Sure thing! And who knew that one could de-rust hardware in a tumbler? Today I learned! Thanks 🙂

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Thank you very much! 😁

Glad you enjoyed it!

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Nice idea! Make it so!

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😄Dad joke approved!👍

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If I had a nickel for every time someone called my work "genius", I'd have... about a nickel. Thanks! You made my day. 🙏🏻

I’m amalgamating techniques…yours is among the best I’ve seen. Now I’m on the lookout for Hotwheels. Haha. Thanks again.

¡Muchas graçias, Señor!

Thanks!

Ha! Thank you very kindly!

Hmm, good idea! I'll have to try that out. Thank you for the suggestion!

Thank you!

The casters fit in the channel so snugly that I don't think there is room to add grip tape. Adding casters on the sides and/or the top might be my only option. For now, I just turn off the machine and put the trommel back into place, which isn't ideal, but it's good enough. Thanks for the suggestion!

Thanks! Yeah, no need to make it into a saga -- you guys get the point after a couple of seconds!

Ah, excellent! Now I know! Thanks very much for the comment and contributing to the journey!

Yes, that's the set-up I had going. Not sure if it was apparent in the video, but there was a smaller wheelbarrow below (which, by the way, was also something I picked up for free on rubbish day, but incidentally has since broken and been tossed out) to catch the larger pieces. Thanks for the comment!

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So far, I've gone through about two times of emptying the white 55-gallon compost tumbler using the sifter. The battery still seems to be doing fine so far; the only problem is when the load on the system is too heavy, and the sifter slows down or the casters don't stay in the channel. The bucket hasn't worn out at all -- I'm not very concerned about that. I think that to address these issues, I hope to at some point incorporate ideas suggested in the comments about going with the 12V battery and a dimmer switch in order to control the speed, as well as casters on the other sides of the bucket to keep it in place. I tried using an old AC adapter instead of a battery (obviously, in order to avoid using a battery at all) at one point during the initial development of the machine, but it didn't work with the motor -- the motor would continually start and stop, start and stop, start and stop... I think this StackExchange question is more or less what's going on: electronics.stackexchange.com/q/419562/323054

Actually, this is the forum thread that very closely matches what I was trying to do, and likely what the problem was: www.societyofrobots.com/robotforum/index.php?topic=18073.0

Yes, definitely good suggestions. I guess I was so new at salvaging parts from something like the kids' jeep that it didn't occur to me to grab those other things you mentioned! But good things to think about for the future. Thanks very kindly!

😄Ha. I didn't make a video of that project. But possibly even better than a video, these are the instructions I used (and it's not a bad idea to buy the PDF and cut list as well): www.familyhandyman.com/project/diy-compost-tumbler/ Good luck!

Good call! Thanks!

Where is the video for the white 55gal barrel?

There isn't one. You can find the instructions by searching on the web site of Family Handyman magazine.

Um, wow? Sounds like it would make an amazing video!

Totes, bro! That's why I made the video! Good luck!

Can you elaborate? What are you suggesting?

@@ThumbsUpWorkshop it might make more sense now. I edited my comment

Ha. Glad you liked it!

Hmm, a very fair idea and suggestion. I certainly hadn't thought of that.

Could you have a swappable door made of the mesh to go on you composter? Then “just” add a motor 😀. Great video by the way .

@Button Monkey: Also a good idea. 👍🏻

However, after some more thought on this, one issue with using the same tumbler for both the composting phase and the sifting phase is that the sifting wouldn't work, I don't think, if the tumbler were still full to the brim with compost. There has to be enough capacity in the drum for its contents to fall around when the drum is rotating, or else there won't be that action that separates contents of various sizes from each other (nor would compost stuck near the axis of a filled up drum really experience much turbulence, for lack of a better word). I suppose that issue could be solved by emptying the compost out of the drum and then shoveling it back in, bit by bit, once the machine has been transformed into sifting mode, though...

That sounds like a lot of work 🤔. Thinking time required 🙂