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I have the above model and the gear/chain drive is loud enough to require
ear protection. Are your this loud or is mine a defective unit?

Jack writes:

I have the above model and the gear/chain drive is loud enough to
require ear protection. Are your this loud or is mine a defective
unit?

Yep, loud. Cheap but effective.

years ago i bought a cheap loud different one myself. maybe the noise
is helping to scare away little kids from the mixer! monkeying with
these will tire you out in a hurry. you'll learn all about the
different good quikrete products but unless that concrete delivery
truck won't come up your driveway out in the secluded mountains that
noisy mixer will be at your next garage sale. i gave mine away to my
friend a plumber. if you can assemble enough work for a concrete
truck's minimum order to deliver to your job, estimate the work in a
drawing with the depth and cost of the gravel base and depth and cost
of concrete and approach a younger concrete contractor who will
actually give you a ballpark estimate by phone. a concrete salesman who
stays forever on an estimate and talks your ear off untill you sign his
contract may not be the best for the small job. sometimes including all
the work you really want done isn't as expensive as you think. add-ons
like steps and replacing all broken sidewalks with new and pitching the
rainwater away from the house are all part of your big concrete dreams.
a bag of concrete in a mixer doesn't usually go far enough. we will
always resent those appliances which consist of a washing machine motor
a pulley and a drum even if they are inexpensive.