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

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

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

Low To Medium
Moisture
Medium Porosity
Medium Nitrogen
Ground And Tree Shrub
Trimmings
Horse Manure And
Bedding
Deciduous Leaves
Legume Hay

4, How aggressively will you manage the compost process?

Composting process is like this: organic fertilizer collectionstack
buildingturningtemperaturerecordingscreeningbagging
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

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.

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

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.
Its 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.

 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

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 (m/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

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

40001050

60001050

467039202740

467039202740

tank (wh )mm

External dimension
(mm) LWH

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
model

Fermentation Groove De

PowerKW

pthmm
AZS-SLXFDJ-325

1500-2100

Fermentation Groove Sp
anmm

26

6000-11000