Belle altrad mixer

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Belle altrad mixer
 
Has anyone bought or know anyone who has one of these?
Just wondering if they are robust enough for plastering full time?
 
Had one 10 years, holds 5 or 6 wheelbarrows of stuff (If same size as mine) likes petrol but is excellent as easy to pull around.


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BigK said:
Had one 10 years, holds 5 or 6 wheelbarrows of stuff (If same size as mine) likes petrol but is excellent as easy to pull around.


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Do you get your wheelbarrows from Toys r Us?
 
essexandy said:
Do you get your wheelbarrows from Toys r Us?
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No.
You can’t actually decipher what size it is off a photo.
When loading it with s&c it will take 80 shovels of sand and 3 bags of cement.
Or using pre bagged gear, k-rend for example, it will take 18 bags.

Is that better??


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BigK said:
No.
You can’t actually decipher what size it is off a photo.
When loading it with s&c it will take 80 shovels of sand and 3 bags of cement.
Or using pre bagged gear, k-rend for example, it will take 18 bags.

Is that better??


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What litre capacity is it? That sounds huge!
 
Cornelius said:
What litre capacity is it? That sounds huge!
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Just seen online it’s 340 litres.
But like anything else you can always squeeze a bit more in lol

That’s if indeed mine is the same


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BigK said:
No.
You can’t actually decipher what size it is off a photo.
When loading it with s&c it will take 80 shovels of sand and 3 bags of cement.
Or using pre bagged gear, k-rend for example, it will take 18 bags.

Is that better??


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It has a smaller drum than the Winget 150TFT, and I sure as hell can't get five barrowfulls out of mine.
 
essexandy said:
It has a smaller drum than the Winget 150TFT, and I sure as hell can't get five barrowfulls out of mine.
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But it hasn’t has it. Not even the same sport

Yours has a mixed batch capacity of 150litres.

This is 280
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Cornelius said:
Remember when I first started the big mixers that needed starting up with the big handle spinning round, all the guys found it highly amusing when I couldn’t get it started. Felt like a real man firing up those mixers.
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I only remember the electric mixers....

remember trying to set one up for the first time on my own... how I struggled.... then I was shown and boy did I feel like a t**t
 
BigK said:
But it hasn’t has it. Not even the same sport

Yours has a mixed batch capacity of 150litres.

This is 280
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I think what that shows is that Winget are realistic about how much gear you can put in a drum and get a decent mix out quickly.
I could tilt the Winget up and fill it to within 60ltrs of its capacity and it would mix, but slowly and very inefficiently. The space left empty in any mixer when loaded is important as to how well it will mix up.
Anyway it was just a jokey comment, not looking for an argument.
 
You’re correct about how efficiently it mixes up, but just trust me I’m aware of both mixers in the flesh and the size difference is night and day.


I probably do fill it excessively to get over 5 barrows out of it, but it’s handy to drop a whole gable down out of the same gear.

These are the biggest mixers I’ve ever seen in 3 decades, bigger than your standard site mixers years ago and very handily moved if you get a petrol engine.


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