Apparatus for use in repairing and replacing flooring consisting of slotted concrete slats over a gathering pit in an animal barn, comprising a manually operable engine driven wheeled vehicle characterized by being supportable on a slotted concrete slat flooring and on the area proximate thereto, a pair of spaced apart parallel rigid forward extending arms pivotally mounted to the vehicle at their proximal ends, slat engaging tools extending from the distal ends of the arms for releasably engaging a flooring concrete slat, and a manually operated hydraulic actuated member coupled between the arms and the vehicle for selectively pivotally raising and lowering the arms to lift and deposit an engaged slat.