My dad had a Belle mixer like that in the 80s. His had an electric motor though. He wasn't a bricky by trade but he bought it to build his own garage. Although we've long since moved away from that house, it's still standing strong today.

Cleaning it like that after every mix won't last long 🤣🤣

Iv only done these once before and I found putting a bit of brick in the block to hold the rebar where you want it helps a lot

As a bricklayer from Canada following you for the last couple of years, it brings me great satisfaction seeing you struggling with these haha. Im sure you'll find a way to smoke us at block laying soon enough.

Charlie, as a tip for the rebar, keep a galvanized piece of pipe handy, maybe 1500mm, thick walled, say 50mm dis, and use that to bend the rebar. Gives you a decent lever and can fit down the block work to the bottom of the slab. That’s really where you need to bend the reo from.

Got to love those belle mixers, mine was a 2nd hand one 2006 mode (electric)l, hadn't been used in years. As soon as I brought it 4 years ago, I took it all apart and gave it a service, new belt and pulleys, new oil. ( It didn't need it but my father stripped the gear box and replaced the bearings) should out live me now. Quality mixer 👍 Sounds like who ever installed those rebar's didn't space them out correctly. Mike Haduck Masonry on KZfaq is an American man, old school bricky he has some fantastic videos with excellent tips tricks and skills laying those blocks over rebar. Keep up the good work Charlie and Amy 👍

Put a scaffold tube over the rebar and bend them straight on the first course and that helps a bit, but still a pain 👊🏻

Nice machine … use a spray bottle when the muck drys on fringes and hit with a sponge so it do doesn’t turn to cake batter

Looks like you have a pallet of half blocks there mate, dont use them All up, you are also laying them upside down, the V in the middle goes to the top and should have a 10 mm rebar layed in it.Put the line on the other side and lay them overhand far easier than lifting them over the line.

Right hand on the right front corner left hand on the back left corner and lift the block .

You must have known that the barrel is opposite thread 😂😂

Simple way to centralise the rebar is use tie wire round the bar to the diagonals, you can make a batch and slip them over a quickly adjust, then when you pour the sloppy mix you can also get a poker in all the way down, those bars would need overlap and tying as you said not they way they are going to be....

Those 20 cm blocks don't go in as fast as the bricks do they? I remember working as an laborer back in the 80s and we installed 10" expo blocks. They were a 10" block and had a decorative 4" thick ridged face on the front of the block and they weighed around a 100 lbs each. They would literally turn men into hunchbacks and cripples. I also remember working with my old man on a chimney in an attic back then with 24" chimney blocks which weighed over 150 lbs each. Both of these have long since been banned due to the damage they caused but those were the days 💪💪💪

My groundworkers chemfixed the rebar when setting out the first course of hollow block - may be worth a try.

Standing on the side of the main road with a fukcing big knife 😂👍🏽

The way I build them blocks is either build first row in fresh laid concrete footings and then place rebar or if footings solid build first row and drill holes for rebar and resin in place but unfortunately most of the time someone else has them already in footings by time you get there and usually never perfect,are you putting horizontal rebar in as well

Charlie C bricklayer, assembler and now constructor!

You get a pudlik and bend the rebar at the base from the start. Every day is a learning day Charlie.

We do a lot of basements/Garages with 8inch solid block like that, the rebar is never in the right spot, we always use a concrete saw and cut the center webs out or the end out and make it work that way.

looks like the inside of a mars bar mate ;)

I’m a Canadian brick layer and we cut the centre or the end web out and bend rebar where we need it,we also run the line on the back of the blocks so you don’t have to fight with it. Those are 8 inch block we sometimes work with 12 inch block they are very heavy makes 8 inch feel really light you will get it Charlie keep up the good work

whats song it is ? its sounds really chill

Charlie never videotaped himself measuring that last block too fit perfectly or the first three 😂

Left-hand thread on the mixer drum👍.

Keep a spray bottle with diesel in it spray it down 2-3 times during the day that will keep it spotless

Only Bricky to be using a £130 hammer 🔥

do u ever come to the us?

Get a small container put some diesel in it and a paint brush and keep the outside of the free of muck sticking to it. Don't get any in the bowl because your muck will turn to shit . Diesel everything apart from the inside of the bowl

Wow...he Is human !!!

HELL YEAH Barbie girl & boy .

My old boss sold me his one for £50. Still got in now, could do with a new drum eventually tho

Nice one Charlie lad good to see you ya dude hope you all good Big up the C team🙂✌️

I’m not sure how heavy those CMU are but when you lay them you’d grab it from the center web with one hand and trowel in the other. Anyhow keep it up bro!

Your laying the blocks upside down .

Wtf Charlie is going on with the Barnet

Can’t say I’ve ever had a mixer from new, always a used bent up one......but she looks a Bute Clark

It's an Irish company I am sure, there head office is in Ireland

Hey Charlie, just wanted to ask where you've gotten that tool belt from. I need one like that!

Good move with the glasses Charlie !

I had my belle 240v for years it turned out hundreds if not thousands of gaugings of compo and concrete . I only replaced the drum once in 10 yrs . Cracking little portable mixer. Drum will last for ages if you make sure you wash it out not bash it out ?

Thor is Canadian Custom

Don’t use all the blocks with slits in the top they are for cutting in half.

Wow, what a mixuh, should last at least a few weeks, eh mate?

Nice new toy mate should have went for the Honda gx120 engine though much better

I could be wrong but I think Altrad brought Belle who are French.

Hi Charlie. How come you dont put the rebar in the middle off the block going crossway what is the centers for the rebar when laying them pot blocks Good to see you both back .

Nice belly mixed 👌👌👍🏼👍🏼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Charlie, Don’t forget to get to get one of those plastic dustbin lids to put on the new mixer drum to stop the mortar splashing everywhere 😉🧱👍🏻🇬🇧

easier to put shuttering up

left hand on right hand off bit like ranking you must have forgotten how too !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Over in aussie we always cleaned the mixer with a diesel sodden rag at the end of the day ,keeps it lovely and clean and the mud just rolls right off

Good mix

Although the belle mixer is made in the UK it is actually owned by altrad belle, altrad group. Altrad group originates from montpellier, France. French mixers with Honda engines.

Very good sir

pay for my flight there and ill show you how to set out blockwork.

Line on the back helps with them

For 20 years i thought it was italian with that name, never looked where it was made. Not taiwan then neither?

Nice one.

I'm sure I had one of those back in the day. Lent it over too fast and fucker rolled down the street. Do have to 3 and 1 or 4 and 1. Architect told me 3 and 1...he got 4 and 1 ...it what it is 😂

Can you do me a grow room please

Hate to tell you but the underground gym will leak leak like a sieve and it is not your fault I think you should tell the customer as it is not your responsibility regards Howard

You still got harry and the others working or are they gone

Where have all the works gone ?

Get a piece of scaffold tube and slide it over the rebar. Can bend them to where you want them then

Can’t beat the petrol. Always keep petrol 1,s. Fannying about with electric cables relying on people being in faffing nae good. Oh and don’t have same power as petrol. Yeap petrol king. Only plus Eliot’s silent. But can’t have it all lol. Belle make quality that lasts. Wheelbarrow wacker plates and so on. Ps keep the baby clean. 😝

If the eco warriors nick the belle mixers I would cry. On that garage, couldn't you use a handheld circular saw and do a king closer?

U got to turn them anti clock wise

From the look of it those block are heavy than it look

Blocks are upside down. Grab them in the center stem, or if yer not able opposite corners left top right bottom. If the rear is running foul use a brick or off cut in the hollow to realign the bar. No more big money click bait titles laying those blocks eh fella ?

Definitely struggle on the stonework...... But yes..... That rebar work is shite!!!! Hate it

Fits the DPM and then throws the roughest plank onsite down on it🙄😂

Great mixers but sold out to the French

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The new belle mixers rattle like fook. Always use a 110v when I can. A lot quieter.

Where is the work force gone

do they not come with honda engines now? was that a loncin? sounds like a Chinese cheapo

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Where is your team gone I have not be on your channel lately

Do you just play dumb for the camera?

Pop bocks are bastard to put down I hate pop bocks Andy

Wood it not be easier to get a brick it in to do that? 🫣 Save few quid on mixer. ✌️👍🇬🇧