Old HF Cement Mixer Turned Into An Automatic Compost Sifter For $15 

Thanks, this sifter is in its second year of use and amazingly still holding together and working flawlessly. I thought it would fall apart after a few uses.

Thanks Brad, I’m in zone 6, coastal RI.

What about running a push mower over the pile of leaves a few times?

Put the leaves in a big container if you have a strimmer get a metal cutter and that shreds then really quickly or as someone else said put a lawn mover over them, the strimmer works fine for me and really breaks things down, I then put it all in a huge worm bin I have and let the worms do the composting