Ok, here’s the deal. I looking for a small concrete mixer for odd jobs around the house that’s easily stored in a small shed and besides concrete mixing, I want to use it to tumble compost occasionally. Yea it’s an unusual use of a mixer but that’s what I’ll use it for when I’m not mixing small batches of concrete. Any suggestions on a good make and model that I should look at? I’d like to use electric rather then gas powered units.
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If you're planning to use it to tumble compost, you'll spend more time forking it into the mixer than it would take to turn it by hand.
Mike
Well, I may have lied just a bit...I want to use it to mix finished compost with chicken manure, native soil, peat moss and a few other additives. I've been doing it in a wheel barrow but that get too crowded for the volumes I want to mix and it's more difficult to measure each component. I figured that a concrete mixer would solve two jobs at once.
A couple years ago I bought the 300$ 'red mixer on a stand with wheels' from home depot.
It seems indestructable.
I like it b/c the barrel is more than waist-high so you're not bendingover... and you can dump into a wheelbarrow easily.
What is the brand name of the mixer?
Husky--home depot china brand.
Thanks a lot...Woodway
I've got an old electric bought from Big 4 rents. No switch, but a good machine. I'll give it to you for a six pack of Lagunitas IPA. No joke, I've been hoping someone'll steal it for years. I'm in Berkeley.
k
I mentioned it too my neighbor and I think I'm in luck.
Funny how that is. I keep hoping someone'll steal my shovels too.
E-mail me if your neighbor's mixer doesn't work out.
k
Will do but I've been eyeballing it for about a year now and he knows it. When I mentioned my plan to him I think he took pity and decided to just give it to me, with the economy as it is he figures barter is just the right tonic for the times
Edited 2/21/2009 12:41 am by woodway
Plus he figures (like me) if he doesn't own a mixer, he'll be a lot less likely to mix lots of sacks of concrete... Ok, two bottles of IPA and a roach. That's my final offer. lol.
k