How Equipment Attachments for Pouring and Removing Pavement Boost Efficiency

In the fast-paced world of construction, efficiency is all-important. That includes projects like pouring and removing pavement. Whether you’re laying down a new stretch of road or tearing up old concrete, having the right tools can make or break your timeline. To help you decide the best tools for the job, we’ve compiled a helpful guide to essential attachments you can use to pour and remove pavement and keep your job on schedule.

Pouring Pavement With Precision and Power

If you don’t pour it correctly and with speed and accuracy, you can end up with a pavement disaster. These attachments make pavement placement easy, and help ensure a smooth, durable surface while reducing labor and time.

Concrete Chutes

Concrete chutes are long, angled attachments that direct and pour concrete from mixer trucks into forms or molds. They’re indispensable when you need to pour into tight and hard-to-reach areas where you can’t park a truck. Because they ensure concrete flows smoothly from the truck into the pour location without waste or mess, they’re most effective on smaller-scale projects like sidewalks, curbs and slabs, where you need precise placement.

Concrete Placing Booms

Concrete placing booms are a game-changer for large projects like high-rise buildings and bridges. They’re mounted on cranes or stationary platforms, and they have articulating arms that reach over obstacles to pour concrete exactly where you want it. That can include warehouses, stadiums, schools, shopping centers and upper floors of large buildings, chimneys, walls, oil drilling platforms, dams and more. When projects demand difficult placement, concrete placing booms with concrete pumps can provide unmatched range and precision.

Concrete Buggies

If you’re navigating concrete through narrow spaces or across uneven jobsite terrain, nothing beats the mobility abilities of concrete buggies (sometimes called power buggies or Georgia buggies). These small, wheeled handcarts or vehicles transport concrete from mixers to remote areas of jobsites, like interior slabs or foundations, where trucks and pumps can’t easily reach. This prevents work interruptions and stoppages and reduces the time and labor it takes to move concrete material.

Paver Screeds

Paver screeds are leveling attachments that can be used by hand for smaller jobs or mounted on paving machines for large jobs. While they can look like a long two-by-four, most are made of reinforced aluminum or steel. They smooth fresh concrete or asphalt to give it an even, continuous surface. For contractors pouring large-scale projects like parking lots, highways and runways, where it’s crucial to have a uniform surface, screeds are essential to getting the job done right.

Finishing Brooms

Finishing brooms add final texture and slip-resistant finish to paving projects. They can be handheld or attach to mechanical finishers for large-scale projects. Once concrete is placed and leveled, sweep over the surface with a finishing broom to add traction, remove pour and smoothing marks, and perfect the surface for safety and a finished look.

Breaking Down and Removing Pavement With Ease

When pavement gets old or it’s time to replace it with something new, attachments can help you quickly and efficiently remove it. These tools are designed to tear through even the toughest concrete or asphalt and let you remove the pieces so you can start fresh.

Pavement Breakers

Pavement breakers can be hydraulic or pneumatic, but no matter which you choose, they’re built to fracture and break up thick layers of asphalt and concrete. They’re ideal for large-scale demolition projects, including parking lots, building foundations and roads, that require the removal of a lot of material in a short time. Most pros pair pavement breakers with excavators and backhoes to make even faster work of clearing so repaving can begin.

Hydraulic Hammers

If you’re doing targeted demolition, hydraulic concrete hammers might be your best bet. They use powerful hydraulic force to smash through pavement or rock, so they’re perfect for urban demolition projects like breaking through thick or reinforced concrete slabs, asphalt roads and even rock formations. You can mount them on excavators or skid steers to improve their mobility and pair them with excavators or backhoes to improve the speed of the job. 

Concrete Grinders

Concrete grinders are designed to remove upper layers of concrete through abrasion to leave a smooth, even surface that’s ready for finishing or repaving. They’re especially useful in resurfacing jobs that only require removing a thin layer of concrete or pavement, such as preparing floors for overlays or removing surface imperfections from concrete that is otherwise stable and in good condition. Contractors commonly use grinders on commercial floors, patios, sidewalks and other concrete surfaces where clients want a fresh look without a full demolition job.

Milling Machines

Milling machines, also called cold planers, remove layers of asphalt or concrete by grinding away the surface. They’re often used for road resurfacing or rehabilitation, preparing old surfaces for repaving and correcting surface irregularities. While they are self-propelled machines, you can use them alongside trucks and loaders to dispose of milled and removed materials. They’re favored for surfaces that are structurally sound and need surface-level work only; since they remove just the top few inches of material, they leave the base intact. This reduces the amount of new material and work needed for repaving, which saves time, money and waste.

Pavement Saws

When you need to make precise cuts in asphalt or concrete, pavement saws are the tool you’re looking for. Most have diamond blades that let them easily slice through thick pavement and create clean lines for repairs, trenching or removal. You can also use them for cutting expansion joints or removing damaged sections of pavement before repouring or resurfacing. They also come in hand-held, walk-behind and mountable versions to handle jobs from small to industrial-sized. 

The Right Attachments Give You The Edge

Choosing the right equipment for the job will make a big difference in the speed and quality of pavement pouring and removal. The attachments mentioned above will help you streamline operations, reduce labor costs, stay on time and on budget and keep clients happy. From concrete chutes to pavement saws, these tools are designed to help pavement contractors boost productivity and ensure that every job gets done efficiently, safely and on time.