[SEL] Happy Birthday Patrick - Cider mill

[Mick DeMaria]

   Our group restored a cider mill last year. Fun project!! It features 
a hydraulic press and conveyer to transport the apples to the grinder. 
The orchard owner said it was originally steam powered and later 
converted to electric. We are told it is one of several that were built 
by an inventor in Bristol,CT around 1901.

  Here are some "Before" pictures:
     http://www.oldengine.org/members/demaria/ciderpress/
Here it is in action at our fall show in Haddam,CT:
     http://www.oldengine.org/members/demaria/tvf/


  Mick DeMaria





Keith Kinney wrote:
> Well today is my birthday too and while I didn't get an engine I did get 
> some really neat old iron.  My dad made arrangements with my uncle go 
> get my grandpa's old cider mill for my birthday.  He picked it up and 
> surprised me with it Wednesday night.  Needless to say, I was thrilled!
> 
>  It was made in 1869.  I can remember in the mid 1960s as a small child 
> helping my grandpa throw apples into the hopper and make apple cider.  
> After my grandparents deaths my uncle ended up with mill.  It has sat in 
> his old barn, which the roof blew off, for the past 15 or so years.  The 
> wood is all rotten but other than missing the had crank it is all there 
> and in pretty good shape.  Dad and I unloaded it yesterday and 
> disassembled the mill.  Pictures can be seen here:
> http://www.herculesengines.com/Cider%20Mill/index.htm
> 
> One interesting thing.  Several years ago fellow list member Glenn Karch 
> had given us the metal parts for an old cider mill he had found is his 
> in-laws woods.  Another good friend of ours had a restored cider mill 
> that we were going to borrow to use as a pattern to rebuild the mill 
> from Glenn.  Well a few months ago our friends house was totally 
> demolished by the tornado that came through Evansville.  He called me 
> and ask if we could store the mill, a couple of engines and an antique 
> tractor until he could get his house and barn rebuilt.  We picked the 
> stuff up and have it stored in our barns.  Would you believe that his 
> cider mill is the exact same brand and model mill as my Grandpa's.  It 
> will make the rebuilding of the wood frame of the mill much easier.  We 
> plan to simultaneously restore both mills.
> Keith
> 
> Keith Kinney
> Evansville, Indiana
> www.herculesengines.com
> 
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