hi this is Beth Stowers and I'm at the crunchy housewife comm and I just wanted to show you the compost tumbler that my husband is made for me I'm super super excited about it because about 5 or 6 months ago I wanted to get a compost tumbler so we could start making compost for our garden and I was at Costco and I fell in love with this black compost tumbler but it was between 125 and 150 dollars and we couldn't afford it in our budget at the time so instead we went online and looked and we found some great great instructions for building a compost tumbler they are very detailed and they're awesome and it was at wikiHow that we saw it and a website where we found is right underneath me so you can go look at it too what we did was my husband started with making a stand out of two by fours as you can see right here let me go around the side this is what the side of the stand looks like this is the back side of it here so and this is the other side so he made this stand out of two by fours and just nails it was pretty simple and pretty easy and then we had a water barrel in our yard that we had not been using at all so we use that for the tumbler part and you can see the six holes that are drilled through it my husband drilled little holes all over the compost tumbler so that the material inside would have aeration and as we turn it that helps to mix it up but there are bunches and bunches of holes everywhere all over it and then he drilled out a hole on the bottom of the water barrel and then a hole on the oh I'm sorry on the other side of Waterboro that was the top actually this is the bottom and he drilled that hole so we could put a PVC pipe through and the PVC pipe sets on the stand and the compost tumbler turns on the PVC pipe so as you can see the PVC pipe it runs the whole length plus some of the compost tumbler and then on each end my husband um fastened the PVC pipe to the wooden stand so that the PVC pipe stays attached to the wooden stand on look look at that you can look all the way through anyways it on stays attached to the wooden stand on this side and then on the other side so that the PVC pipe itself won't move but the compost tumbler will move and it will tumble on there on the pipe so this is really fantastic then he cut a door in the water barrel and he put a hinge two hinges on the door and then a lock just a little lock on the top so that we can close it and of course this makes it super super easy to be able to put material in and take material out so that's an awesome thing here's our friend the PVC pipe coming through here I've got some material there but what I wanted to show you was um we also have some metal fins that we attached to the inside of the water barrel and that helps to mix up our material so when it turns around and around the Matoo the fins right here mix and stir the material here kind of like you would if you're you know mixing a cake with a beater or something like that kind of like a bat you know makes the blade and a batter so what he did is we went to Home Depot we got the metal fins that the instruction calls for we folded it and then we attached one part to the water barrel with rivets and we actually used rivets throughout the water barrel we didn't want to use any screws or anything and as you can see right here we used rivets and we just didn't want any sharp edges poking out or anything like that and then the hinges have rivets as well so we put I think I believe the original instructions call for doing this a little bit differently but we wanted to put fins in different places so that it stirs the material you know here here and then we have a fin back here behind the PVC pipe and then underneath here so we wanted to kind of have some stirring going on throughout the whole compost tumbler so anyways we have our compost pile right here this enables us on top there's a lot of Kitchen material I've been busy with avocados and making soup and I've actually got a some beef stock on the stove right now so I've been very busy in the kitchen so lots of onions and celery and things like that and then underneath our little pile right here we have a lot of weeds we have leaves we have pine needles that we've gotten from our yard and things like that so we've got a lot of material here and I take that beautiful beautiful material we put it inside our compost tumbler in this opening and then you can close our compost lid right there and then the sides the top of the water barrel is it's very very easy you don't even need a handle although you can attach a handle if you want to somehow but you can very easily grab this side so you're able just to come out here and you give you a compost tumbler some good turns and get that stuff mixed up inside and everything else so that's the compost tumbler my eye was good that's the compost time where my husband just made me I'm very very excited about it so a few things about this is this ended up costing us under $50 well actually it cost us maybe about $25 to make because we already had our water barrel so that was an expense that we didn't have to have but water barrels you can find them pretty cheap I found them on Craigslist before and they go for between 15 to 25 dollars so the price isn't too bad you'll find them new at some places and they're very very expensive but look on Craigslist or you know so um yeah just look on Craigslist or some other things and you know garage sales things like that and you can find them the PVC pipe was pretty inexpensive it was about five to eight dollars at the store the two by fours were pretty cheap and then the rivets I had to buy two different containers of rivets because we needed two different sizes they were about $10 each no no I'm sorry they were $10 total and they're just in these little boxes right here you know and they're just and they're not too many and we have a whole bunch left over so we can use them for other projects and that's about it for the costs also the metal fins that we have inside I got four of those and they were just a few dollars each so those weren't even too expensive either just you know two dollars times four eight dollars so you can get away with making one of these pretty pretty inexpensively and it will do everything just as well as the really fancy one at Costco or anywhere else that you might find one also another thing that we did with our compost tumbler and you can paint it black if you want to if you want it to absorb heat from the Sun more easily and also we have it in an area of our yard that's very very very sunny so this part will get a lot of Sun we wanted to keep it out of any kind of shade we want just to bake and you know just it'll just bake up all that good stuff so that after it's done we pull out nice nice compost and we can feed our garden with it and beautify everything and get some yummy yummy vegetables and that is it so I hope you will come over to my website at the crunchy housewife 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