A tool comprising a large, flat, rectangular piece of wood, aluminum, or magnesium usually 8 in. (20 cm) wide and 42 to 60 in. (100 to 150 cm) long, and a handle 4 to 16 ft. (1 to 5 m) in length used to smooth unformed surfaces of freshly placed concrete.
Flat, long handled device that is used to smooth wet concrete.
Like the wooden float and the darby, a bull float is a smooth platform with an attached handle that's used to finish and texture newly poured concrete. It tends to be larger than its cousins, however, and its long broomlike handle makes it better suited to reaching across larger expanses of concrete. Home Improvement Encyclopedia
A flat metal tool equipped with a long handle used to bring sand and cement to the surface of poured concrete, while knocking down the small ridges left by screeding.
A tool with a 3- to 4-foot rectangular blade made of wood, resin, aluminum, or magnesium. Used to eliminate high and low spots in freshly placed concrete slabs, embed large aggregate at the surface, bring a layer of paste to the surface needed during final finishing, and float in dry-shake color hardener. Long handles either clip on or screw into the float head so it can be pushed out onto the slab while the user stands at the perimeter. (Also see hand float.)
A concrete finishing tool with a large, flat, rectangular piece of wood, aluminum, or magnesium connected to a handle.
A board of wood, aluminum, or magnesium mounted on a pole and used to spread and smooth freshly placed, horizontal concrete surfaces. After screeding, the first stage in the final finish of concrete, smoothes and levels hills and voids left after screeding. Sometimes substituted for darbying. See darby, float, and screeding.