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STREET SWEEPING BROOM: Tube Broom Since the early 1900s tube brooms have been the gold standard for street sweeping. Today most OEM sweeper manufacturers use the tube broom as the default option on their new sweepers.
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he tube broom is made by wrapping bristle around a steel tube. The broom is then mounted to the
drive the broom. Tube brooms with end plates have holes that are
sweeper and rotates to either kick debris up into a
drilled and tapped so they can bolt up to the sweeper.
hopper or to push it off to the side of the road. There
These bolt patterns differ by sweeper models.
are a few different styles of tube brooms designed
The OD of the mechanical tube broom is generally 36".
for various types of sweepers and different sweeping
The most common lengths of the brooms are 56.5", 58",
applications.
60" and 66".
MECHANICAL TUBE BROOM
ROAD CONTRACTOR BROOMS
Mechanical sweepers are used to clean the roads we
Road construction sweepers use large tube brooms that
drive on every day; municipal roads and highways. The
push the debris and millings off the road. The size of the
mechanical tube broom or pick-up broom is generally in
contractor broom varies from 77" up to 96" in length
the center of the sweeper and rotates to kicks the debris
depending upon the sweeper.
up into the hopper of the sweeper. These brooms typically have an 8 3/8" core ID and can
There are two ID’s for contractor brooms, 8 5/8" and 10". The standard OD’s are 32" and 36". A typical spec for
be open-ended or have endplates depending on how
one of these brooms would be 10" x 32" x 89" (ID x OD x
the broom assembly is configured. Open-ended tubes
Length).
slide over an expansion shaft which grabs the tube to
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The broom cores can be open-ended or have an end
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