Increase Productivity And Decrease Cost When Fusing HDPE Pipe

By Jim Craig, P.E.

The logistics of a jobsite often require creative solutions to eliminate escalating demand for manpower and machinery. The addition of these elements to a jobsite can produce huge cost increases. McElroy’s PolyHorse was developed to strategically position pipe on a butt fusion jobsite, decreasing the overall time required to perform the job, as well as the manpower and machinery needed to maneuver pipe.

Improving efficiency, productivity, and safety on the jobsite is always important. After studying jobsites in a variety of markets, we determined that a key to improving efficiency, productivity, and safety is in job set-up and pipe handling. Usually, making more pipe joints per day involves more machines and operators, thus increasing costs. With the information gathered from studies, a new pipe-handling system, the PolyHorse™, was developed by McElroy. This system strategically stages the pipe on the jobsite, allowing you to increase the number of joints produced per day and eliminate some labor and loading equipment in the process.