I got tired of fiddling with redneck style scrap parts and pallets and chicken wire bins and paid money to have a neighbour weld me up this cage. Three pieces for easy loading and take down.
I have a near infinite supply of dead aspen to shred on my land and food waste from a grocery-farm diversion program. Plus cow/pig/rabbit poop and any supplemental weeds like nettles if they are growing and not having seeds. I let the pile cook for a week then flip every few days with a shower until it stops cooking (Berkeley method?) Fish and citrus go through just fine. Once there was a cod fillet put in raw and after one week was just nicely cooked and flakey and only barely broken down, but that was gone in a few days.
I figure it’s done when it becomes alive with worms and other critters.
by eldeejay999
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Are you able to remove one side to get in with a shovel to turn the contents? Or are all 4 sides welded together into one unit? I realize you said “Three pieces for easy loading and take down.” How does it take down? I’m having trouble visualizing it. Thanks!
Hell yes! I love these. Keep us posted
Very cool! Will it be easy to lift the cages off of the finished compost? I assume it’ll shrink quite a lot in the process but could also imagine it sticking to the mesh walls
Impressive
Epic!! This is my ideal bin. I’ve been looking at plans and figuring out how I want to do this and wow that thing is going to last forever! May I ask how much it cost?
Very nice! I need to spruce up our bin. As of now the front of each bay is just a pallet, but once the bay is half filled, the front goes on and everything has to be lifted up over the 42″ tall pallet. I’d like to make it so that the front can be built up as the pile grows