Brazos Manufacturing serves three verticals which complement each other and each makes us better at the others. Starting in 2015 our Material Handling Division began engineering and fabricating forklift ramps. Including yard ramps, steel dock boards and customized solutions for transiting heavy loads between levels. Those type of items were in our DNA and we […]
Loading Dock Products
Heavy duty steel material handling products. Including dock boards, rail boards, yard ramps and portable forklift ramps.
Rail Boards
One of the most complicated things we build is a rail board. It is a dock board for use loading and unloading materials on and off a rail car. Sounds easy. Not if it is done right. How to configure a rail board There are several on-site measurements at any loading dock to customize the […]
Material Handling Div
Yardramp – Dockboards – Railboards – Platforms – Wheel Risers – Bollards – Door Track Guard – Post Protectors – Pallet Rack Guard Dock equipment like yardramps, dockboards, railboards…are engineered, manufactured and shipped FAST. Our engineering department can take a standard product and modify it to your specifications and have it in production in the […]
Who is Brazos Manufacturing & Welding
In todays marketplace nothing is or can be static. Constant market pressures mandate constant improvement to deliver value to customers, employees and shareholders. Occasionally a restatement of “who” we are is a benefit to potential customer but also to ourselves. Therefore, in the spring of “2023”…. Brazos Manufacturing & Welding is a company that specializes […]
What is a Forklift Ramp
The term “forklift ramp” can span a wide list of products all having the same function. That is to allow a forklift truck to travel across a space. Sometimes with a change in height relative to its starting point. By this definition a curb ramp, dock board, rail board or yard ramp all qualify. The […]
Quality Company
Brazos Manufacturing and Welding Services is a “quality” company. What does that mean? The dictionary defines quality as “the standard of something as measured against other things of a similar kind; the degree of excellence of something.” Brazos strives daily to be the standard of excellence in the manufacturing world. We measure ourselves against our […]
Brazos Yardramp Material, Design & Construction
Any industrial or commercial ramp design…whether a ground-to-truck ramp or a dock-to-truck board…relies on three things. The material used in it’s construction The design Quality of workmanship Compromise or cost cutting in any of these will produce an inferior end product. When we talk about equipment that works in close proximity to your employees and […]
Loading Ramps
The term “loading ramp” defines about half of everything we build at Brazos Manufacturing. Dockboards & Dockplates A dockboard or dockplate is a loading ramp typically moving products into or out of a truckbed onto a loading dock. Dockboards are designed for powered equipment like forklift trucks while dockplates are limited to manual traffic like […]
Ground to Truck Ramp – Ground to Dock Ramp – Safety
How to Safely Use A Forklift Ramp A yard ramp needs to be used correctly or it becomes a liability rather than an asset. Since ground-to-dock ramps and ground-to-truck ramps are basically simple tools a lot of the safety and its correct use is common sense. But sometimes in the workplace “common sense” is not […]
Portable Forklift Ramp – The Answer?
The Case for a Steel Portable Forklift Ramp Most businesses at their most basic level are the same. They take materials and labor and create or improve….a product. That is call value-add and the cost of doing it has to be in line with its market value….one of the costs is the movement thru the […]
Dock Board Capacity – How to Specify
Dock Board Capacity. This is a “general” discussion about how to make the decision of which dockboard to specify in an application…regarding capacity. For a Four Wheel Forklift Truck The rule of thumb is to take the capacity of the forklift truck and multiply it by three. This would apply if the operation is a […]