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How Metal Debris Accumulates During Military Operations
MRO: Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul
All equipment on base and in the field needs regular maintenance and repairs performed. When these operations are taking place fasteners, metal cutoffs, and tools can get dropped and create a tire puncture hazard, potentially causing more downtime for equipment. A magnetic sweeper also helps find dropped fasteners or tools in the field or shop, reducing time spent looking for dropped pieces. Utilizing a magnetic sweeper to keep maintenance areas clean is a proactive way to prevent future downtime.
Spent Munition Cleanup
Once the firing range goes cold, all spent ammunition cases, belt clips, and magazines need to be collected. Any small arm steel cased ammunition and any steel machine gun belt links can be collected quickly and easily using a handheld magnet. Larger spent steel munition cases such as grenade launcher and artillery shells can be picked up quickly across large areas and put into a pile using a high-powered magnetic sweeper on a skid steer or loader. When steel components are used on the range, magnets make quick work of cleaning up.
Airfield / Apron FOD Control
Please see the Airport FOD Magnetic Sweepers page for more information on military airfield FOD control.
There are 3 types of Military Magnets
Tow Behind Magnets
Tow behind magnets are hitched to a tow vehicle such as a truck only when needed and then put away again. Sweeping with these units is a distinct and separate activity undertaken in addition to other activities.
Hanging Magnets
Hanging magnets are hung from a wide range of vehicles or pieces of equipment on a permanent basis. Sweeping with these units takes place while other normal activities are carried out resulting in no additional labor costs for sweeping for metal debris. Hanging magnets may be front, mid, or rear mounted.
Front Mounted Magnets
Front mounted magnetic sweepers are semi permanently attached to the front of vehicles like a snow plow and are more effective at preventing flats on the vehicles that use them over other types of magnets. These magnets are maneuverable so they can be used to clear large areas quickly and make it easy to see where you are sweeping.
Heavy Duty Magnetic Power for Detailed Cleaning
The Powerstik Pro Elite is Bluestreak’s premium handheld magnetic sweeper built for professionals with over 2x more power than the original Powerstik. This additional power increases the speed you can clean an area by picking up more per pass and holding more debris before needing to clean the magnet.
The Pro Elite comes with the new Powerstik Quick Clean-Off sleeve that removes debris with a press of a button and slide of the sleeve. It also doubles as a wear bar to prevent damaging the aluminum housing when dragging on hard surfaces, it has four sides so you can flip it around multiple times when a side gets worn out.
The new adjustable height arm rest allows for easy maneuvering of the 4.3lbs sweeper by people of different heights.
The new rare earth Super Blue magnet system in this sweeper will pick up a nail from 3.25” and will hold an impressive amount of weight making it perfect for picking up any metal debris in tight spaces.
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The biggest push magnet designed for flat surfaces such as concrete and asphalt
Packed with two layers of C8 grade magnets
The Bora magnetic sweeper is the biggest push magnet designed for flat surfaces such as concrete or asphalt. It has two layers of C8 ceramic magnets packed end to end for loads of pickup power.
It is similar to the RIP magnet in pickup power with a lifting height of 5 and 3/4 inches.
The Bora is also loaded with features. It is designed for professionals who needs pick up power, durability and wider widths. Sizes: 25, 31 and 37 widths.
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Versatile Magnetic Bar in a Full Range of Sizes. Easily attach to GSE.
Easily attach the Wrasse magnetic bar to Ground Support Equipment and pick up ferrous metal debris around airport terminals and buildings. Available in 3 strengths and widths from 2 to 8 feet wide.
Extend the use of your ground support equipment. Never lose the maneuverability or functionality of your equipment. Simply hang the Wrasse in front, at the rear or under your equipment.
The Wrasse can hang from almost any piece of equipment allowing the equipment operators to clean up debris while they do their normal duties.
There is also an optional Quick Clean Off Sleeve for the Wrasse 3"x 3" and 4.5″ x 4.5″ which makes cleaning debris off the magnet bar easy.
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Self Levelling Suspension & Onboard Debris Bins
Maximize Safety and Speed with the new industry standard for heavy truck magnetic sweeping
The Baffin magnetic sweeper is designed to be the premier front mounted heavy commercial truck magnet on the market. It’s suspension system keeps the magnet planted at the right height through hard turns and over bumps to eliminate the need for constant height adjustment. The Baffin also has a clean-off system that allows drivers to empty the magnet quickly and safely from the truck cab without ever having to get out of the truck or handle debris.
With a maximum pickup height of 10.75”, the Baffin is well suited to collect any metal debris up to 25 km/h (~15 mph) at the recommended sweeping height of 2” inches.
And the two on-board removable 1.65 cubic foot debris bins allow for the 95” inch wide magnet to be cleaned off multiple times before the bins need to be emptied. This increases efficiency by letting the magnet spend more time sweeping. And by easily keeping the magnet clear of debris there is more power available to collect debris which further increases efficiency.
Sweeping height adjustment (recommended 2”-5” inches) is done using stroke control blocks on the hydraulic cylinders. Moving from sweeping height to the travelling height of 10.5” inches just requires a cycle of the hydraulics (this position can be maintained by inserting all the supplied stroke control blocks or you may rely on the hydraulic system to keep the magnet suspended).
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Adaptable Magnetic Sweeping for Front End Loaders and Skid Steers
The Sokoke magnetic sweeper is a bigger and stronger version of the existing Meerkat magnetic sweeper, The Sokoke is meant for tougher jobs and heavier equipment while also a viable option for skid steers. The bracket assemblies have pre-drilled bolt holes to accept one of five brackets available from Bluestreak Equipment. Allowing you to use the Sokoke on many popular front-end loader models or skid steers, depending on which bracket is purchased with the Sokoke.
This versatile magnetic sweeper has three 29”-inch x 9”-inch x 6.25”-inch magnet assemblies that pivot on UHMW bushings which allows the metal debris stuck on the stainless-steel debris pan to be separated from the magnetic field by swinging the magnets away from the debris pan using gravity. This clean-off system allows the operator to raise the Sokoke over a scrap bin and empty the debris off by tipping it forward just like emptying a bucket. No one needs to manually handle the metal debris, which increases safety and efficiency.
The Sokoke also has the capability to accept the Debris Digging Rake accessory, this allows an operator to dig up debris that may be embedded under the surface after being runover by heavy machinery so it can be collected. The rakes also allow an operator to have a clear visual indicator of where they have swept while grooming the land, creating a more uniform surface.
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Power & Durability in an 82 Inch Width. Similar to the Yacare Only Bigger!
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.
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Remote – Controlled Clean off & Height Adjustment!
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 the 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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Quick Tips
What do the staff of Bluestreak have to say on the subject of Military Magnets?
If you can attach a hanging magnet to a piece of equipment or vehicle already covering an area you need to sweep for some other purpose, this is the most cost effective solution because you won't incur extra labor costs.
Tony - Bluestreak Equipment
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The maximum lifting height of Military Magnets;
Powerstik Pro Elite | 3 and 1/4 inches
Bora | 5 and 3/4 inches
Wrasse 2" x 5" | 4 and 3/4 inches
Wrasse 3" x 3" | 6 inches
Wrasse 4.5" x 4.5" | 8 and 1/2 inches
Baffin | 10 and 3/4 inches
Sokoke | 12 and 1/2 inches
Caiman | 10 and 1/2 inches
Mammoth | 16 inches
For more information on Pickup Power follow this link: “Measuring Pickup Power and Performance in Magnetic Sweepers”
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