how to choose a suitable compost turner

1. How To Choose a Suitable Compost Turner Do your homework before investing in equipment to manage your manure composting operation. Before purchasing composting machine of any type, decide whether or not composting fits your operation and schedule.consider their feeds stock that u plan to use and try a few different recipes. Take some time to evaluate several factors, starting with the basic questions: does composing fit into your dairy operation, your time and your labor? Below are some necessary questions about compost windrow turner we should think when choose a suitable composting machine: 1. Compost space and compost size When choosing a compost turner, your compost space decide feet tall of turning machine. If the space is tight, you can build windrows 5-7 feet tall, through the type of turner dictates height and width. In general, small windrows use less space and take less time turning materials, but few pills. Large turner is widely used in large farms to manage large size of compost. large windrows are also more forgiving in cold climates, size insulates the pile and keeps it active through cold weather, if space and time are not as critical, you can build shorter windrows and turn them with equipment geared to their size. 2. What type of feed stock do you plan to use? how much organic

2. material will you manage? The things can do and cannot do composting as follows: some feedstock is difficult to manage and takes longer to compost and care than other types. Experiment with different recipes. Compost Raw Materials Table Bulking Agents Energy Materials Balanced Raw Materials Low Moisture High Porosity Low Nitrogen High Moisture Low Porosity High Nitrogen Low To Medium Moisture Medium Porosity Medium Nitrogen Ground And Tree Shrub Trimmings Horse Manure And Bedding Deciduous Leaves Legume Hay • • • • • • • • • • Wood Chips Sawdust Grass Hay Wheat Straw Com Stalks Grass Clippings Fresh Dairy, Chicken Or Rabbit Manure Fruit And Vegetable Waste Garden, Trimmings Coffee Grounds • • • • • • • • • • • • • 4, How aggressively will you manage the compost process? Composting process is like this: organic fertilizer collection→stack building→turning→temperature→recording→screening→bagging →delivery. Before fermentation, heap the compost in a strip according to a certain width and height, at the same time, spread strain to help decompose microorganism by hand or automatic spreading strain device. Then it is the compost turner that blend and crush compost

3. materials. During turning or blending,compost material is taken high due to rotary drum high speed and moves backward for a certain distance for scattering and crushing. 5. Can you manage compost with existing tractors, loader and compost turners? You need to manage the operation skill. Experiment with different equipment. 6. Can you rent equipment initially, especially when you are considering screening, bagging or collecting organic ? Renting equipment is very popular for small farmers. But as for fertilizer company and big farmers, a whole production line is need, that is need you buy more equipment to loss time and cost. 7. What equipment will you use often and what intermittently? you might use a compost turner for example, weekly, nine months a year. but screening equipment and other packaging machine are generally used less frequently, and it may not be worth the maintenance and storage costs to own such equipment.

4. 8. Can you share equipment with other compost business? In small compost operation, it may be more economical to share turning or screening equipment with other farmers, or pay others to rent their equipment. Turning equipment Turning machine is widely used in organic composting. With so many different size and types in market, you should pick up the best fit you. Consider the amount of use, climate fluctuations and labor availability. Now, you can choose the best according your requirements of farms. 1. Hydraulic compost turner and self-propelled compost turner

5. Features of hydraulic compost turner:  Turn different bio-organic fertilizers from wide ranges of materials such as viscous materials,loose materials and wrapping materials,etc.  It’s running system is dual-speed control design. low speed is less than 15m/min during operation which benefits to stir the materials fully.  Freely add or remove auxiliary devices like liquid microbial agent spreading device,conditioner and so on.

6.  The compost windrow turner has a high quality and reasonable price to make sure the customer purchase a good product at a low cost.  Water can be added to piles during the process; and piles after being processed are compact in a strip. 2. Self-propelled compost turner Features of self-propelled compost turner  Adopts four-wheels design, which can move, forward, backward and turn freely, and easily operate by one person.  A rotating drum shaft combined with knives reduces materials sizer and aerates and mixes windrows.  Advanced drum design ensures variable drum speed and

7. maximum aeration, CO2 release.  It can turn piles from 5 to 7 feet tall.  Adjustable turning capacity 400-1000 m3/h. Working data about hydraulic compost turner and self-propelled compost turner Model Hydraulic compost turner Self-propelled compost turner Width of the pile (mm) 4300 2300 Height of the pile (mm) 1800-2000 600-1000 Plies distance(m) 0.5-1 0.5-0.8 Power(water-cooling,electri c start 240HP 58HP(water-cooling, electric start) Processing capacity (m³/h) 1500-2000 500-700 Driving mode Hydraulic drive,crawler walk ing,spot steering 3 gear forward, 1gear backw ard 3. Groove-type compost turner This organic fertilizer compost turner, which includes groove type compost turner and groove type hydraulic compost turner, is the

8. most widely-used aerobic fermentation machine and compost turning equipment. Features of lane compost turner:  Equipped with a transfer vehicle, lane turner is suitable for multiple lanes operation, saving investment.  Adopts bridge - structure, including stretch - cross type and longitudinal-cross type.  All parts adopt standard parts except the frame, lane turner is easy to operate and maintain.  Only a small part of the organic fertilizer machine will directly contact the material, and its easy to maintain and have a long service life.  High efficiency, smooth operation, sturdy and durable, even turning. Technical Data of Groove-type Windrow Turner Model AZS-FJ4000-groove AZS-FJ6000-groove lane Compost turner lane compost turner Matched power(kw) 10 25.74 Working speed(m/h) 50 50 No-load speed(m/h) 100 100 Size of fermentation 4000×1050 6000×1050 tank (w×h )mm External dimension 4670×3920×2740 4670×3920×2740 (mm) L×W×H

9. Lift height of gear(mm) 1400 1400 4. Auger- type compost turner Auger-type turners are like a plow with an auger in the bucket. These windrow turners come into different sizes and break the pile up with each turn. And it is often used in composting organic fertilizer. Materials can be mixed and fermented in the trough for 7-10 days. Temperature should be between 60-70℃; Moisture content should be between 40-50%. Technical date of auger-type compost turner Power（KW） model Fermentation Groove De Fermentation Groove Sp pth（mm） an（mm） AZS-SLXFDJ-325 1500-2100 26 6000-11000