It's doing is job. I filled it about 7/8 full with a mixture of leaves, horse poop, kitchen vegetable waste (eggshells, banana peels, apple cores, etc.) and some bottom and middle layer of the original compost pile. to "activate" it.
Oh, and added a few earthworms to the mix. I give it a twirl every day when I go out to feed the horses. It has now compacted down to about half full, so I would say that is good progress. I do still have the original compost pile though as I am making more to put into the composter. Go figure!
~JaNan