Justin has also invented an automatic elevation cutting tool for cutting concrete stakes at heights. He calls it the “stake cutter,” and he says the productivity and safety gains from using it are undeniable. “I invented it when I was about to start construction on three schools with a couple kilometres of concrete and structural concrete,” he recalls. “I was looking at those projects, I was thinking about what it was going to take to saw those stakes, and I just thought ‘There’s got to be a better way to do this.’” “So I sat in the garage, you know, with a welder and some ideas, and I just started building prototypes. It probably took me a good five-to-seven days, but at the end of it I had made a functional prototype that proved what I was trying to do. It proved that it worked.” With the finished apparatus, Justin says he was able to “take a three-person job and turn it into a one-person job.” “And it was super accurate – like, accurate to the millimetre, and perfectly level,” he says. “It was also super safe. I could get my young son to use it, and he’d be faster than a veteran who had cut stakes a thousand times doing it the old way.” Moving forward, Justin’s goal is to continue innovating like that wherever possible. If he sees something he believes can be done better on site or in the office, he always wants to explore it. He never wants to be the kind of builder who says ‘this is the way it’s always been done, this is the way we’ll always do it’ – he always wants to push THE CONSTRUCTION SOURCE CANADA
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