I checked on the big turned #compost mound yesterday evening, and it has gone from 32ºC when I turned it back up to 48ºC! So that worked nicely :)
@StephenPlants your compost piles are just plant matter? Keeping them marginally moist to prevent mould and letting time and nature do their work?
Kind of the opposite of my worm-driven compost, and much larger.