We bought ours three years ago and it still looks new. We absolutely love it. Well worth the money. It's made very heavy duty. Legs do not bend when barrels are full. Critters have not gotten into it. We put two buckets underneath each side to catch the leakage which we then poor on our plants. What I have read, this is compost tea and it's great fertilizer too. My husband set it up higher so we can just drop the curred compost into a wheel barrel instead of having to shovel it all out. Our in laws were so impressed with it that they bought one too. It also has saved us tons of garbage by composting everything we possibly can. Tho we don't put meat/bones in ours because we don't want to attract bears.