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Trade Tool Innovations visits Triton Marine Construction

Tom — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:13:59 +0000

I finally put a video together of our stop-in to see Steve at Triton Marine Construction in Oahu Hawaii. We had a great trip and one of the highlights was certainly seeing the screed on the job site. Enjoy



JB Concrete Construction
Tom — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:07:58 +0000

Here is a recent email we received from Jason Bales of JB Concrete Construction.  Thanks for the great feedback Jason!
Tom,

Thought I would take a moment and get you some feed back about your screed machine. Here in Indiana, been a little cold so had some time to do the things that should have been done this summer. Anyways, I contacted you about the screed machine early in the summer, and our crew kicked the idea around whether we needed it or if it would even perform.  We finally decided to give it a whirl.  The machine arrived the day before we were to start a 9000 lineal feet side walk pour for a city curb and sidewalk renovation.  We put it together that night and had it on the job in the morning. First truck of 10 yards arrived at 7:00 A.M., by 7:20 we had 10 yards down, striked off, consolidated and closed off. Wow!  Any ways we normally pour 30 yards a day in sidewalks, not bad for a four man crew, but by noon we had 30 yards on the ground.  The driver was not able to unload as fast as we could strike it off. All said and done, less fatigue by the user, faster finish time, more controlled concrete.  Even the ready mix company commented on the machine. Said it got their trucks in-service faster, which meant more concrete out the door for them that day!  Time is Money!!

Again THANKS!!! for a great product.  We did pour almost 3 miles of walk with it this summer, and still going strong.. Paid for itself the very first day!! 
Jason Bales

JB Concrete Construction LLC

jbconcrete1@kconline.com



It’s All in the Family!
Tom — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:34:43 +0000
 
 Building Companies are one of the last great family owned and operated businesses in the United States today.  The reasons are obvious.  It’s fairly hard to send work overseas that gets done right in our own backyard.  In fact, after reading Thomas Freedman’s “The World is Flat”… (a great read, by the way)…it seems that the ONLY companies left in America in a few years WILL be family-run, service-type businesses.  SO if YOU are in the family-run contracting trades… your ahead of the game! 
In the coming blog posts, I will highlight some of the great small businesses that still gather around the turkey table every Thanksgiving.  These are the brothers, sisters, dads, moms, aunts, uncles and cousins that work, live and play together.  If you know of a great small company… let me know!  I’d love to tell their story and create a link! 
You can check out our story ( the Trade Tool Innovations Story) at http://toolsbytom.com/floor-machine-screed/aboutus.htm�