What are Concrete Placers?

Concrete placers are large, motorized, conveyor-equipped, heavy construction machines. They can be either chutes conveying concrete from a mixer to a narrow formed area, or very wide dumpers averaging approximately 60 feet (18.6 m) in width that convey uncured concrete from a mixer and place it efficiently within a wide area. Hand-wielded implements that are advertised and sold as concrete placers are more properly concrete levelers which are blades, averaging some 19 inches (48.3cm) in width and are usually constructed of aluminum or steel, with a long wood or fiberglass handle attached. The blade at the working end of these hand-wielded concrete placers/levelers looks like an ice scraper or a squeegee. The large, mechanical, conveyor-equipped concrete placers resemble very low roadway bridges. These machines are designed to place and level the concrete mix across the entire width of a road using a combination conveyor and tilt-dumping system fed by concrete mixing trucks or ...  more