Carpentry and gardening... two of the coolest things on this Earth.

If you've never lived anywhere with a high raccoon population, you would not believe how crafty they can be when it comes to procuring food scraps. When I lived on the Des Plaines River, I had to use metal garbage cans with metal lids secured with chain. Securing the chain with a combo lock was more convenient than one that required a key. Anything less secure was easy for them to defeat and would result in a mess to clean up. Their success rate for raiding unsecured cans was 100% as they patrol every night and don't take time off for bad weather ;-)

Great stand design for a compost bin under a shelter (out of the rain!), very nice!

Great instructional video!! Thanks for sharing. One thing I would add to this tumbler is a few fins on the inside of the tumbler to aid the mixing of the composting material.

I like the design concept of using the base and top rebated areas as the rotation keeper. good idea.

Great video as for the critics i ll say , it easy to critic a prototype because easy to improve on something thats already made.

I did one of these with a blue drum like that and used casters for it to roll on. Worked great until it got 1/2 full and very heavy. The caster wheels leave dents in the barrel and it is hard to roll that sucker! I like your idea and it may be a simple solution for my problem since you have a lot more contact at the curved ends like that. These things do make dirt for sure but they get VERY Heavy!

Sure, why keep composting simple while you can spend extra time and money on it. For many gardens you probably need more than one tumbler so that's another great project to work on. Oh, and let's not forget the pleasure of having to make it tumble each day. Brilliant.

this guy cracks me up he's wearing a respirator for painting and he's got a combo lock on the compost

here's one compost idea with a 55 gallon drum find a drum you screw the lid on & off screw holes into the side of the drum only fill it half full when it standing up right when you want to tumble the bin lay it on the ground roll it on your grass like a lawn roller and you can fertilize your lawn at the same time with the compost falling out the holes.

Simplest design I've seen. Will be doing this soon, Thanks.

I tumble it daily. It works great.

Looks good, but I wonder how long the plastic 'hinge' will last before snapping? I was thinking of using stainless hinges.

neat simple good job.i reckon a pole through the middle of the barrel with or without blades :D and crank handle at one end could be added to help spin better? just a suggestion.

Simple, nicely done!

wow, this was so simple I think I might be able to do it by myself! thanks!

what if you cut a hole in the bottom large enough for a tote and cut open another hatch that has a screen in it so that when you tumble it the already finished compost falls into the collection container and can be used? if I'm very wrong I apologize I literally just started learning this stuff and not really entirely sure how it all works for sure just kind of guessing. lol

Thanks for the video. Many suggestions below, everyone will have an opinion. But this is a start.

In Australia it would be probably cheaper to buy one already made. The water drum, like the one here, would cost something between $60 and $100 (second hand) and the plywood itself (the one on the video is at least 3/4" solid) a full sheet from Bunnings would cost another $100 to $140. And remember since you have to wet your compost from time to time you need better one than just ordinary plywood board, probably structural. Good, gearboxed tumbler, like Maze brand, costs at Bunnings $215 and no labour involved except some assembly (plastic panels snap into each other). The one I just mentioned is very practical and easy to clean. Same goes for buying plastic containers to build a worm farm. New one costs about 70 to 80 bucks, but if you wanna built one yourself with good quality plastic tubs (what goes without saying) it will costs you over $150. Plus you still have to drill holes, buy a spout, figure out the stand, etc. So far the only thing I have done cheaper, rather than buying them were timber raised garden beds. Which are extremely expensive if you after good quality once.

very good but u dont tumble them daily or u'll end up losing the heat...1st tumble after filling to mix...2nd tumble when the heat drops off...3rd tumble only if it gets smelly.

Fantastic..bro u have imagination 👍👍👍👍👍👍

This is a cool video! Made very professional! Thanks!

Take a deep breath and hold it until you have to exhale. Now you can breathe. That's one high friction tumbler.

Haha you just locked it. I never heard of a compost thief. :D

Very cool setup nice and simple but most likely very effective!

It all seems easy but where do you get the plastic 55 gallon drum from.

When full of compos it will be very heavy to turn, Maybe a lot of friction trying to spin on The wood.

I know this is an old video, but can I make it out of a metal barrel instead of plastic? Since plastic leaches horrible cancer causing chemicals and hormone disruptors. It is so hard to find already made tumblers made from steel or wood.

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like the video very good design and looks neat too =) thank you for the upload 👍😄

Thanks, I made one just like it. It looks like it will work well!

This design looks awesome and easy, but I'd like to ask how easy it is to spin when it's full of wet, steamy compost :)? Thanks for the tute.

Your welcome. Thanks for watching.

The lock is probably so it doesn't open when you turn it.

smart and excellent video

only turns when its empty!

スゲー判りやすかった、今までどう処理したら良いか等々、アイデアの宝庫みたいな 動画だった、そうだよね現物合わせで結構行けるんだよねえ。

What will happen if we don't do the holes

Thank you for that superb share,,,!

gunna be so heavy and hard to spin

This is so convinient

Love the vid, but Dude, I'm mad at the padlock, really? Is it that serious where you live at? Lol, great job, keep it up.

Great! I like it.

Do they steal compost?

What was used to cover the open end of the 55 gal. drum ???

Ok muy buenesion.. Mejor quedaresion en latesion..

WoW

Excellent.

Nice video...

easy creation

thank you !

Pretty easy

what if i've made too many holes....i made it after seeing this video

Gud idea,,thanks

como se llama la cancion??

Are you worried someone will steal your compost?

You just cut up a $75 piece of wood.. could buy a lot of bag compost for that price

Trata de girarloo cuando este lleno haber si puedes

super!!

Can I know your name please...i need it for my research

и для чнго это конструкция?

what size tumbler you are using?

why do you put a padlock on your tumbler? do people steal compost where you live?

How much this cost ? Please let's us know

good luck tumbling it when its full of compost

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Why are you putting a combination lock on it?😂😂😂

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this is pretty complicated and sort of a "production". Gotta be a more straight forward way

not a good tumblr man

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