I found the plastic was very thin in places and won't last, at least the one I had.

Easy to turn over, to mix compost.Easy to open lids (screw on - not slide)Can open winter and summer.

Expensive but tumbler and double worth itThe openings for compost is quite small had to buy a small shovel to fit and it was hard to findHad it six months and comost ready already

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Unlike elevated drum composters that often turn with some flimsy handle and cog mechanism this one simply sits on wheels on the base. Therefore you won't have to try and repair/replace a handle or cog that has broken. However, I would recommend elevating the composter base with a stand so that you will be able to use the drain plug for the compost tea collector in the base. It definitely works as advertised and the dual drum feature allows one batch to finish while you're loading the other half. Definitely the best bang for the buck.

arrived before date good quality

I took my gardening glove off, slapped the composter with it, threw the glove to the ground and challenged the composter to a duel to the death. Despite being listed as a "dueling" composter, it continues to deny my attempts to duel it and just sits there. As it claims to be a wizard I was hoping to at least get a fireball out of it. Very disappointing.P.S. Please note that I am an Amazon verified purchaser of this product. I will check back in a couple of months and let you guys know 1) how the compost goes and 2) if I ever manage to get a fireball or even a magic missile out of the thing.P.P.S. While no magic missiles or fireballs have emerged, we have noted the following things about this composter:- It's very lightweight, and easy to move around when empty for initial setup. Perhaps it won't duel until it's fed?- It rolls easily on the wheels on the base when empty. The wheels on the base fit into grooves at either end of the barrel to help keep the barrel from slipping off when rolling.- The lids are threaded, so no worries about them popping off during battle.- The inside is textured and bumpy like a warty frog (perhaps it has some dragon ancestry?) which should help keep things from sticking to the inside.- It doesn't come with instructions, but do you really need them?- The individual compartments are not huge, so if you have a LOT of yard waste or other waste, you may want to get two of these.- There were lots of little bits of plastic inside it from where the ventilation holes were drilled, but they were easily vacuumed out with a dust buster.- If you live in a desert climate, check for lizards before tumbling. Our local lizards found it almost right away and love laying out on the hot black surface. On a related note, when the compost is active (over 100 degrees) it could potentially attract snakes overnight. Be careful!- Very fine material, like coffee grounds or small animal bedding will come out of the ventilation holes while you're tumbling it, so if you put this on a patio be prepared to sweep up around it frequently.- If, like me, you want to obsess over your compost you can also get something like the and stick it through one of the drilled-out ventilation holes to monitor the temp and determine when to rotate.- There are handholds in 3 places along the tumbler to make it easier to grab on and turn.- The base does seem to collect rainwater; after a few days of rain here, I can hear it sloshing around down there. I will probably block the collection hole since we won't be using compost tea (I make worm tea from our worm bin's castings).P.P.P.S. About composting with this tumbler in general:- Although counter-intuitive, it seems that infrequent tumbling helps keep things hot and turning it too frequently cools it off (see, told ya that thermometer is handy).- It's better to fill a chamber all at once than to keep adding to it. Fill it, let it cook, and work on filling the other side.- If things are cooling off too soon, adjust your brown/green ratio or cheat by using blood meal or a compost starter. Water if it seems too dry, add dry material (paper, cardboard, dry leaves) if it's too wet. Don't let it dry out!- If you have the space, let the finished compost cure in a pile for a couple of months. You can also put it in a trash can with a bunch of holes drilled in it, or one of those flexible Fiskars composters that are ordinarily not very good for cooking compost but would be great for curing it. This will ensure it's not too "hot" before using it.- Your local Starbucks is a great source of used coffee grounds!- If you can't get the compost to heat up, try alfalfa pellets (you can get a big bag from a local feed store if you have one around you, or get rabbit food pellets from a pet store). Put a bunch in, wet them down, and mix them in. Your compost will stink to high heaven but it should heat up to at least 140 degrees within a day or two - and you need to get that high to kill any seeds that have gone in.P.P.P.P.S. I'm back! (It's May)Man, does this thing work well. The first full side (we'll call it Side A) is cooling off now and has reduced to about half its original size, and the other side (Side B) was just at 140 degrees this morning (a mix of vegetable/kitchen waste, coffee grounds, alfalfa pellets, and various yard trimmings). I did cheat a little and use a compost activator, but I think the alfalfa pellets were really what did it.With both sides full, it does get pretty unwieldy and heavy. I am 5'2" and fairly strong and I have to put some weight into turning it with both sides full. I also have to check for lizards every time I go to turn it.Side A took only a few very short weeks to break down. I wouldn't put this straight on plants yet, but I'm going to stick it in an aerated garbage can to cure for a couple of months and I think it's going to be gorgeous compost. Side B is also breaking down very quickly.I bought this composter when it was considerably cheaper than its current one hundred eighty dollar price tag, but if money's no object, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this to someone who doesn't have room for a real compost heap.P.P.P.P.P.S. I'm back again (this time it's August)The composter is cooking its third batch. I've found that in my case, since I don't have a ton of yard waste alfalfa pellets have been key. With the addition of alfalfa I've seen new batches of materials get as high as 160 degrees, though 140 is more common. For the first couple of weeks, I need to get in there with a compost turner every few days (I'm using the , which doesn't do what it's supposed to with the fold out wings but is sturdy enough for this) to really mix things up while I make sure it's wetted down. Later on, turning it is fine but at first the turner is better. It gets so hot from the alfalfa that the inner layers look almost like they've been burned to white ash. It also gets so hot that it will cool down pretty rapidly because the composting organisms get killed off. Turning and wetting helps get things going again and it will heat back up to around 120. Once it's consistently down to 90, I just turn it now and then (using a hose to spray underneath and get any lizards out first - there's been one casualty so far when I forgot to do this) and get back in there every once in a while with the compost turner and hose.After the mostly finished compost is removed I put it in a plastic trash can that's been drilled full of holes and add earthworms from my garden. They do the rest. (I have another, similar trash can where I keep stuff that's waiting in the wings to go into the composter, like waste from the vegetable garden, dirty bedding from the guinea pig cage, etc.)This all sounds like a lot of work but the compost really is beautiful. It looks and smells like soil after only a few weeks. If you're like me and you don't have anywhere for a "real" compost pile, it's perfect.P.P.P.P... ah forget it, I don't remember how many Ps we're up to.It's November and afer being lazy and letting the compost sit for a while, we just emptied it and filled it again. I amended my beds with the compost I've made so far and it was really great stuff. It's been two days since I filled both chambers (thoroughly wetting everything down) with a mix of used guinea pig bedding and yard waste, with some alfalfa pellets and blood meal. It heated up FAST and was 145 degrees on one side and 150 on the other this afternoon. This is good because it will kill any seeds in there. I was going to turn it but a lizard ran under the tumbler... I'm telling ya, you gotta check for those guys. Anyway, still loving this composter and wishing I had room for another one!