Cider press deadline

Jeff Summit's Cider Press

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/scrumpy/cider/press2.htm

Here are two low-cost, low-rent solutions for making an apple cider press.

With the press of weather deadlines and the coming on of apples, more and more, this seems like a reasonable thing to consider making. I like the design of the second link better, because of its utter simplicity. The first link, Jeff Summit's, calls for some welding, which increases the irritation factor for me. Still, it's a simple design, too.

Cath and I went up to Bond Lake and got two more buckets of bosc pears and a few sorry looking but tasty apples. It's just like magic to walk through the orchards, abandoned and neglected.