Qickrete Mixing Question - Tractor Bucket

[Old Red]

I borrowed a buddy's wheel barrel to mix up 8 eighty pound bags of concrete the other night. I need to mix up about 11 more bags. He took his wheel barrel. I do not own a wheel barrel and would rather not buy one for this project as my bucket on my BX23s is my everyday wheel barrel. Anyway, can I mix bags of concrete in my bucket? Is it a pain to do? Does the wheel barrel design make it easier to mix than a tractor bucket or is it all the same? I will be shoveling the concrete out of the bucket vs dumping it.

Any advice on using the BX series tractor to mix concrete? Should I just go borrow a wheel barrel?

 

[Diggin It]

A bucket is a bucket whether it has a single wheel and two wood handles or four wheels and hydraulics.

 

[LD48750]

I borrowed a buddy's wheel barrel to mix up 8 eighty pound bags of concrete the other night. I need to mix up about 11 more bags. He took his wheel barrel. I do not own a wheel barrel and would rather not buy one for this project as my bucket on my BX23s is my everyday wheel barrel. Anyway, can I mix bags of concrete in my bucket? Is it a pain to do? Does the wheel barrel design make it easier to mix than a tractor bucket or is it all the same? I will be shoveling the concrete out of the bucket vs dumping it.

Any advice on using the BX series tractor to mix concrete? Should I just go borrow a wheel barrel?

The concrete doesn't care.
Your bucket will work fine.

 

[check 6]

I agree. I have mixed in my tractor front loader and then rinsed out the bucket and the tractor never new. Plus you can mix it in a safer place and transport it to the job site. My wife calls our BX "the powered wheelbarrow.

 

[Industrial Toys]

A wheelbarrow might dump it better. Depends on where it's going.

If using the tractor bucket, make sure you clean it very well. I have concrete on several pieces of equipment that seems impossible to get off. Unbelievably impossible!

 

[Old Red]

Thanks. I figured as much and the first time mixing I was worried about getting concrete stuck in the bucket but I went and sprayed that wheel barrel out and it cleaned up nicely. I also have that Pirhana Tooth Bar from BxPanded on the front. Probably get in the way a bit, but I'll manage. I just didn't know if how the bucket is designed if it was more of a pain, less of a pain, or the same amount of pain mixing bags of quickrete up.

Thanks, looking forward to getting my sons Goalrilla in the ground once and for all!!

 

[Industrial Toys]

Aside from cleaning, my biggest worry with hand mixed concrete is avoiding unmixed, dry, pockets of material. I try and make it soupy, then slowly add more dry material. A wheelbarrow and a garden hoe does a good job of making sure it is well mixed. Better than a tractor bucket.

 

[Doofy]

I'd just go rent a wheelbarrow or a small mixer. The proper tools for a job are usually worth the cost.

 

[LD48750]

I'd just go rent a wheelbarrow or a small mixer. The proper tools for a job are usually worth the cost.

A hole in the ground is a proper tool for mixing Quickrete.

 

[Old Red]

I'd just go rent a wheelbarrow or a small mixer. The proper tools for a job are usually worth the cost.

Yep, they actually had a mixer for rent you pull behind your truck for $55 dollars but I didn't know what the learning curve was like on that. So I figured wheel barrel or tractor. I refuse to buy a wheel barrel since I own a BX. I thought I was gonna be able to do away with the shovel since I bought the bx backhoe, but I just dug a 4 feet deep 20 inch diameter for my son's big basketball goal.