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What is a Forklift Ramp

By Ron Gilleland

Brazos Yard 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, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Dock Products

ASME Stamp – R Stamp

By Ron Gilleland

ASME Logo

The controls on manufacturing quality are most often guaranteed by some sort of certification. When dealing with the fabrication of pressure vessels - the ASME certification is the "gold standard". When dealing with the repair of pressure vessels - … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Pressure Vessels

Quality Company

By Ron Gilleland

Brazos steel yard ramp loading truck with forklift

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Dock Products, Yardramp Tagged With: led lighted portable ramp, material handling, portable forklift ramp, portable yard ramps, safe loading ramp, yardramps

Brazos Yardramp Material, Design & Construction

By Ron Gilleland

30' yardramp

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Dock Products, Yardramp

Loading Ramps

By Ron Gilleland

portable steel yardramp loading pallet of parts

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Dock Products, Yardramp Tagged With: material handling, portable forklift ramp, portable yard ramps, yardramps

Ground to Truck Ramp – Ground to Dock Ramp – Safety

By Ron Gilleland

portable steel yardramp loading pallet of parts

How to Safely Use A Forklift Ramp Like any other tool a portable or fixed 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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Dock Products, Yardramp Tagged With: led lighted portable ramp, material handling, portable forklift ramp, portable yard ramps, safe loading ramp, safety, yardramps

Portable Forklift Ramp – When Is It The Answer

By Ron Gilleland

36' Brazos Yardramp

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Dock Products, Yardramp

Portable Loading Dock – Product Brochure

By Ron Gilleland

Brazos Manufacturing Brochure for yardramps and do;ckboards

Brazos Manufacturing has a new 4 page portable loading dock product brochure on our standard line of products. Dock boards, rail boards, yard ramps and wheel risers are all shown here. This is a great tool for our dealer partners to show their … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Dock Products

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