I gave it a few days before I took the pile's temperature. I wanted to see how fast it would heat up, if it would. Much to my surprise, it re-acted very quickly, heating up in just two days time. The pile's temperature will range between 140 to 155 degrees mainly because of night time temperatures I have concluded. Initially, I was waiting for the pile temp to dip tos signal me to rotate the pile, however, it is taking between 5 to 7 days between rotations. I have never had a pile this hot needing so much time inbetween turns. This has me very interested in how long it will take to complete and how the quality of it will be as well.
Since I still have so many coffee grounds available to me, free plywood from work from our old concrete forms, I decided to built another compost project. This one is quite a bit bigger at 6-ft by 4-ft by 4-ft. It has a total of 3.56 cubic yards of possible compost activity. I built it last week, started the composting earlier this week, but it has yet to heat up. Not sure why, but I will have to tinker with it. I do plan on talking about this on here as well and posting my ideas, suggestions, and discoveries. Just like I will be for this smaller guy too. Until then....