Herochu Heavy-Duty Cantilever Roll-Out Pipe Racks – Laser-Cutting Feed Station, CE/ISO Certified, Built-to-Order from $3,660
Long material never arrives in a convenient cube. Twenty-foot sticks of stainless, bundles of chrome-moly, or six-ton coils of carbon tube all share the same exasperating trait: the piece you need is always at the bottom of the stack and the forklift cannot snake a fork between the pipes without nicking the surface. The Herochu Heavy-Duty Cantilever Roll-Out Pipe Rack turns the problem on its side—literally. Each cantilever arm is mounted on sealed bearings and extends like a drawer, so an operator pulls the load out until the full length clears the frame, lifts the required stick with an overhead crane, and pushes the bundle back. No climbing, no dragging, no scratched stock, and the laser cutter keeps its torch on metal instead of waiting for the next length.
Rated for the real world
Uprights are welded from European S355 hot-rolled I-beam, 360 mm deep, 12 mm web, shot-blasted SA 2½ and finished with zinc-rich epoxy before top-coat. Arms are laser-cut from the same grade, welded both sides, then stress-relieved to keep deflection under 1:200 at rated load. Standard capacities run 2 t, 3 t, or 5 t per arm; the frame itself will accept 20 t per column without bracing, 35 t with knee-brace kit. Roll-out travel is 550 mm, 600 mm, or 800 mm—chosen to match your crane hook path and the throat depth of your fibre laser. When fully extended the carriage locks automatically; depress the foot pedal to release. Bearings are sealed-for-life 6206-2RS units rated for 30,000 cycles before the first grease interval—roughly seven years in a single-shift shop.
Bolt-together, no field weld
Every joint uses M16 8.8 hardware and serrated lock-nuts; a two-man crew can assemble a 6 m double-sided starter bay in under two hours with nothing more than socket wrenches and a spirit level. Components ship loose—uprights, arms, braces, base plates—so you buy only what the application demands today and add bays tomorrow without dismantling the existing rack. Hardware bags are heat-sealed to the upright so nothing is lost on the loading dock. If you relocate the plant, knock the rack down into 2 m bundles that fit a 20 ft container; re-assembly is reverse order, no hot-work permit required.
Laser-cut line-side feed
Place the rack parallel to the laser table and the roll-out action becomes a one-person workflow. The operator pulls the arm, clamps the pipe with the overhead magnet, cuts the required length, and returns the off-cut to the same slot—tagged with remaining length via handheld barcode scanner. The laser never waits, remnants stay organised, and the stock file updates in real time. Customers running 24-hour fibre lasers report 40 % faster throughput compared with traditional A-frame racks because the crane travels one-way instead of shuttling between distant piles.
Roof-ready for outdoor yards
Add a bolt-on rafter kit and colour-coated roof sheeting and the rack becomes a free-standing canopy. No walls required, no building permit in most jurisdictions, and your pipe stock stays dry without renting indoor space. Gutter brackets are pre-punched; downpipes can route into a tote for rainwater collection if environmental rules demand zero runoff. The same rack can be cladded with mesh or sheet metal to create a secure cage for high-value alloy tubing.
Cold-store compatible
For processors supplying oil-field or food-grade stainless, the rack is available in hot-dip galvanised finish (82 µm zinc) rated to –40 °C. Bearings are filled with low-temperature grease; lock mechanisms use stainless pins so the carriage still releases when the rack lives inside a blast-freezer tunnel. Galvanised units have been in service three years at a Norwegian seafood plant without a single arm seizure.
Safety baked in, not bolted on
Each arm tip is fitted with a welded stop 120 mm high—enough to prevent a 150 mm diameter pipe from rolling but low enough for the crane hook to clear. Vertical braces every 1.5 m create a rigid truss; diagonal kick plates stop the foot from entering the rack footprint. A Category-4 light curtain can be retrofitted across the aisle; break the beam and the crane contactor drops, eliminating the risk of side-loading an extended arm. Load plaques are riveted to every upright showing arm capacity, frame capacity, and FEM 10.2.09 safety factor—inspectors sign off without extra calculations.
Starting package, scalable forever
$3,660 buys a single-sided starter bay: three uprights, six 2 t arms, base plates, and hardware. Add arms at $180 each, braces at $45, or bolt on a second bay next quarter. Custom heights to 8 m, arm lengths to 1.2 m, and special coatings are quoted within 24 h. Every rack leaves the Jiangsu plant with a 3.1 material certificate, CE mark, and five-year structural warranty.
Stop treating pipe storage like a wrestling match. Install Herochu Heavy-Duty Cantilever Roll-Out Racks and feed your laser cutter straight, clean, organised stock—one pull, one lift, one cut, done.
