SHERP

SHERP helps to deliver equipment and personnel to remote areas, where it has proved Its efficiency and safety in comparison to analogs. SHERP enables work in all weather and natural conditions and replaces hovercraft, snowmobiles, trucks, and boats at once.

DTS & Associates is a full-service remote construction company in the Northern part of Ontario delivering the best-in-class construction and craftsmanship.

Needs: transportation of personnel and tools to the worksite situated on the opposite side of the river, as well as in wintertime when the ice is thin.
Pain points of the previous solution (boat, hovercraft):
Low weight capacity
Time-consuming
Unsafe for certain weather conditions

SHERP Solution:
Transportation of a team of 4 workers and essential tools
Safe to use on thin ice – additional 4 weeks per year
Not getting stuck in snow even when transporting equipment and full loaded.

Brennan is a Construction, Environmental Services, and Harbor Management company focused on providing quality services to both public and private owners of civil infrastructure.

The SHERP is faster and holds more capacity than other amphibious assets in Brennan’s fleet. The low ground pressure of the SHERP is perfect for environmentally sensitive areas that require a low-impact equipment, and Brennan continually works to minimize our environmental footprint.

SHERP gives company a great combination to put into service on jobs that would otherwise require far more costly alternatives. These types of tools distinguish Brennan from our competition, in versatility and in our ability to offer eco-friendly site access for heavy equipment.

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Devin Bell is a contractor based in Kenora, Ontario.
Devin has been using Sherp on a daily base for more than 2 years. He prepares landscapes more often than buildings, so he counts on SHERP to get to remote job sites. SHERP allows Devin to work year-round non-stop.Probably, there is no one better than Devin to talk about SHERP: it was one of our first clients!

Shorline Construction is a leading builder of cottages and boathouses in the Muskoka, Ontario area.

Needs:
Transporting equipment and personnel to island projects, especially during the winter months when transportation such as a boat or hovercraft can’t handle it.

The solution:
SHERP UTV is a unique specialized vehicle, it is able to get out of the water on the ice, swim, climb, overcome any obstacles and work regardless of the terrain and weather conditions!
Its high payload capacity and safety of use even in the most extreme conditions makes it indispensable for remote construction projects.

Owen McCullough lives in the Northwest Ontario area and operates a SHERP based contracting business. Thanks to SHERP, Owen has the opportunity to do many different jobs: lease out hydroline companies, mining exploration companies and more.
A lot of people there have ice fishing huts and sometimes it’s difficult to get off of the ice due to the weather. Then they call Owen, because with SHERP he can definitely help.
Owen even used SHERP for harvesting. Due to the low tire pressure, SHERP does not damage the field at all.

Remote residential / industrial / commercial contracting.

Highline Construction uses SHERP in different projects in severe conditions.

For example, SHERP helped them to remove a section of line across the Wapsi River, North of McCausland. Highline.

They use SHERP as a support unit for pipelines and rigs maintenance, which solidifies durability and efficiency working throughout wetland and marshy areas. Praised for low ownership costs and being the only ATV to climb on the thin ice or high shores.

Ukrtransnafta PJSC is a part of the Ukrainian oil and gas leading company “Naftogaz Ukraine”. It was created in 2001 for the purpose of optimizing the operation of Ukraine’s oil transportation system and implementing a uniform policy in this field.

Needs: monitoring and inspection of pipelines in hard-to-reach locations, especially in swamps.

SHERP Solution:
SHERP is used as a support unit for pipeline maintenance, increasing durability and work efficiency throughout wetlands and marshy areas.

Headquartered in Calgary, Canada, Enbridge is a world leader in the supply of liquid hydrocarbons in North America, transporting around 66% of Canada’s crude oil exports to the United States.

SHERP plays an important role in the maintenance and service of Enbridge’s extensive oil and gas pipeline network, which stretches 27,000 km across North America and transports three million barrels of crude oil and liquid every day.

Sterling Operations provides pipeline right-of-way reclamation, light construction, frac-out trailers, and general labor services to the oil and gas industry through the Peace. Working alongside grain and cattle farmers and listening carefully to their concerns while fulfilling our obligations to quality vegetation management has been rewarding. Many landowners now insist that all oil and gas companies occupying their land use Sterling Operations.

The company use SHERPs for pipelines servicing and provides rental solutions to landlords.

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SHERP helps to rescue people from flooded areas, airplane crash recoveries, rescue operations on ice, MedEvac, fire distinguishing.
Praised for its versatility in terms of pass-ability on various terrains and usability in different cases.

SHERP helps save lives in the most extreme conditions of the Carpathians mountains: more than 10 vehicles for the Transcarpathian Emergency Agency working for natural disasters regarding floods, landslides etc.

Needs: using high-passability transport for searching and rescuing people in hard-to-reach locations, especially water hazards.
SHERP Solution: used for search and rescue operations when other vehicles couldn’t overcome – willows, mud, combinations of mud, waters, trees.
The main advantage of using SHERP is its ability to traverse inaccessible areas that a boat wouldn’t be able to travel through or places where it is considered unsafe to travel.

Needs: all-terrain vehicle for rescue operations with high-passability characteristics, including on water and ice.
Previous solution: hovercraft, which is limited in its use in western South Dakota terrains and weather conditions.

SHERP Solution: Utilizing in order to transport all necessary personnel and rescue equipment across Rapid Creek with no roads or trails leading to the base of the slope and a steadily flowing creek for crossing.
Search and Rescue deploying from the bottom of the slope and performing a high-angle vertical rescue to lower the patients to the bottom of the slope.

The Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office, the 4th largest county in North Carolina, a multi-faceted law enforcement agency served by over 250 sworn and professional staff members.
Needs: the use of high-passability transport for searching and rescuing people in hard-to-reach locations, including thick and heavily wooded areas.

SHERP Solution: rescue operations utilizing the Sheriff’s Office Sherp and helicopter combination in the most extreme conditions, which are inaccessible without amphibious vehicles.

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Bay Search & Rescue (UK) is a provider of the Special Logistical Rescue Service, throughout the Northwest and Nationally, including floods, snow, disaster relief, supporting all EMS.

Needs: lifesaving vehicle for special conditions such as patches of quicksand, safety UTV for soft sand.

SHERP Solution: used in Morecambe Bay – the largest expanse of mudflats and sand in the United Kingdom and is notorious for its quicksand and fast-moving tides.
SHERP has more than halved response times for the team across the bay reaching areas that were previously inaccessible in the fast-moving tides.

In April 2020, wildfires ripped through Poland’s biggest national park Biebrza (Podlaskie Voivodeship, northeastern Poland). The volunteer Fire Department used SHERP in their firefighting operation.

SHERP Solution: SHERP was involved in transporting all the fire equipment and firefighters, food and water delivery for volunteers and crews involved in the extinguishing operation.

Main advantages of the solution:
– Light weight and high passability (ditch, trenches, peat bogs and swamps etc.)
-Equipped with strong and durable tires, which could easily handle the road
– The peat was didn’t cave in and the topsoil was not damaged because of SHERP’s big wheels and distributed mass
– High maneuverability – made turns possible in extreme fire conditions, when the flame-wall was from the right or left side
– Maintenance simplicity – possibility to maintain SHERP on site within a couple of minutes
– Turning on the spot in extremely inaccessible places where ordinary light motor vehicles would fail

Border between Belarus and Ukraine is found on swamps of Polissia zone. SHERP suits this natural conditions like any other vehicle.

Kazakhstan is famous with sharply continetal climate and flat landscape. This means severe winters with extremely low temperatures and strong winds. SHERP helps rescuers of Kazakhstan to overcome this natural difficulties during rescue operations.

SHERP helps them to rescue people from flooded areas, airplane crash recoveries, rescue operations on ice, MedEvac, fire distinguishing.
Praised for its versatility in terms of pass-ability on various terrains and usability in different cases.

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The Cambridgeshire Search and Rescue team will use SHERP for floods eliminations.

Team Chair, Barry Carter, said “The team is excited to have access to such a fantastic piece of kit that can only help to enhance our capabilities across the county. The region is increasingly threatened by flooding for which this vehicle is ideal. “

This technique has unique abilities, it can move on any surfaces, including swimming in water. Has the ability to get out of the water onto the ice. Despite its small size, it can carry up to 6 people in the back.
The use of the snow and swamp-going vehicle will significantly expand the capabilities of the detachment in the elimination of various kinds of emergency situations (floods, snowfalls, extinguishing peat fires, conducting prospecting work in swampy terrain and in difficult places).
On December 10, on the territory of the diving and rescue service center of the ROSN State Emergency Control Service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Belarus, a representative of the manufacturer held classes on the operation and maintenance of the all-terrain vehicle and in practice tested the patency of equipment in the water area of ​​the Tsnyanskoye reservoir.

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The use of the SHERP positively impacts effectiveness of food transport operations, allowing to reach target locations irrespective of seasonal and weather conditions.

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the leading humanitarian organization saving lives and changing lives, delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience.

In 2019, WFP assisted 97 million people – the largest number since 2012 – in 88 countries.
WFP’s efforts focus on emergency assistance, relief and rehabilitation, development aid and special operations.
In emergencies, WFP is often first on the scene, providing food assistance to the victims of war, civil conflict, drought, floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, crop failures and natural disasters.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2020 to the World Food Programme (WFP) “for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in
efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict”.

WFP won the 2019 Best Transport Achievement Award for the SHERP project: Augmenting WFP’s last-mile capacity by using amphibious all-terrain vehicles.

Previous solutions: helicopters, trucks, airlift / airdrops

Needs: food delivery to hard-to-reach locations, increasing effectiveness and passabilities of overland transporting, reducing transport costs

SHERP Solution:
A 75% reduction in cost resulted in effective savings in transport costs compared to airdrops
USD 1.7m saved by replacing airfreight with cost-efficient overland transport
The use of SHERP also positively impacts the effectiveness of WFP’s food transport operations as they allow them to reach locations irrespective of seasonal and weather conditions.

The use of the SHERP positively impacts effectiveness of food transport operations, allowing to reach target locations irrespective of seasonal and weather conditions. UN WFP reduced transportation costs by 75% by switching to SHERPs from aerial transportation in humanitarian missions to deliver cargo in hard-to-reach places of Mozambique and other African regions.

Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) – an independent, global movement providing medical aid where it’s needed most. Works in conflict zones, after natural disasters, during epidemics, in long-term care settings, and more. MSF has projects in over 70 countries around the world.

MSF provides lifesaving medical humanitarian care, and speaking out about what they see. 16 projects across South Sudan related to responding to epidemics, outpatient treatment, mother & child healthcare etc.

SHERP Solution: Despite the logistical challenges, MSF manages to provide the only available medical aid using special vehicles, including SHERP.
Reaching remote communities to bring medical care to people in South Sudan – transporting MSF staff and medical supplies.
Delivering construction supplies to prevent buildings from flooding during the rainy season. Strategic direction of development – responding to requests for amphibious vehicles with high passability and ample opportunities.

Finding comprehensive solutions for target audiences
cargo delivery, people transportation, using special equipment in remote locations.
Supplied with search and rescue equipment for the fastest transportation of victims from remote locations.
Supplying water from tanks, surface water, other containers through hand nozzles and a master stream nozzle.
Victim transportation or saving people, emergency therapy in the most extreme conditions.
Empowerment of maintenance and reducing the time of eliminating accidents. Clearing areas of trees and shrubs, scrublands, reeds etc. (incl. wetlands).
Improvement of buoyancy force and increasing its hold on soil.

WCK’s amphibious food relief vehicle in action! Because the bridge to Little Abaco washed out, communities from Cedar Harbor to Fox Town to Crown Haven have been difficult to reach. So we just drove around the bridge to deliver fresh fruit & meals to 5 towns!

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SHERP is widely used as the exploration unit and equipment carrier, with significantly higher speed and set-up time compared to traditional carriers. It has been appreciated for ability to move on the unstable soils in different weather conditions that prevents idles.

SHERP is widely used as the exploration unit and equipment carrier, with significantly higher speed and set-up time compared to traditional carriers. It has been appreciated for ability to move on the unstable soils in different weather conditions that prevents idles.

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PIPEHUNTER – pipeline monitoring and maintenance company, based in Chile. A contractor for mining companies for tailing maintenance (leakage prevention, residual mineral analysis) and other engineering solutions.
Previous solution: rental helicopter to transport people to worksites.
SHERP Solution: used to transport crews and to deliver equipment to hard-to-reach locations with difficult surfaces – pulp, wet soil, sludge etc.
Key clients:
CODELCO – Corporacion Nacional del Cobre de Chile – the largest copper producing company in the world (11% of the world’s total), explores, develops, processes, and sells copper.
Collahuasi mine – one of the largest copper reserves in Chile.

Goldcorp Inc. the world’s fourth-largest producer of gold (Vancouver, CA) and Newmont Mining Corporation (Colorado, US), the world’s second-largest producer of gold was merged in 2019.
Main business: gold mining and related activities including exploration, extraction, processing and reclamation.
SHERP Solution: Goldcorp’s Coffee Gold Project started in Dawson City and serves SHERP as a rescue vehicle at the exploration camp.

Gold Fields is a globally diversified gold producer with nine operating mines in Australia, Peru, South Africa and West Africa (including the Asanko JV), as well as one project in Chile.

Pain points: Exploring under salt lakes poses a very difficult undertaking, due to ever-changing and unpredictable ground conditions.
SHERP
Solution: Provides safe and simple access to the difficult and harsh conditions of the Lake Carey salt lake, Granny Smith Mine (underground gold mining operation located 740km northeast of Perth, Western Australia). Copes with the harsh salt lake conditions Offers alternative people and emergency transport Enables the lake’s islands to be explored with an extremely low environmental footprint.

Seismic surveys conducting in hard to reach places.

For this purpose Walker Marine received their custom-made SHERP trailer for snowmobile.

SHERP is especially valuable in this industry as a support unit for power-grids repair and maintenance operations at hard-to-reach areas and harsh terrain. It allows to restore power supply faster and decrease down-times, offers more capabilities on the off-road, and versatility in terms of equipping.

SHERP is especially valuable in this industry as a support unit for power-grids repair and maintenance operations at hard-to-reach areas and harsh terrain. It allows to restore power supply faster and decrease down-times, offers more capabilities on the off-road, and versatility in terms of equipping.

Manitoba Hydro is a provincial Crown Corporation and one of the largest integrated electricity and natural gas distribution utilities in Canada.
Needs: using specialized vehicles to transport people and tools to remote incidents in extreme conditions.
SHERP Solution:
Urgent staff transporting in case of emergencies to the most inaccessible locations for the elimination of power infrastructure damage.
Allows for quick access to hard-to-reach areas, crossing water obstacles without having to create temporary passages in order to reach worksites.
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Transener is the leading Argentine company in the transmission of extra high voltage electric power.
Needs: high-passability vehicle for crews and equipment delivery to remote worksites, maintenance and repair of power lines, eliminating accidents.
SHERP Solution: used for maintenance and repair operations in hard-to-reach locations, urgent crew transportation in case of emergencies, reducing time of accident elimination.

Duke Energy – one of the largest electric power holding companies in the United States, providing electricity to 7.7 million retail customers in six states.
Needs: crew and equipment transporting for regular monitoring operations, maintenance and repairing the infrastructure in remote locations.
SHERP Solution: using special vehicles for the most challenging conditions in everyday works, overcoming any kind of obstacles – swamps, wetlands, lakes and rivers etc.

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Hydro-Québec is one of the world’s largest producers of hydropower and one of the world’s largest companies for power transmission and distribution, and has over 63 hydropower plants with a total installed capacity of over 37 GW. The company serves around 4.3 million customers.

SHERP plays an important role in being able to provide fast and efficient service, regardless of weather and terrain, on the company’s over 34,000 km of power lines. This helps Hydro-Québec solve transmission and distribution problems in remote areas and areas that are difficult to reach, faster and at a fraction of the cost of other means of transport, such as helicopters.

In Kyiv, DTEK The Regional Power Grid Service tested SHERP for the repair of power lines in the region. They study the best world experience.
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Most of the high-voltage lines are located in hard-to-reach areas — river crossings and wetlands. Earlier, in order to check the serviceability, power engineers had to use boats in operation or conduct surveys only in winter.

As a result of a test inspection, the power engineers received data on the technical condition of 2 km of lines located in the hard-to-reach swampy area of the Borispol region.
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Thanks to these data, specialists will be able to timely repair emergency areas.
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SHERP will allow you to operate in the most difficult conditions, easily passes where other special vehicles cannot move.
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And most importantly, quickly, because it is critically important to get to the lines promptly at the time of accidents.
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DTEK The Regional Power Grid of Kyiv serve 46 thousand km of power grids in the Kyiv region, they provide more than 1 million customers with light.

It often happens that getting to the place of work or troubleshooting is quite difficult due to the terrain or weather conditions.
One service company uses SHERP utility task vehicles in Scotland for maintenance of wind farms. They also used the UTV during the winter for local search and rescue services in the north.

SHERP off-road capabilities were appreciated not only by businesses and municipal services but also by outdoor enthusiasts. Fishermans, hunters, travelers, and off-roaders around the world rely on the phenomenal all-terrain and autonomy of SHERP beyond civilization.

SHERP is not just an off-road but a cultural phenomena.
Music idol Kanye West is a big fun of SHERP and the owner of 11 of them! Why so many? He not only use them to reach the places but to shape the landscape of modern culture. Performances. Music videos. Fashion shows.
Today SHERP is a new icon.

Сanadian off-roader KingBossQuad knows all about hard terrains and ways to overcome them.
Wonder why an owner of such a huge off-road fleet buys a SHERP? Because it is first in a row. No other vehicle can bring people to places safe and sound. And yes, to pull out the other machines.

Wonder how much time saves SHERP on the off-road travels? An hour? A day? Our clients from Auberge La Barrière save up to 3 weeks on a single trip! On impassable terrains of Quebec SHERP replaces different types of vehicles and mashes the ice for boats on waters.

Riverby Flats is a private waterfowl ranch located 1/4 mile from the the Red River in Fannin County, Texas. The majority of the ranch is protected under the Wetlands Reserve Program which aims to restore and maintain natural wetlands habitats. Flanked by property recently purchased by the North Texas Municipal Water District as part of the Lower Bois dArc Creek Reserve project, waterfowl conservation is the mission of Riverby Flats. SHERP carries it’s mission for seasonal opportunities to harvest waterfowl, trophy deer, hogs and predators.

Arctic tours where you will see arctic wildlife including arctic fox, caribou, snowy owls and of course the magnificent polar bear…all in their natural environment. And yes, SHERP can bring you there.

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SELFISH Club is a modern country recreational complex in the Kyiv region next to the Dnipro riverbank, offering a variety of services – an aqua zone with an infinity pool, a mini golf course, a basketball, volleyball and mini football court, table tennis facilities, and a flotilla of 12 professional boats for sailing or fishing.

Companies that provide or use SHERP as a rental solution.

Dennis Scherping is the co-owner of SCHERP’S SHERPS that rents the SHERPs to those companies that need to get to the swamps and hard to reach areas.

Roughrider international successfully provides SHERP Rental services for Industrial customers in Canada.

Sterling Operations use SHERP for pipelines maintenance as well as renting them to their clients.

Maintenance of telecommunication towers and cables.

Carpathian mountains, blizzard, squall wind, snow level to the waist, in some places — to the chest. And we help to conduct the telecommunications tower inspection.

In clear weather, to maintain this tower, Kyivstar employees have to carry equipment on foot or on horseback. And it takes about 5 hours. Together we did twice faster, despite the bad weather.

Breaking prejudices together. Previously, in this weather, this area was considered inaccessible to technicians.

B&C Tower, LLC is a construction company that specializes in the maintenance, complete construction and demolition of cell towers.
The company provides a full range of wireless construction and maintenance services throughout the Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana region.
– “We use SHERP to transport personnel and equipment to remote sites that cannot be reached by standard vehicles. Companies contract with us for weeks at a time just to provide access over snow to do work in hard to reach terrain.
We’ve only had the SHERP for a year, but it’s already proven to be a great investment.”

SAGEMCOM is a leading European group on the high added-value communicating terminals market (broadband solutions, audio video solutions, and smart grid end-to-end solutions), which is based in France.
Needs: high-passability vehicle for people and tool transportation for projects on the island of Madagascar.
SHERP Solution: used for crew and equipment delivery to hard-to-reach locations for the installation of Internet cable lines.

SHERP UTVs took part In Arctic Rift Copper Project in Greenland. ARC is a significant, large-scale project with historical exploration results indicative of an extensive mineral system with potential to host world-class copper deposits.
To overcome all sea and terrestrial obstacles, the investigators needed SHERP utility task vehicles.

In the expedition used 3 all-terrain vehicles with a unique custom design. The members of the expedition sailed on utility task vehicles, rode on snow, ice, left the water and ice on the shore. Researchers are planning to use these UTVs in their next expeditions.

SHERP UTVs are also used in different expeditions. It helps to overcome all sea, ground and ice obstacles. Especially the utility task vehicle is indispensable on northern expeditions, where severe cold and conditions are necessary for overcoming. The members of the expedition sailed on utility task vehicles, rode on snow, ice, left the water and ice on the shore.