If you pour concrete, lay block, or cut tile for a living, the wrong masonry saw costs you on every single cut. Our crew has spent the last 90 days running ten of the most popular contractor-grade masonry saws through brick, CMU, reinforced slab, porcelain, and natural stone. We measured cut quality, dust output, blade … Read more
Tuckpointing is the masonry craft of grinding out old, crumbling mortar between bricks and packing fresh mortar into the cleaned joints. The tool that does the grinding is a dedicated angle grinder fitted with a thin diamond tuck point blade and a dust collection shroud. After spending the last three months testing grinders on a … Read more
If you have ever hand-bucketed grout up a scaffold or watched a trowel crew spend an entire day filling CMU cores, you already know why the best mortar pumps for masonry exist. I have spent the last three months putting eight machines through block fill, restoration, slab leveling, and crack repair jobs, and the gap … Read more
I spent the last three months running eight stucco sprayers through real residential and light-commercial jobs alongside a four-person stucco crew. After roughly 320 hours of spraying, cleaning, and pulling apart clogged manifolds, I can tell you with certainty: not all hopper guns earn their place on a contractor’s truck. Some clog after two pails … Read more
When I started digging into the best pile drivers for foundations, I expected to find a short list of diesel hammers and excavator-mounted rigs. What I found instead was a wider ecosystem than most guides acknowledge: yes, you have massive commercial hydraulic and vibratory hammers for skyscraper work, but the daily reality of foundation projects … Read more
Choosing the best helical pile drivers for foundations in is harder than it should be. The category mixes industrial skid-steer hydraulic rigs with consumer-grade handheld gas and electric post drivers, and every seller claims their unit is heavy-duty. After watching crews on Dr Decks, Premier Outdoor Living, and several contractor forums struggle with underpowered gear, … Read more
Finding the best sheet pile drivers for excavation is the difference between a trench shoring job that finishes on schedule and one that bleeds crew hours into a wet hole. After spending weeks on jobsites with foundation crews, utility contractors, and marine builders, our team narrowed eight attachments worth your attention in – covering hydraulic … Read more
A padfoot roller is a single-drum vibratory soil compactor with raised metal pads, studs, or knobs covering its drum. These pads knead and compress cohesive soils like wet clay, silt, and mud by concentrating force at each tip. After spending 90 days testing 8 different padfoot roller attachments and tractor-pulled compactors on clay-heavy sites, our … Read more
The best smooth drum rollers for asphalt are vibratory tandem or double-drum compactors weighing 1.5 to 14 tons, with operating weight and centrifugal force matched to project size. Top picks include the MMS 2 Ton Double-Drum Roller and HUAYEE RHY1.5 Ride-On for commercial paving, the Typhon Fury 15 and MMS 1.5 Ton for driveway and … Read more
I spent the last month talking to paving contractors, rental yard operators, and municipal crews about one machine that almost every job seems to demand: the pneumatic roller. A pneumatic tire roller (PTR) is the only roller type that delivers true kneading action across the mat, sealing surface voids, lowering permeability, and locking aggregate into … Read more