Mudmixer, What am I Doing Wrong? Problems? Issues? Learning Curve? 

Awesome video! Remember to keep the hopper at least halfway full throughout the entire pour to ensure your mix is consistent. If you let it get too low, your mix will start to get soupy on you.

Thanks for sharing! I also have a few upcoming concrete jobs around the house, and this seems much easier than a traditional mixer.

Thanks for bring us along for the (learning) journey.

We own a MudMixer with the hopper extension. We are developing a raw piece of property to retire to and have begun some concrete work. Sunday we used it for the first time. We are completely off grid so we ran it off our 2000 Watt generator and pumped the water from a 275 gallon rain water collection tote using a small electric pump from TS. I found when first starting the MudMixer it definitely comes out dry at first. Use the included cleaning hose and wet down the dry cement and that in the tube and then quickly adjust the water adjustment dial to get a wetter mixture and then back it off to the disired consistency. Hope this helps.

Great video and very nice work sir!🇺🇸

I'm sold on the mudmixer! Have been from when I first saw it. You're doing great with your videos too! I'm like you...I want to just do it myself and the mudmixer makes it where I will be able to.

Nice video! Subscribed to your channel! Great to see another grey haired guy doing stuff!! Planning a concrete project here and having access to a rental mud mixer is the ONLY reason I'm even considering doing it myself. I'm also on a well and was wondering about the changes in pressure from the tank. THANKS for the tips and also about Quikcrete vs. Sakcrete.

I haven't used mine yet, but being on a well myself, I figured I'd be having the same issue that you described. I'm planning on taking one of the old 30 gallon poly tanks I have on my farm and connecting a stock tank high level shutoff valve at one end and a 12v water pump at the outlet and possible connecting a pressure regulator after the pump if necessary. It will be similar to the backup (50 gal) water system that I built for my house for power outages.... which works great. The tank gives consistent/steady flow and the pump gives consistent/steady pressure and the shutoff valve ensures that the tank is always full.

Yesterday was my initial run. Mid 50’s temp. Found the sweet spot pretty quick. I did 63, 60 lb bags, (one pallet +7 bags) on uneven terrain by myself in about 1-1/2 -2 hours. The key is to get the bags as close as possible, have a 32 gallon trash can with a contractor bag in it for the used bags right by the mixer. Use the wheels and move the mud mixer along as you go. Hose that thing out immediately. 😊 I love it, totally worth it. See it’s potential.

I put an inline pump on to the hose near the hydrant and that worked great. The hopper being at least half full, and not being heavy handed in the water adjustment. Also I found if the mixer is leaning to much it effects the feed to the mix auger. Have a clean path for the mixer to move, and do not keep stopping and starting the mixing process. My first 3' of our first pour was full of honeycomb then wet, back and forth. So the heavy hand was the cause.

Good luck with finding Quikcrete. Here in the Dakotas there seems to be a shortage at the big supply stores. I find it is easier to move the mixer by pulling it then pushing it.

your vids are helpful. thax

We do a lot of self leveling concrete which is even more picky when it comes to water ratios. Our Self Level Concrete pump has a water pressure regulator that controls domestic water supplies that are too high pressure and lowers it to the pressure to accurately mix our product in our machine. HOWEVER like your situation we ran in to a domestic supply that had the volume BUT very low pressure. We had to connect a sprinkler boost pump from the domestic water supply outlet before the hose went into our mixer to increase our water line pressure to the mixer raising it higher so the supply would give what the mixer needed to accurately mix at the proper ratio. Understand that these machines are made for 99% of the market which has water pressure regulated by building codes. I would say that in a situation where you are working off of a truck that has all your supplies including your skid of cement and a tank of water to supply the mixer and a generator running power to the Mud Mixer the same would be needed as gravity would simply not be enough to supply the needed water to mix properly. My suggestion is to call them as ask what the water supply min and max water pressures it was designed to operate in.

I wondered if I would ever hear about this problem. It seems to me the water ratio would be very difficult for getting perfect slump constantl . i think an adjustable regulator is a must else have problems with the concrete slump. I looked the parts blowup at their website. Maybe the solenoid #15 functions as a flow regulator. Im thinking it needs a diaphragm regulator.

I’m having the same problem, I’m on a well also. Considering putting a rv style regulator at the unit

Dude you have a water volume issue for sure. My Mud Mixer on city water stays between 25 and 26 max for perfect mixes. If I turn it up to 30 it's pissing liquid out. My idea for situations like yours is this. Add a water reservoir to the Mud Mixer and a small pump. It will all fit in the handle. That way your well only keeps the reservoir full and your volume is supplied by the pump which you properly size. It will never change.

How about cleaning up the Mud Mixer? Please show me if you used a chemical degreaser or only water to clean up after use. Thanks

Is there a particular brand of cement mix that you find works better than others when using the Mud Mixer? I heard you say you perfer 60lb bags over 80lb bags . . . fast setting vs others types?

Also, rolling it down the pour area, the fill is more level 😊

I was going to go with the 'Mud Mixer'. But I bought 'The Beast' instead. The dry hopper was bigger and it had 4 wheels which seemed way more stable. Same Price

2 slump very strong 😀

Consistency only comes when you set the mixer up correctly separate from your project on samples the same dimensions as your project's sidewalk sections and repeat those settings without deviation. No knob turning. Pro tip: get rid of the grid reinforcement and use glass fibers and try ad mixture to compensate for your mixer's design flaws.

You are supposed to start and adjust the water “before” adding the concrete

Put an accumulator in series right next to your well bore.

Four things, start at 50, leave the guard on. Prewet the mix tube. And don't use the hand sprayer to much while mixing.

at 6.18 it started to look good

What an easier way to pour concrete!

What psi regulator works? Thanks!

It looks a lot easier and faster than mixing it up in a wheelbarrow and pouring it.

We mixed 952 bags of concrete thru our MudMixer last summer. We have the same issues. Tried a pressure regulator. Didn’t help. Complained to MudMixer. They sent out replacement valve and solenoid. That didn’t fix the problem either. Like you said, it will be coming out just perfect, then suddenly it turns to soup. Love the machine and I consider this a minor issue, but would sure like to figure out what causes it. 🤷‍♂️

way to much warther and to slow putting in new bags maybe let it drop into a wheelbarrow and fine tune the mud before dumping it inn the form would help

Put the mixer in the walk and keep rolling it down. Less shovel work.

Take a look at the output and tell me that's not like pissing in the ocean to raise the tide??

50 looks right.

Keep the hopper full

First problem ITS EXPENSIVE! 3400 is ridiculously overpriced.

You need to turn the water on and reverse it until it gets wet

The company that makes Mud Mixer is really going to be hating it when there patten runs out.. They sell it way to expensive for what you are getting. There are other companies just waiting for that day to come