It's that time of year again

[roche]

Just for a bit of amusement - £30 cider press...We have done about 9 gallons the last few years.

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[Somerford]

I have to say that press is ingenious. I will be making one myself having found a supply of apples !

 

[jimbeekeeper]

You dont need a press! What you want is a centrifuge?

To crush the apples a add them whole to an electric garden shredder. No effort required, and makes pulp and starts to juice in seconds.

To press (seperate juice from plup) I use and electric clothes spin dryer. Just fill the drum with pulp and hang onto it for dear life as it trys to take of.

A couple of minutes later and all the juice is extracted and you are left with a VERY dry pulp, that you could uses for cooking? I give it to the hens.

Simples!

 

[hedgerow pete]

this is what i do to gas cylinders and with the aid of a twenty ton bottle jack i can squish any thing i want, i have heard about using a branch shreader but i have a small opening on mine and would have to chop up everythingView attachment 1039

 

[jimbeekeeper]

t, i have heard about using a branch shreader but i have a small opening on mine and would have to chop up everything

I removed the saftey guard and so I can now fit in whole mellons if I wanted

 

[hedgerow pete]

i will have to look into trying that out , any other problems you have had with it, ie electrics and apple juice

 

[jimbeekeeper]

None at all. The chute directs the juice/pulp pretty much out and into the container below.

Possibley recomend using an RDC unit as a matter or cause

 

[mikethebee]

Also good for cold press honey comb *heather honey*
Borage Etc then we fill 30 pound tubs for sale or 45 gallon drums for the packers.
We put all the honey filled boxes in a gas heated warming room first 65ftx45ft.
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