Best Cement Mixer 2026: 8 Ranked, Drum Size vs Real Mix Capacity

This takes the top spot on drum volume and motor power. The Scheppach MIX160 lists 160 litres, 650 watts, a 29.5rpm drum speed and a 114kg capacity, at £349.00 — the highest price in the group. Its 4.4 rating comes from 163 ratings, the second-largest review base here. Worth noting: 114kg is a weight, not a volume. Every other mixer in this list quotes litres of mix, so you cannot line 114kg up against the Charles Bentley's claimed 113L without a conversion the listing does not give you.

In practice, the engineering is aimed at repeat batches rather than one-off pours. The drum bottom is welded rather than bolted, the transmission runs in a labyrinth housing with dual fans to keep grit out and the motor cool, and the drum opening is deliberately wide for emptying. It weighs 54kg and measures 120 x 84.5 x 129.5cm, so the built-in transport mechanism matters more here than it would on a lighter electric cement mixer. The 29.5rpm drum is also the fastest rotation in this list.

That said, this is not the one to buy for a single garden wall. At 54kg it is the heaviest machine here, and £349.00 is the top price. If your batches are small, you are paying for drum volume you will never fill, and the 650W motor is doing more work than the job asks of it.

Second place goes to the smaller of the two Scheppach machines. The MIX125 lists a 125L drum, a 550W motor, 26.6rpm and a 90kg capacity, at £309.00. Its 4.3 rating sits on 108 ratings — fewer than the cheaper Charles Bentley 125L at £239.99, which holds a 4.5 from 101. By contrast with that rival, the Scheppach again quotes its batch limit in kilograms: 90kg against the Charles Bentley's 113 litres. Two 125-litre drums, two different currencies. For a concrete mixer at this price, the litre figure is the one that tells you what you can actually pour.

The practical details are decent. A 385mm drum opening is wide enough to shovel into without fighting the rim, and the handwheel gives controlled emptying rather than a free tip. The base is wide and welded for stability, cast iron runs the transmission, and dual fans with a labyrinth housing handle cooling and splash protection. At 46kg it is 2kg lighter than the Charles Bentley 125L and 8kg lighter than the 160L model above it.

The catch is value. You pay £309.00 for 26.6rpm and 550W, while the £239.99 Charles Bentley offers 550W at 28rpm and a stated litre capacity. If a litre figure matters to your ordering, this listing will not give you one. Even so, the wider base and cast iron transmission are real differences if you mix on uneven ground.

This is the pick most people should start with. The Charles Bentley 125L is £239.99, £69 less than the Scheppach 125L, and its fill claim is the highest in this list: a 125L drum taking 113L of mix, which is 90% of the drum. The two 63L machines claim 71% and 75%, and The Handy's 125L drum is quoted at 90L. Crucially, it also holds the best rating here — 4.5 from 101 ratings, with 72% of them five-star and only 3% one-star.

In practice the spec sheet is the most complete of the eight. It gives 550W at 230V/50Hz, a 28rpm drum, 360-degree rotation on the stand with a tipping wheel, double insulation, a UK 3-pin plug and an IP44 rating for water and dust. At 48kg and 116 x 71 x 125cm it is heavier than the 63L machines by more than 20kg, so the two wheels are doing real work. That said, it is also 2kg heavier than the Scheppach 125L.

The one caveat is the 90% figure itself. It is the highest fill claim here, but it is still a claim from the seller, not a test result. If you run the drum near full on every batch, the motor works harder than the 71% and 75% machines ever ask of theirs. And if your project is a handful of post holes, a 48kg cement mixer that measures 116 x 71 x 125cm is more machine than the job, and more to store.

Fourth place, and this is where the numbers start arguing with each other. The Handy's title says 125 litre drum; its own bullet describes 'the steel hopper is a generous 90L'. That is a 72% fill — under the Charles Bentley 125L's 90% and the Hyundai's 75%, above the Charles Bentley 63L's 71%. Meanwhile it costs £274.99, £35 more than the Charles Bentley 125L, for a smaller stated batch than that model's 113L.

The spec table is thinner than the price suggests. There is no wattage figure in it at all, only 550W in the bullet, and no drum speed either, though the bullet names 26.6rpm. What the listing does describe is an H-frame that stays put while mixing, a 360-degree spring-loaded tipping wheel, a steel drum and two wheels for moving it to the barrow. At 52kg it is the second-heaviest machine here, behind only the 54kg Scheppach MIX160.

That said, the small sample is the real caution: 4.4 from 21 ratings, against 209 for the Charles Bentley 63L and 163 for the Scheppach MIX160. The breakdown is 59% five-star, 24% four-star and 17% three-star — a higher three-star share than the Charles Bentley 125L's 7%. If you want a long track record to lean on, buy elsewhere. If you specifically want H-frame stability, the premium is £35 over the Charles Bentley 125L.

Fifth place, and this is the listing where the arithmetic is worth doing yourself. It gives a 120L drum and recommends a maximum working load of 90%, so 108 litres of mix — close to the Charles Bentley 125L's claimed 113L for the same £239.99. However, the same bullet gives the drum as 35cm in diameter and 55cm deep. A cylinder those dimensions holds roughly 53 litres, not 120.

The other practical numbers are specific and useful: a 160cm power cord, 41kg total weight, 30rpm drum rotation and an assembled footprint of 111 x 70 x 117cm. Meanwhile the package dimensions are listed as 74 x 58 x 43cm at the same 41kg — a much smaller box than the assembled machine, which is normal for a flat-pack cement mixer with wheels but worth knowing before you plan storage.

Worth noting the review spread: 4.0 from 140 ratings, with 10% one-star, the joint-highest one-star share in this list. At 450W this is the lowest wattage of any cement mixer here with a drum over 100 litres, even though it turns at 30rpm. If you are mixing dense concrete rather than seeds or feed, the listing's own 90% load advice is the ceiling to respect.

Sixth, but this is the one with the most buyers behind it. The Charles Bentley 63L holds 4.2 from 209 ratings, the biggest review base in this list, ahead of the Scheppach MIX160's 163 and the 120L mixer's 140. It states a 63L drum and a 45L mix capacity — 71% — the lowest fill proportion of any machine here that gives both figures, below the Hyundai 63L's 75%. At £145.99 it is also the second-cheapest.

In practice, the 25kg weight is the headline. It is 21kg lighter than the Charles Bentley 125L and 29kg lighter than the Scheppach MIX160, and at 93.5 x 55 x 111cm it takes noticeably less room. The drum rotates a full 360 degrees on the stand with a tipping handle for controlled pouring, the belt-driven transmission is listed as a 5PJ483, and it carries the same IP44 rating, double insulation and UK 3-pin plug as the 125L model above it. The 220W motor turns the drum at 28rpm, the same speed as the bigger Charles Bentley.

The catch is that 220W motor. It is less than half the 550W of the 125L models, at the same 28rpm, and it is turning a smaller drum. For mortar, plaster and small concrete batches it is fine. If you are mixing dense concrete all day, or want to run near the 45L ceiling continuously, the motor is the weakest part of the package. And if you need more than 45 litres per batch, this cement mixer will not give it to you.

Seventh, and this listing has a typo worth knowing about before you compare it with anything. The Hyundai's bullet says a 220W motor; the spec table's wattage field says '220 Watt-hours'. Those are different things — one is power, one is energy — and the table is wrong. Even so, the mixing numbers are clean: a 63L drum with a 47L mixing capacity, which is 75% and the better fill ratio of the two 63L machines here, against the Charles Bentley's 71%.

The physical spec is the most detailed of the small machines. A 260mm (10 inch) drum mouth with a manual tilting mechanism, a steel frame, two puncture-proof tyres, an 85dB sound level, a 3-metre cord and a British G-type square plug. At 25kg and 92.3 x 52.3 x 116.1cm it matches the Charles Bentley 63L on weight almost exactly. Meanwhile the 3-year domestic warranty is the longest stated in this list by some margin.

However, you pay for it. £179.99 is £34 more than the Charles Bentley 63L, which has 209 ratings to the Hyundai's 48. That said, the fill ratio is genuinely better, the warranty is longer, and the drum mouth is a stated 260mm rather than left to guesswork. Hyundai markets it as a plaster mixer and mortar mixer as well as a cement machine for garden and building jobs. If none of that matters to you, the cheaper machine is the smarter buy. If you want the longest warranty here, this is the only one offering three years.