What happens when you’re the co-creator of a new tool that, although you see it works very well for its original purpose in construction and demolition, you have the feeling that it could do so much more? That’s exactly where co-creator of Nestorbar®, Mark Slafkovsky found himself. He had this new, remarkable tool that combined a standard pry bar with a doubled claw hammer, in three different lengths and, which created its own fulcrum point wherever it might be used.
After Hurricane Sandy, Mark started to use the Nestorbar®, to assist his neighbors in the demo of major sections of their homes that had been flooded and severely damaged. Instead of using a simply pry bar that poked a small hole in the drywall, the Nestorbar®, made a much larger hole going in and a huge one coming out!
This work being a citizen “first responder” gave Mark the idea that real first responders could use the Nestorbar® not only for overhaul and demo, but for actual rescue work. Imagine someone with their arm pinned by a toppled drill press in a garage. Using the Nestorbar®,, rescuers could slip the double claw under the heaviest part of the tool and by exerting downward pressure on the long handle, lift the machine high enough to remove the patient from the entrapment, long before the air bags could be deployed and filled.
Listen, as Mark Slafkovsky explains the Nestorbar®,, from creation to its many uses, especially for the fire-rescue services.