First Bin!

My very first bin was made in July 2011, with my mentor, Heidi Fitchenbaum and my friends, Rahul Mehta, Karn Setya, and Ankitha Iyer. The first bin was made for Mireille Delman. She lives in West Windsor and is the owner of a huge farm. She has been wanting to compost for a really long time and was very excited to make the bin. She got all the materials before-hand except for the shipping pallets; she couldn’t find them and I was informed late night the day before we planned to make the bin. I woke up early in the morning and hunted for shipping pallets around the area. I came across a very nice lady, the owner of the Obal nursery; she was willing to give me her shipping pallets. Excited, I dropped the shipping pallets off at the Delman house. Unfortunately, the weather did not support us; we got rained out on. My friends and I waited till about 12:30 p.m. and readily contacted my mentor, Heidi Fichtenbaum, after it stopped raining. We decided to meet up at the Delmans house. Once we got there, we collected all the materials and checked see if they were the ones we needed. Unfortunately, it turned out that we picked up the wrong size pallets and my mentor had to go on a hunt for more pallets. Before leaving, she guided on where the bin should be and how we should level the bricks. Proceeding, my peers and I did the set-up of the bin by measuring the distance and leveling the blocks to a perfect modular size. When Heidi got back, we immediately started to build the bin. She taught us how to drill screws and hinges in to make the bin stable. We all took turns drilling and leveling the pallets. Though there was a lot of disruption and the weather did not support us, we had a great experience and the bin looked spectacular!