How to clean a dirty belle cement mixer
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Jake has been doing a weeks work experience with me and the guys on the Big Build, one of his tasks was to clean the cement mixer, like all tasks that Jake was given he performed really well and got stuck in, really happy with how it turned out!!! Thanks Jake!!
Well done BOY!!
Robins idea of a dirty mixer is cleaner than most bricklayers clean mixer
Thanks for having me robin was a great week! Learnt a lot!
Well done Jake, If I were you I would try and get Robin to take you on, you won't find a better guy to learn from!!
Good luck in all you do!!!
@@jlewis1688 thank you! Robin was amazing and I’d love to go back
Well done, mate. Very often, wherever you go or whatever job you do, you always start with the crap jobs, but always show willing like you have here, and a good employer will be prepared to invest in you with courses, apprenticeships etc. Good luck in whatever you do. 👍😁
@@ade7163 thank you 😄
@@ade7163 But even the professionals couldn't be bothered to clean the mixer.
I love when Robin goes full Ricky Gervais and looks at the camera ... it kills me 🤣😆😂
I noticed that too. very funny.
And he actually sounds like him too!
Omg I can't take it😭 it's getting more and more 😂😂😂 fucking brilliant
Very video at the mo 😂 “you’ll make a great ballerina”, little smirk, camera look and the shoulder tap 😂
Exactly what I was thinking 🤔
Every trainee should watch this video as part of their induction. That mixer came up a treat, so well done Jake. You mentioned sweeping up: this is one of the most important workshop activities, and being _willing_ to sweep up is one of the most important _attributes_ in a team member, whatever their position.
Keep the eye protection on with the acid. Top job from the trainee, and great choice of mixer. At the end of the day I used to keep 1/2 bucket of flint chippings. Chuck in with water and run for 10 mins to clean, then pour out through a riddle to recover the flints, over a barrow. Tip the barrow dribble into a skim bucket to settle, or dig a washout hole in the ground somewhere non crit. Keep the outside clean with the hose as you go. Simples.
This channel is growing soo fast and fun to see the whole work site. Also learning new words you guys throw around. Have a younger guy helping here that hasn't lost his mind doing the extra work and has a wonderful sense of humor and good work ethic ... it truly is important work. Tho not glamorous it's always a big help.
Young lad has a good attitude, Robin you have a way with talking to people and the youth could learn more than a trade off you.
A quote worth remembering: you can teach skills but you can't teach attitude. Nice work Jake.
Wait until the cameras off!
It should be the only way, seen some right tossers on site talking down to people of all ages too. Really winds me up. Nice one Robin 👍
He's done well. He talks and stands well, no looking down like he's ashamed to show his face. He looks like he can handle a tool or a broom - unlike so many lads his age who move and pick up stuff like they have never got up from the sofa in their lives. And he gives the impression he can working things out for himself or be confident to know what he doesn't know and to ask questions.
He is a great boy and you have summed him up really well, he will do great in whatever he chooses!! Thanks for taking the time to watch observe and comment mate
Great work from Jake.... nice to see a young lad without attitude, he will go a long way. Not the best of jobs but he just got on with it 😎👍
When I was a 19 and 20 year old student I had a summer job on a building site. Weeks and weeks of backfilling concrete (after a *very* long time he did finally get a mix delivered but this was Cornwall in the 90s…). The boss was insistent that we kept his mixer clean and, yes, that’s something that’s stayed with me for life.
Whilst it wasn’t necessarily the top skill I took into a career in chartered accountancy….it is something I’m still fastidious about with the mixer I use for my own diying. The same with clearing up and putting everything back at the end of the day. Nothing than worse than coming to do something and the stuff is either missing or doesn’t work.
Well done! Always treat your workman with decency and respect! A happy site is a productive site. Cheers Robin.
Eye protection is a must when using acid
and old clothes
Especially the tabs.
Nah mate never bothered, acid makes you work smart if you get it in the eyes next time you know all about lol
Well done Robin, I remember back to my work experience in 1991, Im sure you bunged him a few quid, he looked happy and so he should to have the chance of working with someone like you
That has got to be one of the best ways to teach someone to look after other peoples tools, make it fun and it will stay with him forever
All you had to do to clean the inside was throw a bag of gravel or grano in with some water it will as new in 10 min and then jet wash the outside .
Yes as long as you do it while the cement is still soft!
@@katabrontes Not at all,it could be rock hard and it will still bring the mixer up spotless
@@interabang Clearly you haven't tried this David or you would know it doesn't work 100%... It will take a little or the loose off, but not the majority. like @Michael Blackmore said, if it's still soft, it will remove it.
@@scrumpyj07 I can assure you it will jack Ive been a bricklayer for 30 years.
Gravel/stones and water is very abrasive it will clean any mixer regardless of what's in it and how long it's been in.
The jet wash won’t work when the cement is set hard. Gravel inside, yes. Acid outside yes!
My belle mixer is 36 years old. A few new belts and gear box oil changes and It’s still whizzing around! A few holes in the drum but the best thing I’ve ever bought in the tool department!
A few broken bricks , shovel of gravel at the end of every day ,wash the outside with a yard brush when it running for about 15/20 minutes keeps the drum clean 👍☘️🇮🇪👋🥴
That's it a few broken bricks for the inside works well for me. Main point respect other people's tools. Besides what bricky goes around without their own mixer.
Hi Robin, That's why I always make the masons use their own mixer and don't lend or borrow tools any more. If I borrowed a tool I always envied up spending time and money refurbishing it before I gave it back. Cheaper to buy one for myself in the end! Ditto when I got back one I had lent! Mike
Jake seems like a good lad and he did a great job on that mixer.
I had a helper on a recent job on a roof. We got started and I realised I'd forgotten something crucial, (I can't remember what it was, which is probably why I forgot it that time too! F@&# old age sucks), I knew it was going to be a 45 min round trip and he was working on something that he'd probably finish in 20 mins, but I told him, take your time and have a rest when you finish, it was a stinking hot day and out on a roof that is a killer. Well 45min later I turn up and he has taken all the trash from the roof and put it down in a pile at the front of the house ready to go. I was so impressed. I haven't had a helper who could actually think on his feet and take care of something without having to be told, in so long. Needless to say he got a big bonus and I've got him lined up for some more jobs down the road.
Well done young man.💯
Just got on with it, no arguments and no phone!
👍👍👍
Nice little video, Robin...I'm sure Jake learned a lot during his week with you...lessons that will last him a lifetime and set him on the right road. Number one: look after your kit and your kit will look after you. Brilliant! 👍
hahaha you're sounding like Trigger from Fools & Horses...Look after your Broom and your Broom will look after you.......
@@davidperry2306 Guilty as charged!😉👍
@@davidperry2306 14 new heads + 12 new handles lol
I’m working on a site at the moment, just helping a friend and neighbour out with a refurb and extension build. The site is filthy, the brickies have no professionalism, they leave tools out, don’t clean up after them, don’t show sometimes. Robin spotted a bottle on the ground and made sure it was cleared away, on our site there are bottles cans empty packets everywhere. Deadlines constantly missed. Now windows are due to be fitted next week and there is zero chance of that happening which has a knock on effect for the plasterer. Trouble is he is tied in to this workforce as there’s no one else available. They don’t want site meetings so they don’t happen. This is my first time on a building site, and I now realise if you don’t lay the rules down from day 1 then you’re continually fighting to get things done.
First time I've ever seen a gaffer tell a labourer to take his time. Lol
My dad was a bricky I’ve spent many hours cleaning mixers I find it quite satisfying
Hi Robin, I enjoyed this Video I am retired now but when I was working for a small building firm my main job was decorating when they ran out of work they put me with the bricklayer who was a tough old boy but had a different way of cleaning out the cement mixer
he used gravel at the the end of the day he gave me 2 buckets of this to put in the mixer add water and leave for a little while when finished the inside of the mixer was nice and clean all the gravel was emptied into a garden sieve then back in the buckets he kept in the van how time change.
Good to get him in the mindset of look after your tools and they will look after you!!
Top tip, ALWAYS make sure the equipment is unplugged from the power source before cleaning. Mixers have been known the remove a workers hand or arm.
I’m sending my labourer this bloody vid 😂
Half fill mixer with 10mm pea gravel and plenty of water and leave her running for an hour she will be spotless afterwards 👍
Don't forget to rinse that acid off with plenty water otherwise the corrosion will be wild!
A prevention tip for the cement not stick so much is to spray the outside only with diesel or some oil like wd40 it stops the buildup.
Inside nothing like a good old fashioned stiff brush.
In England washing building tools seems to be like a no no, I run a landscape business and my guys lough at me when I ask them to wash the tools lol
Wait a minute……….7 minutes with a time lapse and I never saw him on his phone once! A keeper for sure Robin?👍🏻
great dedication......
Love it. Great days work for a young lad that
I'm now over living in Australia. Over here the Brickie brings his own Mixer. I used to put Broken Bricks to clean the Bowl out & spray the Outside with Oil, I lent my mixer out once, never again.
I get work experience kids from my local high school. The last one I had helped me frame up a 280 sqm extension and then do all the tie downs before assisting with doing all the trusses. He didn't have time to touch a broom. I hope after that lot he had a good idea of work as a Carpenter. He was good too. Got pretty good with a framer. His heart was set on going in the army though.
He sounds like a rarity these days. Tell him to join the Royal Engineers, they’ll give him a trade.
Lucky young fellow. If he stays on with u, he will have his eyes opened. My trade is automotive. I did my first automatic transmission when I was about fifteen. It didn’t work and the car went to the junk yard. But with a little help and a lot persistence, I guess I became a transmission guy. Young ones would say they want to learn automatics. And I would say, over to the parts cleaner and start brushing in the solvent. Many wouldn’t last an hour. They would say, I want to learn transmissions, I don’t want to b a cleaning flunky. Point? The reason Robin knows how to clean the mixer is because he has done it. Many times. Now he gets to go home and splash in the pool. Hard work and planning pays off
top job done by the young man
Apprentices and Work Experience guys get all the best jobs.
Slave labour comes to mind,
An important lesson.
Good lad.
I learned when driving a ready mix truck that if you don't get the fresh concrete off every time it, gets hard/impossible to tell the new bits from the old ones as time goes on.
Always keep your belle clean. That’s what my Sgt Major told me years ago
As someone that has had work experience lads to see if the trade etc suited them prior to leaving school, i thought Jake's attitude was excellent.
He is a great kid, super enthusiastic and a grafter
Give Jake a job if he wants it.
He did well ,good lad .
We throw an air born repeater or a few bangers in to the drum.
Retire/stand back and job done.
Bless him, well done Jake many would have walked off, you learnt absolutely nothing there. Easy clean a mixer pea gravel and water.
i'm 5 minutes in and i reckon there's a bottle of t-cut in robins hands and the young jake is going to get polishing that mixer for at least 5 minutes...
What is the solution used?
You should have told him to stick the kettle on and clean the mixer with a couple of buckets of steam😆 He did a great job, and there's one less youngster we know will always be in work with his great attitude😎
Thank god a lad who doesn't say immediately I CAN'T DO IT well done son.
Hi Robin, just wondering how quickly your hinge jigs get sent out after an order?
Hi mate, its about 3 working days
Good experience for the lad seeking work experience. Cleaning up is never an enjoyable job but it is important - clean site - clean tools.👍 Liked how you spoke to him - gratitude, encouragement and humour, what’s not to like.
Maybe back off on the creepy, you look like Richard Branson and you'll make a great ballerina comments. LOL
Love u mate. Keep it up
What is the cleaner that you used?
Hi Elizabeth, we used a medium strength mortar cleaner that was diluted, it's similar to what some people call brick acid, and is available in most builders merchants
Good bit of learning. Beats being sent to the stores to collect a left handed screwdriver or a long weight (wait). 🤣🤣
All I do chuck a few old bricks in some water and a steel handles shovel the shovel rolls around and cleans the rim the brick clean the shovel and the drum nice n easy!
My bricky did that with my brand new mixer the fekker and dented it all up. I find it much easier to clean properly now soon as mix is done, takes two minutes.
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Cleaning tools is good practice 🤙🏻
Will rust very quick now inside after acid
Looking after your tools is always a good idea. They make you money. Robin could you please do a feature on the impact driver. Just seen a kitchen kitchen fitter stripping door hinges. Ok for putting wheels on cars. My first driver was a brace and bit. Then a yankee screw driver. Never used a impact. Call me old fashioned
Controllable enough for hinges but I have seen someone use an impact driver on drywall screws in plasterboard. He looked like Michael Keaton in the film Betelgeuse with the dust on his barnett
Kid done good.
A yes a weeks work experience for a kid should be enough to teach him he never wants to spend his life on a job site and he better get his shit together. haha
That just remind's me of my YTS day's
Remember lads used to be lighting fires in them and getting the kango at them...
I’m impressed Jake wears a spotless white t-shirt on site!
The professional builders can't be bothered to clean the kit then the apprentice is made to. Its always annoyed me when you here the apprentice is never taught anything, just made to do the shit no one else wants to do (not saying that happened here). I know Robin has mentioned this ages ago on Skill Builder that he was lucky to get someone who actually was willing to teach him when he was an apprentice.
thats the cleanest used mixer I've seen BEFORE being cleaned...
Are you planning to do cake mixture in that?
thats mortar cleaner that is apparently different to brick acid is advertised as being great to clean mixers and the like. cant remember what its called jus now
Can’t believe I’ve just got in from a hard days graft and proceeded to watch someone clean a mixer 🤦🏼
If you are going to bang the mixer with any sort of hammer use a rubber mallet it won’t dent the drum and turn the mixer on with plenty of water and clean stone
Take him on full time he will be a good asset
Light a fire in the drum All the pug cracks up and falls off
Ha, the lads think I'm OCD because I want to keep tools clean but T cut a mixer I have not, that said, I now will. 😏
Well done lad you can come and do mine after them great results 😉
Don’t go mad or it’ll scrape the paint off 😂😂
Did you ask the young guy foraging stand? Lol
What is that stuff ...robin ..
He could do your van Robin!
Looked like he was actually going to open up the t-cut and get stuck in
Hey Robin ..... You could've saved that lad Sooooo much time if you'd just given him a Pudlock in the first place ;-)
I wish I could get a helper like that😔
later in this series, how they clean out cement pump truck pipes...
Whatever happened to bits of broken brick and a couple of shovels of sharp sand and a bucket of water???
Periodically couple of shovels grano , brick acid and a carefully smashed toughend glass window pane, tape a bin lid over the hole to stop it splashing, polishes drum a treat, wear all PPE when near it, tip it out in a barrow and clean that as well with the tools.
Just need to "T" cut it now!!
Nice and shiny plz Young’n.
i hope your gonna bung him a few quid at the end of the week.it wont hurt you but it will do him a power of good.good lad.
7:15 - hang on, is he *actually* using the t-cut on that mixer?! 😁
Definitely went David Brent looking at the camera
You didn’t show him the old two half bricks in the drum to get the first bit off?
If you don’t clean them spotless every time they just get to the point where they’re twice as heavy. Now mine’s spanking, it’s easier in the long run.
Robin are you going to give him the start
Would love too but this lad has his heart set on a different career!!
Happy bricks.....And I'm a sparks...
Hope you put some cash in his pocket end of the week 💪🏻
Of course mate he was worth every penny
@@ukconstruction awesome! I still remember receiving an envelope with cash on the last day of my work experience!
Jake . Good work. Your lucky to be working with skilled ,professional , knowledgable good tradesmen. You will remember that for a long time.
i always thought you put bricks and water in it and switched it on for a hour
Here Jake have a bottle of T-Cut on me - Just what I've always wanted,...What is it?
Well done Jake if you ever go into the construction industry get used to doing the crop work first.
Crop work. It grows on you.