I built an apple press from some oak sleepers from a Cork company, very strong, but you should definately use this to make cider! Excellent video by the way thanks a lot!
That’s a nice press, I’ve seen the sawdust briquettes made with regular ol paraffin wax, they light off real easy and you don’t have to wait for them to dry.
I bet if you extended the board that is doing the pressing past the front legs and make a lower shelf similar to your v block you would then have an integrated station to extract the finished pucks. You could permanently mount the piece you use to push the finished puck out to the extended end.
This is really great! Practical and useful. Yes, make some water channels on the base and set up something to recapture the water which can be put back in the slurry barrel. Compressed briquets will burn long and hot and are an excellent way to get a good fire going and help it last over night. Just a couple in the stove can make all the difference over night. This is why pellet stoves and pellet grills and smokers work so well and efficiently. Put a simple fan blowing at your briquet stacks to help dry them out a bit quicker. You want the moisture content to be very very low to reduce smoke and increase heat and burn time.
Nice one john cracking way to use up the man glitter. I send all my shavings to a woman who has horses and she uses half of what i send her for bedding and the other half she mixes with horse manure and makes them into bricks to burn they burn fantastic 👍🏴 shohld definitely make cider 👊
Excellent build. I'll be building one very soon. Might I suggest making the press handle about eight inches longer? Looking where your knuckles would go if something broke while you were pushing the handle down looks like you could lose a finger. Move your fingers out past the rear legs.
Glad to see more of your videos. I've made a similar thing as this using c-clamps. This is a much better idea. Going to give it a go. Cheers and Happy Days!
Sorry for getting ideas here but... :) If you split the big pipe in half, added a hinge and a lock then you should get your logs out easier, not sure if the plastic holds up, you might need a steel pipe due to that. Another idea that hit me is that if you adda nose at the front on your press-bar, you get a longer stroke action there and can custom-make that side for pushing out the log which should simplify and quicken the work for you.
Great to see you. I was looking for your channel yesterday lol. Any chance of showing how to make a good solid pasting table? I don't have any experience
I am actually wondering if with some modifications this could be used for leather embossing. I think it might need a floating anvil on top to keep the press aligned. Also if you added anvil with a wooden screw or a turn-buckle, you likely could have height adjustment as well. I may justy have to build one of these to experiment with. Thanks for pointing me to the article.
The plunger/discs of timber are all well and good, but seems like the hole saw is ready made for purpose and only costs like $5 at IKEA. You could buy or recycle filler like HDPE(milk bottles) or aluminium (recycled cans) if you needed it more durable or heavy. Just flip the saw upside down and mount it as your press’ piston/hammer
Really great idea for something to do with all of the "waste" from woodworking instead of loading it up to the landfill. One thing to consider however, is the type of wood shavings/sawdust that you use. The vapors of some woods aren't good to inhale. Thanks for the inspiration. - Chris
Great vid. Wondering if you could put rice og oatflakes in the mixture. This binds really strong. The great wall in china was build with sticky rice mortar
What a faff..... we have a commercial one at work that we run most days and that, is a pain in the arse filling the hopper and changing the bags. They burn well but you are forever filling the burner as they are quick to burn.... might be an idea for retirement but whilst you can still work your time is better spent... another idea is to use a car Jack and get the pressure right up....
I think I could press apples with this! Might have to make some Cider.
I built an apple press from some oak sleepers from a Cork company, very strong, but you should definately use this to make cider! Excellent video by the way thanks a lot!
Top idea. Good to have tools that aren't one trick ponies
My first thought. hah
What a great idea! This is something any woodworker can use. Thank you for bringing this to my attention and showing how easy this is.
You're very welcome!
That’s a nice press, I’ve seen the sawdust briquettes made with regular ol paraffin wax, they light off real easy and you don’t have to wait for them to dry.
Great use for the sawdust and shavings.
I put saw dust in microwave popcorn bags to use as a fire starter for my bbq. This is here is a brilliant idea.
Nice job thanks for the video make another video with them in the fire, see you on your next content
Will do cheers David
I bet if you extended the board that is doing the pressing past the front legs and make a lower shelf similar to your v block you would then have an integrated station to extract the finished pucks. You could permanently mount the piece you use to push the finished puck out to the extended end.
This is really great! Practical and useful. Yes, make some water channels on the base and set up something to recapture the water which can be put back in the slurry barrel. Compressed briquets will burn long and hot and are an excellent way to get a good fire going and help it last over night. Just a couple in the stove can make all the difference over night. This is why pellet stoves and pellet grills and smokers work so well and efficiently. Put a simple fan blowing at your briquet stacks to help dry them out a bit quicker. You want the moisture content to be very very low to reduce smoke and increase heat and burn time.
Its a great design to press not just briquettes but press some other things as well… keep making cool stuff !!
Thanks, will do!
Just as I logged in, you have logged out ... nice one !
Great press thanks. If you use ground coffee adding the used coffee grounds to the sawdust mix works really well too.
I will give that a try!
Now the winter can come . . . top!
Brilliant John great idea
Glad you like it
Nice one john cracking way to use up the man glitter. I send all my shavings to a woman who has horses and she uses half of what i send her for bedding and the other half she mixes with horse manure and makes them into bricks to burn they burn fantastic 👍🏴 shohld definitely make cider 👊
Nice project. Great way to use up that pesky saw dust
Excellent build. I'll be building one very soon. Might I suggest making the press handle about eight inches longer? Looking where your knuckles would go if something broke while you were pushing the handle down looks like you could lose a finger. Move your fingers out past the rear legs.
Great idea and great video. Thanks for the ideas John!
Glad you liked it!
If you make a few more cylinder molds, you could get your kids to fill them and help you press them
Looks good mate.
Thanks 👍
Glad to see more of your videos. I've made a similar thing as this using c-clamps. This is a much better idea. Going to give it a go. Cheers and Happy Days!
Cheers Mark
Sorry for getting ideas here but... :)
If you split the big pipe in half, added a hinge and a lock then you should get your logs out easier, not sure if the plastic holds up, you might need a steel pipe due to that.
Another idea that hit me is that if you adda nose at the front on your press-bar, you get a longer stroke action there and can custom-make that side for pushing out the log which should simplify and quicken the work for you.
All good ideas
Great to see you. I was looking for your channel yesterday lol. Any chance of showing how to make a good solid pasting table? I don't have any experience
I am actually wondering if with some modifications this could be used for leather embossing. I think it might need a floating anvil on top to keep the press aligned.
Also if you added anvil with a wooden screw or a turn-buckle, you likely could have height adjustment as well.
I may justy have to build one of these to experiment with. Thanks for pointing me to the article.
There are lots of application this could be adapted to. I'm glad the video was useful.
I'm actually going to do the reverse - use my cider press to make briquettes!
Looks great man. Great to see you back on the channel. If you made it from steel box section, it would be even stronger i reckon.
I just mixed about 30 gallons of oak shavings into my compost.
Looks great... maybe you can show us what they look like when they are burning.
Will do
We been using our log splitter for years, doing the same thing just take the blade off replacing it with perforated steel tube with cap
The plunger/discs of timber are all well and good, but seems like the hole saw is ready made for purpose and only costs like $5 at IKEA. You could buy or recycle filler like HDPE(milk bottles) or aluminium (recycled cans) if you needed it more durable or heavy. Just flip the saw upside down and mount it as your press’ piston/hammer
The hole saw is the same diameter as the pipe, so it doesn't fit. Also I won't work with the centre pipe
Coffee grounds burn more efficiently and hotter than just saw dust and chippings. Mix them in with fine sanding dust also.
Really great idea for something to do with all of the "waste" from woodworking instead of loading it up to the landfill. One thing to consider however, is the type of wood shavings/sawdust that you use. The vapors of some woods aren't good to inhale. Thanks for the inspiration. - Chris
Well, one more thing I need to build now.
Great vid. Wondering if you could put rice og oatflakes in the mixture. This binds really strong. The great wall in china was build with sticky rice mortar
Could work
Legend 👌🏻
Thanks 🤣
brilliant. Pity I live in a smokeless zone.
I’m wondering if the same rig could be adapted to split logs …
You could be on to something, I need to try!
Hose upper arms agave GROWN!! look at the size of them💪🏻🤯😎🔥💪🏻
Good video!
What’s that lovely block plane?
Its a Quangsheng Luban block plane
@@JohnMcGrathManInShed thanks John! I will now educate myself as to what on earth that means…
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Wonder how they burn
I'll let you know
the advert before this video was for subway, i tried a subway once it was bloody awful & went in the bin
The adds you see I have zero control over
Could you mix in a little bit of wood glue?
You could but not sure I want to burn glue, there are other natural option like coffee grounds that work well
I am giggling. The sawdust bricks seem to me like the modern version of peat
You could make a better press using a relatively inexpensive harbor freight HYDRAULIC PRESS.. just saying..
I could just buy briquettes too but where is the fun in that
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What a faff..... we have a commercial one at work that we run most days and that, is a pain in the arse filling the hopper and changing the bags. They burn well but you are forever filling the burner as they are quick to burn.... might be an idea for retirement but whilst you can still work your time is better spent... another idea is to use a car Jack and get the pressure right up....
Life is a faff but I enjoy making stuff