Mikael
Cousin of Cthulu
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SO as i had mentioned, wine making has been in our family for...YEEEEAARS....my grandfather does it..his uncle does it and who knows who taught him, lol, all i heard its been passed down quite few generations...well, when i decided i wanted to carry on the tradition, we needed to get our own stuff...im sticking to EVERYTHING THE SAME WAY as my grandfather has done so. of course, him being a very personal kind of guy, i cant talk too too much about what he does because i would feel that being a betrayal of trust. only a few things we are going to modernize on..and thats a regular plastic fermenter with a spigot on the bottom, someone mentioned they can be found *hopefully in 50 gallon sizes* if not...we are going to rig one up. and of course..a motorized crusher, lol. but of course whats making wine without a wine press!!!! 
so i was looking for wine presses and i found them online of course and the one i found that tickled my fancy was at leeners, the #40 crusher...for about 500 bucks i think *forgot* then i found they made a #50 and a store in Clifton NJ had it for 756 bucks...so i sold some stuff on ebay and got the money for it..when my best friend kept bugging me into looking at a wine press at some store him and his wife knows the owner of. so, 2 weekends ago, we went down to check it out..me still having the #50 press in mind to buy for 756...so we get there and the lady brings us into the back room, it wasnt on display nor was it publicly knowww this was for sale..and my jaw dropped....old school wine press, LITTLE DIRTY needs some work on it the basket is the same as the #40 however...14'' diameter INSIDE the basket....asked how much they would want for it..she came back with the price of 300 bucks....i was torn now, lol..so i called my grandfather up asking his advice, he said for that kind of money with that kind of press, you are just starting out..that is PERFECT for you..in a few years when you start making more wine, go for the bigger one, but for now..you will never get another opportunity like this..get it now!' lol so we did! me and my father do woodworking on the side, so we are going to build a new drip tray, a new crush plate that rests on the drip tray and going to build a brand new pressing cap as well. While i have already given the metal parts a small clean down...the entire press is going into big overhaul clean-o-rama via power wash at the end of august when we get all the equipment ready to the oncoming 2 bigs days in September and October. but for now, here is what the press looked like when we got it! its a leeetle dirty looking but i cleaned most of the muck off...i forsee it is going to be great! the sectet asmy grandfather always said the best wine is pressed slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwly, lol i cant wait!!!! SALUT!
-Mikael
so i was looking for wine presses and i found them online of course and the one i found that tickled my fancy was at leeners, the #40 crusher...for about 500 bucks i think *forgot* then i found they made a #50 and a store in Clifton NJ had it for 756 bucks...so i sold some stuff on ebay and got the money for it..when my best friend kept bugging me into looking at a wine press at some store him and his wife knows the owner of. so, 2 weekends ago, we went down to check it out..me still having the #50 press in mind to buy for 756...so we get there and the lady brings us into the back room, it wasnt on display nor was it publicly knowww this was for sale..and my jaw dropped....old school wine press, LITTLE DIRTY needs some work on it the basket is the same as the #40 however...14'' diameter INSIDE the basket....asked how much they would want for it..she came back with the price of 300 bucks....i was torn now, lol..so i called my grandfather up asking his advice, he said for that kind of money with that kind of press, you are just starting out..that is PERFECT for you..in a few years when you start making more wine, go for the bigger one, but for now..you will never get another opportunity like this..get it now!' lol so we did! me and my father do woodworking on the side, so we are going to build a new drip tray, a new crush plate that rests on the drip tray and going to build a brand new pressing cap as well. While i have already given the metal parts a small clean down...the entire press is going into big overhaul clean-o-rama via power wash at the end of august when we get all the equipment ready to the oncoming 2 bigs days in September and October. but for now, here is what the press looked like when we got it! its a leeetle dirty looking but i cleaned most of the muck off...i forsee it is going to be great! the sectet asmy grandfather always said the best wine is pressed slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwly, lol i cant wait!!!! SALUT!-Mikael
