tumbling/rotating composters

[Charlotte Payne]

Hello! I have gone to google and looked at the old posts on rotating
composters, but none seemed to answer my question: I am looking at
purchasing one for my mother, who is in her early 80s, and small but wiry.
She has had one of the ones on a stand bought maybe 7-10 years ago, and
the handle you rotate it with and the barrel have degraded in the heat.
She would like a new one, and I would like to find one for her that is
easy to turn, or, what about one of those ones I've seen that sit near the
ground and you rotate by stepping on the indents in the sides?

Grateful for all advice!

Charlotte

[animaux]

Any of the tumblers work relatively fast to make finished compost. Is that why
she wants one? If not, what's wrong with an old fashioned stationary compost
bin?


On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 15:01:22 -0700, Charlotte Payne >
wrote:

>Hello! I have gone to google and looked at the old posts on rotating
>composters, but none seemed to answer my question: I am looking at
>purchasing one for my mother, who is in her early 80s, and small but wiry.
>She has had one of the ones on a stand bought maybe 7-10 years ago, and
>the handle you rotate it with and the barrel have degraded in the heat.
>She would like a new one, and I would like to find one for her that is
>easy to turn, or, what about one of those ones I've seen that sit near the
>ground and you rotate by stepping on the indents in the sides?
>
>Grateful for all advice!
>
>Charlotte

[Beecrofter]

Charlotte Payne > wrote in message >...
> Hello! I have gone to google and looked at the old posts on rotating
> composters, but none seemed to answer my question: I am looking at
> purchasing one for my mother, who is in her early 80s, and small but wiry.
> She has had one of the ones on a stand bought maybe 7-10 years ago, and
> the handle you rotate it with and the barrel have degraded in the heat.
> She would like a new one, and I would like to find one for her that is
> easy to turn, or, what about one of those ones I've seen that sit near the
> ground and you rotate by stepping on the indents in the sides?
>
> Grateful for all advice!
>
> Charlotte

They cost damn near 400$, for the money I can have a dz cu yds of
mushroom compost delivered..

[Chelsea Christenson]

animaux wrote:

> Any of the tumblers work relatively fast to make finished compost. Is that why
> she wants one? If not, what's wrong with an old fashioned stationary compost
> bin?

Perhaps it would be inconvenient to turn the compost the old-fashioned way?

[Charlotte Payne]

It's not the speed; she just found it easier to turn the handle as
opposed to turning the stationary compost. She also has one of those
very small back yards, and the tumbling composter, which we bought way
back when from a person who made them himself, was just what she needed.


Thanks,

Charlotte

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, animaux wrote:

> Any of the tumblers work relatively fast to make finished compost. Is that why
> she wants one? If not, what's wrong with an old fashioned stationary compost
> bin?
>
>
> On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 15:01:22 -0700, Charlotte Payne >
> wrote:
>
> >Hello! I have gone to google and looked at the old posts on rotating
> >composters, but none seemed to answer my question: I am looking at
> >purchasing one for my mother, who is in her early 80s, and small but wiry.
> >She has had one of the ones on a stand bought maybe 7-10 years ago, and
> >the handle you rotate it with and the barrel have degraded in the heat.
> >She would like a new one, and I would like to find one for her that is
> >easy to turn, or, what about one of those ones I've seen that sit near the
> >ground and you rotate by stepping on the indents in the sides?
> >
> >Grateful for all advice!
> >
> >Charlotte
>
>



************************
Charlotte Payne
Preservation Department, Shields Library, 100 North West Quad,
University of California, Davis, CA 95616
phone 530.752.6040 // fax 530.754.8785

[animaux]

On Tue, 03 Jun 2003 15:09:42 -0400, Chelsea Christenson
> wrote:

>animaux wrote:
>
>> Any of the tumblers work relatively fast to make finished compost. Is that why
>> she wants one? If not, what's wrong with an old fashioned stationary compost
>> bin?
>
>Perhaps it would be inconvenient to turn the compost the old-fashioned way?

You don't have to turn it. I just lay organic matter in mine and in about a
year or so I have compost. So, basically, once a year I get out the pitch fork
and screen it.

[animaux]

Some of them are way over priced, if you ask me. They do sell somewhere a
compost tumbler which you turn upside down. It's on a pivot of some sort.
Maybe Garden Supply is where I saw it. Search their website

http://www.nenature.com/CompostTumblersBins.htm


On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 13:25:06 -0700, Charlotte Payne >
wrote:

>It's not the speed; she just found it easier to turn the handle as
>opposed to turning the stationary compost. She also has one of those
>very small back yards, and the tumbling composter, which we bought way
>back when from a person who made them himself, was just what she needed.
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>Charlotte
>
>On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, animaux wrote:
>
>> Any of the tumblers work relatively fast to make finished compost. Is that why
>> she wants one? If not, what's wrong with an old fashioned stationary compost
>> bin?
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 15:01:22 -0700, Charlotte Payne >
>> wrote:
>>
>> >Hello! I have gone to google and looked at the old posts on rotating
>> >composters, but none seemed to answer my question: I am looking at
>> >purchasing one for my mother, who is in her early 80s, and small but wiry.
>> >She has had one of the ones on a stand bought maybe 7-10 years ago, and
>> >the handle you rotate it with and the barrel have degraded in the heat.
>> >She would like a new one, and I would like to find one for her that is
>> >easy to turn, or, what about one of those ones I've seen that sit near the
>> >ground and you rotate by stepping on the indents in the sides?
>> >
>> >Grateful for all advice!
>> >
>> >Charlotte
>>
>>
>
>
>
>************************
>Charlotte Payne
>Preservation Department, Shields Library, 100 North West Quad,
>University of California, Davis, CA 95616
>phone 530.752.6040 // fax 530.754.8785

>