I think you missed my point. if you buy your paper pre shreeded you don't need a papercrete mixer. Any cement mixer will work, you can even mix it in a pile on a tarp like mixing 'cob'.
Unless your time is worth nothing to you you can buy your paper shredded from True Value Hardware and rent a cement mixer for a weekend and end up spending less than doing it all yourself.
http://www.idealtruevalue.com/servlet/the-72006/Detail
I know this is like suggesting you buy your fish frozen instead of buying a bass boat....
"the only difference between men and boys, is the price of their toys."
Have FUN. Les
--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "slurryguy" <slurryguy@...> wrote:
>
> Building a tow behind mixer is almost never done with "new" parts. To
> my knowledge there is not anybody building and selling "new" Tow
> Mixers.
>
> There are often used ones for sale.
>
> Most tow mixers are built by the people that use them. They tend to
> build them from salvaged parts for the axle and frame. The tank and
> maybe the trailer hitch are about the only significant new parts used.
>
> From time to time an experienced papercrete builder may custom build a
> mixer for someone upon request, but I think this is still fairly rare.
>
>
>
> If you're spending more than a couple hundred to build your own Tow
> Mixer, you're probably spending too much.
>
> If you're paying someone to build it for you, expect to pay more, but
> it need not be extravagant.
>
> With intelligent scavaging for parts, no problems finding the tools and
> skills needed (welder). A mixer can be constructed in a full weekend
> of work, or a couple partial weekends. Often it can take longer, but
> usually the extra time results from missing parts, getting that extra
> set of hands at key moments, waiting for your welder friend to show up,
> etc. If everything and everyone is ready to go, it can happy pretty
> fast.
>
> While I'm often the first person to get all technical and scientific
> about things, papercrete is hardly complicated. That's part of its
> beauty. The materials and equipment to make it and work with it are
> within reach of anyone with the physical strength and stamina for most
> any type of construction.
>
>
> It's fun to discuss fancy tools, pumps, grinders and such. The fancy
> more expensive tools might make a lot of sense in some situations,
> especially if someone is going to be a contrator or build a
> particularly large structure. I don't want to dampen these bigger
> vision discussions in any way. Let's keep talking about all different
> aspects, but let's also not allow big ideas to frighten anyone away
> from more common or humble alternatives if those are what make sense
> for their particular situation.
>
> There is plenty of room available for everyone to mix papercrete and
> post in Papercreters about it in a wide variety of ways.
>
> --- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "austintexican" les@ wrote:
> >
> > If you calculate the newsstand price of your paper the retail price of
> > the pump doesn't look so bad. :)
> > Sorry I didn't have a link to used pump. Try buying a new 'tow-
> behind'
> > paperctete mixer and see if you can find one for less than the price
> of
> > a new sewage grinder pump.
> >
> > Unless your time is worth nothing to you... you can buy your paper
> > shredded
> > from True Value Hardware and rent a cement mixer for a weekend and
> end
> > up spending less than doing it all yourself.
> >
>
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