Know your Ground Protection and Site Access Mats: Light, Medium and Heavy Duty
Ground protection and access products don’t just help you protect the ground — they help you be a better, more productive professional.
When you are not worried about getting stuck, leaving ruts in yards, or lugging around plywood sheets, you can get more done in less time. With the right ground…
Outrigger safety doesn’t have to be maddening
Best practices on job sites are a lot like fundamentals in sports.
Master them, and you’ll consistently win. But if you neglect them, it’s at your own risk.
The legendary basketball coach John Wooden once captured this idea quite poignantly:
If you spend too much time learning the…
5 ways MaxiTrack can change your ground protection game
For a long time, our team at DICA saw a gap in the ground protection market.
We knew it needed to be filled.
While the ½” thick medium-duty mats we offer are outstanding — and much better than plywood or lesser quality plastic mats — to get the best results, sometimes customers need…
Meet XtremeMat: Heavy Duty Ground Protection
Soft ground can stop a job in its tracks.
With XtremeMat in your ground protection and access arsenal, though, you do not have to worry about how to keep things moving, even in the most extreme conditions.
XtremeMat is a heavy-duty solution unique to other heavy-duty options on the market.…
Revolutionizing Ground Protection: Meet MaxiTrack®
While heavy-duty ground protection is often the right way of doing things, historically it hasn’t been the easy or affordable way.
That’s why DICA is excited to announce becoming the first U.S. distributor of MaxiTrack® — the only heavy-duty ground protection and access mats that can be moved,…
Enhancing Safety: How Cranes are Transforming the Tree Care Industry
According to the Tree Care Industry Association and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the tree care industry (tree trimmers and pruners, loggers, climbers, etc.) has a fatality rate of 110 per 100,000 workers, 30 times higher than the all-industry average.
Because a large portion of fatalities are related…
Stacking Pads – When 1+1 does not equal 2
Outrigger pads are used to distribute loads across a larger area to reduce ground-bearing pressures and provide a safe and solid platform for your equipment. To achieve a distribution of the load across the surface area of the pad, the pad must be strong enough to resist physical failure and stiff enough…
Advantages of using FiberMax Crane Pads
Since their debut in early 2014, FiberMax Crane Pads have revolutionized the crane & lifting industry by offering four distinct advantages over traditional steel and wooden pads. Traditional pads are heavy and difficult to transport. Wood timbers and wood pads can lack production consistency, have…
Setting the Standard for Using Supporting Materials Under Stabilizers or Outriggers
“When utility crews are deployed to conduct repairs, the setup locations are often along roadsides with slopes, ditches, or unstable surfaces. Unfortunately, tip overs continue to be one of the most common job site accidents that are generally preventable with proper planning, training, and the use…
Ingo Schiller Joins DICA as Strategic Advisor
September 7, 2023 (Urbandale, Iowa), DICA announces that Ingo Schiller, a crane industry veteran with executive experience in sales, distribution, new product development, and marketing, has joined the DICA team as a strategic advisor. He will be responsible for helping DICA expand its distribution programs,…