Barber News Blog
  • Barber Home
  • New Page
  • Brochure Booklet
  • Parts
  • Barber Home
  • New Page
  • Brochure Booklet
  • Parts
Search by typing & pressing enter

YOUR CART

3/8/2012 3 Comments

Surf Rake in Action in Australia

Bondi Beach, AU Beach Cleaning Machine

The "Bondi Eye" publication in Australia recently posted this article about the workload their Barber Surf Rake tackles every week. Here's the article:
The beach rake (Surf Rake) collects litter along Bondi beach 5-6 days a week, between 5am and 12.30pm. Tamarama and Bronte beaches are usually raked on Wednesday mornings.

At Bondi, the primary focus first thing is raking the high tide mark and the lower part of the beach. After that, the beach rake then operates at the back of the beach where there are fewer occupants at that time of the day.

Bondi beach takes approximately 12 hours to completely rake, so the beach rake needs to be in operation for at least six hours a day to keep up with the amount of litter that is left on the sand.

The tray on the back of the beach rake has a capacity of one and a half cubic metres. On an average week the beach rake would collect four cubic metres of litter and stormwater debris. On a busy week, collection would double to eight cubic metres. After Australia Day 2012 the beach rake collected 12.5 cubic metres and that was just litter, not stormwater debris. And all from one day!



(republished from  http://bondieye.com.au/ Mar 7, 2012)


3 Comments

    RSS Feed



    Categories

    All Australia Bacteria Beachcleaner.com Beach Cleaning Chicago Rake Cocoa Beach Corrosion Protection Cost E. Coli Environmental Concerns Florida Flotsam In Action Litter Collection Litter Picker Maintenance Oil Spill Cleanup Rena Seaweed Self-propelled Beach Cleaners Sports Field Cleanup Surf Rake Top Beaches Tractor-towed Beach Cleaners Warranty Workload

    Archives

    March 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    January 2016
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    April 2015
    February 2015
    December 2014
    October 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    July 2013
    April 2013
    February 2013
    November 2012
    August 2012
    June 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011
    November 2011

    rETURN HOME


    ​Helpful Links

    SURF RAKE         TURF RAKE         SAND MAN         LITTER COLLECTION
    BeachCleaner.com: A resource to learn about mechanical beach cleaning methods and applications