Yeah...this thread really is a train wreck, but I'm gonna keep plunging onward for a little longer, at least.
I wish that I gotten interested in making wine years ago, because of the homemade wine potential that I can now see.
I live on a farm, surrounded by farms. I shiver when I think of all of the fruits that I've just let slip through my fingers lately, by not having a set up to handle them.
Watermelons, cantalopes, plums, figs, muscadines, apples, peaches, pears, yadda yadda yadda!
My neighbors, and myself, freely offer each other the excesses of our gardens and orchards. But, even then, there is plenty that just goes to waste, because we're too busy to do anything more than make a little jam or jelly, and then let the rest go.
Decades ago, my GrandPap, and then later, his oldest son, my uncle, made sorgham syrup from scratch.
They had a mill, turned by mules, that crushed the cane. The juice ran out of that mill like water!
They grew their own cane for their/our needs, and then crushed cane for the public on halves, selling syrup back to the public.
What an operation!
The commercial apple presses available thru my LHBS are flimsy things, in my view.
If someone could adapt a syrup mill with an electric motor, now THAT would be a press for ANY kind of fruit!
Anyway, thanks for the input Revvy!
I need to study the garbage disposal angle a little more, it does make sense. But, the presses, like you show the prints for, still leave tons of juice in the pulp, as far as I can see.
Later,
Pogo
