Steele Mixer - Manual Concrete Mixer

Concrete can be produced faster and more easily using a newly-designed mixer that is compact and light enough to carry to the location of the pour. The Steele Mixer, a patented device made in the USA by Steele House Industries - a veteran-owned business - is manually-powered, weighs 34 lbs., and can mix a 60-lb bag of concrete ready-to-pour in less than 45 seconds.

Shaking the mixer from side to side thoroughly mixes concrete, mortar, and a wide range of other cement products.SteeleHouse Industries“The Steele Mixer uses gravity to do most of the heavy work,” explains inventor Stephen Steele. “The unique internal shape mixes more consistently and thoroughly than shovel-mixing in a wheelbarrow or a bucket, which translates into better concrete. It’s manually powered, but it’s easy.”

Water and dry materials are poured into the pivoting mixing drum. Rocking the drum from side to side via the wooden handles incorporates the materials thoroughly and can produce ready-to-pour concrete faster than an electric mixer. It can make a wide variety of cement-based concretes and mortars including ordinary concrete, masonry mortar, stucco, deck mud, fat mud, self-leveling underlayment, and other water-mixed materials, up to a 90-lb bag of premixed dry material at a time. 

Due to the innovative design of the drum, mixing performance is thorough and highly efficient, so it can produce structurally sound concrete using the specified quantity of water. It also eliminates the temptation to add extra water, protecting the final strength of the concrete. In third-party testing, a commercial premixed bag of concrete produced in the Steele Mixer exceeded the specified 4000 PSI compressive strength in less than 28 days.

The Steele Mixer, built from wood, steel, and 100% recycled low-density polyethylene (LDPE) is light enough to be used in remote locations that remain inaccessible for electric mixers. It can be picked up and carried, full of concrete, and taken to the pour, and is also compact enough to operate inside a small residential bathroom. Its size, portability and affordability make it an ideal tool for general contractors, plasterers, tile-setters, masonry, landscapers, fencing contractors, farmers, ranchers, and DIY homeowners.

Steele House is also partnering with Habitat for Humanity, donating one free mixer to the nonprofit for every 100 units sold.