PTO cement mixer.

SuperTortoise

Hello, I was thinking about buying a mixer for my own use about the place, PTO driven ones seem handier to me especially if I need a bit for gateposts, however I'm still split between spending 1k on a PTO one or would the better buy be an electric one, have no Genny so if I go down the electric route I'm limiting my options.

Opinions?

TooOldBoots

Petrol Belle small mixer with the Honda engine. Lifetime job. Roughly €900 or the cheaper Briggs and straton engine one for about €650

SuperTortoise

Thanks for the reply.
You'd go for the Belle petrol over a PTO driven? Even at the same price, there's a crowd up north selling them (pto)for 850 sterling.
Anything wrong with buying the cheaper briggs engine one?

TooOldBoots

briggs engine is fine, you'd probably never see the end of one if you're only using for farm work. The Honda will hold its value and will be worth as much in 10 years time if you ever want to sell it on
PTO mixers are limited to where you can go with them, you will not get around to the back of every shed or house with a tractor. You can always put the Belle on to the transport box if you want to use the tractor for moving about.
The only plus for the PTO mixer is you can mix a bigger lot at a time.

_Brian

Had an old pto mixer here and the chain jumped the sprocket and wrung the shaft. Kept meaning to fix but not done yet, definitely very handy yoke.

Currently have a Honda powered belle, absolutely brilliant mixer. As for gate posts etc. We were using it over the weekend and had it in the power box tied down with a ratchet strap. Very handy to drop mix exactly where you wanted it. Shovelled 4 tonne through it and no problems.

B Rabbit

Have a belle mixer ourselves, an electric one mind you.

It's never really hampered us in terms of portability, we just use a 25 m extension lead with it most of the time. Very simple so nothing to go wrong with it.

We never got caught out in terms of portability around the farm and that's having it for the last 12+ years.

Best investment ever.

I'd echo the above points, much easy to move the smaller mixer around, point it towards the aggregate etc. Saves taking it off and on the tractor too .

Still waters

Electric jefferson here and its as good a mixer as ive ever seen, i hate the sight of the petrol mixers, for out farming and working away from the yard I'd choose a pto over petrol any day of the week

djmc

I brought a cheap electric one nearly 20 years ago and it never let me down yet. If its two far to barrow the cement I would hire a generator for 30 euro but only had to do that once on an outfarm with no electricity

Grueller

I have a teagle pto mixer. It is that old that I am fairly sure that it was imported from Egypt when they finished the pyramids. I bought it for €30 as a non runner at a machinery auction and spent half a day on a lathe turning a shaft parallel and making new nylon bushes for the shaft to get it re assembled.
It is the handiest yoke ever. I have never got caught for access around the yard with it. I use it on a ford 4000 and it carries about 50- 60 shovels so a useful amount.

Limestone Cowboy

I'd get a petrol belle aswell. If you want to hang a gate post or something make a few mixes and tip them into the power box or loader bucket.

Dunedin

Belle electric one here and wouldn’t part with it for anything. Fierce handy for small jobs around the yard. If doing anything a little bigger out in a field, I get local ready mix guy to drop a metre into the trailer and off I go

and it’s more often free as I’d say it to him in advance to let me know when he’d have a metre left on a load and I’d have the post ready so win win and ready mix 10 times better job anyway.

lab man

Petrol belle here too great tool a word of advice same as any petrol tool always run her out of petrol. A thing I've done here is on my jeep trailer I've a tube welded to the centre bracket where the side doors latch onto I can put the belle down through the pipe and when mixing can swing it 360 degrees from the sand gravel on the trailer to the barrow on the ground

lakill Farm

I have a little Belle electric mixer . It has mixed some amount of cement in 10 years. could have missed enough for 12000 blocks, and plastering of the same .

However the pan mixer on tractor PTO is a different animal altogether. easy mix 6 mixes an hour when set up and that 6m3

SuperTortoise

Pan mixer would be ideal but beyond my budget,
Gambia have a petrol mixed for 575 might go for that.

mr.stonewall

lakill Farm wrote: »

I have a little Belle electric mixer . It has mixed some amount of cement in 10 years. could have missed enough for 12000 blocks, and plastering of the same .

However the pan mixer on tractor PTO is a different animal altogether. easy mix 6 mixes an hour when set up and that 6m3

What kinda of damage would a new one be.

Limestone Cowboy

SuperTortoise wrote: »

Pan mixer would be ideal but beyond my budget,
Gambia have a petrol mixed for 575 might go for that.

Go the extra few euro and buy a belle one, it will be there after you.

lakill Farm

mr.stonewall wrote: »

What kinda of damage would a new one be.

maybe €2,200 about for the 0.8-1M3

I have a 1.5m3 on a chassis also . No idea the price new, I bought it 2nd hand but its easy driven and towed. I have a lad asked to make a chassis for the 1m3 also

White Clover

Has anyone welded a pto stub onto a Teagle mixer instead of the balls of a job they made of it first day?