Tools
FOR THE 2009 SEASON we have acquired a new tool that bestows a number of ecological benefits: a manual paving block cutter. Up until now we have been using a grinding machine with rotating diamond blades to accomplish the same functions, when we need blocks of small, oddly-shaped sizes. And although the new ‘guillotine’ has a couple of distinct disadvantages — it’s very heavy, it cannot cut blocks in curved lines, and it cannot cut only partway across a block to create a V-cut — it outperforms the competition in every other way. So we continue to use the concrete saw for certain specific assignments, and the guillotine has taken over nearly all other cutting tasks.
