Products
Overview
As a leading HSS tube manufacturer, Bull Moose Tube delivers precision-engineered HSS steel tubes that meet stringent industry standards, ensuring reliability and performance in every application.
In addition to the standard A500 range of HSS steel tube, our comprehensive line also offers several specialized choices. These include HSS A1085 products with enhanced strength and tighter tolerances for critical structural applications, low-maintenance weathering grade HSS, and the ultra-light/ultra-strong Stratusteel.
Bull Moose is the only HSS producer that uses both direct-form and round-to-shape (indirect-form) manufacturing methods. This gives customers the option for weld seams on most of our products to be either on the short side (direct-form) or the long side (indirect-form).
With multiple manufacturing facilities across the U.S., Bull Moose stands as a trusted HSS tube supplier, committed to providing timely rolling schedules, and reliable ship dates for our customers.
Bull Moose Advantages
- Wide ranges of yield strengths; 46 KSI to 110 KSI.
- Tighter tolerances, sharper corners and straighter tubes.
- Less residual stress on the steel
- Widest variety of custom sizes and lengths, including metric sizes and cut-to-length options
- Special packaging
STRATUSTEEL
We’re Taking High-Strength, Lightweight Steel to New Heights
Stratusteel® from Bull Moose® is revolutionary hollow structural steel tubing that’s three times harder than conventional steel and achieves strength ratings in excess of 100 and 110 KSI…at a weight that’s as much as 35% below other steel.
This robust technology enables cranes to reach higher, trailers to carry more weight, rescue ladders to extend farther — all without compromises in strength.
About The Product
STRONGER: Stratusteel® achieves strength ratings from 100 to 110 KSI, compared the 50 to 80 KSI ratings of conventional steel. Produced in accordance with ASTM A1112, our product is stronger — which means you can load more or extend further.
LIGHTER: Living up to its stratus-cloud namesake, Stratusteel® is as much as 35% lighter than standard steel products.
TOUGHER: Stratusteel® is 3x harder than standard steel as measured by the Rockwell hardness scale. As a result, products made of Stratusteel® have an impact-resistant toughness that enables them to take a beating and look newer, longer. This hardness also enables extendable products (such as booms and fire truck ladders) to extend farther without sway or bounce.
CREATES VALUE FOR YOU IN SIGNIFICANT WAYS: For truckers, less weight = more freight. For booms, cranes, and ladders, it’s stronger so you can extend longer. For every application, it performs as some of the toughest, most urable steel ever, prolonging the life and value of heavy-duty equipment.
CURRENT APPLICATIONS: Military vehicles, launch pad scaffolding, ladders, booms, agricultural equipment, heavy haul trailers.
About The Name
We presented several possible product names to hundreds of opinion-leaders in the transportation industry, and let them vote for their favorite. The final selection: Stratusteel®. Named after the steel-gray stratus clouds that can span the horizon, Stratusteel® is just as far-reaching and nearly as light.
WEATHERING GRADE STEEL TUBE
The Low-Cost, No Maintenance Alternative to Outdoor Applications
With the rising cost of galvanized steel, it’s good to know there’s a solid substitute: Weathering Grade steel tube from Bull Moose®.
Compare this stock to COR-TEN® and other ASTM A847 options, and you’ll find that our Weathering Grade steel delivers equivalent performance for heavy weather environments…cost-effectively.
Over time, the surface of this alloy steel develops a stable, light-brown patina that protects it from corrosion—and eliminates the need for painting and re-painting.
Its durability and 50 KSI strength make it ideal for applications such as walkways, bridges, railings, and other structures that are directly exposed to the elements.
Bull Moose Weathering Grade stock is readily available in multiple lengths, shapes, and wall thicknesses to fit an extensive range of projects.
Product Details
- Produced per ASTM A847, which mirrors ASTM A500 (plus atmospheric-corrosion-resistant steel)
- 50ksi min. yield, 70ksi min. tensile, 19% min. elongation.
- General applications: bridges, utility/light poles.
- Normally in stock:
- 3/16”
- 1/4”
- 3/8″
- (Custom sizes: inquire on lead time)
- Uncoated weathering steel typically provides initial cost savings of 10-15% by avoiding the expense of painting, and savings of at least 30% over the life of the structure.
- The steel’s weathered finish provides a natural look for outdoor environments, and because it is permanent, it does not require either VOC paint or blasting—both of which can be harmful to the environment.
Relevant Documentation
Environmental Product Declarations
HSS Comparison Chart
| Engineering Standard for HSS | Wall Thickness | Mass Tolerance | Charpy | Yield Strengths |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASTM A500/A500M | -10%; +10% | None | None | 46KSI, 50KSI MY |
| ASTM A847/A847M | -10%; +10% | None | None | 50KSI MY |
| ASTM A1085/A1085M | -5%; +10% | -3.5%; +10% | Yes; 25 ft-lbs. @ +40F | 50KSI MY |
| ASTM A1112/A1112M | -5%: +10% | None | None | 70KSI thru 110KSI MY |
| CSA G40.20/G40.21 | -5%; +10% | -3.5%; +10% | Yes; various levels | 38KSI thru 100KSI MY |
| EN 10219 | t < 0.197″ +10%; t>0.197″ +0.020″ | -6%; +6% | Yes; various levels | 34KSI thru 51KSI MY |
HSS Print Ads
You may have seen our HSS products advertised in major industry publications. Here are links to just a few of them:
