How to build a fruit press?

[sonicyouth]

Does anyone have any basic blueprints/plans? Im sure I can rustle one up from a bottle jack and wooden frame but thought a tried and tested design might be better.
taaa

 

[Swazi]

I made one a couple of years ago. It is a bit ghetto but it works. I sort of followed some plans in a cider making book that I bought here
I used a car jack instead of the wheel thingy...
I don't have plans because I didn't really use any, I just knocked it together, it was fairly simple.

 

[tazuk]

hi have a set of plans for one of these if any good to you :thumb:

 

[Stanleythecat]

hi have a set of plans for one of these if any good to you :thumb:

Hi Tazuk

What wood have you used for this?

Sorry to hijack but I'd love to know how you made the tray at the bottom too.

Thanks

Leo

 

[tazuk]

any wood for the frame the bolts are 10mm thread bar with nylock nuts and the main part of the press that comes in contact with pulp need to be hard wood ill show you my first press i built m8 :thumb:

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[Jonny69]

Ghetto kitchen option:

 

[screamlead]

Ha ha Jonny thats well novel - think outside the box! well done :thumb:

 

[tazuk]

wow how many ltr a min is that looks like hard work but nice idea :thumb:

 

[simonkidder]

Surely that will take forever. Good luck !

 

[Jonny69]

Yeah it took me a couple of hours to do 30kg of apples (below). I got me cider though :

 

[simonkidder]

How many litres did you get from the 30kg

 

[tazuk]

all so all the apples look the same i thought it better to mix apples :thumb:

How many litres did you get from the 30kg

 

[Jonny69]

From memory, I got almost exactly 3 gallons out of them :thumb:

 

[jonewer]

A press is easy. The real question is scratters!

 

[old tom]

A press is easy. The real question is scratters!

try useing a garden shredder make sure it is nice and clean.i made 20gals last year

 

[GeorgeSalt]

A press is easy. The real question is scratters!

try useing a garden shredder make sure it is nice and clean.i made 20gals last year

+1, cleaning it's the hard bit.. but it fairly chews through the apples.

I would like a hand-cranked as well though, with a manual scratter and manual press I could take them to the apples on the occasions that's a better option than bringing the apples to the scratter/press.

 

[tazuk]

+1 clean garden shredder verrry well as privet can be bad for you here is how i did mine last year :thumb:

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[jonewer]

I now have a garden shredder. No point in getting a press this year as there's no fecking apples!

 

[tazuk]

lol may be late this year i fecking hope so as i want to make more than 160 ltr this year :thumb:

 

[Skink]

Look up Wyatt Wendell's scratter (I think that's his name) on youtube. Sorry, I'm no good with links, but this is an ingenious device. I plan to make one for next year, but for this year I've stuck to freezing apples 22lb. at a time, then thaw and press. The apples will be well soft, and you get a fairly good yield. If you have room in the freezer, it's a fairly efficient method.