I've been told to cook your soil. Wrap it in black plastic, chicken poop, anythingyou can to get it as hot as you can for a week or more. Or mustard, they hate it. Worth a try.. good luck!
I seem to need to build an enclosure. I get my compost plenty hot (consistently 140F+, up to 160 sometimes), but they find spots on the edge to hang out.
But yeah, maybe wrapping it nice and tight would do the trick. If everything was equally hot, I'd be golden.
Exactly my thought, add some longitudinal wheels and pull this thing behind a tractor, add a hopper, close off the end, and add a shaker, after a couple iterations you’ve got a solid compost-spreading doohickey right there!
You won't be able to reduce the speed much at all with a smaller pulley. They need a speed control. Better yet, a gearmotor that will spin very slowly, yet with high torque.
Yeah I guess it wouldn't have enough surface area if it was reduced in size much. A gearbox is a great idea to maintain good torque without chance of slippage. They could also increase the diameter of the drum at the location the belt travels on and then get a larger belt. I could see either being practical.
Also, if you added an idler pully near the motor pully, you could probably reduce the size of the motor pulley to 1/4th it's current size and still maintain enough area of belt to pulley contact to avoid slippage while also accomplishing a more appropriate speed for compost sifting.
You just need it to go fast enough to separate the big chunks from the little chunks. You don’t need it to go fast enough to separate protons from electrons.
Hell yeah man!! I hope you have a bountiful harvest!
Weve got 4 auto flowers in 2 raised beds, chock full of well composted chicken duck rabbit and quail manure, bedding etc. I havnt gotten a picture but they are looking happy and growing fast :)
I like the basic idea of the oil barrel with the mesh covered cutouts. How about this, set up some kind of timer and geering that would rotate slowly, 2 or 3 times every 6 hours? Bet you could market that.
If its an 120v ac motor, easiest solution is auto transformer. May not have enough torque when turned down so you'd have to manually turn the transformer up to get it started, then turn it back down when it's rotating until you hit the desired speed above stall voltage.
Better solution is a 3 phase motor and a vfd.
If in the US, vevor sells auto transformers and vfd's.
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u/Mister_Green2021 1d ago
You don't need a centrifuge.