Howdy, neighbor! You know, Tim Taylor would be in " Tool Time " heaven if he were to get into the concrete business today with his excavator and / or skid steer( yes, he ' d have at least one of those by now). He always wanted to tear out that old ' 70s concrete patio of his and do some real“ Home Improvement” by pouring himself a nice 21st-century replacement.
And with the attachments available these days, he would likely be a kid in a candy store shopping for the right tools. He wouldn ' t need to worry about finishing the concrete; he could get artificial intelligence and Wilson to do that for him. Just turn him loose and let him do what he does best: break things. And he would have more power to do so nowadays than he ever needed. After all, demolition is his middle name.
So, let ' s take a look at a few of the fun attachments he would now have available to do concrete work. There might even be a couple of them that he never even knew existed.
Demolition Oftentimes demoing existing concrete is the first step in a new installation job. A concrete contractor is going to be spending a good deal of his time doing demolition work. If it ' s just a small slab, perhaps an electric or gas-powered jackhammer will do the job, but for larger jobs, he is not going to want to spend days doing it by hand.
There are several tools available to make the job quicker and easier – the most common being the concrete breaker.
Excavator-mounted hydraulic impact hammers can be fitted with an 18-inch to well over 8-foot spike called a nailpoint( also called moil-point) chisel. Some that produce from 400 blows to