Plants and Machineries

Bar-Bending Machine:
Bar Bending is usually done manually as well as by using the bar-bending machine ain
the site. In the manual method, the
foreman gives the worker a sketch,
which shows how the bar has to be bent.
A wrench is used to bend the bar. Nails
are driven into a long piece of wooden
battens at specific distances. These
distances are equal to the distance at
which the bar has to be bent. It takes
almost a minute to bend a bar into its
specified shape if done manually.

Bar Cutting Machine:

Bar-cutting machines are deployed at the site. Several no. of bars can be cut at a time
using a bar- cutting machine. The use of the bar-cutting machine saves a lot of time and
hence, ensures the quick progress of the work.

Concrete Mixing (Batching)

Plant:
A Concrete mixing plant may be installed to mix
concrete for a large structure such as a dam, or for
site, or for sale to public. Such a plant includes
equipment for handling and storing aggregate and
cement batches and construction concrete mixer. A mixed concrete may be discharged
into buckets, agitators or dump trucks.

Transit Mixer and Agitator

Trucks:
These are trucks on which a concrete mixer
is mounted. If the aggregate including the
cement is charged into the mixer in a central
batching plant with mixing to be done in
route of the job, the unit is called transit
mixer. If the unit is used to have mixed
concrete which requires agitation enroot to
the project to prevent it from segregating, the
unit is called an agitator. The transit mixers
are available in capacities varying from 1 to
7.5 Cu. yards.

Concrete Pumps:
A wide variety of pumps are
available for placing concrete. These
pumps can handle all kinds of mixes
and can pump up to 125 cu. yd per
hour. Recommended pumping
discharges vary from 250 to 2000 ft.
horizontally and from 75 to 400 ft.
vertically. These pumps may be
mounted on trucks, trailers or skids.
Hydraulically operated and
articulated booms come in various
lengths up to nearly 100 ft. Pumps
are also sometimes classified in the
way of functioning – piston,
pneumatic, squeeze type.

Tower Cranes:
These are perhaps the most generally useful crane for
building. It is designed specifically for building and
the only type capable of distributing materials over the
whole plan area of a tall building. In the popular
models, jibs are from 12 to 30m long from 500 kg to
1500 kg, handling capacity at extreme reach.

Specifications of tower crane:

Types:
Stationery (foundation/anchoring)
Mobile (Mounted on rail)

Load Capacity (max): 5 to 100 ton at point of articulation.

Load Capacity (min): 0.5 to 10 ton at extreme point or tip of jib.

Radius or Covering Area: 20 to 100 m2; 65m (of jib length, generally used in this
construction field)

Height: Adjustable from ground level to 200m and above. It has self erecting capacity.