Pave Tool Innovators: Block Lifters

right here this will lift up three blocks at a time any any retaining wall blocks it'll hook into and it'll pick them up so now you can use an excavator or some product fast and furious yep and you designed that so a little history on pave toll i started at a 1985 baylor brothers so baylor bro is a hardscape business okay so we started at and we used to plow snow so first 10 15 years about snow like we got really frustrated realized it made money like only every third year so we stopped doing that and we spent our winters cutting and torching tools to try to get our products into the ground fast and furious so obviously to improve your spring summer falls pain was pallet to pavement so the pallet to pavement pain we tried to solve by creating tools plus systems equal greater efficiencies so that's kind of what took off with a tool so we started developing tools and we're up to i don't know maybe 15 20 tools that we had and it actually was recognized by the owner of tackle block so charlie chicarello says phil why are you still installing it says you need to get your tools as a handy installer so 2006 and seven i collaborated with tech a lot and we developed eight tools that first year yeah so the tools have just taken off and as we see in the industry right now you can't get help you can't get labor did you design this lifter this vacuum lift this is a vacuum lifter absolutely so we designed this unit runs off a dewalt battery so one hour quick charge battery were you the first one because there's been there's a lot of them were you the first or are you the knockoff i would say there's other systems out there yep this one's very unique just because it runs off a dewalt battery some of these units you got to bring inside you got to charge them inside on a charger well this is just simply in the field so it's kind of the unique technology this vacuum technology's been