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How to stop a flood? Start with the right casters

Thursday, Oct 30, 2025

When you’re moving massive infrastructure to manage real-world flood control, second-best won’t cut it. That’s why Hamilton got the call—again.

For the fifth time, we’ve been tapped by an Iowa-based steel fabrication powerhouse to support the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) on critical flood mitigation projects in Cedar Rapids and Des Moines. These aren’t patch jobs. They’re long-term, high-stakes systems designed to protect urban cores from rising waters and catastrophic damage.

At the heart of the design our custom maxi-duty casters. Our rigs are purpose-built for extreme conditions: think rigid frames, V-groove or forged steel wheels, and the muscle to haul 16,000 pounds without flinching. But this job isn’t just about brute strength. These casters also take on hefty side loads while navigating recessed track systems, so we reinforced the caster legs with welded structural steel channel. It's overbuilt engineering in all the right ways, because flood infrastructure doesn’t get a do-over.

Repeat orders like say a lot. We’re proud that our casters keep earning trust to carry the load when failure isn’t an option.

Because when the waters rise, Hamilton holds the tide.

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