– Hand-Powered Concrete Mixer – Manual Cement, Stucco, Mortar & Grout Mixer – Lightweight, No Electric Needed – Off-Grid, Emergency & DIY Ready – 34 lbs – Patented USA Design

I ordered the Steele MIXER for a wooden fence project. When I assembled the cement mixer I was extra careful with the two center axle hubs that are held to the main assembly with 4 screws and nut per axle hub . But the last hole I secured cracked . I sent a email to the company about the defective part. To my surprise the owner of the contacted me . I was informed that I wasn’t the first one to complain about the screw hole flange cracking. After closer inventory of his stock he was having one flange hole cracking. The owner contacted the manufacturer and found out they were pulling the axle hub out of the mold to soon causing the brittleness. Because a few of us complained the owner of STEEKE MIXER was able to improve on his product . The owner also sent me two new axle hubs, even though I only had one bad one . I was impressed withe the sincere customer service I received. Considering this a rare occurrence now a days with companies. Plus after watching the companies video on YouTube on how to mix cement I was able to mix numerous bags of cement in record time . This is one product sold on Amazon that I truly have no problem giving it 5Stars. Plus you are supporting a Veteran owned Company . STEELE MIXER for the win.

This little thing has changed the way we mix! Im a residential GC and we do quite a few off jobs where we have to pour pads for AC equipment, stair landing or small utility cuts. This mixer is the absolute business for bagged concrete! This weekend we did (45) 50lb bags in the mixer, two at a time with no issues. Build quality is pretty durable, think street trash can but with much thicker plastic, and the metal stand has no give to it, we stood on it 😅.Notes:-for anyone having difficulty, the motion is not just rocking the handles from side to side, you sort of have to jiggle/stutter it as you turn the mixer to the side to get the 'ball' being mixed to detach and fall. This is the folding action that actually does the vast majority of the work. Was able to mix 100lbs in about a minute of work using the methods described here.-get a bucket and use a line inside to keep track of how much water you use. After a couple of cycles it becomes easy to get perfect consistency every time!-We bolted ours about 8" up on a wooden box and put a sheet of plywood under it angled into our form. Was way easy to just dump it there and rake it down into our form.-definitely going to modify ours with a locking collar for the other side. Figuring out you put the mixer the wrong way to lock it while your first bags are mixed already is annoying.....Other than that, build quality is extremely stout. think like a street trash can but with maybe double the thickness to the plastic.

I like the design and the packaging. The Steele company and other video reviews seemed to indicated this would work well and quickly.We had the following issues:The product description says "Our non-electric mixer mixes cement material in under a minute + made here in the USA. " But the box says "Designed in the USA", "Veteran Owned Company", and "Made in China".The hardware counts in the package we incorrect, but insignificant. One to few small washers, one to many large washers.The brass lock plug fell out on first use, and every subsequent use. Lock was hard to engage and we had to move the whole body along the axle axis to allow the lock to work.We had to use a shovel to scrape dry to slight wet concrete out of the corners each time. 3 of my 4 crew members hated it. The one that finally got it work had to run a very wet mix and thoroughly clean it no more than every third bad.The body deflects significantly at the axle pins, with a load of wet 60 lb concrete. 3 times it fell through the frame, and we had to unload it and fight it back into position.Ran this with a wheel barrow crew hoping this would speed things up, it did not. My crew lead told me I could have bought two nice wheel barrows instead, and we would have finished the job today. He was right.Would not buy again and DO NOT Recommend. Buy a good wheel barrow instead.

Excellent purchase. Functional. Fairly easy to use. Pouring requires some forethought. Needs to be elevated if pouring into a bucket or form. Needs reinforcement at pivot. Larger bags of material cause the plastic body to pull in towards the center which threatens the swinging pivot popping off the inside of the stand.

This concrete mixer is a great device for us home project types. However, when I was assembling it, the plastic around two of the bolt holes on the axles cracked (broke) during tightening. The instructions call for the use of a 10mm wrench, and the item that would need that is the nuts on the inside into which the axle bolts go. I held the nuts with the wrench, and turned the bolts from the outside with a phillips screwdriver. And on one of the axles, the plastic around two of the bolt holes cracked.The only contact information that came in the instructions was for contacting them via electronic means (no phone number). I sent an email, and so far have been ignored. This seems like a great product, and I'll update this review with more stars if I ever get contacted by them.Update - I got a return email from the seller, and he is going to send me a new axle at no charge. I am upgrading the review to reflect this, since I think the device is a great design.

Do not buy, that plastic is not strong enough and the plastic warped to where it will no long fit on the metal frame after mixing less than 11 bags of cement.It does not mix as shown, you have to lock it on the side and work it with a shovel or add about 50% more water then suggested which will effect the strength of the mix.The wood handle cut my hand because it formed a split as I was using it.This is honestly the most misreprecented item I have purchased in a long long time.