Mojave Industrial Tools, Inc.

“Friends of Jawbone” came to us with a problem, putting holes into the Mojave Desert hard-packed decomposed granite for sign posts. Over the years FOJ has contracted with BLM to maintain roads and access ways. FOJ was asked to install thousands of signs and fences. Two man augers would burn out people in a day. Large trucks with augers caused too much damage to the environment. It couldn’t travel the small mountainous paths in the desert. Small tractors had to be loaded, unloaded and reloaded all day long since signs were so far apart. Being near Edwards AFB we had a built in brain reserve. The owner of Mojave Industrial Tools came up with the idea of a portable, self contained, truck mounted machine with hydraulic power and hand held controls. Thus was born: “The RoadWorker.”