hey guys my name is jason with mount baker mining metals
and on today's video i need to give you a little bit of context a little bit of pretext
we build crushers right we crush all sorts of stuff we crush all sorts of weird stuff
i've crushed oyster shells bones raw chicken uh sintered metal blocks all sorts of ores
we've crushed replacement human body parts like fake knees and fake hips and stuff
but on today's video i'm crushing some apples i got an email from a guy from the uk who runs a
cidery and he saw some of our videos of our hammer mills crushing weird stuff and he thought it might
be a application recitery to crush apples for making apple cider so i'm going to take one of
our 16 by 12 gas-powered hammer mills and i'm going to take it out to a little apple orchard
i know we're going to crush up some apples and jim gets to see his apples get crushed and i am
gonna make some apple juice so let's get out to the orchard we'll get this hammer mill fired up
and we'll see if we can add crushed apples to our list of weird things that we've crashed so a quick
little run down in the mill here this is a 16 by 12 gas powered hammer mill see the honda honda
gas engine over there behind it it's got a quarter inch screen in there it's a quarter inch slot it's
about three inches long there you go that's the right direction and uh we're gonna be running with
hammers today i thought about putting some blades in there like shredder blades but we got hammers
instead so we'll use hammers and i'm gonna just dump the apples down the top the orange chute up
here it's gonna beat all those apples up and it's gonna come out the bottom that shoot right there
well i'm not an apple guy but here's some apples
they're pretty good so let's crush them up and make juice out of them
all right a couple buckets of apples here let's get these crushed up
so
oh holy moly that thing will crush apples i uh it'll it'll crush them way faster and
i can pick them i'll tell you that uh but let's take a look at our our apple mash here
this is this is what came out and uh it looks pretty pretty mashed up to me
pretty beat up it uh it's just dripping with juice you can see it just dripping off there
i don't i i think i think this looks pretty good to me
so jim there you go it'll crush apples well we know it'll crush apples so now i've got a a press
i bought this off amazon there we're gonna put the apple ground up apples in there i guess there's a
little cheesecloth thing i'm gonna put that in there and then i can manually screw that thing
down it presses the juice out it'll run out that little spout there so let's see how this works
well hey look at there we're juicing i'm not even doing anything i just dumped my my ma i think
it's called apple mash i dumped my mash in there and man the juice started pouring out of there
i don't have all my i wasn't prepared i don't have all my stuff set up here
boy we're just we got juice running everywhere here
okay i can't do it with with film at the same time hold on whoa we're about to lose it
wow there's a lot there's a lot of juice i didn't think i'd have
this much juice just for i mean i haven't even pressed anything yet
it smells good
oh oh that tastes good that's good stuff
let's see if i can figure out how to work this thing you must
what do you think you coil this bag around like that
i don't know i didn't read the directions
oh boy i didn't even i don't have a container
so i've got i've got over i've got over two liters right now and i haven't even pressed it yet
so that's two liters full up here and i got that much more
and look i didn't just i just pushed my hands whoa look at the juice run out of there
look at that
whoo maybe i should go in the apple juice making business
holy cow all right let's see yeah
now you're supposed to take these blocks
stack them in there kind of like that i guess
so here let me show you what i did i just kind of
stacked those blocks up and now i can screw that thing down and press that that juice out
there's a little there's a little design defect i can't
you're supposed to get this handle in there but i can't get my handle in there once it
goes down past the ring the ribs there but i think i can just hand squeeze oh yeah
oh man that's good juice
well i think we're at the point of kind of diminishing returns here
there's our mash down there and i don't know if you can get any more out of it i mean you
probably could but let's crush up some more apples and make some more juice i've got i've converted
into a five gallon bucket now so i'm i don't know a third of the way full already with those two
those two five gallon buckets for the apples so let's keep going so there's what it looks like
there's still quite a bit of juice in there let me run a couple more buckets through the hammer mill
and i'll just put it right on top of this and we can we can really get a good squeeze on here
so
okay here comes our next batch of apple mash
oh here comes the juice pay attention
man i was thinking i've i ran this last batch here
and so far all together we've done uh uh i don't know maybe 15 or 18 gallons of of apples
and four four or five gallon buckets that were you know four gallons full and uh you could do
all sorts of different fruit you could do grapes you could do cherries you could do pears you could
do i mean you could you could you can juice anything put it in there and we'll juice it
um and this is kind of cool i have i have a little bit of a confession i was not very excited to make
this video i didn't i mean i knew it would crush the apples but i didn't think it'd make this much
juice and stuff this is pretty cool you can come out to an old apple orchard put the mill
right in the truck and uh you know you can make apple juice right in the field you don't have to
haul it back or do anything it's all kind of self-contained and i mean if you're gonna do it
for real you're going to have to get a little better system than than this amazon thing but
um yeah it's pretty it's pretty cool and and obviously you know this is one of the things
that jim and i talked about on on email is uh this hammer mill right now probably isn't food grade
uh well it's not food grade and so he was talking about making you know stainless steel
step parts and and different hammers or blades or something and that's all stuff we can do we we can
we can make the the hammer mill out of whatever material you need whether it's stainless or or
whatever the design will stay the same so we can we can really kind of tailor the machine
to whatever you want to do with it but man look at the juice running out of there that is so cool
i did not i did not think we would have this much juice all right let's try our little squisher here
but yeah i think the the mobile
the ability to have it mobile where you can just drive around and
drive right up to the tree rather than having transport all the apples
or the pears or whatever i guess back to the crusher i don't know if that's an advantage or not
and we can make them you know this is a gas one because i wanted to bring it out and
crush it in the field but we make them electric three-phase so if you have a cidery or you know
a winery or something and you need to crush at your plant we can obviously make those as well
let's try this little thing here
oh yeah
now we're squeezing
so i don't know if this is the weirdest thing i've ever crashed
but it's fun it's one of those it's one of the most fun things i've crushed in a long time
just because you have a real world application i mean i you know i know what apple juice is
and i know where it comes from and so it's kind of cool a lot of the stuff we crush is for industrial
applications and it that you can't really
it's not very relatable whereas this is you know i
can go to the store and buy a gallon apple juice right now
or i can go out in the field and crush my own
man this is cool
okay well the total destruction is about 16 18 gallons worth of apples
we ended up with probably three and a half gallons worth of juice
and man that hammer mill that thing can crush some apples man that thing just
eats through them fast uh and then this this little thing is kind of cool i didn't i didn't
have real high hopes for it but it did the job we got all all four uh buckets where the apples are
in that thing right now and it squished them down to i don't know halfway so that that's pretty cool
that little thing the whole thing's kind of kind of a cool little deal
so that's how you crush apples with a hammer mill i think it i think it worked great and i think uh
that if if food grade isn't a concern you can use it just like that as an industrial machine
i think it's ready to crush apples if you need to make it out of stainless or alter it in some
way to make a food grade we can do that but man i think it's a crush and juicing machine crush
you guys tell me what you want to juice let's juice stuff i'm into
juicing now that's pretty cool it's always it's always fun to do something a little bit different
this is this is a unique sample for me and i had a lot of fun running the apples and then juicing
them so i hope you guys enjoyed the video and let me know what you think is this is this gonna
revolutionize the apple cider industry or is this kind of a fun little thing to do on the side so
thanks again for watching and we'll see on the next video