How to mix cement in the traditional way

[jakegamesnake]

Lol @ the lady walking past. This is a real video by real men. Real men don't edit out stuff.

[pmerlin95]

Lol, i was looking for a wrestling move and i stumbled upon this video. I now know how to mix cement :D thank you sir

[stuarth43]

65 now, did that as Nipper, can you imagine doing that is Aussie street, ferkin rules here for everything

dogsa barking, cocks a crowin Ah East Europe

[stuarth43]

65 now, did that as Nipper, can you imagine doing that is Aussie street, ferkin rules he for everything

[brianmoc]

awesome thanks!

[hispanicuscorpus]

wonder what kind of ticket you get in the state if you do this on the street

[heartlessvietboy]

Something is wrong. Nobody talks about cement when its The Star of our World.

[BattenburgBoy]

A majestic hop at 6:19

[XxJazz16]

This is exactly the way my dad mixes.

[bombarderoazul]

very good but i would suggest using a flat tip shovel instead of a pointy one, they are better at picking and moving the sand around. The pointy shovel is better for digging.

[bumpofkokoy]

IT'S JUST LIKE MAKING DOUGH! :D

[Clarachk]

You know, we had a huge, flat basin to mix in. Thank GOD, b/c the neighbors might have called the town and filed a complaint if we mixed on the road!

[Clarachk]

HOLY FUCKING HELL! dean and I mixed a basement worth's of concrete by hand just like this. You already know about that project. I tied my own rebar too for the floors and walls. Hard work is an understatement. It weighs 80 lbs a bag WITHOUT the water! Never mind the gazillion 5- gallon buckets of sand we had to dig out (by hand) first. I literally just finished growing back the back yard that was wrecked with concrete mix.

[BuildeRose]

A good guide for anyone not familiar with the technique. Whilst I like the long handled shovel for moving aggregate, the use of the trowel at the end shows that mixing muck is best completed with a square shovel. It's flat edge is best for ridging the mix and scraping it from the mixing board. My grandfather would have created a smaller circle by dragging the blade of the shovel within the mix, added some water, mixed the muck and then created another hole adding more water to suit.

[gordthelord12]

Roads are made from concrete so mixing on the road is ok... lololol

[cajimani2008]

Thanks for your video. I'm in Peru and we just mixed our own little bit of cement by following your method to make a grave marker. "QEPD"

[DickC75319]

It's a pleasure to watch someone who knows how to work!

[FragGile]

this is how a real man mixes cement, its hard work

[darkshadak]

so it will be 1 bag of cement, 2 buckets of sand, 3 buckets of rock/coarse and 1 1/2 buckest of water for the mix ?

[BisoyChef55]

This is normal in my country, I did this job when I was at grade school in order to make money from our neighborhood. Only big construction companies uses electric mixer but other than that we used the "Mano-mano" system. This is a good exercise as well as it produces a quality.

[donatospoony]

They do not have wheel barrels in this counrty?

[PortaGal09]

If I were in business for myself, this is exactly how I would do it. Minimal expense in supplies; make getting paid by the hour a good deal for me. Minimal cleanup. But I only need a gallon. Hmmmm.

[jkgou1]

thank you for this demo

[josh666675]

Well not totally i do it in a wheel barrow though lol.

[josh666675]

I gotta do the same exact thing do it by hand don't get paid shit and work alll day.

[eddiegogan]

im 36 yers old and me and my grandpa we mix like that in romania.and still they chose now same tactic,is better than a mixer,washing it set it up electricity cables,i live in australai and i still prefer to mix like that or in a barrow.good job buddy.

[PalmOliveSoap]

@eddiegogan

yeh mixing in a wheelbarrow is just as good as in the way i have shown here,

[GreatestHooligan]

you are mixing it in the street as if you own the area.

[kuraidjinn]

COOL! i've never seen anything like this b4. i'm very new to "handy work," and this video has taught me a lot. Thank you very much. LOVE your screen name, by the way. Very unique!

[707jortiz]

good job buddy, this video reminds me of my dad mixing cement.

[XGCScrappy]

Good job.

[p6tan]

This is excellent video. Very helpful thanks

[vidfuse]

cool I always use a trough for a bag or two and a wheel barrow for half bag this is a good way to mix it with no trough. If you pour a bucket of water on the cement to dilute it thus making it weaker hand it has less strength to bond and it will naturally wash away with weather.

[mrjost55]

where was this filmed? I saw a Lada :D

[caliwood909]

you chopping that cement is hillarious lol .. .!!!! and you doing tricks with the wheel barrel was even funnier ... ooo wait u were mixing something in side of it.. great video ... my mom used to mix cement like this..

[andrewloyd67]

mix it like that in a barrow, 10 times less mess

[ryanmb23]

@andrewloyd67 and you eliminate the part of scooping it in the barrow. Less back pain......

[AlexisKayLeeTutorial]

This is a great tutorial. Perhaps I should have watched this clip before I tried to make cement myself since I got really dirty!

[SWeeNeYx9]

Ive just mixed levelling compound in 2 buckets to level a floor. this is really hard work but u no im sick of seeing obese workmen, and he hides his builder bum. WELL DONE I THINK THIS IS A LOVELY VIDEO and back ground sounds very nice. oh im female and it was hard work

[Whitehorze]

Cement and Mortar mixes contain some nasty chemicals like Lye. Make sure to wear gloves and don't let it soak into your skin or breath in the dust...

[YuckyLuckyDucky]

I would charge the electric mixer on my credit card instead lol.

[PalmOliveSoap]

@YuckyLuckyDucky

great idea Ducky for sure an electric mixeris the way to go or in a wheel barrow

but my idea here was just to show how to

[eduardouk]

so you're the reason someone on my street did this and blocked the drains ... lol

[PalmOliveSoap]

@eduardouk

LOL can you imagine the curtains twitching in the village heheh

[4sineweaver2]

Yeah, here in the USA you'd definitely get in trouble for street mixing. But I've been lucky enough to travel to Europe and the masonry was just incredible! I'm sorry to say that Americans don't know what they're missing.

[paulapril1976]

I bought some extra rapid set cement, set in 10 minutes, lucky as the rain was on and off all day, I did it neat

[maradonasssssss]

why dont u get a small plastic pond put everything in it and use ur feet to step mix it?

[chuychele]

Is in Mexico Country?

[OllieKizzle]

good work..... when you get paid for that job by a bigger shovel.

[MrBoy219]

I would use a wheel barrow... The coops will give you a ticket if they catch you doing that here in the USA

[pepsi3420]

to much work i would hire someone

[xsjad0man]

thanks for the how to video. i will do this to make my own skate ledge.

[charmazingable]

A man who's not afraid of some blood, sweat  and tears! Mmmmmmmm, very sexy! xx

[Seronegative2006]

Many Thanks.

Awesome video

[dozer3man]

and ho the hell out of it

[dozer3man]

why not do it in the wheelbarrow put 14 shovels of sand and a 80 pound bag of concrete and almost a 5 gall bucket of water

[bearchay889]

I have'nt mixed it like that in along time but i don't do much constrution type work anymore i used to help mix it like that though to fix manholes and build chemieys but never much else for somereason .

I was allways the mixer though i never fooled with using it afterwards i guess nobody trusted my skills.

[ILoveAmy525]

Thanks for the video.

[stubbenmonkey]

when men were men

[eyond]

thanks mate this helped!!!

[AlcohollifuckincA]

ahh great vid!

im gunnu be doing this today!

the whole back yard!

:0

[sandeorsandeor]

we do it the same way here in serbia.

excellent vid.

we could work togheter ,maybe start a company...

haahhaha

good work

aleksandar

serbia

[paulhunter123]

thats cool but it has made me feel quite tired watching all this hard work

[Queen4adisa2c]

I know I'll get slack for this, but this is a man's job. The area I'm working with is small, 6 x 3, but still arduous nonetheless. Great guide. Thanks.

Brooklyn, New York, here....

[auntcc1968]

Well, that was cool! I've never seen it done that way. My Dad has a small cement mixer so, never seen it done traditionally. Thanks, very entertaining!

[adamcook01]

mix mortar next time plz i need to know

[youssefdahustler]

This is mortar.. cement,sand and water. If you're going to fix tiles right away you need 1/8 of cement. Mortar as made here (1/4 of cement) is of course more resistant and you can walk on the screed the next day.

[HIGHPRESSURE979]

How exactly does cement work, what makes it set? Always wanted to know that.  Also should you wear a nose mask as the dust makes you cough (it only takes the slightest breeze to move the dust) worries me a tad

[troubles1980]

cement is hydraulic..that meansit reacts and set "roots" when water is applied or mixed in.. when water is taken out" too hot weather, bright sunshine for example the hardening stops and it becomes brittle..that also mean you cannot have the cement mixed up ready for too long.. only mix in water once, or you will slowly destroy the root setteling, every time you mix and of course also weaken when additionally water is applied.. of course that should be the case..

[HIGHPRESSURE979]

Thanks, so the best time to mix it is actually perhaps spring when it isn't so hot. It has set really well under cool temps, takes longer, but pleased with it, good info there

[troubles1980]

your welcome :) yes that would be the ideal conditions, but of course we cant all wait till spring and stop again til summer, so sometimes you have to use homemade shade, cover down with plastic as you go forward, and only mix small portions at the time..thanks no prob glad i could help :)

[troubles1980]

and of course you cannot use i frosty weather either forgot to tell..that stops the hardeningt too.. or weakens at least

[troubles1980]

as far as i know cement is made from chalk, burnt lime, ashes and other aggreagates.. how exactly cement works, down to the tinyest chemical reactions, i dont know about, and think only experts and science people know about. i dont anyway even though im a brickie from Denmark. anyway i dont understand this guy dont you a mixing machine..looks like a remnant from the time of christ.

[troubles1980]

ohh.. sorry didnt read the headlines i was just browsing around =)

[HIGHPRESSURE979]

I mixed cement in a little bucket, bits at a time, it turned out ok, but the first time i mixed it I didn't wear gloves and it went on skin and made a painful burn mark, advice to any novice cement mixers, wear gloves too :)

[PalmOliveSoap]

where poss dont let your hands touch the cement powder or cement powder with water, when and if you do touch the mix at any stage of your project rinse off your hands and fingers this will help to stop any burns at the end of the day, many people get dried out fingers below the base of the nails only as I do, one thing is for sure dont use your hands as a tool when applying your mix " use a tool and spong if you have one"

[HIGHPRESSURE979]

Thanks for the advice, I do have open dried cuts on end of fingers, the scar has gone down now, the cement to my delight turned out very good and did it's job, I mixed it to it kind of plopped off spade, rather then stay on it or run off it. But I do what I always do, read the instructions after i mixed it, saying avoid skin contact, with big cross! DOH!

[brucey39]

I normally mix mine in the bath tub and I throw the kids in there and get them to stir it round

[chris42999]

classy job...thanks

[FiredUp383]

This is how we mixed cement in Guatemala did everything by hand .Extemely hard working people there no quit in there vocabulary

[seanw503]

crazy

[themeena1981]

are u mixing on a public road....?

[PalmOliveSoap]

oh yes on the road, good thing it is not a problem here

[themeena1981]

i do concreting every other day(60 odd cube at a time),so i need the stones left in lol..! (thank god 4 pre-mix)

[dottoreguzmanrulz]

That was brilliant

By far the most artistic way I have ever seen

Thanks for the tip!

[redwhitch17]

that was the funnies vid i ever sin ..love it wen it speeds up a bit ,,the noise of the shovel patting..brill..but looks hard work

[kfresh125]

nicely done. Very effcient....

[kfresh125]

Nicely done.

[aluovercast]

this is when mixing cement becomes art.

[PalmOliveSoap]

many people some times have a concrete slab like a garage floor or drive way they can mix on, but yes it is very important to be careful where you mix so as not to stain the working area, it is back breaking work if you have never done it before or dont mix regular but if you have a weekly fitness routine you will ok, cement mixers are proven a wonderful tool to have but to buy, rent and transport one is not cheap,

[kissnyuszi]

Wow, I've not seen something like that on video before. You're skilled! No.. I don't think we could do that here in suburban Australia (on the road). It really looks like back-breaking work. Is this what you do if you don't have a cement mixer machine I guess?