then your debris you’ve collected is not on the magnet housing, so it’s easier to remove.
So from there, you just pull it off—try not to stab yourself. Wow, looks like we got some good stuff here—that looks like the part missing from our Gator. So once all of your debris is removed off the bottom of the magnet, or I guess the bottom of the sleeve, at that point you just push it back on and you’re ready to go again.
So I got everything off the bottom there—or as best as I can see. This stainless steel handle goes back in, and then you just pick it up and it slides on nice and easy because of the PVC rails. So once that’s on there you just make sure your handle is retained by this little spacer, and then just like taking it off, it’s a reverse order. So you’ve got wheel, spacer—try to find the hole. So there’s a hole on the spacer that indexes with a hole on the wheel bolt or axle, and what that does is just keep everything in place because the cotter pin’s got to go through somewhere—or I guess the lynch pin it is—and then put your latch back in on either side. You’ve got to line up—that just sits on that and then same on this side and you’re good to go. And there’s how to clean off the Erebus when it’s on the front of a backhoe.
So we’re back here at Trash Mountain on the other side after doing a clean-off video and we’re just going to run around, make a couple more passes, and just clean this area up because we’re here and we took their magnet off the front of this thing, so we might as well clean it with ours. So we didn’t make an installation video because it’s not going to be the same for any other sweeper or any other backhoe, but basically we just rigged this thing up with chains. We had, I believe, six chains—one, two long ones, four short ones—and that was pretty easy to just chain it up on the front of that loader, which could be done on pretty much any loader.
Now like I said before, as long as it’s on the front, you see it moves up and down a lot more—that’s just because of the distance between the wheels and the sweeper itself. So yeah, that thing’s going to move around a lot more, which is why we’re using the heavy-duty Erebus, because it’s got that aluminum sleeve and the outriggers and the bump wheels. So you can hit it off the ground a couple times and it’s not really going to hurt anything. On our other video or on this page, there’s also a durability testing video in which we ran it over with a 7,000 lb tractor—well, this sleeve on a different magnet, but the same idea—and we did the clean-off after that and it was absolutely no problem. This sleeve didn’t crush or deform or anything and we just kept using it, and we’ve used it after that since then.
So these sleeves are really heavy-duty and they can actually be used on pretty much any of our 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 magnets available on the website, as long as they’re between the widths of 62 and 98 inches wide. So again, that’s the 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 magnets as long as they’re between 62 and 98 inches wide. Yeah, this is a good unit. It’s a little more difficult to chain up than the Nyx, which has to be taken into consideration because you have to support those outriggers, but you do get a little bit of extra protection. Like, those outriggers have hit the ground a couple times, you can see the mud on them already, so that means they’re working—they’re doing their job—as well as the bump wheels on the outside that touch down when you are going over different terrains. You see, run it through the mud there.
So this has our wraparound function, so even if he is hitting the ground with the aluminum sleeve, you’d think that it might wipe off any of the debris we’ve collected, but because the magnet housing touches all sides of that aluminum sleeve, anything that hits the ground just gets caught on the back, which you might be able to see right there. If you’re looking closely, there’s a couple nails on the back of the magnet, and often you’ll see—especially if you’re sweeping in grass—that’s where most of the nails and debris gets collected; ends up being on the back.
So yeah, this is the Erebus magnetic sweeper, very versatile unit. As long as you’re a little clever with some chains and maybe some ratchet straps, you can put it on pretty much anything, and it’s a really heavy-duty, versatile thing. We had it on graders, we’ve had it on this thing, we put similar products on tractors, and yeah, it works good for just cleaning up. And this 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 magnet could pick up a nail from 8 1/4 inches, so even at the sweeping height we’re at—like, you know, he’s varying from anywhere between, you know, 3 inches and 6 inches here—we’re still picking up all kinds of…
The Erebus permanently charged C8 ceramic magnetis powerful enough to pick up debris while still staying far enough from obstacles on the ground to avoid hitting the ground. It can pick up a 2.5” 8 penny nail from up to 8.25”, granting reliable pickup power in the 3-5” recommended sweeping height range.
We’ve got the sweeper set at 8 and 1/4 inches off the ground, from the concrete to the bottom of the new aluminum sleeve. We’ve got our three 2 and 1/2 inch 8-penny nails on this piece of paper. Once we slide them under, it should pick them right up.
A: 6204-2RS Sealed high speed ball bearings
B: 5/8” OD 304 Stainless steel wheel bolt with serrated flange
C: 1300lbs load capacity
D: ADC 12 Cast aluminum hub
E: Precision machined aluminum bushings
F: 85 Shore A high elastic polyurethane
This wheel kit replaces the standard wheel and axle bolt assembly for a heavier duty wheel, hub and axle bolt. This 10” aluminum hub wheel fits on all widths of the Erebus. This wheel is an upgrade that is built of stronger materials that can withstand more abuse in on and offroad settings. The sealed highspeed bearings keep dirt out so the polyurethane tread wheels can spin smoothly. The bearings and wheels are resistant to damage from impacts at speed so if the sweeper is expected to withstand heavy use in rough conditions this wheel will last longer and perform better than the standard option.
See how to easily mount a hanging magnet to the front bumper or rear hitch of your truck using our optional hanging magnet brackets.
A: Hanging Bracket C
B: 2” Inch Reveiver Mount Bracket
If you have a 2” inch receiver on either the front or rear of your vehicle you can mount a hanging magnet using one of the available Hanging Brackets (check the Hanging Bracket Selection Chart and FIT Guidelines to determine which based on the size of hanging magnet you choose), and the 2” inch Receiver Mount Bracket. These accessories are available for purchase and will be recommended accessories when you checkout.
A: Bumper Mount Bracket A
B: Hanging Bracket B
If you have a flat steel bumper on your commercial truck, you can mount a hanging magnet using one of the available Hanging Brackets (check the Hanging Bracket Selection Chart and FIT Guidelines to determine which based on the size of a hanging magnet you choose), and Bumper Mount Bracket A.
A: Push until holes line up
B: 2” inch receiver on truck
C: 2.5” inch to 2” inch steel receiver adaptor sleeve
If you have a 2.5” inch receiver on either the front or rear of your vehicle you can mount a hanging magnet using one of the available hanging brackets with the 2” inch receiver mount bracket and the 2.5” to 2” inch steel receiver adaptor sleeve accessory.
A: Hanging bracket D with easy height adjustment for hanging magnets with outrigger
Hanging Bracket D is compatible with the same magnets as Hanging Bracket C but features screw driven cable actuators on both ends for easy height adjustment (not needed if sweeper has built in height adjustment features).
A: Hanging Bracket E attaches to snowplow mount
B: Kubota snowplow mount for hanging bracket works with all Bluestreak hanging brackets
Hanging Bracket E is compatible with the same magnets as Hanging Bracket B (except Wrasse & Gobie) but features screw driven cable actuators on both ends for easy height adjustment (not needed if sweeper has built in height adjustment features).
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