Landing Mats

Jim in N.M. · Nov 11, 2018

I know that someone out there has seen or bought "Landing Mats" like they used during the second war on the air fields. Does anybody know where there might be some of the "Mats" that might be for sale ???? I know it's a long shot,but the guys on YT are very good at this stuff Thanks Jim in N.M.

shaun wallace · Nov 11, 2018

The only ones I know of are in pens around where I live. Camp Barkley isn't to far from here. Its been surplused out years ago. I had homemade 1 horse trailer made out of them. Weighed a ton,scrapped years ago.

Doug-Iowa · Nov 11, 2018

Correct term is Marston Matts. Might be helpful if you are searching the net for them. They do come up for auction on construction equipment websites.

Leroy · Nov 11, 2018

What are they? And I was born in 1943

JF in MI · Nov 11, 2018

Or PSP

grayrider · Nov 11, 2018

Good luck finding some, you?ll be luckier finding a 50 lb gold nugget, no kidding, I?ve been searching almost 30 years for some. I know some folks in my area that got their hands on some 40+ years ago and stock piled several truck loads and will not part with it. Makes the perfect trailer decking if you can get some....

Bob Bancroft · Nov 11, 2018

Gotta' be available somewhere. Just now researching Marston mats, the sections look identical to the walkway on my JD no till drill!

john in la · Nov 11, 2018

That stuff use to be everywhere.
Like finding hens teeth today.
Its either rotted away or was sold for scrap a few years ago.

Bob Bancroft · Nov 11, 2018

Well, not exactly. What I was looking at was some step/platform material from Graingers. Has two inch high edges. Marston mat appears quite flat, with interlocking edges.

steve706 · Nov 11, 2018

Not sure if they?ll work for you, but during the last 2 gulf wars sand mats were used which are built along the same design as marston mats. Usually hung them on the sides of wheeled combat vehicles so when you got stuck in sand, just slide them under your tires and drive out, you could join them together as well.

PJH · Nov 11, 2018

Mobile home movers like them. Might check some of them. Mobile home movers seem to be scarcer than they used to be.

Hayfarmer · Nov 11, 2018

I don't know of any for sale but we had a bunch of them when I was young. I always called them panels because that is what we used them for, and what I still use them for, and gates too. I think the ones I still use are the only ones I have seen around for years.

Adirondack case guy · Nov 11, 2018

There are tree trimers around here that use some sort of mats when they have to drive their bucket trucks onto lawns or off solid ground. You might check on some of the arborest websites.
Loren

Richard from SE AZ · Nov 12, 2018

As an underground miner we used many thousands of those landing mats to support ground in underground mines. Holes were drilled into the ground and long bolts with an expansion shell on the threaded end and a steel plate on the other end were put through one of the holes on the mat and pushed up against the ground. Then the bolt was tightened pulling the mat tight against the ground. Other holes were drilled through some of the other holes in the mat and more bolts added. The expansion shell worked on the same principle as the lead or plastic inserts used to hold a screw in concrete or drywall. Mats are still used in underground mines but they are made of thinner sheet metal but are still called mats.

2x4 · Nov 12, 2018

years ago they were regularly for sale in the paper edition of 'Rock and Dirt' magazine.Its a big newspaper catalog.

grayrider · Nov 12, 2018

Here?s some pics for those that don?t know what landing mats were....

caterpillar guy · Nov 12, 2018

Coleman's military Surplus has both aluminum and steel ones for sale . Steel was 45.00 al 75.00 your choice.

Richard from SE AZ · Nov 12, 2018

Photo of underground miner putting up new style mats.

DoubleO7 · Nov 12, 2018

(quoted from post at 10:26:12 11/12/18) Coleman's military Surplus has both aluminum and steel ones for sale . Steel was 45.00 al 75.00 your choice.

They show them but the are sold out.
But you can get on a waiting list.

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