Tiger-stone - What do you think to this?

[Bec@LondonStone]

Stumbled across this in the paper this morning and wondered if anyone had heard of it before? Sorry if I'm late to the party and this is old news!
Tiger-Stone

[local patios and driveway]

Been around for ten or so years now. Dont think its much cop, all it saves is having to kneel down

[lutonlagerlout]

it has been showcased here a few times,interesting concept and good for getting large areas of not very neat paving down
LLL

[Pablo]

It's a very job specific machine I doubt it could lay a wider area and I'm surprised it only does 400m2 a day that's not enough given what it and the loader would cost. Standard machine lay could easily match that and it can get into tighter areas.

[lutonlagerlout]

looking at it pablo it seems to have restrictions on the sides
it looks like these could be adjusted to suit say 4-6 m wide
interesting machine,but most of the blockpaving i have seen in holland is purely functional
and not even very functional
LLL

[Tony McC]

Linking to the Daily Wail site is a serious lapse in judgement and taste, but the machine, as others have said, is nowt new.

There's a company is Sheffield who are trying to get it off the ground (ho ho!) in Britain and are hoping to get a machine over here from Holland later this Spring to run a few demos. I've blagged meself an invitation and promised to put video on the site if and when they do the dee-monstrations, as St Fred of Dibnah used to say.

[Bec@LondonStone]

I was expecting a jibe or two about reading the Daily Mail! All I can say is...I like a good fairytale

This is the first time I've seen a machine like this, my first reaction was that it's quite an impressive bit of kit but looking at it more closely there doesn't seem to be much flexibility (what do you do if your road suddenly curves or bends?) and 400m2 doesn't sound like a lot when you consider the cost of the kit must be huge plus the fact that you still need a labourer to load the bricks. Would be interesting to see it in action though, I bet it looks impressive.

[Carberry]

Wonder when the pikey version is going to be released? couple of guys on back of a transit throwing the blocks off the back :laugh:

[Tony McC]

I wouldn't even trust the date in the Daily Wail ... but don't get me started on that rag or we'll be here for months!

Bec, even as a non-block layer, you have spotted the biggest problem with this type of installation. Fine for the dead straight, uniform width pavements they have in some parts of Europe that were, erm, remodelled by the Nnazis 70-odd years ago, but on the twisty, turny, no-sides-parallel, ironwork-infested highways of Britain, it would struggle.

It's only real opportunity on this side of the channel is the big commercial areas - freight yards, ports, car parks, etc., but there are barely enough of these to keep the 'conventional' machine-lay fraternity in business, so the investment needed for such a machine (and there are several models out there) is difficult to justify.