Greetings!
So when I was home on leave a couple of months ago, I put up a fence around my property. In the process I had to set about 45 posts in the ground. We have nothing but sand where I'm at, so they have to be set pretty deep and with concrete. Otherwise the wild horses will push them over when they rub against them (I've fixed several posts for my neighbor because of this). So each post is 8 foot with 4 foot in the ground. I bought a cheap mixer (the 'big' one from Harbor Freight) to mix, but didn't want to use my loader bucket to tram it out to the holes. So I got a cheap wheel barrow kit from Wally World and built an 'attachment' for my bucket.
Using the existing holes in the tub (normally used to mount the handles) I put eye bolts in the front holes with the eye on the bottom. I built a T out of 2x4's and bolted it (with the T portion down) to the rear holes. The up-right portion of the T was cut so that the hole thing just wedges in the bucket. I cut the excess bolt threads off with a grinder. I use a rachet strap attached to the eyes to hold the whole thing into the bucket.
It worked out rather nicely I think. The tub is small enough to allow me to pull right up to the mixer so I can dump directly into it. And being shaped as is it is, it makes dumping the crete into the hole really easy. It will hold 2 60lb bags with some room to spare, and doesn't slop hardly any out (fairly level ground where I'm at) while tramming. The whole thing takes less than a minute remove or install. I think I spent about $40 for the wheel barrow.
As a side note, the HF mixer, while loud, worked perfectly and was definately worth the price I paid for it. Yes, it has some run-out with the tub and the gears, and the switch box was broken when I unpacked it (which seems to be a common issue with these things). I used some liquid nails to fix that. It will mix 2 bags at once, but the trick is to start the tub in an upright position and then once it's spinning lean it over so it can mix. If you have it leaned over with 2 bags, it will probably stall the motor. Overall, I'm glad I got it.
Anyways, maybe someone else might be able to use this idea so I thought I'd share with everyone.
NV
So when I was home on leave a couple of months ago, I put up a fence around my property. In the process I had to set about 45 posts in the ground. We have nothing but sand where I'm at, so they have to be set pretty deep and with concrete. Otherwise the wild horses will push them over when they rub against them (I've fixed several posts for my neighbor because of this). So each post is 8 foot with 4 foot in the ground. I bought a cheap mixer (the 'big' one from Harbor Freight) to mix, but didn't want to use my loader bucket to tram it out to the holes. So I got a cheap wheel barrow kit from Wally World and built an 'attachment' for my bucket.
Using the existing holes in the tub (normally used to mount the handles) I put eye bolts in the front holes with the eye on the bottom. I built a T out of 2x4's and bolted it (with the T portion down) to the rear holes. The up-right portion of the T was cut so that the hole thing just wedges in the bucket. I cut the excess bolt threads off with a grinder. I use a rachet strap attached to the eyes to hold the whole thing into the bucket.
It worked out rather nicely I think. The tub is small enough to allow me to pull right up to the mixer so I can dump directly into it. And being shaped as is it is, it makes dumping the crete into the hole really easy. It will hold 2 60lb bags with some room to spare, and doesn't slop hardly any out (fairly level ground where I'm at) while tramming. The whole thing takes less than a minute remove or install. I think I spent about $40 for the wheel barrow.
As a side note, the HF mixer, while loud, worked perfectly and was definately worth the price I paid for it. Yes, it has some run-out with the tub and the gears, and the switch box was broken when I unpacked it (which seems to be a common issue with these things). I used some liquid nails to fix that. It will mix 2 bags at once, but the trick is to start the tub in an upright position and then once it's spinning lean it over so it can mix. If you have it leaned over with 2 bags, it will probably stall the motor. Overall, I'm glad I got it.
Anyways, maybe someone else might be able to use this idea so I thought I'd share with everyone.
NV
