Posted by RusselAZ on February 25, 2018 at 11:06:09 from (24.121.44.84):
Have really enjoyed all the toys and models the last couple days. There was one that just off to the upper left (in the picture) was a Doepke cement mixer. My Dad bought me several of the Doepke toys which I worked hard in my youth. One was the cement mixer. It, I kept pretty good shape though I did pour a road about 4 ft long with it using mortar mix stuff. When my folks moved to town they had a barn on the place for all the farm stuff Dad wanted to keep. Among the things were my Model toys. Which is why I still have them, again. All of them were well used and weathered except for the cement mixer. Someone is the trusty little town stole the mixer.
So I was happy to see someone else has one! My Dad had a real mixer that was built much like the Model toy one with a one cylinder LeRoi engine on it. In high school the Vo-Ag department wanted to pour some cement out back of the Vo-Ag shop and Dad let "us" use it. Course by that time, 1966, the engine had rusted to junk so the school had a 8 hp briggs cast iron engine with a gear reduction on it and we made it fit and poured the cement. The Ag teacher thought the pad should be 12 inches thick so we ran a lot of material through that mixer. It had levers and clutches to moved the materials with power. I got to run the controls and the other boys got to scoop the aggregate into the bucket. Still have the briggs engine. Have no idea what happened to the mixer.
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