Bull Floating the Concrete Surface

all right so this is called a bowl float it's a b-u-l-l float bowl not a bowl like a cereal bowl so this is the tool that you use to initially close up the surface or smooth the surface out you can see we've drunk some already over here we screened it but it's not bulk loaded so when you bowl float it's real easy it's got a the head tilts so as you twist the handle hey take one of those handles off you got 19 poles on here haircuts short arms thank you so as you twist it this way to the right it tilts the bull float off that way so as you're pushing it forward obviously you tilt it up you don't want to tilt it way up you want to tilt it up just enough so it's not digging into the surface okay so you push it out this is about the smoother you want to push it off okay i'm not going to go all the way because i really want you to do it and then as you pull it back before you start you twist it back you twist it to the left so you get the bat and then you'll see that lift off the surface just a little bit you want to keep it relatively flat you'll want to tilt it way up and then you bring it back to you it does not want to work it enough to close up the upwards right so i just did it one time but obviously it's not completely closed it's still some holes yep so it'll take two or three times across in the same spot to work that into where it's just like we saw eric do there okay so i'm gonna let you do that all right don't mess it up oh god here we go don't screw it up monkey looking good brother keep it flat nice looks nice you can lower your tilt just a little bit the flatter you get it at first the first time it flattens it out more and closes it up okay and then your speed when you pull it back you're going to want to pull it back a little slower than you push it out because that really closes up the surface slower you said yep you're going excessively slow okay that's probably about good for a pulling back i just tell you things once you got it that's perfect well you know the thing is i got to get that muscle memory for him to really understand what i'm i mean i understand the concept but my muscles don't understand the feeling no biggie you know it's one thing to to know what you're saying but to get the feel of it is a completely different thing that's where i'm too high up yup yup and i screwed up that spot right there that's all right we're gonna work it back and forth a couple times so see this is where this takes a skill that i think is years of…