My bull float handle snapped clean off during a pour in Boise last Thursday

I was working on a driveway slab and the aluminum tube just gave way about two feet from the head. We had to stop everything for twenty minutes while I ran to grab a spare from the truck. Has anyone else had a handle fail like that, and what brand do you trust now?

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the_emma20d ago

Remember that old wooden handle that would just get waterlogged and split? I swear the metal ones fail worse because you don't see it coming. My buddy had a steel one snap on a curb, sounded like a gunshot. We had to finish the section with a mag float taped to a 2x4.

susan13019d ago

Oh man, that mag float on a 2x4 is genius! We had a metal handle snap clean once too, right in the middle of a big pour. Total panic. We ended up duct-taping two broken shovel handles to it, made this weird long T shape. It was clumsy but it got the finish on. You just gotta use whatever's on the truck.

the_alice18d ago

Totally see that with all kinds of stuff now. Like a cheap plastic part that lasts forever because you can see it's cracked and you're careful. But a fancy carbon fiber bike frame or something just fails out of nowhere. You trust the "better" material more, so you push it harder, and then it lets you down way worse. The old, obvious flaws keep you honest.