H. Barber and Sons
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H. Barber & Sons is a privately-owned Naugatuck, Connecticut
-based company which claims to have sold more beach cleaning equipment than any other company in the world.
Its rakes are said to be used on six continents and 40 countries.
The company was founded by Harold S. Barber in the 1960s after he invented the SURF RAKE Model 500 for grooming sand beaches. Barber Rakes pick up debris
including litter, seaweed and even oil tar balls and then level and give consistency to the groomed area.
The flagship of the company and largest rake is the Barber Surf Rake Model 600HD can clean 2.5 hectares an hour via its 2.1m wide cleaning path.
Barber Rakes have also been expanded to included a Turf Rake to remove stones from soil and a Road Rake for remove debris from roads and highways
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The larger rakes are pulled behind tractors or pick up trucks although the Barber Sand Man is a smaller self-propelled walk behind device that is used in golf course sand traps and playgrounds.
Naugatuck, Connecticut
Naugatuck is a consolidated borough and town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. The town spans both sides of the Naugatuck River just south of Waterbury, and includes the communities of Union City on the east side of the river, which has its own post office, Straitsville on the...
-based company which claims to have sold more beach cleaning equipment than any other company in the world.
Its rakes are said to be used on six continents and 40 countries.
The company was founded by Harold S. Barber in the 1960s after he invented the SURF RAKE Model 500 for grooming sand beaches. Barber Rakes pick up debris
Debris
Debris is rubble, wreckage, ruins, litter and discarded garbage/refuse/trash, scattered remains of something destroyed, or, in geology, large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc. The singular form of debris is debris...
including litter, seaweed and even oil tar balls and then level and give consistency to the groomed area.
The flagship of the company and largest rake is the Barber Surf Rake Model 600HD can clean 2.5 hectares an hour via its 2.1m wide cleaning path.
Barber Rakes have also been expanded to included a Turf Rake to remove stones from soil and a Road Rake for remove debris from roads and highways
Road debris
Road debris, a form of road hazard, is debris on or off a road. Road debris includes substances, materials, and objects that are foreign to the normal roadway environment...
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The larger rakes are pulled behind tractors or pick up trucks although the Barber Sand Man is a smaller self-propelled walk behind device that is used in golf course sand traps and playgrounds.