Bushman Equipment, Inc. was once again voted the Top Brand in material handling equipment by readers of Metal Center News Magazine. Bushman earned the #1 spot for the fourth year in a row.
Many users of slitting lines know the inconvenience of having to clean out scrap metal from the bottom of the looping pit. It’s dangerous work that oftentimes requires a confined space work permit or hiring an outside service company. Bushman Equipment, Inc now offers the Pit Bull™, an air-powered scrap grapple designed specifically for cleaning out looping pits.
Bushman Equipment, Inc recently delivered two motorized rotating horizontal axis grabs to a leading manufacturer of mining equipment. The lifting devices attach to overhead traveling cranes, allowing them to lift and rotate forgings and partially machined gears and pinion shafts.
Arguably, your Below-the-Hook lifting devices can be considered the “hands” of your operation. You might have great metal processing machines, but they cannot produce your product or value-added service unless the master coils, plates, structural pieces, sheet bundles and burned/cut parts can be efficiently and safely gripped, lifted and set into and moved out of your line. This article will offer important things to consider before buying a lifting attachment, either separately or with a new overhead crane.
Bushman Equipment, Inc. recently shipped a mechanical upender (tipper) rated for 100 tons (200,000 lb). The loading and unloading platforms are 168” x 132”. The drive motor is 25 HP and is controlled by an AC flux vector variable frequency drive.
Bushman has a long history of product leadership in the design and manufacture of rugged, built-to-order material handling equipment. And now for slitting line users, we are introducing the Pit Bull™—an air-powered scrap grapple designed specifically for cleaning out looping pits.
Billed as “North America’s Largest Metal Forming, Fabricating, Welding and Finishing Event” FABTECH is the ideal venue for Bushman Equipment to promote its material handling products.
Bushman Equipment, Inc. has been named an Operational Supplier for the North American Steel Alliance (N.A.S.A.).
Incorporated in November of 1996, N.A.S.A. is a member-owned purchasing cooperative serving the metals distribution industry.
