My First Mudmixer Project - Machine is so fast, my wife had to jump in and help. 

My wife and I poured 952 bags of concrete with our MudMixer last summer. Large parking pad. Did it in 4’x12’ section each day till we were done.

I just bought a mudmixer too. You are lucky to have a wife to help you. Take care.

Add a water pump to get steady water flow! Have a 55 Gallon drum and do not use the water sprayer or you will not get steady water flow!

Pretty nice. And you have a good ranch hand there.

I have heard nothing but good about the mud mixer. I think I'm gonna have to get one or at least rent them from now on when I add concrete around the place.

Looks like an awesome little project, I've found that if you overhang the mixer a little more into the form and water it down a bit more, you can let it kind of auto settle itself so you don't have to rake it as often right at the end of the sidewalk.

Looks like a nice machine for small pours. I would consider putting the bags of premix concrete closer to the mixer at a higher level if possible. You can move the bags around at your "leisure" but once you start you have to work faster. The less faster work the less chance of a back injury.

Machine too fast ? Perhaps the 25yo you could'a got 'er done ! hehe Take care my friend. -Mike

Do you remember how many bags you had left over after this pour? Did it come out close to your estimate of 12 bags?

Thank you for the demonstration. Can you control the output speed?

Do you think it would have gone a little easier if you ran it on the side and rolled it back along the form as you went? I do smaller slabs in sections, like you described, and would want to do pretty much exactly like you did: drop a few sacks in, spread it out, drop some more sacks in, and so on. Ideally, It would be easy to move when it is running. Does the water shut off when the switch is off? maybe that would help for a 1 person job. It looked like you got the mix just right. Was it consistent? I want one of these so bad. I'm over 50 now. I had to go down from #90 sacks to #60's about 15 years ago. I'm on my 4th mixer since I was a teen and I've about worn it out, so I'm looking for a new one. I think the timing is just right, since I usually work alone now and have a couple of patios I want to build and want to replace/widen my driveway. I'm good for 20 - 25 sacks a day and would love to get it all rodded and finished before the sun starts hitting it and it gets hot. For $3k I'm quite gun-shy about the purchase, though. This might be one of those purchases my wife will realize she shouldn't ask about when she first notices it! I'd think about renting it out, too in order help offset the cost, if I can find some contractors just getting started out who might need it. If I knew I could rent it out I'd order one today.

not for minors? rather teens mess around with concrete rather than drugs 😂