A Tool for Pouring Concrete

In doing an improvisational vertical veneer concrete pour by myself which lies underneath a concrete railroad loading dock I decided that I needed a tool to increase placement speed and efficiency.  First, pig iron slag was demolished at the site which underslung the dock by about a foot running perhaps a total of seventy feet.

This proved to be quite arduous in itself, requiring several choices in chipping hammers. Pig iron when it is not in somewhat glass-like thin layers is extremely hard and heavy. Monoliths required diligent repeated chipping to effect even the slightest breakage, leading the author to imagine that the concrete was simply poured over it for a reason.

One eight-foot section with blocking to be poured in fiber-glass re-inforced concrete. Due to the difficlty of getting a level spot at the plumb line below the dock the form is set back two inches. (This took 13 eighty-pound bags.)



My design of a half-conical concrete chute.

I did not have the use of a metal brake available to me, so I simply screwed it down and banged on it with a rubber mallet to get it to take shape.

The results with a slight separation where the author had to go get more concrete mid-pour.