Peter Pugger Rocks!

At the school where I teach, mixing clay has been laborious and messy at best. We had a small Soldner clay mixer to mix and recycle our clay and that was it. I have four, high school clay classes and we go through a lot of clay. Plus high school kids are not exactly stingy when it comes to producing waste. I had clay buckets everywhere with soaking wet clay in them. I would skim off the water, dump it in the mixer, and add dry mix. It took up lots of space, the clay dust was horrible and it didn't produce the best clay in the worked either. But it's all I had to work with.
So last year, I ordered a Peter Pugger and it arrived yesterday. I went in early this morning to put it together and give it a test run. I did my homework before purchasing this and I had high expectations. I ran my first batch of clay through, de-aired it and the Peter Pugger met ever expectation I had. This thing kicks ass! I was addicted and kept mixing batches of clay all day. When I moved into this teaching position last year, there was four, fifty gallon garbage cans full of rock hard clay. I fully plan to put the pugger to the test next week by mixing up all the hard clay. Well maybe not all of it.
If you ever debated if it would be worth the money to get one, my opinion would be a definite yes.
This is the model I got with the stand. http://www.peterpugger.com/pugmill-extruder/pm-20-pugmill.html