Seems like I read a while back about plans to build a rotating compost drum from a 55 gal. barrel. Was this in Countryside somewhere? I'd like to make one like I've seen commercially, but don't want to spend $400 for theirs. Does anyone know where this was or more details?

-- Derrick Comfort (dcomfort@ccnmail.com), January 01, 2000 Answers My husband made 1/2 inch holes in the barrel and a very simple latch door that he could open to get the compost out. I don't know how it was held shut (improvise).At first it was on a woooden stand with a handle to turn it,but now it's on the ground. As we fill it, we kick it around to turn it. Make sure that a few handful of dirt get added to the barrel now and then. It speeds up the compost action. It doesn't have to be fancy.

-- Ardie Storch (gloryhill@vbe.com), January 02, 2000.

-- ducky (duxinarow3@yahoo.com), July 13, 2001