Fencing Stillages
Fencing stillages make it easier to store and transport temporary fencing panels, crowd control barriers and the equipment that goes with them. Panels left loose on a lorry or stacked against a yard wall get bent and scratched, and a steel frame built for the component holds the load together, which extends the working life of the fleet. The range covers stillages for Heras style mesh panels, steel hoarding, rubber block fence feet, crowd and road barriers, ground mats and road forms, with steel bins and pallets for couplers, clamps and other fittings.
Fence panel and barrier stillages
Each stillage is built around one panel, barrier or block format, so the choice starts with the component it will carry.
Heras fencing stillage for mesh panels
Mesh security panels, known on many sites as Heras or Harris fencing, are the panel most temporary perimeter runs are built from. The Heras fencing stillage holds up to 32 standard mesh panels stacked flat, and it is the stillage to choose for a fleet of Heras fencing panels that moves between jobs by lorry and forklift.
Hoarding panel stillage
Steel hoarding panels have a solid face that shows every dent and scratch, and a marked panel spoils the line of a finished hoarding, so they travel in a frame of their own. The hoarding panel stillage is made for either 2.0m or 2.4m panels, so order the size that matches the steel site hoarding in the fleet, with separate stillages for each panel height.
Crowd barrier stillage
Crowd control barriers, the interlocking steel barriers also called pedestrian barriers or crowd barricades, go in the crowd barrier stillage, which holds up to 30. Event organisers and local authorities load and unload barriers by the stillage, so a run leaves and returns as a counted stack.
Road barrier stillage
Plastic road barriers, the lightweight interlocking units used to close off roadworks, footpath works and open excavations, are stored and moved in the road barrier stillage. It takes a range of plastic road barriers on a central bar built for forklift handling, in the yard and on the lorry.
Fence feet stillages: open or drop front
Rubber block fence feet are heavy, and the way they are loaded decides between the two stillages made for them. The fence feet stillage is an open frame with removable arms, and suits a yard where feet are loaded and unloaded in packs by forklift. The drop front stillage for rubber fence feet has a door in the front, so a crew can slide blocks in and out at working height instead of lifting each one over the side, which makes it the better choice where feet are counted out and returned by hand on site.
Ground mat stillage
Ground protection mats and vehicle access mats in the common 2.4m by 1.2m size are stacked and moved in the ground mat stillage, also known on site as a bog mat stillage. A full stillage can be lifted off the lorry and set down beside the access route being laid, which saves carrying mats one by one across soft ground.
Road form stillage
Steel road forms, the shuttering used to cast kerbs, footpath edges and slabs, are long and thin and bend if they are dropped or stacked unevenly. The road form stillage, sometimes called a concrete shuttering stillage, is long enough to carry 3m forms lying flat, and suits groundworks and civils contractors who move a set of forms from pour to pour.
Storing and transporting temporary fencing
Yard storage between jobs
Full stillages belong on level hard standing, where stacked frames sit square and forklift tines reach the bottom frame cleanly. Keeping each stillage to one component and a known count turns the yard into its own stock control, because the number of stillages on the ground tells the office how many panels, barriers or feet are free for the next job without unstacking anything.
Loading the lorry
Before each lift, check the frame for cracked welds and bent members, the feet for damage and the forklift guides for distortion, and set aside any stillage that fails. On the lorry, strap each stillage to the bed as well as securing the load within it, and place full stillages so the weight sits evenly across the bed.
Forklift guides, finishes and capacity
With or without forklift guides
The crowd barrier stillage is supplied with or without forklift guides. Choose the guides when barriers move by forklift or telehandler between the yard, the lorry and the site, because they give the tines a fixed position under the load. Without guides, the stillage suits barriers kept in one store, such as a venue or a facilities compound, where full stillages are rarely moved.
Self-colour or painted
Several stillages in the range come in self-colour steel, and most are available painted in a choice of colours. Self-colour suits stock that stays in a single yard. Painted frames let a company colour code its stillages by depot, client or job, so equipment that has travelled between sites comes back to the right place, with each colour carrying whatever meaning the company's own system gives it.
Sizing stillages to the fleet
Capacities across the range run from 20 to 50 items per stillage, depending on the component, so the number of stillages follows from the count of panels, barriers or feet: divide the fleet by the capacity of its stillage and round up. Road barrier stillages come in 20, 30 and 40 barrier sizes, which lets a fleet be split into loads that match the lorry and the size of a typical job.
Bins and pallets for fencing fittings
The smaller parts of a fencing job need storage too, and the choice depends on whether they are picked a few at a time or moved in bulk.
Mesh and solid steel fitting bins
Couplers, clamps and the other temporary fencing accessories that go out with every run of panels travel in fitting bins. The mesh fitting bin shows its contents at a glance, and the solid steel storage bin holds the smallest fittings behind solid steel sides for yard or warehouse storage.
Vinnie bin for tube and fittings
The Vinnie bin is a long steel bin for bulk quantities of tube and fittings.
Chute front pallets
The open front on chute front pallets lets a stores team pick fittings while the pallets sit stacked, which suits a depot that issues components to crews job by job.
Post pallets and foldable pallet cages
A post pallet has a solid steel base and corner posts, and carries loose or boxed components that have no stillage of their own. The foldable pallet cage is a galvanised wire mesh cage that folds flat when it is empty, so returned cages take up little room on the lorry or in the yard.
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Frequently Asked Questions
A fencing stillage is a steel frame that holds a stack of temporary fencing panels, barriers or fence feet, so the whole stack can be stored, lifted by forklift and carried on a lorry as one unit. The same type of frame is also used for related site equipment such as ground mats and road forms.
The Heras fencing stillage is made for mesh panels in the standard 3.5m wide by 2.0m high format, which is the size most makers produce. Mesh panels from other suppliers in that size go in the same frame, so a mixed fleet can share stillages.
No. Steel crowd control barriers and plastic road barriers are different shapes, so each has its own stillage: the crowd barrier stillage for crowd barriers and the road barrier stillage for plastic road barriers. Keeping the two apart also keeps the count of each accurate.
A stillage is built around one component, such as a fence panel or a road barrier, and holds it in a set position. A post pallet is a general purpose steel base with corner posts for loose or boxed goods, and a pallet cage encloses its load in mesh sides. On fencing jobs, panels and barriers go in stillages and their fittings go on pallets, in cages or in bins.
No, the ground mat stillage is supplied empty and the mats are ordered separately. It takes both ground protection mats and vehicle access mats in the size it is made for.
Road barrier stillages can be made to bespoke sizes for storing larger quantities than the standard versions hold. The Heras fencing stillage can also be extended to take up to 50 mesh panels. Both are arranged with HERMEQ when the order is placed.