New-to-me cider press

rockyridgefarm · May 18, 2022

Picked this up yesterday. Needs some boards replaced. I hope to use it to press cider this fall.

Ray(MO) · May 19, 2022

When you get it running, press some pears. Just do not drink to much at a time, it will give you the squirts faster then apples.

Steve in VA · May 19, 2022

Sound advice!!
I've used pears in my Buckeye Junior and it tastes wonderful.

560Dennis · May 19, 2022

Pear wine was only royalty

Part Time Pete · May 20, 2022

Nice. We've got a cider mill, and one of our customers regularly mixes pears in with his apples. He make wine with it

WI Dan · May 20, 2022

Wow, that's a lot more machine than I've seen usually.
It must have some automatic controls and such?

rockyridgefarm · May 20, 2022

It has an elevator that is not in the pic. The elevator feeds apples (or pears) to the macerator on the top right in the second pic. You make the stack with alternating canvas bags and wooden grates. Once you make the stack, you use a cable and pulley to drag the stack under the press. Then you push a lever over to engage a bevel gear to drive the screw down to press the mash. While you wait for it to drain. You make the next stack. It is pry over 100 years old.

Leroy · May 20, 2022

Way too old for any of that, just only automatic is your brain. Years ago one in my area and he ran it hooked to belt on his Moline U tractor and just idled the tractor.

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