Question about an old timer's advice on bull float timing

My dad, who ran a crew in Omaha for 30 years, always said to wait for the bleed water to disappear completely before hitting it with the bull float, but that extra wait on a hot, windy day last July caused the slab to set up too fast and we had to fight it for hours to get a decent finish.

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angela7281mo ago

Fighting the slab for hours" sounds like a bad summer job description.

fisher.jessica1mo ago

My buddy did that one summer and came back looking like a ghost lol

cora8131mo ago

Man, that's rough. So your dad's rule backfired because of the heat. How do you figure out the right timing now, do you go more by feel or look for something specific before you float?

beng5129d ago

Totally learned that lesson the hard way too!