Cement Mixer Built From Wheelbarrow, Plastic Drum

Cement Mixer Built From Wheelbarrow Plastic Drum FARM HOME Miscellaneous An old wheelbarrow and a 45-gal plastic barrel can be used to make a low-cost cement mixer says Claude Peloquin Lochaber Quebec An electric motor belt-drives the mixer barrel “Making cement with a hoe and wheelbarrow is tedious work for small projects And small cement mixers are heavy and awkward to handle ” says Peloquin He started with a junked-out double-wheeled wheelbarrow with a broken plastic tub and rotten tires He installed new tires then cut a plastic 45-gal barrel in half and bolted it to a 16-in pulley off an old swather reel A series of 3 belts reduce the 1 725 rpm electric motor to a barrel speed of 25 revolutions per min Four pieces of metal bolt to the inside of the barrel to mix the cement A hinged spring-loaded leg bolts onto the wheelbarrow legs and is used to keep the barrel at the right mixing angle The leg lifts out of the way to dump the load “The ingredients mix very well and as fast as I can put them in It makes about 100 lbs of cement per batch ” says Peloquin “It’s light enough that one man can load the mixer into a pickup My total cost was less than $100 and that was mostly for new tires and tubes ” Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Claude Peloquin Lochaber Quebec Canada or Laurence Leduc lauleduc@videotron ca

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