Saturday my family got together (they started while I was taking goats to the sale barn) and pressed apples.
I think there were about fifty buckets of apples. By the time I arrived, they had a nice assembly line going.
It started with washing the apples.
The little farm had was a good help with that.
Then the apples were cut into quarters.
After that, they got poured into the press.
You use a drill to turn the mechanism that chops the apples into smaller pieces.
Then the lid is put on it, and it gets pressed. They keep turning it and forcing more and more of the juice out.
It comes out the bottom and gets collected.
Once it goes into the house, it gets pasteurized.
Then it can be put in containers.
I think they said the final total was about thirty-five gallons of apple juice.