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Recommended for smaller slabs and medium-to-low slump concrete, the LBG 800 bull float screed provides deeper vibration and single-step levelling.

Chicago Pneumatic enters core concrete equipment lines

Do not use a 4- to 5-foot bull float. A bull float can smooth the surface but it cannot perform the cut-and-fill process; and due to its short length, its use will reduce the floor flatness.

How to achieve flatter floors: by using the proper finishing tools and techniques, you can significantly increase your FF numbers so that placing very flat and super flat floors becomes routine

Instead, rent a bull float (shown above; $20 per day).

Tips for trouble-free concrete: avoid hassles now and cracks later

Almost immediately after the screed passes, workers can begin floating the surface with the bull float. The bull float, a wide, flat metal blade with a long handle, is pushed and pulled over the surface several times.

Chapter 23 Concrete paving

Bull float; To smooth and level horizontal surfaces, eliminating any high or low spots or ridges left by the straightedge.

Tools and terms for horizontal concrete work

Three or four passes with the bull float is usually sufficient.

Pour your first big slab: a pro shows you how to build strong forms, place a solid slab and trowel a smooth finish

Smoothing of the surface with a bull float and hand float follows.

Section 6 Summary

If you can't reach the entire slab from the edges with a darby, rent a bull float and handle to use instead.

Finishing concrete

Use the bull float right after screeding (Photo 12) if there's no bleed water present.

Pour a Concrete Sidewalk

Smooth the surface with a bull float, round the edges along the forms with an edger, and finish the surface with a finishing broom.

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* a bull float for the first smoothing--be sure to get two or three extension handles;

Building a concrete pad

The bull floated downstream for about 200 yards before becoming lodged in a pocket of rocks in the shallow water at the river's edge.

A moose obsession: in most instances, the search for a trophy-class moose doesn't equate to a lifelong pursuit ... in most instances that is

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