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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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- Industri / Domain: Karier profesional
- Kategori: Jabatan pekerjaan
- Company: U.S. DOL
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