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["Erdman, James" <ErdmanJ@uwstout.edu>]

Regarding Lehman's press-it looks like the Happy Valley logo on the side of 
the grinder.  I have friends with a Happy Valley press and grinder, and I 
find that my garbage disposal grinds apples much finer so that I get more 
cider per bushel of apples than they do.  That was a determining factor for 
me.  Sometime I will have my wife get the budget book out and figure what I 
have spent on the home built press, garbage disposal grinder, etc., but I 
don't think it was $500 total, including new steel for all of the parts of 
the frame of the press, and having the stainless steel parts fabricated at a 
shop instead of doing it ourselves.  
 
The bottom line to me is that we spent less money and get more cider per 
bushel.  But it doesn't look like a traditional cider press.
 
Jim Erdman, in Menomonie, WI
 
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On Oct 19, 2006, at 7:31 AM, loneroc wrote:

>  I went the absolutely extravagant
> route of paying a grand for the Happy Valley press.

On Oct 20, 2006, at 10:57 AM, Jim Fruth wrote:

>     Both of my presses have a VERY HANDY feature that I've not seen on 
> any
> commercial press.  My press has an axle with two wheels and
> wheel-barrow-like handles for ease of moving it around.
>


Keep meaning to post this link when these cider press discussions come 
through. I've never tried Lehman's presses, but have had other things 
from them, and the company is reliable. The single tub press at $589 
sounds like not much more than some people have probably spent buying 
garbage disposals and building presses around them. Wheel kits are 
available for this and for their double tub press.

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