Used pan mixer required

[mrfirepro]

looking for used PTO driven pan mixer. Cash waiting would like it quick.

[GB_Groundworks]

There's a new one on eBay £2000 800 litre one

[rab1]

my brothers work use a pan mixer, does a cube every 60 seconds. The Italian ones are supposedly the best. ???

[henpecked]

Jeez thtas going back a bit :O

[mrfirepro]

Had a look at the one on ebay, when you add VAT and delivery it's more than I wanted to pay. Would really like to find a second hand one as I only need it for the one job, then can sell it again. The advantage of the pan mixer it can be loaded with a machine and can do the work of 6 mixer loads in one go, as there is already a tractor on site to use.

[lutonlagerlout]

would it not be cheaper to get a volumetric lorry in?
when they get to multiple metre loads the price gets down to about £70 +vat per cube
LLL

[mrfirepro]

I will be using it to mix a bedding for laying setts and will only be able to do a few days at a time, hence my only option is to mix myself, did look at a mini silo but that was way too expensive.

If I can get a pan mixer cheapish and sell it when finished, I am hoping it will not cost too much in the long run.

I have also had a quote for 25Kg bags but that turned out around £2,200, the sand and cement separately in bulk will only cost just under £1,000.

[mickavalon]

Can you not just Hire a big old site mixer, we do it on large cobble and Paving jobs, cuts right down on mixing, about 3 barrows a go, if I remember right, we fill a 500kg mini dumper up with it and dump a load in one go...that sounds strange for some reason!!

[lutonlagerlout]

if you get a good bloke on a big diesel mixer no sett layer in the world could keep up
14 gauges before 10Am was my record ,thats nearly 4M3 a lot of compo by anyone's standards
LLL

[mrfirepro]

Great idea, was not aware you could get mixers that big as they all look about the same size as my Belle. Thanks for the advice, will see what I can get.

[GB_Groundworks]

We've got a 400 litre belle diesel it's a beast

[digerjones]

i,ve just got a diesel mixer, wondering if i could load it with the mini digger, or make a shoot or a hopper thingey.

[mickavalon]

Seems a lot of effort making a hopper when you can just use a bloke and a big shovel. The hopper's gonna have to be quite small at the neck to avoid catching the revolving Barrel, could all get a bit messy.

[mickavalon]

Don't think it would be worth all the hassle of getting a hopper made, you'd have problems with aggregates blocking, avoiding the Barrel, sticking at the back, all seems a bit complicated when you can just get a bloke with a big shovel.

[GB_Groundworks]

just get a self loading mixer, before rmc became popular all the big sites had big drag line self loading mixers now there are more modern ones some look pretty cool hehe