Comments on: Used Wooden Pallets or Skids: Making Free, Easy Compost Bins

By: How To Make A Compost Pile For (almost) Free | How To Cook Like Your Grandmother

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:02:45 +0000

[...] the intensely low-tech, almost-free pallet composter looks like a keeper. If you’re a typical DIY-er, you probably know all you need to from that [...]

By: Yolanda

Yolanda — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:37:54 +0000

I did this years ago and they are still going strong. Not being very handy with tools, I just unbended some wire coat hangers and wired the pallets together with those. I have 2, side by side, and use one each year, covering it up with some hay/or leaves in the fall, and then use the compost in the spring and start filling the one I emptied the year before. It works for me!

By: Composting Resources

Composting Resources — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:21:01 +0000

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By: Maureen

Maureen — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:27:45 +0000

Very nice. I invented the same thing. A bungee band makes getting the door open easier. The thing that is missing in our bins is a system for dropping the finished compost (worm castings, etc. out the bottom. In worm farms they use a row of 1/2 or 3/4″ PVC pipes with little slots in between. That lets the air in and lets the compost drop out into some sort of tray. A elaboration for later. Worms would need a cover (piece of plywood held down with a block?)as well. I didn’t have a lid on mine and when the cows were in that pasture they came and ate up most of the nasty weeds I had thrown in the bins.

By: Urban Homesteading Book Review: The Urban Homestead

Urban Homesteading Book Review: The Urban Homestead — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:56:10 +0000

[...] there was much more “meat” to be had in the form of actual DIY projects. I’ve built my own compost bins out of used skids, but have yet to make my own multi-level worm composting bin. Today I made one, [...]