A Dutchman has designed a machine that takes the sweat out ofbricklaying and also does it in a jiffy, especially in road building.
Named Tiger-Stone, the amazing machine can create an instant road wherever ittravels, laying out bricks in formation to create perfect paving. Its secretlies in a smartly designed gravity-based system.
All a worker has to do is load the bricks into the Tiger-Stone in the desiredpattern. From there, gravity causes them to slide together in a sheet of pavingon the ground.
Brick roads have long been sought after due to their attractiveness anddurability but have become less common because of the labour-intensive workthat goes into laying them, compared to other road surfaces such as concrete orasphalt, the Daily Mail reports.
However, with a Tiger-Stone, workers are able to lay out 400 square metres ofnew road every day, using paving stones or bricks, compared to a singleconventional paver on their hands and knees who could only lay 75 to 100 squaremetres each day.
The machine is the brainchild of Henk van Kuijk, director of Dutch industrialcompany Vanku, who came up with his ground-breaking invention after decidingthat squatting or kneeling down to place the bricks on the ground by hand washard work.
The device, which is as wide as a road and comes in four, five and six-metrewidths, is fed loose bricks and lays them out onto the road as it slowly movesalong. The tread-tracked machine is electrically-powered and has few movingparts, so noise and maintenance are minimum.
Once the bricks are in place, all a contractor has to do is go over the newroad surface with a tamper, and the new highway is complete.