Scheppach MIX160 160L Cement Mixer, 650W

The Scheppach MIX160 is the pick at number one in this guide. It is a 160L drum on a stand with wheels, driven by a 650W motor running at 29.5rpm, listed at £349.00 with a 4.4 out of 5 rating from 163 ratings. The listing gives an item weight of 54kg, calls the drum opening "large for easy pouring", and rounds the description off with a welded drum bottom and a labyrinth housing that shields the motor from splashes while two fans cool it.

The MIX160 is the odd one out on the number that decides your batch. Every other mixer in this guide quotes its mixed batch in litres, so you can set that figure against the drum and see how much of it you can actually fill. Scheppach does it the other way round: the title quotes 114kg, and the bullet says only "Drum capacity of 160L". There is no litre figure for a mixed batch anywhere on the listing, so the MIX160 cannot be lined up against the other mixers at all — you would have to know what 114kg of your own mix measures in litres. A second number in the listing does not close either: the star bars run 65, 19, 10, 2 and 4, which adds up to 100 ratings, while the listing states 163 ratings. Everything on this page is taken from the Amazon listing for the MIX160 — the specifications, the price and the rating — and not from any test we have run.