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Delivery, Offloading and Storage of Barracuda Materials
Delivery, Offloading and Storage of Barracuda Materials
Barracuda rails are supplied either crated, in packs or palletised. These may be ‘fork-lifted’ from the delivery vehicle.

468 No. BAR-R1-2400 ‘standard’ rails [84.24M²] are normally supplied within a single crate with an ‘all-inclusive’ weight of approximately 680kg per crate.

30 No. crates [14040 No. rails/2528M²] can normally be supplied on a typical 40T articulated delivery vehicle. This constitutes a typical ‘full load’.

Dependent upon the project floor to floor height/brick slip cladding configuration, usually, approximately one bottom [R2] rail and one top [R3] rail will be required for every 42 No. R1 rails supplied.

Quantities of bottom [R2] rail and top [R3] rail corresponding to a ‘full load’ of standard [R1] rails might typically be;

350 No. BAR-R2-2400 ‘bottom’ rails supplied on a single pallet will have an ‘all-inclusive’ weight of approximately 808kg per pallet.

384 No. BAR-R3-2400 ‘top’ rails supplied on a single pallet will have an ‘all-inclusive’ weight of approximately 658kg per pallet.

Quantities of Barracuda ‘L’ and ‘T’ aluminium substructure rails [based upon idealised 600mm fixing centres and a floor to floor height of, for example 3225mm] corresponding to a ‘full load’ of standard [R1] rails might typically be;

1005 No. BAR-VL-3215 ‘L’ rails. A maximum of 320 No. VL rails can be supplied in a single pack therefore just over 3 No. packs will be required.

335 No. BAR-VT-3215 ‘T’ rails. A maximum of 60 No. VT can be supplied in a single pack therefore just over 5.5 No. packs will be required.

Crated, packed and palletised Barracuda rails can be stored either outside or under-cover. In both cases they must be ‘set down’ on a reasonably flat area of ‘hard standing’.

Do not stack pallets of Barracuda rails on top of one another and do not stack or store other materials on top of the Barracuda rails.

Other Barracuda materials; fasteners and special tools will be supplied in cardboard boxes. Boxed Barracuda materials should be stored in a dry, covered environment to ensure that the cardboard boxes don’t deteriorate.

Unpackaging the Barracuda Materials

Unpackaging the Barracuda materials is the very beginning of the Barracuda installation process, so appropriate ‘personal protective equipment’ [PPE]
must be worn [please see Barracuda Health & Safety Guidance and COSHH [Control of Substances Hazardous to Health] data sheet. Please contact James & Taylor and request this data sheet if you do not have it.

Carefully cut and remove the straps that secure the crate lid. Lift and remove the crate lid. In order to make accessing the Barracuda rails within the crate easier, sections of the crate sides can be lifted, folded flat and set to one side for storage or subsequently disposed of.