Find the Right Main Brush for Your Tennant S20 Rider Sweeper

Use our guide below to compare bristle types, fill patterns, and recommended applications to find the perfect match for your facility.

Tennant S20 Main Brush Quick Comparison

1. Polypropylene Sand Wedge Main Brush

• Best For: Heavy accumulation of sand, silt, and fine powder particles.
• Surface Profile: Ideal for smooth to standard finished concrete.
• The Breakdown: Built with a specialized "wedge" design, this brush acts like a shovel for high-volume, fine debris. The polypropylene bristles offer excellent moisture resistance and aggressive sweeping action, ensuring that heavy layers of sand or dust are efficiently swept into the hopper without leaving a trail behind.

2. Polypropylene Window Main Brush

• Best For: Light litter, paper scraps, wrapper debris, and light dust.
• Surface Profile: Optimized for smooth, sealed, or epoxy-coated floors.
• The Breakdown: The "window" configuration features open sections within the brush pattern to easily capture larger, light litter without clogging or wrapping around the roller. The polypropylene material provides great flick action on smooth surfaces, making it a go-to for distribution centers and clean warehouse aisles.

3. Polypropylene 8-Double Row Main Brush

• Best For: Standard, everyday warehouse and industrial sweeping applications.
• Surface Profile: Versatile performance across most standard concrete and commercial floors.
• The Breakdown: This is your classic "all-purpose" industrial brush. The 8-double row design strikes the perfect balance between open space to grab light debris and dense bristle coverage to capture smaller dust particles. If you don't have a specialized debris problem, this is your reliable, daily-go-to option.

4. Polypropylene and Wire 8-Double Row Main Brush

• Best For: General sweeping mixed with stubborn, packed-down dirt or stuck-on debris.
• Surface Profile: Great for heavy manufacturing facilities, loading docks, and asphalt.
• The Breakdown: By weaving structural steel wire directly into the high-durability polypropylene bristles, this brush delivers serious scrubbing and scraping power. The wire elements break up compacted dirt, mud, or light scrap metal, while the poly bristles sweep it away.

5. Polyester 8-Double Row Main Brush

• Best For: General sweeping, specifically where moisture or high temperatures are present.
• Surface Profile: Excellent for rough, brushed, or irregular outdoor/indoor surfaces.
• The Breakdown: Polyester is a premium synthetic material known for its incredible structural memory and long wear life. Unlike other synthetics, polyester maintains its stiffness when wet, making this brush perfect for facilities that deal with outdoor transition areas, damp debris, or uneven, high-friction floors.

6. Polyester Full Fill Main Brush

• Best For: Maximum containment of heavy sand, grit, and fine manufacturing dust.
• Surface Profile: Built for rough or standard concrete surfaces requiring intensive dust management.
• The Breakdown: The "Full Fill" configuration means there are no gaps between the bristle rows—it is a solid, dense carpet of bristles. Combining this maximum density with the long wear life and resilience of premium polyester creates the ultimate heavy-duty barrier against elusive fine particles and heavy sand.

7. Natural Fiber 8-Double Row Main Brush

• Best For: Ultimate fine dust control and static mitigation.
• Surface Profile: Best restricted to indoor, dry, smooth floor surfaces.
• The Breakdown: Natural fiber bristles excel at picking up the absolute finest, microscopic dust particles that synthetic bristles might skip past. Because natural fibers do not generate static electricity like synthetics, they are highly effective at trapping light powders on completely dry, smooth industrial floors.

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