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[Sarah Kehler Ewing <skkewing@yahoo.com>]

I bought a cherry pitter (Canadian terminology) or a Cherry stoner (American 
terminology.... insert the druggie joke here) from Berry Hill Ltd at this 
link: http://www.berryhilllimited.com/b-cart/Product.asp?pid=7162182&cat=93 
and this link shows what mine looks like.  It could use some redesigning in 
the pit collection department, but this pitter is light years faster than 
anything else on the market.... unless you get one of those commercial ones 
like on the U of S website!  I love it, worth every penny and I have pitted 
gallons with it.  BTW I can easily and comfortably pit about 5-6 gallons an 
hour, those plunger pitters do about 1 gallon an hour if you're going flat 
out.


The manufacturer is actually these guys down in the States:   
http://www.sausagemaker.com/32184cherrystoner.aspx and they have the stoner 
on sale right now.  They have updated the pitter since I bought mine and show 
the new one at this link.  I like the look of the feed and pit catcher 
changes, but I can't say how well the new version would work for our 
cherries.  I'm a bit concerned because they said that they changed things to 
make it easier to pit giant Bings (which mine doesn't like very much) which 
might mean that it won't do as good a job on the smaller U of S cherries. On 
the other hand, I'm guessing what they changed is the rubber gaskets which 
you must be able to replace with something of your own with a bit of work.  I 
think it would be worth trying one out anyway.

I've pitted nankings (after cooking them a bit) with a foley food mill before 
making jam out of them.  You have to be a bit careful not to crush the seeds 
thru the screen, but I really hate making jelly and throwing out half my 
cherries as pulp waste.

 
Sarah 
zone 3
Edmonton, AB


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 From: Dan Nave <nave1@comcast.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 8:40:38 PM
Subject: [NAFEX] Cherry Pitters
 
I expect to have some Carmine Jewel cherries next year and in the years to 
come.

What types and brands of cherry pitters have worked well for people?

I may end up with some Nanking Cherries as well.  Can they be pitted?

Dan


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I'm not sure what you consider upper Midwest, but the entire state of
Michigan at least has been plenty wet enough all summer and fall. Just
got 1.5 inches of rain yesterday and there is a flood advisory. I
don't have numbers like Jerry does, but I'd guess we're around 20%
over an average year on water. Luckily, the only time there was too
too much was in April.

-matt
z5 se MI

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 10:28 PM,  <Jwlehman@aol.com> wrote:
> In a message dated 11/29/2011 10:12:35 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> nave1@comcast.net writes:
>
>>
>> Are you guys in the upper Midwest going to get out and water your orchards
>> so you don't loose half of your trees this year?
>>
>> Just asking...
>>
>> Dan
>
> Hi Dan,
>
> Our YTD rain fall is nearly 49 inches with another month to go. Normal
> annual rain fall here is about 42 inches. I just tiled part of my persimmon
> orchard the first of this month. I checked the output of the 4 inch exit 
> pipe at
> noon today and water was running out over 2 inches deep at the end. That is
> a whole bunch of gallons per hour!!
>
> Jerry
>>
>>
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