Another size question: while I've seen your answers to those asking about 2 people households, we, while only 2, have 2 full size allotments and currently run 14 dalek compost-bins, filling 3-4 at a time while the others (full) rot down. Produce goes to m... Joraform Compost Tumbler JK400 Rapid Hot Composters

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Another size question: while I've seen your answers to those asking about 2 people households, we, while only 2, have 2 full size allotments and currently run 14 dalek compost-bins, filling 3-4 at a time while the others (full) rot down. Produce goes to m... Joraform Compost Tumbler JK400 Rapid Hot Composters

...any others though we don't get their food waste back. We manage the site and harvest a lot of comfrey, weeds and bush shreddings as well, often producing a full dalek or more of new material at a time in late Spring. Our bins are slow, I know, being mostly in shady places, but I still feel doubtful at the tumbler's capacity to swallow all this, even the JK400. Is there a point at which it becomes more efficient to have a big NZ bin arrangement, similar to but smaller scale than Charles Dowding's? Feeding in and distributing a big quantity through a small hole must be tedious.

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Niall

Apr 26, 2021 - 03:23 PM

Hi Stephen
The New Zealand composters are brilliant but slow in winter particularly. A bit like your Dalek composters. Also wood food waste they can attract vermin. The door on the JK400 is actually quite big and to be honest the volume of compost they get through due to the heat is immense. That said there is a lot of filling and emptying but it works fantastically. If it was me i would maybe look at a JK400 in conjunction with a NZ double composter. One the produce comes out of the JK400 it can go in to the first of the NZ composter sides and then can transfer for complete finishing in the other side quite quickly
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