Sieving four years old woodchip with the Compost sifter Trommel and dressing beds.

[@wobblybob7029]

thats some lovley stuff

[@glennbrown9840]

thanks for your post thoroughly enjoyed some more.👍

[@rubiccube8953]

I’ve found it’s most important to keep the wood chip moist to get it to rot. I add a layer of coffee grounds on top to get it going. Nice sieve wish I had one of those. Been composting wood chip for ten years the plants love it.

[@jacknanuq6119]

New subscriber and here's to 1,000 more

[@vidili68]

Hi there Good job have good day USA

[@smallbackgardenplot7273]

How amazing is this xx

[@otrotland5377]

nice

[@JohnnyMotel99]

Charles Dowding has a great video on all the different ways and aspects of woodchip composting.

[@AlmostOrganicDorset]

I take everything he says with a pinch of salt, I gave up watching and listening to him ages ago.

[@ericmaurer1440]

This is a great build and love your set up. Have you thought about putting a wheelbarrow underneath the trommel to catch the sifted material and if so, did it just not work for your setup? Greetings from Ohio, USA.

[@AlmostOrganicDorset]

If I am doing a bulk job I don't bother with the wheelbarrow, the compost always ends up one side, you then have to either shovel it over or flick it with the barrow handles. I do however use the wheelbarrow for quick jobs.

[@ericmaurer1440]

Good to know, thanks for the feedback! I'm looking to build my own so just getting some ideas@@AlmostOrganicDorset

[@AlmostOrganicDorset]

@@ericmaurer1440 Utilising the running machine was the best thing I did, I can regulate the speed according to what I am sieving, and it has the emergency stop at the pull of the red string.

[@bsod5608]

I think that i worry about to much wooden bits in the finished compost, but i usually have far less pieces of wood in my finished compost. How can i tell if it is going to deprive to soil from nitrogen? Nice trommel. I have a fixed angle sieve. Its lots of work to sieve a single wheelbarrow... resulting In me letting the compst mature for extra long time.

[@JohnnyMotel99]

The Charles Dowding channel has a video on woodchip composting and addresses the nitrogen issue. He said he feels that so long the large pieces are not dug in but sit on the surface, the nitrogen is not taken away from the soil in any great amount.

[@bsod5608]

@@JohnnyMotel99 thx for info!

[@mcdls5]

Try using biochar instead of pyrolite.

[@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb]

Is that really compost? Just looks like bark fines to me. Is there much microbiology in that material?

[@AlmostOrganicDorset]

Yes, there is plenty there, the small chips always stand out well in photos.