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Power trowel

A power trowel is a big machine that helps make concrete floors smooth and shiny. It looks like a flat, metal box with big spinning blades attached to the bottom.

When concrete is first poured, it's a lumpy mess and needs to be smoothed out. Workers use tools like hand trowels and floats to do this, but it can take a long time and be really hard work.

That's where the power trowel comes in! It spins those big blades really fast, which makes the concrete smoother and smoother. The person operating the power trowel walks behind it, holding onto the handles and directing where it goes.

Think of it like a big, spinning brush that you use to clean the floor, but instead of cleaning it, it makes it smooth.

Once the concrete is smooth enough, workers can add a special finish to it to make it shiny or give it a texture.

So, a power trowel is a machine that helps make concrete floors smooth and shiny faster and easier than doing it by hand.
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