"Mary Fisher" wrote in message
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"Pete C" wrote in message
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Has anyone here designed and built their own rotating composter? Looked
at commercial ones, but I can't afford a second mortgage!

They are ridiculously expensive aren't they!

My reply is no, but if I were starting again - i.e. without the three or
more bins we have and don't want to be mde redunandant, we probably would.

You know those rotary bins they use (or used to use) for tombola tickets?
One of those could do the job ...

Mary

I did consider building a rotating composter, because of the very high cost
of the commercial ones.
I sketched out a hexagonal cylinder, with wooden ends, an axle, and a crank
handle, all set up on a trestle arrangement.

Trouble is, if you make it big enough, the engineering gets either complex
if you make it in wood, or very difficult unless you have an engineering
machin shop or a millwright for a mate.
There are not to many millwrights around, so the commercial rotating
comosters suddenly become more viable!

My current solution is to use three plastic bins, stir it with a good old
fashioned pitch fork, and if i need fine stuff to put it through a
rotasieve, i can recommend the rotasieve, it seemed to be all wrong in
principle, but it does work.

John