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JimIA 
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 Topic: Making cider with the A-Cs
Posted: 30 Sep 2012 at 8:42pm |
and the neighbor's Ford...... Last weekend we got out the 100+ year old cider press and made us some cider! The neighbor was excited to use his 8N he bought this spring to haul the apples.   Then we got out the real power and ran the press with it!    The One-Seventy got to haul away the apple remains and made some happy pigs in the process!     You notice how not only things are not built worth a darn anymore but they have no style like this as well?  My fiancee canned the juice and which turned out really tasty! Good time had by all. Jim 
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EricPA
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Posted: 30 Sep 2012 at 8:48pm |
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looks like fun!
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Posted: 30 Sep 2012 at 8:53pm |
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What a nice set of pix. Bet there aren't many AC tractor pto's hooked up to a cider grinder/press. Cool way to spend a beautiful day. The Lord is good to us.
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Don(MI)
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Posted: 30 Sep 2012 at 9:05pm |
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You guys have all the fun out there in iowa! Thanks for the pics again!
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Posted: 30 Sep 2012 at 9:11pm |
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i can taste it from here! yum yum!
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52 CA, 41 B and a little B1 oh, yeah... and an 8N ford snuck in there, too.
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SteveM C/IL
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Posted: 30 Sep 2012 at 11:36pm |
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Ear corn in the crib to boot! What a life you live!
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SHAMELESS
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Posted: 01 Oct 2012 at 2:33am |
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that's a mighty fine lookin place ya gots too! i like that block building! and all the buildings are in fine looking care!
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TimNearFortWorth
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Posted: 01 Oct 2012 at 4:00am |
Brings back good memories of makin cider in central NY growing up. Pull the old charcoal mellowed barrels out of the hay mow two weeks in advance and soak them with one box baking soda per barrel while they swelled. Presser we used sold pears and we always added 10 bushels to our 40-50 bbls. of pasture picked apples. Excess came home in the old milk cans and we had to get it canned that night before it turned.
The barrels went in the manger in front of the cows (note, do not move after starting this "process" as legs tend to get broken!) and we pulled off 2-3 gallons.
Added approximately 20-25 lbs. sugar, using white cane for clear product or brown sugar for a nice whiskey looking shade.
Continue adding sugar until exactly one pound per gallon is achieved, leaving the burlap gasket over the bung hole and the bung laying atop the burlap so it could breath.
After 20-30 days, add a bottle of good brandy if you choose.
Again, DO NOT MOVE after the fermentation process has started.
60-90 days later, smooth sippin "jack" that burns a steady blue flame.
Many a fella commented how smooth it was and how they wanted more, but dad would only limit them to a single tumbler. Us kids especially liked when a braggard would insist they could handle more, only to stand up and fall down when they tried to walk.
Sippin the sweet cider mid winter always took us back to fall harvest, and talk of how to do it better the next year.
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bigallis1
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Posted: 01 Oct 2012 at 5:37am |
Perfect way to spend an afternoon! Nice pics....
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Jim Lindemood
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Posted: 01 Oct 2012 at 7:20am |
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Cool - have never seen a PTO driven cider press. Looks like a fun afternoon.
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Pat the Plumber CIL
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Posted: 01 Oct 2012 at 7:27am |
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Thanks for posting pics, brings back a lot of memories back on the farm.We would borrow a press just like yours from a neighbor (no pto, just a hand crank). Dad found a cider press at an auction that the belt pulley on the D-17 would run.Ground the apples up and then pressed with a hydaulic pump mounted on the cider press, boy we thought we were in tall cotton then.Believe the hydraulics used mineral oil. My father canned the cider in 1 gallon glass jugs,would have cider year round.
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Steve Zidlicky
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Posted: 01 Oct 2012 at 8:28am |
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really neat pics. do you know my cousin's husband Mike Meyer? He retired from UPS and lives in Ossian? Steve
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Stan IL&TN
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Posted: 01 Oct 2012 at 8:47am |
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Jim, is that an old school house next to the main house?
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1957 WD45 dad's first AC
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JimIA
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Posted: 01 Oct 2012 at 5:50pm |
Thanks guys. The press was orginally hard driven, we do have a pulley for it as well. The brick buiding is the old hog house, the white building in front of the house was the summer kitchen and well house. It has been used for a workshop for most years. Steve, I do know a Mike Meyer from Ossian and his son the AI guy. They have some land just north of ours. I do know of some Zidlickys and am friends with some Oyloes that are related to Zidlickys. Jim
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JCSinPITTS,PA
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Posted: 01 Oct 2012 at 7:10pm |
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NICE!!! My uncle had a BIG 10 with a pully on the front and he made cide, us kids got to dunk the apples to wash then in a tub and then complained we were cold becuse this was always done after work AT NIGHT
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Luke R.
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Posted: 01 Oct 2012 at 8:34pm |
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Looks good Jim. My mom just bought a bunch of apples in wisconsin just over the river somewhere up in that neck of the woods.
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Posted: 01 Oct 2012 at 10:06pm |
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Jim,
You guys have more fun that just about anyone I know! Nice looking apples. Nome of our apple trees had any fruit in our area of the state of Iowa! I bet it tasted real good. I prefer fresh non fermented cider myself.
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It is great being a disciple of Jesus! 1950 WD, 1957 D17...retired in Iowa,
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