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prestressed concrete laborer

A professional who performs any combination of following duties involved in preparing forms and pouring concrete to make prestressed structural beams. Respnsibilities include:

  • Cleans forms, using hammer, scraper, and brush, and sprays form with oil to prevent adhesion of concrete.
  • Places reinforcing steel cage in form, using power winch.
  • Pushes stressing cables through form, threads ends through guide holes in end plates, and clamps end of cables to plate.
  • Tightens nuts at base of form with power wrench, and inserts spacer bars and locking pins at intervals along top of form to maintain specified dimensions of form.
  • Clamps vibrators in holders on sides of forms.
  • Lays planks on protruding ends of spacer bars to make elevated walkway on both sides of form.
  • Lifts four-wheeled pouring buggy into position on walkway, using winch.
  • Lifts belt conveyor into position between pouring buggy and ready-mix truck with winch and bolts it to truck, using power wrench.
  • Starts conveyor and vibrators.
  • Shovels sample of concrete into canisters and tests consistency of concrete, using cone-shaped mold and trowel.
  • Pushes pouring buggy along walkway to follow ready-mix truck.
  • Settles concrete at top of form with hand vibrator, and fills low spots with concrete taken from conveyor.
  • Removes forms from cured beams, using handtools, and cuts protruding end of stressing cable, using oxyacetylene torch.
  • Lifts beam, using four-wheeled portable hoist (hoisting buggy), and moves hoist to yarding area by hand or with truck.
  • May prepare forms and cast concrete lintels.
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  • Jason F
  • (United States of America)

  •  (V.I.P) 16216 poin
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