Your mannerisms and the way you present a project hasn't changed since you began making content. You still scream HONESTY in every frame. You just got older, but haven't we all. Great video
I love this. I don't think I've ever tried apple cider but after watching this, I hope I like it so I have an excuse to make this. : ) Great design and video.
From marbles machines, to the selfmade tools, up to a lot of other genius stuff: I LOVE your creative genius - chapeau, as a french man would said - Chapeau! greetings from germany and my fully respect at your work - i like to see your videos, without any other interests on handmade productions. I'm just a stupid, lefthanded office guy - but i love it, how you made an idea into an functionally result or product. That's great, simply great!
Very nice indeed. You, sir, amaze me with your "wood everywhere" things. I made a press for fruits to make juice and since I wanted only liquid with no pulp and no peel, I went and modified (and cleaned very well) an automotive supercharger with twin scrolls that squishes everything. I even made juice from parsley and other general dry plants/fruits. I should make a video of it.
Hi neighbor. That's an awesome build. I just found it in my feed. Thanks for posting it. My wife has made applesauce from deer apples we get from a local orchard. This would be a welcome change. Started following you when I saw the bench tool carousel video. Have yet to build it as I was still collecting tools for it. Now I am just about ready.
Great job. A lot of people think you need to buy everything instead of make it yourself. Could you use a inclined ramp to automatically feed the apples? I like the multiple speeds available on your electric motor. Bart - Laveen AZ
I think that's why historically there has been so many fermented alcohol drinks. Alcohol kills a lot of germs. In fact, just googling, it appears that drinking alcohol with a meal reduces your chance of food poisoning!
i designed something that would work and posted it (safety nazis aside), but due to health issues i cannot realize it yet in my own shop. these days of recovery are SO MUCH easier to pass while watching your work. thank you for your willingness to share your amazing talents!
Old fashioned grinders used a large cast iron flywheel on the grinder. IMO this helps quite a bit keeping up momentum when mulching through apples. Quite a fine bit of woodworking though!
So being prudent, a healthy eater, and very understanding of what can go wrong in the human body, should be compared to a female body part that gets pleasure from taking a pounding? You are weird.
Kriplovski well I aim to be clear, due to some very stupid people hanging out in comment sections. I guess I found one. I won't lower myself to your level. Get outside, enjoy life, have fun.
I think you'd be better using mineral oil instead of vegetable oil. Vegetable oil can go rancid over time but mineral oil doesn't. I think Lemon oil is okay, too. I'm not sure about others but I've read a number of warnings about using vegetable oil in woodworking. Nice little machine, though, Matt. Take care, Larry
Looks like something I'm going to have to make. I have a tonne of apple trees at my cottage, so many that we never know what to do with all of them when it comes time to harvest. We usually end up giving most of them away to friends. But if I can grind them all to make my own hard cider, that would be quite excellent.
Fantastic looking apple crusher -- make for a great home DIY project. One recommendation: You need to use a cheese clothe type strainer bag over a bucket to catch your larger bits; separating your juice from the bits. Then you can build a larger box frame with a screen at the bottom and a weighted press on top to put the bit bag into and gently apply the weight to to squeeze out the remaining juice from the bit bag. I guess the bit bag contents can go back out to compost.
Well done! I really like how accessible the parts are, as the video shows it makes it real easy to clean. Make it for grapes with a destemmer and you'll have wine lovers pounding on your door, lol.
Very much aware of the reprap. I just don't have the patience for that sort of stuff. Much too slow, and it's hard to find anything you could make on one of those that would actually be useful. Plus, it's been done before, no need for me to play with it.
My V1 apple grinder was built like that. The V2 just had a 5" diameter ash cylinder that I cut teeth out of with my table saw. That worked real well. The V3 was going to be much the same but I was going to cut slots and hammer in steak knife blades from $1 store knives. All that being said we moved over to using a 6 HP chipper for apple smooshing. We make ~30 gallons in a session and you can dump a 100 pound feed back chock full of apples into the chipper and have mush in seconds. With any of my homebrew smooshers it took longer to smoosh them then it did to press them. Oh, we also have a 100+ year old press, but we use a hydraulic jack with it. No torsion on the frame and a lot more pressure.
Matthew Kleinmann The chiper is a cool idea. Does it pulp the applees sufficiently? Cutting is not as good as mashing. Back home, pressing is much slower than grinding.
Matthias Wandel The chipper works great. The apples are turned into mush that works real well in the press. I built a stand of sorts that the chipper sits on so the chute is just a wee bit taller than a standard 5 gallon bucket. I also wrap a tarp around the chute and hold that on with a bungee cord. Without that the speed the mush comes out of the shoot it will bounce back out of the buckets. The tarp keeps most of it going where you want it. BTW, if you use the chipper for other stuff and you are worried about yuck in your cider you can run some bleach and than a few buckets of ice through the chipper. I run the chipper about 1 notch up from an idle.
I think you should've put more screws in and that would speed up the process... also if you grind(?) the grinding wheel when it's ready that would take some material off the screws top and make them a little sharper, at least that's what I'd try. :)
Dude you are awesome...and so are your homemade contraptions. Tip of the hat to you my friend. Great ideas and fun stuff for building practical things.
Hello, My name is Marian Defelipe from Argentina. Congratulations on your page, it's been very helpful to me. I am a fan of tools so I have set up a shop in my house as a hobby. I would like to fabricate this press and I am very interested to see if you can put-up a video showing plans and detailed dimensions of this. Thank you very much.
Very cool design! If you use it outside, look out for wasps. They can smell the crushed apples from a long way and like to help themselves to the juice. :)
I just found out about this channel today and i'm totally impressed. i'm pretty new to building, as in the last time i built anything with wood was probably when i was 13 years old. but watching these videos makes me miss the smell of hot wood. < i meant what i said...
Ha! When I was young and dumb my neighbors had an orchard and we (the other young and dumb ones) got the big idea we would make some cider sell it like lemonade. And that's how I found out that cider becomes alcoholic all by its self. You can stick an iron nale in with about a gallon and it'll keep it non alcoholic by the way. The people who owned the orchard told us about it after the misunderstanding.
Matthias, I've watched many of your videos and love not only your designs, but also your explanations of potential problems in the designs and how you've overcome them. For this one specifically, rather than just letting everything fall under the drum and making a mess, why not create a funnel or downspout to direct the mash?
I have watched a lot of your videos. I really admire your skills at crafting anything you need by using mostly wood. You are a genius. May I ask where you learned all of this, or what got you started learning this stuff?
I think you should automate the stamper, just use a wooden damper on it (compressing air inside a tube for example)- to just press lightly and not force anything and some gears to get the motion much slower than your turning. Than you can just empty a bucket in the machine and let the motor do the whole job 😙🎶
This reminds me of one I saw made from a set of VW bug gears mounted in a wooden box like yours. It was hooked up to a Morse-Fairbanks engine. I like your design better-much simpler.
IDEA: Have you tried to put a filter down at the bottom at the machine so it comes out as juice directly? And then u just clean out the gooie later on?
The byproduct of the natural yeast in the apple juice is carbon dioxide. Wine would be fizzy too if it was bottled in a plastic bottle with a cap to hold the dissolved gas in.
Good job, again. One question though, would be better to use linseed oil(flax-seed oil) instead of canola just to stay on the safe side with lubrication.......
it could be an apple press as well if you mad the grinding drum removable and replaceable with a flat wooden strainer. then you could use the handle to press the juice out.
@moakbik94 Because this is what he does. Check out some his other videos if you haven't already. This dude made a band saw out of wood! It's really impressive stuff to me.
You are actually making the world a better place!
All these schematics you provide are priceless.
Cheers to you, cheers to the age of technology.
I was just thinking that, what if we had like 100, 1000 more like him..
By far my favorite video of yours! Nicely done.
Wild yeast. Either leave it standing in an open container like a bowl for a while, or add a shot of cider that is already fermenting.
Your mannerisms and the way you present a project hasn't changed since you began making content. You still scream HONESTY in every frame. You just got older, but haven't we all. Great video
I love this. I don't think I've ever tried apple cider but after watching this, I hope I like it so I have an excuse to make this. : )
Great design and video.
Did you try apple cider? And did you like it enough to make an apple grinder? If so, how did it work out?
how you like them apples now?
CCD566 applesauce, bitch! 😉
Trees from abandoned farms, that's brilliant
this would be great to use in place of the bucket in the mouse trap video
BAA HAA!!! ☝🏻😂
Holy shit...
I actually laughed at this comment😂😂👌
Aaron H wtf lol
I chucked out loud. Thank you.
The question is... will it blend?
+Ismael Kafeltz the whole machine could blend :D
Idk
Will it grind...? That is the question....
♫ It's the Flimflam brothers' super speedy cider squeezy 6000! ♫
mlp chan confirmed
yes
BRONIIIIIIIEEEEEEEES
Now Rainbow Dash can make all the cider she wants.
Dude, you're a genius. Your stuff is always so satisfying and pleasing to see in action.
Very nice... coming from someone who LOVES hard cider and who has made some himself some years ago. Now I'm lazy and buy all of my hard cider.
thanks for uploading all the videos on saftey homeade tools and tips/tricks to use you make a lot of really usefull videos
From marbles machines, to the selfmade tools, up to a lot of other genius stuff:
I LOVE your creative genius - chapeau, as a french man would said - Chapeau!
greetings from germany and my fully respect at your work - i like to see your videos, without any other interests on handmade productions. I'm just a stupid, lefthanded office guy - but i love it, how you made an idea into an functionally result or product. That's great, simply great!
Not once it's fermented. Alcohol is a preservative.
Very nice indeed. You, sir, amaze me with your "wood everywhere" things.
I made a press for fruits to make juice and since I wanted only liquid with no pulp and no peel, I went and modified (and cleaned very well) an automotive supercharger with twin scrolls that squishes everything. I even made juice from parsley and other general dry plants/fruits. I should make a video of it.
Hi neighbor. That's an awesome build. I just found it in my feed. Thanks for posting it. My wife has made applesauce from deer apples we get from a local orchard. This would be a welcome change. Started following you when I saw the bench tool carousel video. Have yet to build it as I was still collecting tools for it. Now I am just about ready.
after grinding the apples you can get more juice by using a press I tink. Thank you for the video. you do great job.
This is one of the most badass things i have seen. Screw iPhones this is some smart stuff.
Great job. A lot of people think you need to buy everything instead of make it yourself. Could you use a inclined ramp to automatically feed the apples? I like the multiple speeds available on your electric motor.
Bart - Laveen AZ
If memory serves, this was the first Matthias video I ever watched.
I think that's why historically there has been so many fermented alcohol drinks. Alcohol kills a lot of germs. In fact, just googling, it appears that drinking alcohol with a meal reduces your chance of food poisoning!
i designed something that would work and posted it (safety nazis aside), but due to health issues i cannot realize it yet in my own shop. these days of recovery are SO MUCH easier to pass while watching your work.
thank you for your willingness to share your amazing talents!
Old fashioned grinders used a large cast iron flywheel on the grinder. IMO this helps quite a bit keeping up momentum when mulching through apples. Quite a fine bit of woodworking though!
Don't ever drink apple juice then. Because NOBODY separates the seeds out.
Mineral Oil is great for coating wood. It's food safe and doesn't go rancid.
isent mineral oil a laxative
+Anthony Crumpler Yup, but it's also used as a protectant for wood. Mix it with beeswax and you have a great wood conditioner
Mineral oil is a byproduct of the petroleum industry. I rather keep that off or in my body.
So being prudent, a healthy eater, and very understanding of what can go wrong in the human body, should be compared to a female body part that gets pleasure from taking a pounding? You are weird.
Kriplovski well I aim to be clear, due to some very stupid people hanging out in comment sections. I guess I found one. I won't lower myself to your level. Get outside, enjoy life, have fun.
I think you'd be better using mineral oil instead of vegetable oil. Vegetable oil can go rancid over time but mineral oil doesn't. I think Lemon oil is okay, too. I'm not sure about others but I've read a number of warnings about using vegetable oil in woodworking.
Nice little machine, though, Matt.
Take care,
Larry
Looks like something I'm going to have to make. I have a tonne of apple trees at my cottage, so many that we never know what to do with all of them when it comes time to harvest. We usually end up giving most of them away to friends. But if I can grind them all to make my own hard cider, that would be quite excellent.
I just thought you should know that some young adults like me appreciate your lifestyle and your craft. It's fantastic.
Fantastic looking apple crusher -- make for a great home DIY project. One recommendation: You need to use a cheese clothe type strainer bag over a bucket to catch your larger bits; separating your juice from the bits. Then you can build a larger box frame with a screen at the bottom and a weighted press on top to put the bit bag into and gently apply the weight to to squeeze out the remaining juice from the bit bag. I guess the bit bag contents can go back out to compost.
Very interesting and well made!
It is a gem of machine!
Well done!
Can it grind iPhones too?
Best idea ever. Never thought it would be so easy to make apple juice and cider. O_o
Holy crap, Matthias, you are a wizard!!
@Mathias: you can cut the tops off of those two liter bottles (or smaller bottles) and use them as funnels. Looks like you could use one.
Very good- the things you come up with - as quoted before - you are a genius - or someone that really takes the time to plot out a device like this.
Well done! I really like how accessible the parts are, as the video shows it makes it real easy to clean. Make it for grapes with a destemmer and you'll have wine lovers pounding on your door, lol.
Please make a video of that! Its something all of us would like to see Im sure! Cheers!
Looks really nice. I'm thinking about building my own during this summer. Definetly gonna use this as inspiration.
I like your work and thank you
many village in my contry they dont have elc and we have lot of appel
Very much aware of the reprap. I just don't have the patience for that sort of stuff. Much too slow, and it's hard to find anything you could make on one of those that would actually be useful. Plus, it's been done before, no need for me to play with it.
this man is legend with wood
your videos are oddly satisfying
Dude. You are amazing. You really need to be the most subbed channel on UA-cam... I mean... Wow...
Your videos are great. You are incredibly knowledgeable.
My V1 apple grinder was built like that. The V2 just had a 5" diameter ash cylinder that I cut teeth out of with my table saw. That worked real well. The V3 was going to be much the same but I was going to cut slots and hammer in steak knife blades from $1 store knives. All that being said we moved over to using a 6 HP chipper for apple smooshing. We make ~30 gallons in a session and you can dump a 100 pound feed back chock full of apples into the chipper and have mush in seconds. With any of my homebrew smooshers it took longer to smoosh them then it did to press them.
Oh, we also have a 100+ year old press, but we use a hydraulic jack with it. No torsion on the frame and a lot more pressure.
Matthew Kleinmann The chiper is a cool idea. Does it pulp the applees sufficiently? Cutting is not as good as mashing. Back home, pressing is much slower than grinding.
Matthias Wandel
The chipper works great. The apples are turned into mush that works real well in the press. I built a stand of sorts that the chipper sits on so the chute is just a wee bit taller than a standard 5 gallon bucket. I also wrap a tarp around the chute and hold that on with a bungee cord. Without that the speed the mush comes out of the shoot it will bounce back out of the buckets. The tarp keeps most of it going where you want it. BTW, if you use the chipper for other stuff and you are worried about yuck in your cider you can run some bleach and than a few buckets of ice through the chipper. I run the chipper about 1 notch up from an idle.
I think you should've put more screws in and that would speed up the process... also if you grind(?) the grinding wheel when it's ready that would take some material off the screws top and make them a little sharper, at least that's what I'd try. :)
Dude you are awesome...and so are your homemade contraptions. Tip of the hat to you my friend. Great ideas and fun stuff for building practical things.
Hello,
My name is Marian Defelipe from Argentina. Congratulations on your page, it's been very helpful to me. I am a fan of tools so I have set up a shop in my house as a hobby. I would like to fabricate this press and I am very interested to see if you can put-up a video showing plans and detailed dimensions of this. Thank you very much.
Lol that awkward ending "Mmm..... Juice....."
he says Cheers not juice lol xD
+pque90 oh looool ok then. Mmm..... Cheers.....
+CutePatoots That turned awkward lol.
+duducrisps lol ikr
You high jabroni?
Very cool design! If you use it outside, look out for wasps. They can smell the crushed apples from a long way and like to help themselves to the juice. :)
I just found out about this channel today and i'm totally impressed. i'm pretty new to building, as in the last time i built anything with wood was probably when i was 13 years old. but watching these videos makes me miss the smell of hot wood. < i meant what i said...
that looks really really good
never thought grinding apples would be so interesting!
They get ground up too. No juice in the stems though.
i wouldnt have the patients to do this, i respect you m8, keep doing what your doing!😄
That sounds pretty crazy with the supercharger. Please do make a video of it.
Ha! When I was young and dumb my neighbors had an orchard and we (the other young and dumb ones) got the big idea we would make some cider sell it like lemonade. And that's how I found out that cider becomes alcoholic all by its self.
You can stick an iron nale in with about a gallon and it'll keep it non alcoholic by the way. The people who owned the orchard told us about it after the misunderstanding.
Matthias, I've watched many of your videos and love not only your designs, but also your explanations of potential problems in the designs and how you've overcome them.
For this one specifically, rather than just letting everything fall under the drum and making a mess, why not create a funnel or downspout to direct the mash?
I have watched a lot of your videos. I really admire your skills at crafting anything you need by using mostly wood. You are a genius. May I ask where you learned all of this, or what got you started learning this stuff?
that looks so flavorful and wholesome
Your videos are always awesome. Seeing things you've made and such. Really inspiring.
Ingenious and practical. Very inspiring. Are plans available?
Wow, awesome craftsmanship. Real beauty.
U can use the left side of overs for compost
Lol. Auto correct?
Very nice! I made a wooden press for blackberries juicing, but it didn't look as nice as your grinder. You are an inspiration, thanks. :)
Nice Bruh
Nice
how about a homemade wasp grinder?
mmmm cider w a hint of protein ...
I think you should automate the stamper, just use a wooden damper on it (compressing air inside a tube for example)- to just press lightly and not force anything and some gears to get the motion much slower than your turning.
Than you can just empty a bucket in the machine and let the motor do the whole job 😙🎶
Do tell what sort of electric grinder would do the job? And apple grinders, if you do know where to get them, are quite expensive.
so you make cider, nice, i've always wanted to try making it
This reminds me of one I saw made from a set of VW bug gears mounted in a wooden box like yours. It was hooked up to a Morse-Fairbanks engine.
I like your design better-much simpler.
Time to make some Moonshine!
+Bedrock Sign Post time to make some sunshine
*apple jack
Time to make some Marshine!
This isn't just useful, it looks straight up fun to play with
It would be pretty fun to make yourself an auto-feed auger for it as well.
I am thoroughly impressed.
I usedplastic bottles on home brew before and it tasted funny,allways use glass from now on
IDEA: Have you tried to put a filter down at the bottom at the machine so it comes out as juice directly? And then u just clean out the gooie later on?
You have some amazing pouring skills
That is just plain awesome!! Excellent work!!
The byproduct of the natural yeast in the apple juice is carbon dioxide. Wine would be fizzy too if it was bottled in a plastic bottle with a cap to hold the dissolved gas in.
Olive oil might be another option - vegetable oil is rancid when sold (additives mask the rotting odour). Olive oil is fresh and great tasting!
Good job, again. One question though, would be better to use linseed oil(flax-seed oil) instead of canola just to stay on the safe side with lubrication.......
Awesome work man!
awesome an very awesome this guy saves a lot of money
We need "will it grind" series.
Have you ever tried boiling it?
Look into boiled cider, it's much smoother.
You are very talented! I've enjoyed watching your videos!
Started watching this video and first thought was: "Where's the motor?"
(2:28 - Oh, OK. There it is!)
it could be an apple press as well if you mad the grinding drum removable and replaceable with a flat wooden strainer. then you could use the handle to press the juice out.
Mate impressive ive watched a few of your videos now and im rather impressed keep up the good stuff
Amazing channel! You are a very creative person.
@moakbik94 Because this is what he does. Check out some his other videos if you haven't already. This dude made a band saw out of wood! It's really impressive stuff to me.
I love your works ,man!
And soon I will build the same machines for my home.
Thanks a lot for your videos.
That is excellent. Well done
I made a couple of these grinders, but without the push plate.
It would have been cool to have the push lever made out of Plexiglass, so that you could see through when the apples are grinded.
Apple grinding like a boss.
Thats really cool that you make useful things like this, are you going to build a press too???
buen trabajo y muy natural la extracion del jugo, dan ganas de beberlo.
Mmm... That looks so good. Great idea.