Stanchions, guardrails and metal railing for rent

Belt stanchions by post height, base and belt

Two belt lines run 12 deep, so a long queue of matching posts starts with one of them: S-2205, chrome posts on cast steel bases, each with an 84 inch black belt/rope, the look of a bank lobby or a ticket counter, or S-2253, yellow posts on gray plastic bases with pull-out yellow and black belts, which reads as a warehouse floor.

The black stanchions are singles and pairs from three lines, each with its own belt: red and black on S-2292, black on S-2461 and gray and black on S-2382. A queue of more than two black posts mixes stock numbers, and of those belts only the two on S-2461 are plain black; the book does not say whether one line's belt clips to another line's post, so ask before planning a mixed queue. EC counts S-2382 as "1 Functioning (2 Total)" and marks it MISSING PARTS; ask what is missing before it goes on a hold list.

S-2295, a 44 inch red post on a red metal base, says to specify what goes with it: the book lists a 60 inch red vinyl option and a 66 inch one before the line is cut off, so get the full list of choices from the front office.

Brass and stainless posts, the velvet lines they name, and a rusty pole

Neither the brass line nor the stainless line names a belt; EC's notes point both to separate velvet lines. S-2376 is 7 brass posts 39 inches tall and S-2375 is 6 stainless posts 35 inches tall, 13 in all, each with a 4 slot top, and since the finishes do not share a height, a matching line stops at 7 brass or 6 stainless posts.

Opening this category will not bring up the velvet lines: the brass line names S-2376A for red velvet ropes, and the stainless line names S-2375A for black velvet before its text is cut off. Look up each stock number in the stock book's search box on the home page, then add it to the hold list with its posts. Neither post line has a photo on file.

S-1862 is another kind of post: a rusty pole on a 15 inch wheel rim base, 37 inches tall overall, 4 in the book, with no belt or rope named, for a junkyard gate or a back lot.

Highway guardrail: 162 inch sections on three kinds of support

The G-0189 highway guardrail comes as 24 sections on three lines, each 162 inches (13 feet 6 inches) wide with three supports and three bases, and the support sets the lines apart: 24 inch wood on G-0189a, 11 sections; 32 inch wood on G-0189b, 8 sections; and 30 inch I-beams on 18 by 18 inch metal bases on G-0189c, 5 sections.

For a shoulder dressed on one support type throughout, G-0189a has the most sections, 11. Together the 24 sections come to 324 feet of width, yet no line says whether or how one section meets the next, so put that question to the front office before drawing a continuous run, and allow for ground cover wherever the bases fall in frame.

The table shows where each line's text stops, so ask what goes out with a section. G-0226, which EC's book calls a guardrail/barrier, is a yellow double rail 100 inches wide, listed below with the pipe barriers. The three G-0189 lines also appear under Barricades, home of the K-rails and metal crowd control barricades.

Metal rails on feet, 36 inches to 20 feet wide

At 43 inches tall, 8 rail lines share one height: 21 rails, about 151 feet of width in all. R-0189, R-0190, R-0191 and R-0192 read the same in the book apart from width, 36 to 96 inches on removable bolt-on feet, 12 rails and 77 feet of width, 7 of the rails on R-0192; R-0150a, R-0150b and R-0150c each have two 10 inch square feet, and R-0073 spans 20 feet.

No 43 inch line names a profile or a finish beyond metal, so matching across those stock numbers comes down to the photos, and all 8 have one. Below 43 inches, the 4 rail lines filed here run 25 to 41 inches tall: of those, R-0025 has the most rails, five at 10 feet wide and 41 inches tall, and R-0173, 2 inch diameter pipe 168 inches wide, is only 25 inches tall. These two tables are not all of EC's railing: R-0199, for one, is black and distressed, 75 inches wide and 41 tall, with no feet and no material named.

U-shaped pipe barriers, a yellow double rail and square enclosures

The U-shaped railing/barrier units come in two scales: 6 inch PVC pipe, 60 by 32 inches, 5 in yellow (R-0146y) and 5 in gray (R-0146g), and 2 inch metal pipe, 30 by 36 inches (R-0130, 4 in the book), 14 units in all. Bollards and delineators are under Traffic Cones / Bollards.

G-0226 is one yellow metal double rail, 100 inches wide and 45 tall on two 10 inch square feet, and R-0148 is a pair of low square enclosures whose line names no material, so check its photo for the finish. Narrower yellow double rails with chrome caps, also 45 inches tall on two 10 inch square feet, are G-0227 (one, 83 inches wide) and G-0228 (two, 53 inches wide). In this category alone, yellow runs through 3 lines, 18 pieces counting the 12 S-2253 stanchions, the 5 R-0146y units and G-0226, so the posts, U barriers and double rail of one loading dock set can all read yellow; the S-2253 posts sit on gray plastic bases, and G-0226 carries 2 chrome caps.

Rails up to 20 feet long, and who carries them

In these tables, the lines past 12 feet are R-0073 at 240 inches, R-0173 at 168, the three G-0189 guardrail lines at 162 and R-0132 at 148. Read those lengths to the front office when calling ahead about truck size, which EC's pick-up terms encourage.

Since the whole order travels with the renter's crew, plan that crew on the pieces the book lists, among them two removable bolt-on feet with every R-0189 to R-0192 rail, two chrome caps on every G-0226, G-0227 or G-0228 double rail, a base under every stanchion post, and with every G-0189 section three supports, three bases and three bolts or parts, which is where its text breaks off. Ask the front office what else, if anything, goes out with each line on the order, so the load and the return count the same pieces.