greetings evan; ponder this: i have set posts off and on all my life, from powerline poles to fence posts and there is a spiffy way to do it. dig your hole (remember, whatever you use is only as strong as the surrounding undisturbed earth), insert your pole and fill in around it with pea gravel. that is right, pea gravel. it will settle, pack hard but will be able to remove the post later if desired. it will not rot the post at ground line like concrete and you can utilise the post immediately without waiting for the concrete to set up. the only thing involved is taking two hammers and lightly pounding the post on opposite sides to make the gravel settle around it. i install corner posts around large garden plots and tension the wire with a tractor and the posts do not give (no bracing necessary). have a good day and thank you for the best videos that i follow on utube........g

Impressive that you work a full time job and come home to do another full time job at home. Commendable

Appreciate that you include your honest mistakes in your videos. Makes your channel real. Look forward to more projects.

I love that you showed a build for the compost bin that allows you to turn the composting material with the tractor. Its way,...way easier than doing it with a pitchfork which is how its done in most of the other videos. Looking at about 350-400 bucks in materials too,...that is almost comparable to those little spinny barrel things that wont handle volume like that.

We built almost the exact bins in 2017. After a few years of moisture the 2x6's loosened. Last month we finally had good compost and pulled it all for grow beds. I replaced the original 4" screws with 6" and the bins are super strong again. We also put a red house brick under the bottom front 2x6's to keep them off the ground. Was glad to see your design so similar to ours. Good building!

Not out of square, just designed for a tractor with a low tire.

World Class Compost Bin!! Great Job,

Amazing all that digging no rocks! Here I try to cut a tree stump ground level I have stone inside it.

What an awesome wood plans!!! Very Pleased!

I love making compost. I spent a year or two turning grass clippings, leaves, and food waste into rich black soil. Last weekend I spread it over the entire yard and the grass is looking real good.

Another stellar build Evan. Your homestead is turning into a true work of pride with lots of joy. Well done 👍❣️

nice video, im getting ready to build the same bin, also feel your pain using that 3 point auger, I just ordered a loader auger for my TYM, that 3 point model is a pain to get on the tractor, good stuff,

It looks awesome!! Thank you for making the video a little longer 😁❤️😁

Great job on the bins. I can't wait to see how it all turns out.

Your such a perfectionist!!! Stay as you are!!!...👍👍👍

Great looking compost bins!

Good job Evan, that will hold up. Thanks for sharing with us. Fred

You did a good job. Give yourself more credit. 👍🏼

7:01 I like your third hand trick with the post hole digger!😂

You are a great builder of the things you need on the homestead. That compost bin will last a long time and supply you with black gold. 👍

Looking good Evan! Now comes the fun cleaning out the barn stalls!

Evan, nice work! Another great video...

Evan, you did great!! Nice looking compost bins just to fit your tractor. Enjoyed the video.

Great job Eben. It’s looks very sturdy. It should last years. 👍

You did a good job on the compost bins Evan.

👍👍Great Job, Evan

Great info. I need to build something like this. i have a big pile out back kinda in the woods. I just became family and will be watching thanks.

JudithB I set posts with rocks n dirt. One time we set driveway posts with concrete and someone hit one with a Datsun. Busted the post and it was a job getting that hunk of concrete out of the ground so I could put in RR ties. You could have dropped in the posts and screwed 2x around the top to hold it all square before adding concrete. I work most of the time by myself too, even at 72. I do stay off ladders unless someone is around!! LOL 6 dry days in a row so lots to do!!!

Beautiful build. Hard work, but great work. Your videos are outstanding. Thank you!

I started laughing when I heard the "Benny Hill" music. That's at least 30 years ago and before your time Evan.

For the slide in boards should put shims on the ends of the bottom edge of each board to match the sides. Added benefit you can get your fingers under the sliding board to lift it.

Looks great and will work great. Nice job.

That’s impressive! Probably the most sturdy compost bin I’ve ever seen. It’s almost a small barn. Put a slanted roof over it, it’d keep a lot of animals dry and spoiled happy. :) Great job! And dont worry about it being a bit out of square, it came together and will work just fine.

I enjoy your advice and insight, a lot of useful information.

great looking compost bins

Spreading compost, manure . You load it onto you’re flat bed trailer. Rebecca drives the tractor and trailer slowly along where you want it spread. You ride on the trailer and with a suitable tined fork, you spread it a forkful at a time !, one each side, one over the back .It worked when I was a young man, a long time ago now, and it doesn’t need any more cash layout !. Good luck !.

Hai fatto un buon lavoro. Bravissimo!!

Awesome job man... looks great!

Great job. Enjoy your vlog. God Bless

I have seen people make really useful compost bins out of pallets held in place by t-posts. They last well and are easy to use. The Hollar Homestead can show you how to make compost.

Whoa. Super sized backyard version 🤯 That's what I'm talkin bout!

Considering the content, audio, video, attitude & explanation of projects can not comprehend why Country View Acres, Hickory Ridge Farms & Jesse Muller are not at 100,000 subscribers or more.

Nice build Evan

Nice structure for compost!😊

Done a amazing job

Good job on the bins.

Great job as always. Could always use one side as temporary holding pen for an animal if needed.

looks great man.

Great job Evan! You might want to add grass clippings early on for some green matter to help in composting. I've read that molasses is a good composting starter as well.

Nice bins ! if you are worried about the back wall strength 4 diagonal 2x6 boards linking the bottom of the front posts to the TOP of the back posts, including a diagonal board in the same direction either side of the center wall would make it very strong. Diagonal bracing always adds tremendous strength if done right.

Great video, nice build

Great compost bin. You may want to look into Johnson Su no turn method and try it on your bin. Looking forward for an update.

It is extremely sturdy :)

Evan nice job as usual!! you are lucky, I have about 12 rocks per sq feet on my farm, had to sell my new auger as I could only go down about 12 inches.

Very nice job!👍

Thats so much prettier than ours. Ours is one section, chain link, 8x8x 4ft high, with 2 4x4 ft gates at the center, and i fill it once a year, and empty it once every 2. The garden loves it!

Great job

Looks great!!

Thanks for sharing.

Looks so good if got farmer with horses that great to put in compost [ could some small branches of tree] bin we used go for a drive to get fruit& vegetables when ours weren't ready out in the country! There be place they be selling bags of horse or sheep manure at gate! What dad could done with one those for his tractor had few things too put it he dug all holes for fence poles be hand take few days to do a fence line! Old fences caused too more problems and big floods took them! The worsted storm we even had we had thunder, lighting most night dad moved the cows out lower paddocks where flooding couldn't get them ! Cattle and sheep all out creeks way we two streams [ not water nearly but when comes down off hillsides can become creeks!] and creek grows a huge river spread out over the flat paddocks! It biggest took our bridge been there 60 years Dad and Mum been in area most there lives! Our waterfall over quarry normally a foot wide was four foot wide you hear it top the hill before saw it! Local newspaper from town came out took photos we give a foot bridge they took a photo some local children walking across, took lots photo's there were huge holes in sides hills it looked a giant taken handful soil, trees large full grown ones! There huge piles of them and rocks , metal from quarry too, our paddocks were covered stuff!

l. Absolutely love your farm video’s so interesting cheers Lorraine from New Zealand

Nice job!

Great job love this progression 🇺🇸🇺🇸

great structure. I like that if you decide not to compost one day, you have the structure in place. you could easily convert into a shelter for pigs, or for chickens, goats, add a roof, a couple gates across the front, etc. you mentioning it isn't square is a nice heads up for anyone trying to build one but... you can't even tell. you could have gotten away without telling us. :-)

Good job

Nice job! Only thing I see to improve would be putting side boards on inside of the posts so pile pressure would push against post instead of it trying to push out boards and pull thru the screws. Can fix later if problem by thru bolting vertical boards to post from outside to prevent. Very nice bin and not an eyesore like some

Don't sweat the small stuff, most compost bins are made with pallets just propped against each other or a circle of hog wire.

I'm not trying to criticize, beautiful job but if you are worried about strength, you should cross buck the back and side panels to make it totally rigid. there's nothing like some triangles to stiffen anything up to where you'll be able to whack it just about anywhere, except sideways on the "front" (opening end) posts ... again,, nice work.. you are a monster can't believe all you get done alone !!

Looks great! You should get some good compost out of that.I have a huge compost pile. LOL! The horse stuff builds up in a hurry. Keep the good work buddy i enjoy your videos!

I would add a post on the outside of the walls to help with outward pressure

Probably could have spent the money in other areas of your farm that need renovating. Compost piles are usually temporary and set at different areas throughout your farm. No need to waste gas to bring all the compost to a central area. But it's one of the nicer compost set-ups I've seen.

It looks good. I think you should some coating to protect the boards. And you cad add some stuff to stack up 2*4s to you use once needed. You can put them a bit higher than ground so they wont be affected by moisture of ground. Like hanging them on right and left side.

Don't know if you've seen anything of Edible Acres vlogs. He has this crazy chicken compost system. Were he utilises waste for I don't know where, He says he gets for free caffees etc. and the chickens work it. You have the perfect space for this setup.👍🏻😎😊

In the UK we have several products called post mix ,post Crete and such like dries in 20 mins could use it for first 1/4 etc and if u think not strong enough use concrete to top off. Also to make concrete go further put “PLUMS” in it broken bricks rocks etc my father was a builder… nothing has fell down he retired 40 years ago mind u he fell down lol

Consider laying a couple of 4x4s on the floor of the bins for the bucket to ride on when scooping up the compost to turn and remove

Good video

Thank-you!

Nice job🙂🙃❤️🤗💜

I wonder if you will need another set of bins? You’ll find out! Nice job!

Awesome

You must have a high water table on your property ! You have some nice soil for digging post holes ( no rocks ) !

Dude nice job you did well pilgrim

That is a very nice compost bin. If needed, you could put an animal in it or use it for storage.

i used old telegraph poles each corner notching out a quarter with the chainsaw to fit the horizontal side beams made from rail sleepers trimmed down...

Love it

I don't think the compost will care if the BIN's are out of square since they're gonna last at least as long as the Pyramids

I know it will make you not sleep at night but finished is better than perfect. Good job! You know what they say about horse shoes and hand grenades.

I built a lean-to for our horse few years back... trying to work until the sun was gone... thought for sure I had it perfectly square... came out the next day and in the light You could clearly see I had put the 4x4 post on the wrong side of my mark throwing me out 3 1/2" front to back... To this day it's known as the parallelogram horse shack... I always tell everyone that the winds were stronger 8' further east towards the front

great job looks super strong was a bit concerned when you went all the way down with post hole digger or Giant cork screw what ever you want to call it thought you were drilling for OIL. HA HA. S C UK.

Cool idea i like it just wish i had a tractor to do that, maybe later lol.

Out of square? Oh no! The Homestead Inspector will make you rebuild it. Just kidding. Good job though. It will last years. You may find out later that will want a couple more bins, maybe. BTW. I love your homestead😊

Nooooooo.... Where's the Sickle bar mower??? 🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜⛏️🔨⛏️🔨 Great video,,

You need some worker bees. Thanks for great build.

Make some braces on the sides to hold the front boards off the ground. That way it looks nice and the boards are witin reach when you don't have them in use.

Ioboll. Best leVal and s shot. Love. Eyeball xxoo.

A few kid to try it out.. Xx

Layer some of your alfalfa to it and saw dust and it'll make a great garden compost!

We have a Morton building for dairy heifers and they just poured dry concrete in the holes, no water. They said the ground moisture is enough.

I like what you are doing. But just a thought. The treated lumber will leach into the compost your are making. The treatment of the posts is usually Copper coated arsenic. (CCA) This will poison your compost and then your garden. I would rethink your material choice.

Pythagorus theorem to make square walls my friend. A squared, plus B squared, equals C squared. Or 3,4,5 rule.