Rig matting

[Murminator]

I come from the land of rock and hard ground...what's the difference between rig and swamp mats?

Swamp/access mats

 

[800HMX]

By far the biggest Rig Matting company is Northern Mat and Bridge. They have mats all over Canada. Call their GP office. A new oak/fir mat is about $700 delivered. A decent used mat will be around $100-$200. The problem is finding any especially in the right location as shipping wet dirty mat can easily cost $100. There are no new mats available anywhere right now.


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[S.W.A.T.]

Not looking in the right places. Matting is everywhere.

By far the biggest Rig Matting company is Northern Mat and Bridge. They have mats all over Canada. Call their GP office. A new oak/fir mat is about $700 delivered. A decent used mat will be around $100-$200. The problem is finding any especially in the right location as shipping wet dirty mat can easily cost $100. There are no new mats available anywhere right now.


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[pfi572]

Not looking in the right places. Matting is everywhere.

Really ?? Matting might be everywhere but most of it is laid or spoken for.

 

[neilsleder]

Really ?? Matting might be everywhere but most of it is laid or spoken for.

Yup lots of miles of hardwood highways right now!


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[Summit 934]

Just to clarify for those still unsure of the difference, not that it really matters...

Rig mats have a steel frame that can either be loaded with a loader or when stacked, with a winch tractor on a lowbed with a live roll.

Access mats are made solely of wood and interlock together. Must have a loader with mat forks or hoe with a mat grapple to load and unload.

Swamp mats is the name of a matting company such as Northern Crane and Matting, Terrapro, Strad etc, but some do refer to Access mats as Swamp mats.

 

[Iron Horse Racing]

We use what we call crane matts, you take 5 - 12' x 12' x 40' timbers and stick a couple schedule 40 2" pipe through them stack a bunch of them side by each to drive crawler cranes onto, have also used them to make a dry area out of the mud temporary laydown area....they run about $1,800 new unless you need them when they're hard to find, then you'll pay $2,500 ... if you can find them used, they usually sell for $500 to $1,000, lots get left behind and burnt, either to ruff to worry about, or buried in the mud....