Tumbling Compost Bin

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Garden Point Dual Chamber 2 x 70 L Tumbling Composter Bin | Composting Waste Box with Ventilation Openings | Made of Polypropylene & Stainless Steel | Suitable for Year-Round Use | 74 x 60 x 63 cm https://amzn.eu/d/hX78faT

Have any of you any experience of this type of compost bin? Our garden is too small for a large bin and I wonder if this would be effective . Thanks for any advice .

I have a tumbling compost bin that I use for the winter time only when I don't want to walk to the end of the garden. It really is nowhere near as good as the bog standard dalek at the bottom of the garden - probably because it's small and not in contact with the earth. And mine has a larger capacity (single drum) than the one you're looking at - 70 litres is tiny.

I had a plastic drum type which didn't work too well for me - the compost would get wet and heavy and be difficult to turn - I don't know if it's that I'm in a cold wet area of the country or that I just don't try hard enough with chopping cardboard/ rotted leaves/ shortage of material. But last summer (sunny) was quite successful (in a dalek composter) and it's going well this year (sunny again). What about a wormery instead (but keep it raised as the hedgehogs/ badgers ate my worms).

Never tried one of those but a hot bin worked really well for our small garden as it composts so quickly! They do different sizes and we had the smaller one.

https://www.hotbincomposting.com/

Thanks for the interesting comments. My Dalek bin worked really well in our previous garden, and I have also been thinking about a wormery. But perhaps I need to save up for a Hotbin!

I recently bought this after having a horrendous experience with a Hotbin.

www.hozelock.com/product/easymix-2-in-1-composter/

It doesn't ooze smelly goo everywhere (like the Hotbin) but it's not really delivered on the compost front either - I rotate it every few days and it just feels like a huge lump inside it falls from top to the bottom. Lots of tiny flies too, I think inherited from the Hotbin (I put the remaining compost from that into the new one).

So the jury is out for me, but I'd not get a Hotbin again within our current garden set up.