FCMP Outdoor IM4000 Double Chamber Tumbling Composter (Black), 37 gallon

Great quality fits together easily if your okay with nuts and screws, instructions clear enough. Overall sturdy structure.Sited and started using a handle to turn it with may have been useful, I can see it being heavy to turn once full or with both compartments almost full, if your okay with that then a decent piece of kit I bought it to supplement my Dalek style one so it should work fine and help reduce my waste to landfill even further. First impressions it Looked a little small but has good capacity .Great service arrived quicker than first estimate, Overall I would recommend.

Very impressed by this compost maker, although it took quite a while to assemble, nothing was too difficult. The most difficult thing was making sense of the instructions, in the end I got it put together and then couldn’t get it out of the door so so had to remove the legs again. As I am in my 70’s and not very tall I am quite proud of myself. Look forward getting the compost maker going. It is a very solid item and hopefully will have a long life.

A well designed and engineered product. With care and patience it can be put together by one person (patience as there are a LOT of nuts and bolts. It seems to be a little on the small size so won't make a huge amount of compost but it is a good start. I have only given the item 4 stars until I know it works.

This sorted our compost out very quickly. It has a lot of air holes in it which obviously lets rain in. This can make it a bit hard to turn - we've had a lot of rain and ours feels very heavy now. It's fairly easy to assemble - lots of nuts and bolts! A very good delivery time. Would highly recommend.

Our composter arrived today and we have just assembled it, you do need two people to do it and please go on their website, as they suggest, to enable you to put it together with ease. We found the website so helpful, with pictures, to be honest if you do as they say you cannot get it wrong. It is so sturdy and we are looking forward to start composting. I

Although a little time consuming to assemble the instructions are quite clear and easy to follow and the end product works very well.

I bought this tumbling composter 4 months ago as research for the next edition of my book (How to make perfect compost by Phil Robinson - on Kindle). I split a pile of mixed compostable material into 2. I filled the tumbling composter (which was in the sun as recommended) and turned it regularly with one half of the material and put the other half in a large pot to compost as a control. After a couple of months both looked similar, I mixed up the control as you would turn a normal heap. After 4 months there was still little difference. I did find that the tumbling makes the compost loose so it does not warm up as much or encourage worms so I firmed down one side of the tumbler and this side did have fewer weed seeds germinating at the end and more worm activity. I turn my compost bins once and get good compost in about 6 months, this tumbler did not speed it up much if at all. The tumbling composter would be very useful if you do not have some earth on which to stand a conventional compost bin and had a relatively small amount of material. This model is neat and easy to use although did take an hour or two to assemble as it had what seemed like hundreds of screws.

The assembly instructions need to be clearer that a second person is needed, own tools required,& tighten screws as you progress,having a handle would make it easier to rotate