Abstract: Apparatus for processing cremated remains. A hollow drum is mounted for rotation within a housing with an open end of the drum positioned in register with the discharge opening of a detachable loading funnel. A plurality of elongate rods carried within the drum are constrained at their opposite ends by channels so as to undergo relative movement with the inner periphery of the drum. The rod diameters are sized so that they tumble one over the other as the drum rotates for reducing fragments of the cremated remains which are charged into the drum through the loading funnel. The reduced remains drop through apertures in the drum into a discharge funnel and ash pan where they are collected for subsequent removal.