IH3444
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Thanks, now that is sweet! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
PTO Cement Mixers
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lhobson
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Thanks for the information! I called Agrisupply and confirmed it. Unfortunately it will cost $200 to get it to Texas. Still, it seems like a decent buy. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
sweettractors
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<font color="blue"> Unfortunately it will cost $200 to get it to Texas </font>
I doubt our shipping would run about 1/2 that and ours are shipped assembled--Ken Sweet
I doubt our shipping would run about 1/2 that and ours are shipped assembled--Ken Sweet
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<font color="blue"> So you need controlled rear hydraulics </font>
That is correct. Pressure up is all that is required. Lots of customers use the tilt port on the Loader valve to do the trick without investing in extra remotes at the rear--Ken Sweet
That is correct. Pressure up is all that is required. Lots of customers use the tilt port on the Loader valve to do the trick without investing in extra remotes at the rear--Ken Sweet
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I called Agri-Supply also and got confirmation on the price. Shipping is a bit cheaper for me. I think that the same North Carolina Manufacturer makes these mixers. Would be nice to see one up close just to verify design, construction, and fabrication. I'm in no hurry to buy one, even if at all. I'm still going to go and look at the Tractor Supply one. It may also be the same manufacturer. If Sweet would match the Agri-Supply price, or discount them to TBN readers, it would make a decision tougher.
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( If Sweet would match the Agri-Supply price, or discount them to TBN readers, it would make a decision tougher. )</font>
I'd imagine that Ken is offering you his best price. Besides, knowing Ken, I'd suspect his mixer is a better quality unit.
Interestingly, I have a mixer that I bought some years ago at Sears that uses a top link that is threaded rod and dumps the drum with an over center motion rather than by hydraulic action. The PTO drives 2 rubber tires via a roller chain and jackshaft and the drum rests on the tires and that rotates the drum. It's 3 bagger and every time I look at a bag of Kwickrete and see the words "Just add water and mix", I cringe. Just add water is okay, but the mixing, well, that's another story, that is, unless you have a cement mixer. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Drum mixers have many other uses other than concrete. We use ours all the time to mix feed or add supplements, you can mix fertilizer too.
I'd imagine that Ken is offering you his best price. Besides, knowing Ken, I'd suspect his mixer is a better quality unit.
Interestingly, I have a mixer that I bought some years ago at Sears that uses a top link that is threaded rod and dumps the drum with an over center motion rather than by hydraulic action. The PTO drives 2 rubber tires via a roller chain and jackshaft and the drum rests on the tires and that rotates the drum. It's 3 bagger and every time I look at a bag of Kwickrete and see the words "Just add water and mix", I cringe. Just add water is okay, but the mixing, well, that's another story, that is, unless you have a cement mixer. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Drum mixers have many other uses other than concrete. We use ours all the time to mix feed or add supplements, you can mix fertilizer too.
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I have been thinking of buying a stand alone, electric cement mixer for awhile, I have a bunch of fence to put in, new deck to put in, a couple small concrete pads to put in, plus the other stuff that always comes up. This 3 pt idea looks great, We always mixed the concrete by having a pile of sand, a pile of rock, some bags of cement and shoveling it all in the mixer then pouring that into the bucket of the tractor and taking it around to the fence post holes, big PITA. This way a guy can mix it right there and pour it in... I think I need one, I wonder what shipping to Oregon would be?
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Yikes ! Are you suggesting that this mixer might come in pieces ? I never considered I'd have to assemble it. I'll have to ask Agrisupply about that. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
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The assembly doesn't bother me, it's the remarks from Green4me, in the previous thread about the porland cement dust getting on the tractor, and all but being impossible to remove. Plus the cement slop that splashes back onto the tractor that concerns me. Putting it together sounds fun. Like the erector sets I played with as a child. Hey, maybe I haven't grown up after all......... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( . . . it's the remarks from Green4me, in the previous thread about the porland cement dust getting on the tractor, and all but being impossible to remove. Plus the cement slop that splashes back onto the tractor that concerns me. . . . )</font>
So far, I have used the FEL bucket to mix concrete in. It's better than a wheel barrow for a variety of reasons, but especially because I can set a comfortable height to mix with the mason's hoe, and because I can lower it, then use a shovel to scoup the concrete into the hole or place it where I want it -- or just dump it if the poor is wide enough.
Still, one gets tired of mixing by hand and the so the size of the job is limited.
The parameters are exactly the same with the 3pt mixer, except that I don't have to stand there with a mason's hoe and mix it by hand.
I've never had a problem with the dust getting on the tractor and sticking. If there's a wind, you park your tractor in the right direction while adding ingredients.
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So far, I have used the FEL bucket to mix concrete in. It's better than a wheel barrow for a variety of reasons, but especially because I can set a comfortable height to mix with the mason's hoe, and because I can lower it, then use a shovel to scoup the concrete into the hole or place it where I want it -- or just dump it if the poor is wide enough.
Still, one gets tired of mixing by hand and the so the size of the job is limited.
The parameters are exactly the same with the 3pt mixer, except that I don't have to stand there with a mason's hoe and mix it by hand.
I've never had a problem with the dust getting on the tractor and sticking. If there's a wind, you park your tractor in the right direction while adding ingredients.
Cliff