Street Sweepers

Single piece Main brooms

Single piece Main brooms are also known as Wide sweeps, Belly Brooms or Centre Brooms.

Both the red Australian made and Blue imported Main Brooms, for all models of Bucher and Scarab street sweepers, are readily available. Whereas Main Brooms for road patching,  Ausroad Jet Patcher and Paveline machines for instance are all locally made. 

Single piece Red or Blue wide sweep brooms are either available ex stock, or can be made to order depending on your specific requirements.

Australian made Spirally Wound Brooms

Australian made Spirally Wound Brooms, are generally finished in Red Poly, yet they can be made to any specification.

For instance, bristle or fill can be soft or coarse, made from Polypropylene/ poly or wire and if required a combination of poly and wire bristle can be called for.

In short, whatever broom style you find works best, we can have it made.. 

Imported Brooms

Where Imported brooms are preferred, Blue poly, punched style brooms are available. 

Unlike the multitude of option available in the locally made brooms, these Imported brushes are generally only available in poly.

About Centre Broom Bristles

Imported Brooms To the touch, the Blue Imported brooms feel stiff, this is as a result of the poly being “Punched into the plastic core, and as a result the bristle pokes out in all directions.

On the other hand, Australian Brooms made with Red Poly feel less stiff. Yet, both imported and locally made brooms contain the same thickness/stiffness (0.55”) of Poly.  The feeling of reduced stiffness in these brooms is due to the way the bristles are “wound” onto the steel  core, as a result all the bristles go in the same direction.

Bristle Options

Australian brooms can be made as stiff as you like, either by adding wire bristle, or simply by increasing the thickness of the poly Fill to 0.80” or .105” or reducing it to 0.35″.  Most importantly, whatever your project needs we can have the right broom made to your specification.

Uses

Wire Bristle Gutter Brooms are used where a tough, vigorous sweep is required, for example Street kerbs, gutters and road channels.  Bucher and Scarab street sweeper gutter brooms sweep dust, dirt and rubbish from road edges and into the centre of the sweeper, after that the wide sweep or belly broom sweeps it up into a collection chamber, ultimately cleaning the street.

Sweepers

Street sweeper Gutter brooms are generally readily available for; Bucher, Rosmech Scarab, Schwarze, Cyclone 770 & RT655 street sweepers to name just a few.

Broom Construction

Wire Bristle Gutter brooms are built using high tensile spring steel bristle. The wire is fitted into a Wood or Plastic Back, with the bristles generally fitted so that the Flat, 3mm edge of the wire is sweeping, this style of broom is known as “Opposite Fill”. 

However, single piece, Australian made Wooden heads, can be filled with the sharp edge of the wire to lead the sweeping, this enables ground on dirt to be “cut & swept”, this style of broom is known as “Round & Rounds” 

Note Round & Rounds are not available in the plastic backed Imported brooms or on any segmental brooms.

Single-piece Wire Gutter Brooms

Wire bristled gutter brooms are mostly supplied as a complete, circular “single piece” broom and are generally used on Bucher and Rosmech Scarab Sweepers.

Segmental Wire Gutter Brooms

“4-Piece” segmental wire gutter brooms are sold in sets of 4 segments, to make up 1 complete Broom. These are most commonly supplied for Schwarze sweepers, as well as some Bucher and Rosmech sweepers.

Council Testing

Two councils, across four depots, in New South Wales, tested the imported 4 row wire gutter brooms, and compared them to the Australian made, 2 row wire gutter brooms. 

In short, the council operators found that the 2 row wire gutter brooms, worked just as well and lasted just as long as the 4 row wire gutter brooms. 

Approximately 60% of councils in NSW have chosen to buy the Australian made, 2 row wire gutter brooms.

Contractor Feedback

Anecdotally, 80% of owner operators in NSW, said 4 row wire gutter brooms, DO NOT provide better value for money.  In other words, they choose to buy the 2 row brooms.

3 Row Wire Gutter Broom Trials

*We have not specifically had the 3 rows of wire gutter brooms tested against the 2 rows gutter brooms.  However, our belief is the 3 rows of wire will work and last pretty much the same as 2 and 4 row, wire gutter brooms.

Uses

Poly (Polypropylene) Bristle Gutter brooms are often used where a lighter, softer sweep is required and in places where any shards of wire are not acceptable; Footpaths, Malls, Car Parks, Cattle Feedlots and Airports for instance.

Sweepers

Poly bristled gutter brooms can be used on many sweepers, for example Bucher, Rosmech, Compact 40, Borschang, Green Machine and CN400 sweepers and a number of lesser known makes and models of sweepers. 

Broom Construction

Poly Bristle Gutter brooms are commonly built using 0.80” Poly bristle, yet in certain situations a heavier or lighter fill may be called for. And the backs of the brooms can be Moulded locally, or made locally out of steel or can be made out of Plastic in the case of Imported brooms.