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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've had it suggested to me that the commercial ones don't aerate the
compost well. If that's the case I doubt if a tombola based design would
work.

It could be modified :-)

Mary



To be worth the effort of building it it would have to be at least 45
gall size and that weight of compost would need proper bearings and some
sort of gearing, trying to turn them by hand is just liable to put your
back out. even at that size filling it much beyond the half way mark
won't allow the compost to mix as it turns so we are talk tiny contities
here. better a conventianal heap and spend your money on paying someone
to turn it!
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Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
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