compost tumblers?

Anyone have experience with a compost tumbler? I was wondering how good they are at mixing and if using it to mix soil would be a good idea. I have alot of soil to mix and I thought instead of mixing it with a shovel and rake and tarp like last time, I could just spin the compost tumbler a bunch of times and hopefully it will come out thoroughly mixed. Other people have said they used cement mixers and it mixed well so I'm thinking a compost tumbler could do just as good. Any thoughts or opinions or has anyone tried this?

Chur bro, I have been trialing this myself, bout 8 months so far mixing just fresh worms and castings outta the worm bin and compost. I put old leaves from silver beet to borage (some fresh also), whatever i get from the vege patch, to make up a good balance.

I have a raised bed and put whatever is ready from the compost tumbler in to that. then it is going to sit, and get turned over until my current grow in no-till has no life left. there's no real science to what im doing, but its going to compost for awhile and just add aeration when its time to transplant.

shwamp said:

Anyone have experience with a compost tumbler? I was wondering how good they are at mixing and if using it to mix soil would be a good idea. I have alot of soil to mix and I thought instead of mixing it with a shovel and rake and tarp like last time, I could just spin the compost tumbler a bunch of times and hopefully it will come out thoroughly mixed. Other people have said they used cement mixers and it mixed well so I'm thinking a compost tumbler could do just as good. Any thoughts or opinions or has anyone tried this?

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I recently went organic, so, a composter seemed proper, and it was. Unfortunately it is a little slower than you think. A super soil mix should be cooked or composted for 30 days or more. If you are just mixing and using right away it is not worth it. good luck..