steve40th

Anyone come up with or seen any ingenious ideas to sweep up shrapnel at tracks that are used for other than racing. Our parking lots used for a fair every year, and after the fact there are nails and screws everywhere.
Just a helpful thread if anyone has made or seen something work well.

cebars

The company that sweeps your lot or a road contractor may have a magnet that is used for the purpose you describe. There is such equipment but you will have to find a contractor who has it. I have seen magnets mounted on government highway maintenance trucks that were clearing the shoulder of metal.

steve40th

I will see if the stadium has one,a contractor that does that. ALoha

Webz

Magnetic floor sweeps can be used for smaller areas. There are also some tow behinds listed as well.

Hazman

http://www.puritanmagnetics.com/1/ma...d_Sweepers.asp

http://www.ohiomagnetics.com/road_sweep.htm

Or you can make your own by buying several of these and moutning them to a piece of flat steel bar stock. Put a couple of small coaster wheels on the set the height and then hang from the rear bumper of a vehicle and go to it.

outnumbered

Harbor freight, Northern Tools. We use them. Don't pay a hundred or more dollars. We just bought one form Harbor freight for $40 bucks on sale. They are usually 50-$80.00. Believe me the more expensive ones are not any better made and are usually the same made in China product.

The magnet with wheels work well. Of course the scrap has to be steel to get picked up.

JRD77VET

Or mount it from the front of the vehicle so you don't drive over what you're picking up with the magnet.

steve40th

Thanks for the ideas guys, this will help allot

MazdaRob

A magnet on the front will put you in a SP or Mod class.