<p>The arduous and back breaking task of paving a road may now be as simple as rolling out a carpet, thanks to a new Dutch invention.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The incredible machine, named Tiger-Stone, can create an instant road wherever it travels, laying out 400 square metres of new road every day.<br /><br />The secret behind the invention lies in a smartly-designed gravity-based system, the Daily Mail reported.<br /><br />All a worker has to do is load the bricks by hand from a hopper into the Tiger-Stone in the desired patten.<br /><br />From there, gravity causes the bricks to slide together, in a sheet of paving, onto the ground.<br /><br />Brick roads have long been sought-after due to their attractiveness and durability but have become less common because of the labour-intensive work that goes into laying them, compared to other road surfaces such as concrete or asphalt.<br /><br />However, with a Tiger-Stone, workers are able to lay out 400 square metres of new road every day, using paving stones or bricks, compared to a single conventional paver on their hands and knees who would only be able to manage between 75 and 100 square metres. <br /><br />The machine is the brainchild of Henk van Kuijk, director of Dutch industrial company Vanku, who came up with his ground-breaking invention after deciding that squatting or kneeling down to place the bricks into the ground by hand was too much like hard work.<br /><br />The device, which is as wide as a road and comes in four, five and six-metre widths, is fed loose bricks and lays them out onto the road as it slowly moves along. The tread-tracked machine is electrically-powered, and has few moving parts, so noise and maintenance are kept to a minimum.<br /><br />Once the bricks are in place, all a contractor has to do is go over the new road surface with a tamper, and the new road is complete.</p>
<p>The arduous and back breaking task of paving a road may now be as simple as rolling out a carpet, thanks to a new Dutch invention.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The incredible machine, named Tiger-Stone, can create an instant road wherever it travels, laying out 400 square metres of new road every day.<br /><br />The secret behind the invention lies in a smartly-designed gravity-based system, the Daily Mail reported.<br /><br />All a worker has to do is load the bricks by hand from a hopper into the Tiger-Stone in the desired patten.<br /><br />From there, gravity causes the bricks to slide together, in a sheet of paving, onto the ground.<br /><br />Brick roads have long been sought-after due to their attractiveness and durability but have become less common because of the labour-intensive work that goes into laying them, compared to other road surfaces such as concrete or asphalt.<br /><br />However, with a Tiger-Stone, workers are able to lay out 400 square metres of new road every day, using paving stones or bricks, compared to a single conventional paver on their hands and knees who would only be able to manage between 75 and 100 square metres. <br /><br />The machine is the brainchild of Henk van Kuijk, director of Dutch industrial company Vanku, who came up with his ground-breaking invention after deciding that squatting or kneeling down to place the bricks into the ground by hand was too much like hard work.<br /><br />The device, which is as wide as a road and comes in four, five and six-metre widths, is fed loose bricks and lays them out onto the road as it slowly moves along. The tread-tracked machine is electrically-powered, and has few moving parts, so noise and maintenance are kept to a minimum.<br /><br />Once the bricks are in place, all a contractor has to do is go over the new road surface with a tamper, and the new road is complete.</p>