True Homesteading: Fruit harvest and apple cider! 20 Ton Apple Press in Action
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- I am trying out this video format for times I want to bring viewers along but don't have time for elaborate camera setups and on camera monologues. It is definitely easier while I am working on projects.
Let me know what you think, especially in regards to the audio levels.
For clarification when I mention starting a hard cider business, we would NOT be relying on our own orchard, way too labor intensive.
You will see some pretty crumby looking apples but what can you expect when you have 4 year olds helping! LOL
Hope you enjoy, and YES I have multiple mining videos that are ready to be edited but will probably wont get to them until the weather turns sour.
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Brings me back to the days when i was 7 /8 yrs old and being with my grand parents. doing the same stuff. What a great memory. Thanks for sharing
Ken Uber when I reflect back, growing up on a Ranch/Farm will always make me long to return
Oh, yes! Homemade cider! I wish I had some! At the beginning of the video I thought the kids were driving some sort of tractor, I had to do a double take on that! I love the way you include the family in this process. The children will remember these special times!
An in-sink garbage disposal is the way to go instead of a scratter. You will have to cut bigger apples so they fit into the hole in the sink, but it is way faster.
I was here to post the same thing! Waste King 8000.
I like the video format. Thought it was great. Thank you.
Another great video. Love how the whole family is having a good time. Thanks for sharing.
Alaska pioneers Fruit Growers Association have found putting that black plastic edging around the trees about 8 - 12 inches out from the trunk seem to deter the voles. They also don’t like copper or aluminum. Oh they also leave it up two or so inches above ground. Yum look good! Love the green ones.😊👍❤️
Thanks Susan, I may have to try that... I am tired of losing trees to those pests
This is the most goddarn peaceful thing I have seen. Love the voiceover
Fabulous video! You littles will always remember the family times and being allowed to help ❤️, and the cider looks amazing!!
All of us girls loved riding in the back of the old farm truck and on top the hay truck. Safety Sallies don't know how to live life the real way. 🥰 Fantastic video. New sub and thank you for being real!
Great memories! Thank you!
The format was good, enjoyed seeing you get so much juice. Funny how the horses love it.
Thanks yellow boy.
Dickeys yellow cups, one of my favorite places too!! Anytime you've got the youngins that involved its time well spent
Thanks!
Awesome job!! Just pressed some cider myself after work today. 😋
Excellent work! Thanks for your hard work and effort to share!
I've been pressing cider using an Oesco commercial 2000 lb press the last 4 years. This was a great video and everything you said is spot on. Our grinding and pressing setup is a lot like yours only bigger. We can do 200-240 gallons in an 8 hour day with an hour of setup and cleanup. I think 80% yield is perfect so if you get 75 that's awesome. We press inside too and I only got stung 1 day in all 4 years, but the same hornet hit me 3 times on the ankle in less than a second. I was looking for a video about using a shop press and found yours. Cider freezes well too.
I like the format. It’s kind of relaxing. Like opening a window into your life on the farm. Thanks for sharing. This video made me subscribe to your channel so keep up the good work. BTW I have a small orchard of about 120 trees myself. I grafted most of them in spring of 2017.
I like the new video format. my mom made hard cider out of little green apples
Really great video, thank you! One thing you could try is a slightly smaller build frame for your layers- bring it in an inch all around so that there is room for the fabric to buldge and still be within the boards. That way you're covered when you don't have perfect fabric on hand.
I watched from start to finish. Really love listening to how you have developed your process for making cider and watching your family being involved. Good luck with your grinder as that seems like really hard work
instablaster
Try more screws in the scratter., not screwed in so deep.
Also use slats between the bails.
Check out the English way of cider making.
Good luck to you n yours.
All the best from the UK.
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I think your video format is working great. I love the eclectic topics and to see your family participating. I enjoy listening to your play by play. The kids are awesome. Keep up with what you are doing. I keep finding more that I haven't seen yet. As always thumbs up!
Chuck
Great video.... fascinating to watch. Many thanks :-)
Thanks Sam
I like the video and enjoying it. Whole setup is Awesome......and grinding machine need to be update...but your apple farmer is much easier then mine.....
Such a relaxing video to watch your voice is very enjoyable to listen too I enjoyed this video very very much thank you for sharing !
Thanks Jack
Great video,, can you send some of the finished product to me in Ireland 😋
this is the first i've seen of your video's but I like this format a LOT!
Thanks for watching!
I had to look it up, but North America call crushed fruits "cider", what a shame ;) I love cider, I don't mind fruit juice but they're really different things for me :D and yeah I do like this video format, if it makes it easier for you even better. That means that we'll have more to look at ;) Thanks for making it, you're very crafty, a lot to learn from that!
Yeah it's one of those vocab things he in NA, most consider cider as juice that had not been filtered. Then the alcohol version as hard cider.
Good clean country fun! If you want to turn a lemon in to lemonade, try raising bees!
Try using horseshoe nails instead of screws. And a pusher to keep the apples feeding. I'll try to find a link to a video that shows it
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This is in the UK.
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Check out this video for a more efficient apple grinder design: czcams.com/video/e1esO4CHbyU/video.html
I loved it! "Like" is just not descriptive enough. Remember, it's all about the children and strengthening family relationships. With respect to your thoughts on hard cider, well, if you tested the cider you made, I would wager to say it's already approaching 1% alcohol. The kids will always remember the fun aspects of the cider process, so irregardless of the time and expense it was for you and your supportive wife, it was a tremendous success. P.S. With respect to fermentation and starting a small business marketing hard cider, I would bag that idea. It would just lead to a rat's nest of "imperial entanglements". Just consider how intrusive the EPA, OSHA and the BLM are with mining, well . . . The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is just as intrusive and aggressive. Great video and I loved the way you spent this time with your wife and the younger kids. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks, And you hit the nail on the head as far as the hard cider business. We became so over whelmed with the red tape and how intrusive about 6 levels of government were going to be in our lives we decided to shelf it for a while. It probably more of a dream than anything but its nice to think about.
Nice little orchard! Try copper around your tree trunks and keep the grass/weeds away from their trunks. Hope your 2019 harvest is even better. That is one heck of a press!! We love making cider!
Thanks! The kids are already asking if we can start pressing!
This was an awesome video. I love the talk over. Great stuff. Nice farm you have there
Thanks!
Great idea using the HF hydraulic press!!
What you do on your propety with your children is well your business!
I really liked the video format! It was great to see more of your homestead and your family. Thanks for a great video and I look forward to more videos in the future! 73
Thanks Sean!
Not being critical, just curious if this would help speed up the grinding. Instead of using a chevron pattern for the screws use straight rows. Space the screws 1/2 inch to 3/4 inch apart. The next row of of screws are placed the same distance from the first row but offset so that the screws on the second are equidistant between the screws of the first row. I noticed when you disassembled the crusher that you got a lot of build up on the tips of the chevron. Also you might try removing every other screw and alternate the screw removal in the next row. And maybe back out the rest a half to one full turn. Just a thought
It looks exactly like our setup. My grinder works very well though. A couple of things you could try is bump the RPM up. Mine is at about 600. Also my screws look to be out a hair more than yours at 1/4in.
awesome loved it
Just right thanks
I love the video. Very cool. I am looking to do much the same. What do you use for your cloth though? Looks like a great setup. Certainly your grinder could use some work as you said, but I love the rest of the set! It is sooooo very nice to have a real helper (little helpers are fun but only contribute a small return on the time invested in explaining everything and double checking everything). Seriously, please let me know about where you sourced your cloth or if you were to do it again where you would purchase them.
if you half or quater the apples before you put them in the scratter they should go through much easier
If you or someone else are really considering making a different grinder you might want to look at this one. Idea is from The New Cider Maker’s Handbook: Author Claude Jolicoeur czcams.com/video/P8DCkGXZaN4/video.html
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That is not how you harvest apples sir. You're damaging your trees. You don't just yank until they pop off. There are videos on you tube that show you how.
Your scratter looks good, but it can probably be modified quite easily to make it perform better. Maybe if you can increase the rotor speed it would help for sure, but I would say change the hopper first and see what that does. See at 9.57 how that apple just bounces around, you don’t want that. Google “Claude Jolicoeur scratter” and look at his design for the hopper. You need it to get narrower so that the apple is pulled by the rotor into a smaller and smaller channel, then it can’t bounce around and gets shredded quickly. My scratter based on that design can grind a bushel in about a minute. No pushing and poking the apples either. Just thinking it’s worth a try before you spend big $ on a manufactured scratter. Cheers, Dan.
actually I just uploaded a video of my scratter in action earlier in the season. It doesn't really show the design as I wasn't intending to upload, but it shows you how quick it grinds! please check it out! czcams.com/video/JuEqqSgoGcQ/video.html
Thanks for the info grundy, Yeah ours is mighty low geared with that gearbox. Thanks for the ideas!
I have that book too, pg 105. I got it at the library and it was so good I had to buy a copy. But I can also say that after 3+ years(maybe 8 total) of chipping 20,000 lbs of apples a year our wheel started slicing apples like a knife last year and the cut half would sit above the wheel and not get pulled in. A few things were tried but didn't fix the problem. A second wheel that came with the press, when purchased used, was swapped in even though it looked in rougher shape than the bad one and immediately we were back in business. Some very minor difference in the height/shape of the cutting teeth seemed to be the culprit and it was less than 0.5 mm, maybe as small as 0.1mm. I wonder if turning some of those screws in or out 1/4 turn (1/8 turn?) would vary the cutting height enough to grab the apple better? A second idea is to freeze a few buckets in the freezer and then press them whole once thawed like Claude shows on pg 284. No chipping needed.
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DX CQ DX CQ,, ya done good pap