Wooden Impact Protection Barriers

Wooden impact protection cushions the strike and leaves no marks on bodywork, which is why it goes where both the structure and the vehicle need protecting.

Wood behaves differently from steel under impact: it deflects and splits locally, absorbing energy instead of returning it. The result is a gentler contact — for the structure behind the buffer and for the panel of the vehicle that ran into it.

Where not marking the vehicle has value

At loading bays serving an external fleet, every scrape of paint ends in a conversation about liability. A steel buffer leaves a scratch and a dent; a wooden one cushions the contact and transfers no mark to the panel. That argument is as practical as it is technical.

• docks and loading bays
• sites serving external fleets and hauliers
• edges of ramps and levellers
• service bays and wash areas

A consumable element by design

Wood wears faster than steel, and that is not a defect but how it works. A wooden buffer is meant to take strikes and be replaced periodically — its role is to spare the load-bearing structure, not to survive unchanged. Replacing a worn element is straightforward and needs no work on the fixing.

What wood does not replace

For impacts at speed and for protecting critical services, steel bumpers or flexible barriers remain the right answer. Wood works in the range of contact and pressure, not collision.