My first attempt at making pre-compost wasn't doing well, so I redid the bin. It started working - albeit slowly. I cheated with a special ingredient on my 2nd bin and it just surpassed the temp on my first bin with 2 or 3 less days! Spent Mushroom Substrate was the special ingredient. Since it is full of biota already, it seems to be jumpstarting the process! I'll upload a video tomorrow and show my setup.

Just watched and enjoyed the 5-video classroom series on making precompost. I'm going to start a batch this evening. Have you considered making a video and so the same thing, but in a five-gallon bucket?