[TheForge] Re: test

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Andy, can you just fake a press with a hydraulic jack for temporary?
It's a difficult time to sell art, good luck!...pf

Andrew Vida wrote:
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> 
> Mike Spencer wrote:
>>> dead?
>>
>> Not altogether, Dan. But blame it on the apples.  I was hoping to have
>> a whole bunch of Big Air Hammer bragging to post by now but I got
>> side-tracked.
>>
>> This was a spectacular year for apples.  Trees that usually bear were
>> nearly falling over. Trees we regarded as little more than
>> blossom-time ornaments that usually bear a few wormy little apples
>> were loaded with huge apples rivaling those in the supermarket.  And
>> they're all "heritage" varieties, healthier and more flavorful than
>> most modern, store-boughten varieties.
> 
>     Same here in WV.  I picked an apple that weighed almost 1.5# off the 
> tree a few hours ago.  I've been making applesauce, cider, and butter 
> for about a week.  I still have hundred of apples on this one tree by 
> the house.  The rest we picked bare.  Good eatin', too.
>>
>> I've had a cast iron beam and square-thread screw from a cider press
>> for years.  This was clearly the year to get a Round Tuit so I built a
>> cider press.  Got about 2 oz. of cider from a bushel of hand-cut
>> apples so I had to build a pulper.  Plywood, threaded rod, old pipe,
>> scrap metal, ball bearings somebody brought me from an ice breaker
>> engine room, old washing machine parts and JB Weld.  Works great!
>> About a gallon of cider to the bushel.  The least-promising-looking
>> tree made 4 gallons of the best cider.  Up to about 10 gallons now and
>> I have two bushels more to press.  Yeee-haw!
> 
>     I need to find a press myself.  You don't want to know how we've 
> been doing it. :(
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