Compost Hopper

[Munroast]

I was wanting to build a hopper to keep compost in, put it in the top, shovel it out of the bottom, if it is straight sided it will just stick to the sides and lock itself into place, two sloping edges would help it fall naturally - but what angle do i use - anyone have experience of this

Needs to be approx a cubic meter internally, so it will be big!

 

[morqthana]

Try the gardening forum?

But I always got good results from building basically cuboid structures from old pallets (a plentiful resource, always available for free). They provide ventilation, which compost heaps need. You can make one side, or the bottom half of one side, easy to remove to get at the compost. Or if you want to get really fancy, buy a couple of T-strap gate hinges.

Eventually they rot away, but it takes quite a few years to become useless.

 

[King Billy]

For a small domestic situation, a quick and easy solution is a couple of rubber/plastic bins with the bottom cut out.
Fill one for a month or two, then swap to the other while the first rots down and is ready.....ad infinitum.
When ready you can simply lift the bin off the compost.

 

[Stivino]

You could copy one of these. Or, just buy one, sometimes they are going cheap on Gumtree and the likes.