Outdoor Composting Bin, 18.5 Gallon Single Chamber Small Tumbling Composter,Steel Frame Heavy Duty Barrel for Kitchen Garden Yard

The media could not be loaded. I found this easy to put together. I did it by myself although they recommend two people. The hardest part was making sure the large side piece clicked all the way into the smaller side panels. The instructions are minimal and the card is small (so small illustrations), but I was able to follow them without problems. The whole construction appears to be sturdy and a good size for my needs. It’s small enough that it doesn’t stick out like a sore thumb.

UPDATE: The bears in the neighborhood woke up from hibernation… they knocked the bin over and tried dragging it into the woods by the frame. NO DAMAGE to the bin when I chased them off.OK, my wife wanted a compost bin, so I saw that this one was identical to a brand name compost bin but was HALF the price. The ONLY difference are a couple of brand-name badges. So when you open this thing, you are going to immediately think, what a pile of garbage...these multiple pieces of plastic are not going to stay together or hold any weight...and like me, you'd be wrong! Once assembled, this thing is STURDY! It has been through several storms with 60+ mph winds and it still where we put it. It is something that you would think would not hold up, but so far, we are VERY impressed.

The composter is as described and what I expected, and I think it will work very well in my small space. My only issue is that the instructions to put it together were pretty minimal and left a lot out. I had to mostly figure it out for myself from the product images. That said, it was pretty easy to assemble.

This composter makes it seamless to compost on my small apartment balcony. It was easy to assemble in minutes. It is sometimes difficult to open the door. I've never cleaned it so I don't know about the ease of cleaning. If you get your compost ratios right you will have zero smell or pest issues.It's perfectly sturdy for the job, screws stayed in well and is light enough to be easily moved from area to another

We cannot get this put together. We've had it for a month and tried many times. We contacted sellers for help. They sent new panels. It is still now snapping all together. We only have a pile of parts that are useless.

Didn't take me long to build alone. Was looking for a small compost solution as someone who doesn't make a whole lot of food waste in an apartment situation. Its outside by the trash cans, and we do have raccoons but they've never gotten into it after several months of use. I have a very lax way of doing composting, so we'll see how it turns out, but I basically add dry weeds and grass and shredded paper with every bucket of compost. Its still not full and I turn it about weekly and whenever else I think about it. Its holding up well, just gotta click everything into place and its good. I'm sure it DOES leak, but where its by my trashcans it just doesn't bother me. You could I guess collect the juices as compost tea if you placed an oil pan under it. Easy to turn and to lock, as a small woman with not a lot of muscle. The gloves included were nice, I just use them for garden and DIY stuff. Good quality.

The compost tumbler is fairly well designed and sturdy. The instructions were pretty clear. The design accuracy is not perfect. A couple of the panels did not line up perfectly, and it caused the panels to buckle in places. However, this did not adversely affect the function of the product.Now for the bad news, the tumbler is not heating up. I filled the tumbler with horse manure and fine wood chip bedding(think large sawdust) at about a 20:1 ratio of bedding to manure. I used rain water to wet the contents, and it has about 65% moisture content. The contents are not getting hot at all. In fact I believe the only warmth I'm feeling is from the sun heating up the black plastic of the tumbler. When I open a door and stick my hand in, the air is a little warmer than the ambient air outside of the tumbler. When I put my hand deep into the composting material, it is cooler than the air in the composter. I have the composter placed in a sunny spot hoping to help heat up the contents. I created a large compost pile on the ground using the same horse manure and bedding along with some grass clippings and leaves. The large pile is already hot. My conclusion is that the compost tumbler is too small to develop much of a thermophilic reaction. I was concerned about the small size of the chambers when I was putting it together. I considered leaving out the center partition, but was afraid that it might needed for the structural integrity. I even read all the asked questions on the product to see if anyone else had asked about removing the center partition.If anyone can point out anything I'm doing wrong, I'd be pleased to hear from you.

It's a great size for my small home and wasneasybto put together. I thought it would be flimsy but it is actually very tough. Maybe a bit short but it holds quite a lot, is easy to use, although for some may use a bit of muscle to turn because there is no handle but it does have a lock to keep it in place when opening. It made perfect mulch in in just a couple weeks. I mean really great and we weren't nice to it lol, we put a lot in it and it still worked great. Best garden purchase we ever decided on and I definitely recommend it.