Belle Minimix 150 - Does it have turning drum?

[SnikkerJensen]

Hello, can someone tell me or does it have turning blades inside while the drum stuck in the same place?

Tia.

[Andrew Mawson]

I think all the small Belle mixers have turning drums with blades fixed to the drum - certainly that's that way mine is.

AWEM

[dom]

Turning drum, blades welded to inside of drum. Hired one last year to pour about 3 tonnes of concrete into foundation pads. IMO very much better than "diy level" mixers and well worth the money (or rental).

[Andy Hall]

At what point is it interesting to do that vs. getting one of the beats as it sweeps as it cleans trucks to attend?

[dom]

That I can't answer. I had to pour 8 foundation pads within an existing building, plus 2 constructional hearths - wheelbarrowing the concrete into place. A truck beeping it's horn and the driver pacing up and down would not have been conducive to producing high quality results in my case.

[Andrew Mawson]

So in reality how many mixes to the cu metre do you reckon? In theory being a 90 litre tub it should be 11, but I reckon you don't really get 90 litres every time.

AWEM

[R]

Check out their website

[dom]

I was probably mixing not far short of that. In practice I used a bucket (cement) and a rubble trug (ballast) as gauges - and what mattered was 1 trug = 2 buckets, and to chuck in 2.5 trugs and 1 bucket to make 5:1 foundation mix.

A comfortable rhythm of gauging, mixing, barrowing, pouring and pokering was more important to me than getting the largest volume in the mixer.

(btw I recommend Lafarge's concrete application guide

[manatbandq]

Which is?

Your post is no more informative than telling them to Google for it. Why bother?

MBQ

[Andy Burns]

but yuck, their web site thinks it's oh-so-clever with more nested levels of frames and tables than Dante's infermo, makes bookmarking difficult, but this gets you closer

[dom]

I agree - stops you linking straight to the pdf you want. The General concrete applications guide isn't in the list from your link though.