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Homemade Portable Composter
"My wife wanted a composter for years but I didn't want to spend $200 to $300 on one so I decided to use items on the farm to make one instead," says Kevin Holst, Eldridge, Iowa. "It hardly cost me anything except too much time."
  The 55-gal. composter rides on the running gear from an old cattle loading chute. Using a jig saw, he cut a 12-in. wide door into the side of the drum.
  An old silo distributor turns both the 1-in. shaft and drum for mixing. "It goes really slow at one revolution every 15 seconds," he says.
  "I mounted the drum off to the side so I could add a second drum adjacent to the first one if I wanted to double my production," Holst says. "I already have a sprocket mounted on the existing shaft ready to drive a chain for the second barrel."
  Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Kevin Holst, 22256 260th St., Eldridge, Iowa 52748 (ph 563 349-4858; kjholst1@juno.com).


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2006 - Volume #30, Issue #3