cement mixer's

Murray2 · Sep 13, 2015

Interesting information on the cement mixer ratio. I do have an old one that has not been used in a few years. I did loan the mixer to many people who in turn would borrow from me and lend to a friend. End result was one of the pulley's got broke and mixer did not mix a good batch of cement with the replacement pulley. I will take the information off the mixer with the number of cog's on the base and the size of top pulley and see if you nice people can help me to get it working properly. (note: previous statement on loaning is/was not complaining, learned a lesson) cheers, Murray

Fatjay · Sep 13, 2015

I was looking at a mixer and cement today. Price dropped to 2.88 per 80lb bag, a pretty good deal I think. No mixer, I do it by hand in the wheel barrow, but that's getting rather old.

Stephen Newell · Sep 13, 2015

I have one of the Harbor Freight 3 1/2 cu. ft. cement mixers I've mixed a bunch of cement with. It works really good.

Donald Lehman · Sep 13, 2015

Pop used to have a fairly heavy duty cement mixer. Loaned it out and somehow the yoke got broken. Then it burned up in Pop's barn fire and got buried with the rest of the destroyed stuff. I bought a lighter mixer from my MIL's estate. Doesn't make as big a batch, but I can roll it up onto a pickup on planks myself. My sons and I have mixed a lot of cement with it. One wheelbarrow full is about what it mixes at a time. The old one did about two. Still haven't figured out how the guy broke the yoke.

Murray2 · Sep 13, 2015

Hi, your cost of $2.88 for 80lb bag is much cheaper than where I live here in Canada. The cost is around $10.00 for the same size Bag. cheers, Murray

phil_n · Sep 13, 2015

Yeah, maybe if we could re-introduce that antiquated 'competition' idea up here we might start getting better prices. We are really getting the shaft on a lot of things. We've got Wally World or Wally World, Canadian Tire or Canadian Tire; even Target thought they could move in here and shaft us with prices that were basically double those down there - even in US$. For the same Chinese junk. How does it cost twice as much to get it from China to Canada as it does to get it from China to the US? Grrrr...

...and Tim Horton's or ?? If you guessed Tim Horton's you win a one dollar pre-cooked, tasteless donut.

Tom OConnor · Sep 13, 2015

I had a three point mixer on a little Ford tractor and used it all one summer to build a grain system and later that Fall a neighbor came over to borrow it. I said he could use it under one condition. Asked what that condition was and I said you must promise to never bring it back and to this day I have never seen it. Great neighbor that always keeps his word. I see nothing wrong with those big redi-mix trucks today.

504 · Sep 13, 2015

In 1960 my folks and a neighbor both built new houses. He was a full time farmer, and Dad owned a garage plus 200ac row crop. They split the cost of a mixer and Dad put it on our TO20 and it stayed there for years. All of the sidewalks and patios were poured with it,my uncle built a trailer park with it. I have no idea how many yards went through that mixer,but the hog houses that the neighbor built are still standing on the concrete.

Murray2 · Sep 14, 2015

Lot's of nice stories being told about cement mixer's . There are also many stories to be told about most of us in our "youth" could get a job for a few day's helping someone mix cement. this could drain our energy rather quickly. cheers, Murray

Leroy · Sep 15, 2015

Nothing wrong with those trucks if you can get into where you want the load and can use a whole load. If you cannot get the truck in or only need a half of a yard then the mixer is only way to go. I have an old one setting here that was my Uncles years ago and when we got it he had it laying out in the gravel pit on his farm. I used to take the electric motor off as it was used elseware but did not get it done last it was used about 6 years ago, If I would ever get the energy to do it I should get it out and mix up several bags of premix I have here and do some floor work. And the premix that gets hard from laying around just bust to chunks and put in mixer and tumble and it will come out like when new.

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