– How does leftover cement in cement trucks not harden and slowly accumulate in the mixer, essentially clogging it?

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Title says it all; I’m sure a thin layer of cement will be left over after they poor it all, and I would imagine that thin layer would harden and then the next time they use the mixer another thin layer would be leftover and so on and so forth. After a while I would imagine it would accumulate to the point where it renders the mixer unusable.

Why is this not the case?

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About 0.5 m3 is left in the drum from the normal 8.5 m3 load. It doesn’t accumulate because they wash the drum after the mixer returns to the plant.

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