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Cement Mixer Built From Wheelbarrow, Plastic Drum
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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2014 - Volume #38, Issue #4