Links to a Beach Cleaner Co's devices:

[Tom_in_CA]

I'm in the street sweeper business, so as such, I'm on a mailing list for an electronic newsletter, in-so-far as it relates to industry items. Sometimes there's a little blurb on something to do with beach-cleaners. This info struck my fancy, so I thought I'd share with you guys. Great info. about a particular brand of beach-cleaner. If you scroll through and click on various links/tabs, you can even see the spec's as to size-items it can be set to catch, depth they reach, and so forth.

Everything from sloppy rake/spines, which only get McDonald bag sized items, down to fine-tuned ones that can apparently even get down to pebble and broken glass sized items.

Fortunately, very few cities/beaches have availed themselves of the finer-tuned instruments, haha

http://www.worldsweeper.com/Industry/CherringtonBeachCleaners2.14.html

http://www.cherrington.net/

 

[Goldstrike]

Very interesting! thanks for sharing this information Tom on our enemy's armament's!! LOL! I wonder who get's to pick out all the rings and jewellery that they collect?
I spoke with an operator some time ago and asked him the same question. He said that years ago, the operators had first dibs on anything that was collected. They certainly must have made a fortune! He said that now-day's, they are not allowed to go through the screens and the place where they dump it. I'm guessing the supervisor gets to do that now! Where can I get an application for that job? LOL!!

 

[scubadetector]

I would love one of those if it went 4' deep underwater! LOL now that would be an awsome machine!

 

[KinTN]

Note that on some of the machines, they lift the debris up and are able to dump it into a trash truck. I would imagine that it goes straight to the county dump from there.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

yes, high-dump machines are also in-demand from customers, in the street-sweeping business too. I mean, duh, think about it: In the case of street sweepers (or beach cleaners in this case), it's presumed that the spoils they collect are refuse, garbage, litter, etc... Right? And if it low dumps on the ground (and assuming you weren't right at the dump already), then by definition, it has to be picked up again, JUST to be loaded into another truck for off-haul.

The first street sweepers that offered high-dump ability (for paving/construction related purposes anyhow) were in the mid 1980s. By the 1990s, paving/asphalt customers of ours started making specific request for JUST high dump models. Prior to those years, it was just accepted that us street sweeper co's would dump on the ground, in a stock-pile for it. And at the end of the job, the customer had to have a skip-loader pick up the piles. But in the space of 5 or 10 yrs, all low-dump models became obsolete durnit! So too might it be the same for sand cleaners. But the difference is, you're right: There ARE people who would want to go through that "debris", haha

 

[Robert2300]

Hahahahaha. I can see it now, Garrett with a new line of metal detectors:
Garrett Mini Beach cleaners with Garretts name on the side.
Robt2300

 

[KinTN]

I wonder about the economics of cleaning a beach for free and then going thru the debris and recovering valuables.