Can also be used as a time-out zone for naughty toddlers.
Hell yeah! I got really fascinated with compost a couple years ago. Of course that’s also the time I mowed a lot less lol. But get yourself one of those big compost thermometers! It’s really cool seeing how hot it gets!
Oh wow, I was even looking up old pictures I took of it and I found this meme I made.
Looks great but just a heads up that you might want to inspect the pallets you used for this project. A lot of them are chemically treated and probably not the best idea to use for any project that’ll be food adjacent:
Now THIS is what i come to dullmensclub for
I thought composting toddlers was illegal?
Nothing makes my tomatoes taste better than compost made from whole organic toddlers.
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They have to catch me first.
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I worried you’re going to regret having the pallets on the bottom—it’s going to make it hard to turn. And, having it that close to your house risks attracting pests to the house.
We don’t have acres of land, and it’s mainly for green waste, leaves, etc. Splitting it into 2 sections should make turning one side easier. We’ll see!
Ok hold up you got me confused. Won’t the compost all fall through the bottom ? Can you open up the steel mesh to make it easy to turn / remove ? Good size though! My plastic composter is too small so never gets hot enough
Pro tip: don’t put too much meat in your compost.
I’d take it farther, don’t put meat in an open compost.
You shouldn’t put any meat in compost… unless it’s an industrial composter.
It’ll be mainly green waste; very little meat, if any.
I see a few HT stamps, that is good. You might already know this, but avoid the MB stamped ones.
Oh hell yeah. Composting rules.
Aren’t these paletts really expensive ?
Lol no if you know where to go you can get em for free
Large construction sites are a good one. Ask first, don’t just start hauling shit. But if you only need a few most of the time nobody will care.
Good advice. Always ask first, as some places want to sell new ones for $5 USD each or reuse what they have on hand.
Yeah some big contractors wanna save em cause they’ve got their own warehouses to deal with. Anyone smaller than that is usually happy to let a few go.
Looking back on it, its mostly local government construction that isn’t cool with it. Those are the jobs in my experience anyway. Utility buildings, jails, police stations, etc. Or exceptionally big commercial jobs, malls or datacenters.
We get them free from farmers, who buy seed and fertilizer by the ton. Every ton needs a pallet, they accumulate fast.
Well, we got them free with all the building and gardening supplies we ordered.
I just took mine apart. It was, itself, composted.
I’ll be cutting down the mesh to half size. At the bottom is a load of soil and grass to encourage worms and stop everything falling put.
Congratulations, sir! Welcome to the happy world of composting.
Nice design. One question that has kept me from doing something similar.
How do you plan on stirring the pile? The center can get too hot and kill the microbes that keep the compost… composting. Or, does this kind of design keep that from happening since there is enough airflow? I’d think having a pipe in the middle might help there.
It is split into 2 halves to make turning one side easier, and we’ll mainly be composting green waste only so it may not need much stirring. At the end of the day, this is t’wife’s area of expertise - I just build what she asks me to!
This is the way to aerobic happiness.
I have a handful of those around the yard as well. Engineering isn’t her strong suit, so that’s why I know of putting the tube through the middle to help with aeration and keep things at a constant temp. As others have said, it’s need more water, but I live in South Louisiana… water is not a thing we are concerned about.
I live in the Welsh Marches so water isn’t an issue here either, although we have had a very dry Spring for England this year.
You might look up the Johnson-su Bioreactor. Pipe in the middle, no turning. Its slower, moisture demanding, and doesent guarantee total seed kill but the resulting compost is great. I’ve been using it for years now.
“Hey, Elonium, you want to punch your sister? That’s not ok. Check the carbon/nitrogen ratio while you think about that.”
