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As spring continues we move into the busiest time of the construction season. Along with other equipment purchases for concrete pumping trucks, mobile cranes, bucket lifts, or even RVs, Redco Outrigger pads need to be considered as an essential piece of safety equipment. The engineered polyethylene material we use is extremely strong and holds up much better to the ASTM D256 impact test than metal, wood, or any other solid plastic. All plastics are not created equal! Outrigger pads are sometimes sold using HDPE which is a lower grade of polyethylene. Our plastic is much stronger than HDPE, can take more load, more PSI, and will last longer in the field.

But how do the other main substitute materials for Redco outrigger pads stand up?:

Wood:

Wood is one of the most common outrigger pad materials. It is cheap and you can jury-rig wooden cribbing out of almost anything. Wood; however, is a very poor outrigger pad material. Wood is organic: it will rot, get moldy, soak up water, and decay. In fact, wood is considered so dangerous as an outrigger pad material that it’s outlawed in some European countries for use as outrigger pads. Redco outrigger pads will not have any of those drawbacks. In fact, the only “advantage” wood has over Redco outrigger pads is price, but what price do you put on preserving your equipment and safeguarding your crews?

Metal:

Metal is not user friendly, it’s very heavy and good luck getting it out once stuck in the mud! Metal will also rust and corrode. A Redco outrigger pad is 1/7th the weight of equivalent steel and doesn’t stick in soft soils. It will last longer, and perform better, than a metal outrigger pad.

For questions, or a quotation, on our Redco Outrigger Pads send us an RFQ today.