Rotary Compost Sifter

Rotary Compost Sifter FARM HOME Miscellaneous 30-5-26 When Dave Black saw his neighbor's rotary grain cleaner sitting in the weeds, he knew right away what he wanted to do with it. "I thought it would make a great compost sifter. All I had to do was replace the old screen with hardware cloth, and it was just about ready to go," says Black. "I ran some corn through to clean it out and painted it." The first batch went flying out the end, so Black lowered the front end, forcing the clumps to climb higher before exiting. Once he had it adjusted, it worked great, with all the fine, well composted material sifting through the hardware cloth. Uncomposted materials gradually worked their way to the opposite end and exited into a pile. "I just use these rejects to start my new compost pile," says Black. "The finished compost is easy to scoop up underneath." Black only makes about a pickup load of yard and kitchen compost a year, but fixing up the grain cleaner was worth it to him. He paid his neighbor around $200 for it and threw away his old sifting frame. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, David Black, 8781 Ulery Rd., New Carlisle, Ohio 454344 (ph 937 255-9231; blacklane9 @woh.rr.com).

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