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Title: sometime you gotta do some crazy s#it
Post by: TOW'D on November 02, 2008, 09:14:06 am: Howdy gang,
It is apple time around here and the wasserboxer in our syncro finally developed the dreaded headgasket problem so it is out of service.
So off to plan two
we have a homemade cider press and for the last 25+years my buddy and I have pressed at least 500 gallons of apple juice(best year we did 1600 gals-No BS)
we split the juice with our families and the people who we get the apples from
the gals freeze and bottle as fresh juice and some of the juice is left to turn into hard cider
This year I had to use the mighty Golf as a apple cart.
I could not carry all the apples in the buckets so we spread a tarp in the back and dumped the apples in .
a bit of work but the apples just spill out the rear door and back into the buckets to be spread on out sorting/cleaning table then into the machine.

We get somewhere around 50 gal per hr.
(http://towd.smugmug.com/photos/408066537_TdYA8-M.jpg)
the muffler was scraping a bit on the way home.
One thing I found out was the PO had installed hatch struts from a GMC Yukon and the hatch didn't open all the way.
The new correct strut made a lot of difference.
just figured you might get a kick seeing what plan 2 was
hank
Title: sometime you gotta do some crazy s#it
Post by: burn_your_money on November 02, 2008, 03:07:35 pm: I like it. I bet my uncle did the same thing with my 91 golf :)

How much for a bottle of "hard cider" :D
Title: sometime you gotta do some crazy s#it
Post by: TOW'D on November 03, 2008, 07:26:55 am: Tyler too bad you are in the other end of the country
I'd be glad to raise a few mugs with you
cheers
hank
Title: sometime you gotta do some crazy s#it
Post by: Smokey Eddy on November 03, 2008, 03:23:50 pm: I'm not :wink: :wink: :wink:

Cool story!
Title: sometime you gotta do some crazy s#it
Post by: TOW'D on November 05, 2008, 07:04:35 pm: Smokey Eddie the cider is mighty refreshing and If you are`ever in this end of the swamp look me up and we will give some a try.

Now I'd like to use the huge pile of apple mash and make some kind of fuel.
cheers
hank
Title: sometime you gotta do some crazy s#it
Post by: Smokey Eddy on November 05, 2008, 07:17:20 pm: Hahahahahha
Well, if you could separate the alcohol from the co2, water and mold you could use the alcohol?

I will definitely let you know if I'm in your neck of the woods!!!
I'd love a pint of genuine straight from the orchard cider
Title: sometime you gotta do some crazy s#it
Post by: Turbinepowered on November 06, 2008, 02:43:14 am: Quote from: "TOW'D"
Smokey Eddie the cider is mighty refreshing and If you are`ever in this end of the swamp look me up and we will give some a try.

Now I'd like to use the huge pile of apple mash and make some kind of fuel.
cheers

Feed it to a digester, get methane?
Title: sometime you gotta do some crazy s#it
Post by: Smokey Eddy on November 06, 2008, 12:37:59 pm: Quote from: "Turbinepowered"
Quote from: "TOW'D"
Smokey Eddie the cider is mighty refreshing and If you are`ever in this end of the swamp look me up and we will give some a try.

Now I'd like to use the huge pile of apple mash and make some kind of fuel.
cheers

Feed it to a digester, get methane?

Where's Duane when you need him? :roll:
Title: sometime you gotta do some crazy s#it
Post by: TOW'D on November 07, 2008, 08:58:19 am: would you get methane or alcohol?
Title: sometime you gotta do some crazy s#it
Post by: Turbinepowered on November 07, 2008, 11:29:01 am: Quote from: "TOW'D"
would you get methane or alcohol?

In a digester? Methane.
Title: sometime you gotta do some crazy s#it
Post by: Smokey Eddy on November 07, 2008, 12:13:17 pm: Alcohol is a product of the fermentation (moldy stuff) of sugar.

Methane is the product of the decomposition of organic matter - digestion - cows eating grass - millions of rotting bodies in the earth = methane - under pressure = petroleum