Tractor Bucket Used To Mix Cement

Tractor Bucket Used To Mix Cement TRACTORS Loaders 29-6-16 A Wausau, Wis. man combined a front-end loader and a cement mixer to make the job of mixing and pouring cement quick and easy. Gene Witter devised a system to mount a cement mixer in the bucket on a tractor or skid steer loader. It's powered by the tractor's hydraulic system. It's a temporary mount and can easily be installed or removed. Only two pins and the hydraulic hoses are used for hooking up. The small cement mixing drum (it holds one bag of cement, plus the necessary sand and gravel) was originally a stationary unit. Witter took off the electric motor and belt and converted it by putting a bracket on each side of the drum, and added a hydraulic motor to turn the drum. The motor is powered by the tractor's hydraulic system. "You need a properly sized sprocket attached to the hydraulic motor to turn the drum," he explains. "We also made a framework that goes around the drum with wheels that it turns on." According to Witter, one advantage of his system is that "you just load the mixer from where your supply of ingredients is. You don't have to carry your sand, gravel, or water to the work site. "You can drive anywhere that you need the cement, such as in the barn or wherever ù places that you would have otherwise needed a wheelbarrow to get to." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Gene Witter, 2402 County Rd. U., Wausau, Wis. 54401 (ph 715 675-2491).

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