Uses for All-Terrain VENTRY® Fans
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Some more applications we have heard of for our portable, gasoline-powered fans being used:

• Provide fresh air during crime investigations and at unattended deaths. A couple sheriffs have reported VENTRY Fans are life-savers (no pun intended) at such situations.
• Hazmat Ventilation / Meth lab cleanup. Fans are used to quickly and thoroughly ventilate and clear toxic fumes and hazardous chemicals at methamphetamine labs so investigation and cleanup can occur sooner and safer.
• Drying and flood cleanup. After a flood, VENTRY fans will circulate vast amounts of fresh air to expedite the drying process.
• Stump Fan / Brush Fan / Brush burning and Slash Burning. Brush Fans When clearing land, VENTRY Fans are great for accelerating burning. Ironically, they may be aimed at a brush pile to accelerate burn rate. In Puget Sound, we heard that all land clearing requires a fan for ventilation, and VENTRY Fans make great Stump Fans! One customer who uses the fans for burning (after being pleased with them as a volunteer firefighter) tells us that the GX-series Honda engines are not only long-lived and reliable, but the sensitive throttle control is terrific for burn fans. It allows him to throttle the fan way down at the beginning to get things started, then gradually bring it up to accelerate the burning.
• A fish processing plant in Alaska uses the fan for burning garbage. A sawmill in Western Washington uses a VENTRY fan to keep fires going (they are near soggy Seattle). Lots of landscapers, greens keepers and homeowners with large projects are using the fans for controlled burning. Fans models with wheels are great for this, as burning usually occurs on rough terrain or off-road.
• Smoke-removal systems for large buildings. An inexpensive alternative to built-in smoke-removal systems, a few VENTRY Fans can provide protection to large structures such as malls and warehouses. In a demonstration at a multi-million-cubic-foot shopping mall in Seattle, six VENTRY Fans recently removed smoke significantly faster and more effectively than a $250,000 mobile ventilation unit (MVU). $12,000 worth of VENTRY Fans saved the mall developers from having to install a built-in smoke removal system or having to pay six figures for a mobile ventilation unit for their local fire department. See some of the details here.

VENTRY Ventilation Fans can be set up on any terrain, so hills, mud, rocks, water and stairs are no obstacle! Perfect for any odd application where you need a lot of air in a hurry.

Above: 24 inch fan set up on a pile of palettes with pneumatic wheels option..

• Industrial Cleaning jobs. VENTRY Fans can be used to blow dirt and dust out of any confined space. (See photos below of a 1993 model VENTRY fan cleaning out a UPS truck). We also use a VENTRY Fan to clean out our office about once a year and our big main bay when we do not feel like sweeping.

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Above: A 1993 VENTRY Fan cleaning out a UPS Truck (7/2006)

• Drying mine tailings and removing fines.
• Quickly refresh stagnant air at scenes where decaying corpses have been found after long periods of time. (For this use, police, fire, and rescue personnel have been extremely grateful.)
• Special effects - including Blowing confetti at parades and creating wind (mild to heavy) in movies!
• More uses...

We would love to hear how you (safely) use your VENTRY Fan(s)! Please call us or e-mail.