No matter what press you buy all fruit must be crushed before you can press it.

When you see pictures of people treading grapes they are crushing them before they go to the press

Fruit must be crushed to a porridge like consistency.

You can crush small amounts fairly easily. Apples can be smacked with a mallet or soft fruits can be tackled with a potatoe masher.

For anything more than a couple of gallons of juice it's better with a crusher off us!

An inexpensive way of pulping fruit.

You attach the electric drill and it really pulps the fruit fast.

You have to be careful when using it, and use the correct bucket.

It will pulp 25 kg in about an hour.

Yep!

It's a plastic bucket. But it does fit the pulpmaster perfectly.

It's a bit iffy without the bucket but you can do it.

For crushing apples and hard fruits.

The blades really chop the aplles well but you really need to cut them in half first. Especially if they're hard.

This is the beast in action, Tricia at the helm!

Dimensions

120x50cm overall not including the wooden handle.

The base of this crusher is now in red painted steel. Not Zinc plated as shown

There's two rollers with a set of sharp hooks inset into them which grab and chop the apples.

Perfect for apples and pears

None of these crushes are suitable for fruit with stones.

Hopper size 50x750x30cm deep.

A smaller version of the crusher above. The hopper measures 40x40 cms. It's still big enough to cope with plenty of apples!

 As with all these small crushers it's best if the apples are cut in half before crushing.

The big boy!

Stainless and painted steel

The hopper measures 500x820x350 deep.

The rollers are 300mm across

This is the largest hand operated crusherand is suitable for grapes or soft stoneless fruit.

The hopper holds about 20 kg of fruit and will deal with subsatntial quantities of grapes. How many depends on the user!

Suitable for small vineyard use or bulk grape purchase from the wholesale market

Hopper measures 50 x80cm

You asked if these could be motorised! Here it is.

Nicely fitted in the Italian factory. The stainless hopper and knives make short work of apples and hard fruits with no stones.

Apples are still best if you cut them in half although it will take soft apples whole

The apple muncher. 1.35 kw motor. 1.8 hp.

Fast efficient apple crusher.

Runs off standard mains electricity, slightly smaller version of the apple crusher.