[TheForge] The hard cider is good... OT:

[peter fels & phoebe palmer]

I'm real interested in your grout pump Mike.

On 10/24/2010 9:53 PM, Mike Spencer wrote:
> With reference to:
>
> me>  http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/temp/cider-press.html
>
> CGRAF<adveniam at att.net>  wrote:
>
>> On 10/24/2010 4:50 PM, Jerry Frost wrote:
>>> Geez you guys are getting complicated! Can't I just use the juicer
>>> attachment on my Kitchen Aid mixer?
>>>
>>> Jer
>>
>> Gee Jerry, consider who you are talking with..
>> A simple solution? Come on man get real.
> Ha!  If you think my cider press is bizarre, wait till you see my
> grout pump.  I thought I could just, you know, rent one.  No way. Even
> the Brit-trained FOAF stone mason doesn't know where there is one.  Feh.
>
> So I built one.  Runs on compressed air, includes an orange plastic
> street-hockey ball as a moving part.  Goes through the motions but I
> have yet to test it with actual wet, sloppy cement.  Pics, eventually,
> if it works.
>
> But Frosty, would you want to run 4 bushels of apples at one go
> through your Kitchen Aid mixer?  Or your blender?  Not that any
> consumer blender would stand up to it.  Ya gotta pay maybe $700 and up
> to get a *real* blender these days. Yeah, every blacksmith ought to
> have one of these:
>
>     http://www.tailgatorzone.com/features.html
>
> Only I want a stainless steel hopper on mine.
>
>
> - Mike
>