It started with a corner-sink countertop that injured one of Aaron Crowley's installers. Two years of prototypes later, No Lift System built the original lift-rotate-slide install cart. Today nearly 3,000 are at work in North America and 20 other countries. This is our story.

Do you really need all that fancy equipment in your shop? CNC Milling Center, Bridge Crane, Vacuum Lifter? Well for most shops OF COURSE YOU DO! You’ve invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in your shop…but how much are you investing in your Customer Facing Installation Crew? Read more…

Fragile natural stone is back…the more expensive and exotic the better. For stone fabricators, every move is a risk. In the shop, cutting it on the saw, moving to a workbench to finish edges, and once you get the slab to the job site, the last thing you want is a broken slab. See how Coco’s Granite handles Cristallo…

You invested in the No Lift Install Cart, and your Crew. congratulations! We want to see your challenging projects. Film and Post your projects to win $500 and a Company Profile and get in front of 1-Million views each month.

Ever wonder how our No Lift System Installation carts are built?
See behind the scenes, what goes into our manufacturing process and see just how complex these install carts are.

Every lift comes with a risk. Sometimes an injury comes just bending over to tie your shoes. Don’t take unnecessary risks. See what Ryan Lee from Coco’s Granite says about his injuries…prior to investing in the No Lift System

You’ve built an amazing fabrication business. Invested crazy money into equipment, showroom, staff…but are you making the same investments in your install systems?

The final mile of the project can often Make or Break your profits on a project you’ve spent days working on in the shop. Manoeuvring a heavy and fragile slab from the truck to the cabinet base can often be one of the most difficult last steps.

What are you struggling with as a professional stone countertop installation company? We’d like to know.
We have created a survey to gauge concerns you face everyday.
Please take a minute to share your insights. We will follow up with survey results in upcoming posts.

Are your Installers Lasting 15-20 Years, or more like 3-5 years?
What’s creating the Churn? Installing stone countertops is hard work, and the repeated lifting, twisting, and carrying can take a toll on the strongest of Men.

How many more years do you have bearing the weight of 8-10 installs each week? There’s a better way. Preserve your body, extend your career with professional installation tools from No Lift System.

Skilled countertop installers are increasingly difficult to recruit and retain. See how modern material-handling equipment can protect experienced workers, improve crew productivity, and open installation careers to a broader workforce.

Is it possible that each install crew lifts ONE MILLION POUNDS per year? Seems impossible, but the math doesn’t lie. Check this out…

Football players find themselves in the center of the controversy over concussions and the long-term effects of head injuries.

While there is great debate among the fans, doctors, teams, and players as to what role repeated impacts and concussions have on future brain function and mental health, there is no question that professional football players wear out quickly.

The tools on this list are not “standard” for the stone industry, but they are standard on a top-notch install rig. Many of these tools will pay for themselves the first time they’re used, and from then on they’re making us money!

For many stone shops, the pickup is the universal means of transport. From hauling the boss to an appointment, hauling slabs to the shop, and hauling finished counters to the job site, it can do it all.

Have you seen NASA’s Suspended Equipment Technology (SET) and how they’re using it to load 1,000-pound space components into the payload bays on their next-generation rockets?

Prior to the development of this advanced technology, if you can believe it, NASA technicians had to muscle these awkward systems into place under the wing and then lift them from ground level up into the open loading bays.

Installer injuries have become too commonplace in the stone industry. And with installer injuries come workers comp claims.

When an installer suffers an injury, there’s more at stake than his job. His family and his livelihood become vulnerable. And his career as an installer may come to an end. While it may not happen immediately, an injury, no matter how small, can impact an installer for years.

Frequently we are asked why the No Lift Install Cart

has a max capacity of 600 pounds.

Considering the trend towards full slab islands, it’s a fair question and we will answer here.

I’m assuming you will agree with this, of all the jobs in the stone business (besides ownership) installing has got to be the toughest.

They’re stuck on site till the job is complete, they have to solve a myriad of unforeseen problems with the customer looking over their shoulder, and often they finish work that was missed by measure-up or the shop!

To help you help your shop help your installers, here’s a short article: