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Rail Ties 8×8

These short length rail ties are going up coast. 8" x 8' x 56" in Hem/Fir rough green #1 and btr. Nice looking product.
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Crane Mats in stock, Brandon, Manitoba

We are now stocking Crane Mats in Brandon, Manitoba for our customers in middle and eastern Canada. We can deliver to your location, most places Saskatchewan east to Ontario with 1 to 2 days. Please contact us for a quotation delivered to your job...

Transition Ramps at Corra Linn Dam

Customer needed to access across Stop Log grates at the Corra Linn Dam site near Sorrento, BC, Canada. We built special transition mats or ramps and capped them with steel on the "toe" and also built special size mats to slide between the grates....

Stop Log Timbers, Temporary Dam

These 10" x 10" x 120" Douglas Fir Stop Log timbers, from Select Structural material, are for a dam near Thunder Bay in Ontario, Canada. They are for a one time deployment so don't require a lifting mechanism. This is really pretty material, no...

Stop Log Panels – Hydro Gates

These Stop Log Panels were built for a Wastewater Treatment facility in Maryland, USA. They are extreme use, holding back up to 14' of water (head). The steel H Beam was set into the timbers and through bolted. Steel lifting ears were installed near...

Access Mats for Tunnelling Job under Highway

This project is using Access Mats to form a platform for a tunnelling sled. 96" diameter pipe will be tunnelled under the highway so that traffic is not disrupted during construction. A small bobcat digs out the dirt inside the "tunnel" and then the...

Access Mats in the mountains!

Along with other business partners we have delivered some Access Mats to this laydown yard in eastern Alberta. What a stunning view! This lay down yard with be the staging point for a major infrastructure project.

Wide Timber Pads for a bridge lift

A customer required some very wide Timber Pads. These are 10' x 10' x 12" thick. They have 3 through rods 1-1/4" diameter. The lift engineer specified this size of pad to spread the point load of the out-rigger on the crane.

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Timber Pads for steel support posts

A customer is supporting a crane on top of a cement slab parking lot. The timber pads expand the point load to reduce the chance of damage. Once the crane has moved off the above slab the steel and timbers will be removed. The...

Custom Built Marine Dock

This marine float has been custom built to feature a step-down section. This allows easier access to kayaks, paddle boards, and boats! This dock is 4' x 14' made from CCA treated high-grade Douglas Fir, to ensure that it stands up to the wear...

Heavy Lift uses ITP Products in Vancouver

This picture is from a customer who was moving some large pieces of mechanical equipment. The picture notes how we supported the move by supplying shaped saddle dunnage (so the vessel wouldn't roll on the barge), special shaped timber pad to accommodate various shapes,...

Timber Bridge Demonstration

Here is how our Timber Bridges look when installed! This is in Abbotsford, BC at Riverside Equipment's yard. This particular bridge is 20' long and is delivered in two sections. It can be quickly deployed to cross streams or drainage ditches into a property....

Timber Triangles for Radio Repeater Stations

We manufactured these timber triangles in our shop. They were helicoptered to the top of a mountain as a kit and then assembled by a crew to create a stable base for a remote transmission repeater tower.

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Crossing Burns Bog in Delta BC

Our customer needs to cross Burns Bog to set some piles. The issue is to protect the ecological landscape in this 5000 acre one of a kind peat bog. By using Crane Mats (from Industrial Timber Products of course!) they are ensuring there will...

Long Wedges for supporting Heavy Machinery

Check these long wedges we made for a customer who is blocking up large pieces of machinery. We made 6x12" x 2-1/2" toe, 3x12" and 2x12" and we tapered them down to 3/4" at the toe. Wedges are very useful and can be used...

Digger Mats in Abbotsford!

We have a customer Riverside Equipment in Abbotsford who rent swamp pads or digger mats to the local contractor community in the Greater Vancouver Area and Fraser Valley. They also rent Volvo transfer trucks, Excavators and other associated equipment. Give Daryl a call at 604-556-0557

Crane Mat pad for a concrete tilt-up Movie Studio

There is a new movie studio being built in Burnaby! This is a massive sound stage with 60' tall walls, with concrete tilt-up construction. This job required a large "pad" of ITP Crane Mats, which had to be smooth and flat on top. The...

Gas Line Temporary Crossing

We built an Industrial Gas Line Crossing bridge. Typically this would be used by a contractor to access land that has a buried gas line they need to cross with heavy equipment. Gas line owners like Fortis BC have very specific rules about having...

DOWNTIME – Stuck in the mud?

Downtime: it's a problem for any excavator operator. If your machinery is sinking in the gumbo and can't get any production consider using Digger Mats to stop that sinking feeling. Digger Mats, sometimes referred to as Cable Mats or Swamp Pads, are 12" thick x...

Timber Bridge Install on rural driveway

Industrial Timber Products supplied a bridge to a customer in the Harrison area with a fully assembled bridge, supplied in 2 pieces 7' wide and 20' long. We also supplied 2 "mat sills" ready for installation.

The bridge spanned a small creek on a rural...

Working in Loon Sh*t

When the going gets tough our customers work on Swamp Mats, helping them move their equipment around on wet greasy ground, commonly referred to as "Loon Sh*t"! This customer is working in the Still Creek area of Burnaby, BC. The ground in this area...

Heavy Outrigger Pads on a Downtown Seattle Lift

This customer is using Industrial Timber Products heavy timber outrigger pads for a specialised lift.....with a 60t Hydraulic crane sitting on a bridge, at the Washington State Convention Center. It was necessary to spread the point load as much as possible to avoid damage...

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