F2C Compost Bin Outdoor Dual Chamber Tumbling Composter 43 Gallon BPA Free Large Tumbler Composters Tumbling or Rotating w/Sliding Doors & Solid Steel Frame Garden Yard Green

Definitely well assembled because I assembled it! Jokes aside, this unit was a bit of a bear to build but ultimately took me 54 minutes and change to assemble once the box was opened. Not bad, but that time didn’t include the time looming for a more comfortable screwdriver and small socket wrench to attack the dozens of screws needed to be threaded down. Assembly was not hard but was a bit tedious on the last dozen or so nuts and bolts. You can definitely do this without much mechanical aptitude even with the minimal assembly instructions. If you’d rather not assemble these and go with the snap together kits out there then good on yah. We’re new to the composting barrel game again after using on ground piles but we opted for something to keep a little closer to the house recently and on ground just wasn’t gonna work for us with this want of ours. We’ve had it filling up for a week or so now and the kitchen waste material and shredder paper mix is already breaking down wonderfully!!! And somehow those pesky little flys pupae are already in there too! Wierd because the compost is warm every time we feed it and we haven’t noted a bunch of flys lately!!! The world is a wonder! Rotating the drum is kinda fun too as is watering it and then rotating and looking at it again. Who knew watching dirt could be so enjoyable. All (bad) jokes aside, this compost bin is a great value at the time we picked it up but the price seems to fluctuate significantly. I should note though that the local farm store sells these double drum u its but with smaller capacity for more than 2x what this units seems to sell for so that’s a big win.

I bought and assembled and finally placed this little composter in my backyard exactly 18 days ago. I am still working on the right side to develop compost, but it is working fine. Before this rotating composter, I had a couple of large bins for just dumping stuff into from the top and then, after a year or so, scooping compost from the bottom. This one can rotate, which helps speed up composting. And, it is not as small as the other big one that I had thought at first. It has two separate chambers. I had to watch some videos to help explain it to me, because I've never had one of these before. You build a compost pile in one chamber, and when it is full, you begin to build compost in the other chamber. The idea is that one side will be full but not completely composted yet. So, you start adding green material to the other side to start building that side up. I'm not sure yet about the time sequence, but the idea is to fill up one chamber in about a month. It is not fully composted yet, and so you start to fill the other chamber, and the original one keeps on composting. So, the new chamber takes, say, another month to fill, and by this time the other chamber has been composting for another month. They have mentioned about 3 months for getting total decomposition and composting. I have yet to see it. If that is true, then a proper rotation would be 1.5 months on one side and then 1.5 months on the other side. Then, the original side should be composted completely. Assembly took me all night on this one. It has something like 85 nuts and bolts. I'm used to maybe 5 or 10 nuts and bolts to attach, but 85! And, it's kind of hard to feel your way on the inside to match the bolt to the nut. You have to do it by feel only because it is inside and there's no way to see inside there. Also, I finished it and then realized that I had done something wrong because the last panel didn't fit right. I looked at the instructions, and they mentioned that about halfway you have to do something special. So, I had to unscrew about 40 nuts and bolts and go back to that halfway point. I can't remember exactly. I think it was something to do with the final installation of the panel in the center. I tried just taking off one panel at a time and seeing it it would fit in there, but it would not. The instructions are right. You have to install it after the 4th panel (there are about 8 I think). So, that was the only mishap in my assembly. After taking off those panels, I inserted the center panel and reassembled the other panels, which by that time I had become a master. I like to take a lot of breaks in between working, but it took me several hours overall to complete this assembly. We cook a lot here, and we have lots of compostable material that I have been tired of wasting by just throwing it into the garbage can. So now, in the past 2 and a half weeks, I have added probably 10 pounds of compostable material like banana peelings, egg shells, and such. My problem has been finding the "brown" stuff to add to the "green" stuff. I started with old cardboard boxes and cutting them up, and paper. But, I recently acquired a bunch of old leaves. The mixture is supposed to be 2 to 1, two parts brown to one part green. The right side is still only less than half full. So, I guess that's about right on time. If it goes according to plan, the right side should be full after about 6 weeks. I will dutifully report back here in the next coming weeks and months to register my further review of this great little composter. Oh, I forgot to mention, it has the two chambers with slide-outs that are marked. One has the plus sign on it to show which side is being fed, in case you are too stupid to remember from yesterday. Anyway, it is a plus for this composter.

does the job just should have a turn handle

Nice compost bin for the price -- but be warned, it needs a complete assembly, and that can be a bit of a pain if you are on your own. It's not overly large, so if you're looking for a large bin, you need to keep looking -- but it does the job for a medium sized bin.

Product was easy to assemble. The holes lined up and there was sufficient hardware. I think this is a good value and I look forward to having good compost for my vegetable garden.