Why leafmould in a chicken wire cage and not a bin?

I have a spare dalek, large one, and I don't have a lot of spare room now to put up a chicken wire bin to hold autumn leaves for leafmould making.

All internet sites say for leafmould to use a cube of four posts and chicken wire to hold the leaves while they rot, but I found most of the leaves around the outside were still dry and not rotted down, thought he centre was nice and rotted.

Is there any good reason why a dalek composter would not do a better job as leaves don't need air to rot down and would be better if kept damp right to the outsides of the bin?

The reason for using wire cages is that the leaves dry out quickly. Using wire cages lets rain in to keep the leaves damp. Use the dalek but be prepared to dampen the leaves occasionally.

use your dalek.............Carol Kline says you can use a black bin bag with holes punched in and that works...doesn't have to be a wire bin.

I always used the holed bin bags successfully in the past to create leaf mould. Unfortunately, there are no trees around here in Shetland so I can't do that here.
 

After all that pondering I have decided to build my leafmould in a wire bin as I can leave a few gaps at the bottom for hibernating animals to burrow underneath and find a warm home for winter and repay me by eating slugs next spring!  Not so easy to do with a dalek composter, which will be used for compost.

When full this autumn I will continue to collect into black bags and top the bin up as the pile goes down. I am lucky to have been asked by a local Well-being Community Yoga centre to be their leaf collector.

Good point CompostQueen. I always take leafmould out by hand as I would hate to lose a hedgehog with a carelessly placed fork and I never stab into compost heaps for the same reason - always scoop with a blunt fork.

I wouldn't mind dog muck so much as the presents cats can leave behind!