Diggin’ a hole!
This is a good application for Access Mats, the ground is “loon sh*t” and the Access Mat makes it possible for the Dump Truck to get on site and drive out of the hole.
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Crane Mats as Access Road
Our customer built a road with heavy Crane Mats from Industrial Timber Products. They had a construction job across some wet sloppy swamp. The Crane Mat road provided a safe and easy access. As they "backed out" they picked up the mats and returned...
Transition Mats for a ship yard
This huge ship was transited over our transition mats from the land on to a dry dock. The dry dock sat 12" higher than the land, so we built a bunch of transition mats and they lined them up on the edge. The SPMT...
Temporary Docks with Crane Mats
Our customer was working at a lake and needed a quick method to deploy a temporary dock to a floating pump shed. They floated Crane Mats out and connected them with chains and cables. This was much faster than building a dock with floats...
Timber Wedge…..but smaller
This is a Timber Wedge, but much smaller than our last post. This wedge is 48" x 48" with an 8" heel and a 2" toe, complete with 2 rods 1" diameter. These are being used to "level off" a crane on the street...
Big Timber Wedges
this is a big wedge, we call it a Transition Mat, as typically it is used to move a large crawler crane up onto a Crane Mat platform. These wedges are 16" at the heel, 2" at the toe, 48" wide and 14' long....
Crane Mats for a Dam renovation project
These Crane Mats are Douglas Fir 12" x 48" x 10' and 20' and are being delivered to a site downstream of a large hydro electric dam. The mats will form a base over a penstock 10' in diameter, where an excavator needs to...
Trestle Mats for Crawler Crane
This steel frame Trestle is being built beside an existing bridge that is being removed and replaced. The Trestle will be the work platform for the Crawler Crane and also Concrete Trucks when they build the new span. The method is to use a...
Muddy Site – Crane Mats under Crawler Crane
Here is a muddy and messy job site, and the Crawler Crane needs additional wide point load as it is beside a water course with a "weak" side-bank. This set of Crane Mats makes for a clean and stable platform to work from. Even...
Special Transit Mats
These mats are really special....12" x 48" x 120" complete with lifting plates and special connectors joining the timbers into a "beam". Super strong! They are being used on a Transit Project in Ontario.
Extra Heavy Duty 16″ x 48″ Digger Mats
When you are using a heavy 400 excavator on loose soil sometimes you need an extra heavy duty Digger Mat. These are 16" thick mats x 48" x 20' long with 2 cables (each end) for dragging. Our standard Digger Mat is 12" thickness...
Crawler Crane on Crane Mats
This selection of pictures explains well what Crane Mats are for......a stable base for very large Crawler Cranes. Maintaining a flat surface, widening the point loading, extending the base, keeping it all "flat" so the job can be accomplished quickly and safely. This also...