Friday I finally was able to find one of these locally. Every year we get way more apples than we can eat, so we make apple sauce, pie filling, butter....ect. This year I thought it might be nice ttry and make apple juice or maybe even hard cider vs. sauce, etc.
So while searching craiglist I found an old press/grinder for the right price locally and got it. We wanted to give it a test run, so we bought some gravenstien apples that were ripe(ours are still green) locally from an orchard. 40lbs yielded about 2.5 gallons of juice. It was fun and worked quite well!Here are some photos of the apparatus which is a cool piece of engineering(why I posted this).