Grinding equipment for suburban area has a wide variety of uses. With it, you can grind coarse herbal food, break fruit into juice, create combined mixtures for and animals.
Often such mechanisms are quite expensive. But, there is always an option.
1 Types of crushers for a farm site
Before you do this or that, you should clearly define the type of raw material that it will process. Raw material has a different structure and degree of rigidity, respectively, and grinding equipment will differ in a number of features.
Branch shredder - an indispensable utilizer of plant waste
According to this criterion, there are:
- apple press;
- grape crusher;
- bone crusher;
- universal chopper (for example for).
Of course, this is not the whole list. options. But listed machinery can process most of the agricultural products, and very easy to make.
1.1 How to make a grass chopper with your own hands?
The electric device for processing hay and grass crops does not require special skills. For its manufacture, there are enough improvised materials. The mechanism consists of a hopper for raw materials, a grinding drum with several knives, a crushing mechanism, a special sieve, an outlet channel and an electric drive.
The whole manufacturing process looks like this:
- First of all, you need to take care of the electric drive. An engine with a power of 800 W or more is suitable as a power plant. More powerful models will give a smaller degree of grinding.
- The second point is the manufacture of the drum. For the walls of the grinding chamber and its base, metal with a thickness of 4 mm is suitable. The height of the drum must be at least 10 cm, the width must be at least 30. A hole is cut in the bottom of the grinder for connection with the drive.
- Next comes the base with a pallet and a hopper for raw materials. They can be made from tin or from a galvanized metal barrel.
- As a cutting element, metal plates (2 or more) are used, which are connected to the drive disk by means of long bolts and sealing washers. If the length of the bolts allows, you can make two levels of knives, which will improve the crushing.
- A do-it-yourself homemade hay crusher ends with an outlet pipe. It is best for him to use polymer pipes from water supply or sewerage. They do not corrode and fit in diameter.
Before actively using the device, it must be carefully examined, then all bolt fasteners are tightened and welding joints are checked. Only after this is the first launch carried out. Large straw is suitable as a test raw material.
2 How to make an apple crusher yourself?
A do-it-yourself apple crusher will make it easy to process fruits to a homogeneous raw material, from which it is easier to get juice later, or use it to create combined feeds. All apple choppers are based on a roller crushing mechanism.
As a working body for such a device, a steel cylinder with a length of 40 cm and 20 cm in cross section is suitable. Along the entire length, diagonally, stainless steel screws or self-tapping screws are screwed in. In this case, it is better to wind symmetrically in both directions of the cylinder.
The working body is installed on a flat polished board, or on an inclined drain made of tin. It is better not to take galvanized tin, as it can interact with apple juice. The cylindrical press is mounted on the shaft with the help of bearings. As a drive for such a device using a washing machine motor. Its power is quite enough for fruit processing. The shaft is connected to the engine by means of an automobile belt mechanism.
If apples will be used in the food industry in the future, a homemade crusher can be made from environmentally friendly wood materials.
In this case, a working cylindrical organ made of beech or aspen will be used. It is mounted with bearings on a rectangular frame. Screws are screwed into the drum, as in the previous version.
A special bunker is installed on top of the cylinder. Its peculiarity lies in the fact that three vertical walls located perpendicular to the surface, and one stands at an angle. This ensures an easy descent of apples under the crushing drum.
The axis of the toothed drum shaft is brought out, where the handle is attached to it. Such a crusher can be made from a grinder. In this made mechanism will process the raw materials automatically. The withdrawn axis is attached to the grinder drive. High speed of the device will evenly spin the shaft, which will ensure continuous work. A container for receiving processed products is installed below the device.
2.1 How is a do-it-yourself grape crusher made?
Making a grape crusher yourself is not so difficult. There are homemade crushers for grapes with a jaw mechanism, or using a hammer as a working body. In more difficult variant roller crushing is used.
As a working body here rubber rollers will be used to wring clothes from washing machines like "Tavria" or "Riga". You can buy them at almost any flea market or on the Internet. Six guide lines are drawn along each roller. Holes with a cross section of 1 cm and 0.5 cm in depth are made along the entire length of the lines with an interval of 0.5 mm.
The next moment is the most difficult - it is necessary to make two gears for the diameter of the rollers. It is better to entrust this process to an experienced turner.
Next is a bunker for the device. It is made of two wooden and two tin plates, in which the bottom is narrowed. wooden plates installed at an angle, and tin vertically. Two holes are drilled in tin plates at the base, and plates with a welded tube are bolted. The diameter of the tube allows the bearing to be pressed into it (preferably 202). On the one hand, a roller is attached to the bearing, on the other, a gear is put on.
At the end of the installation, the rollers in the base of the hopper should be located with a clearance of 3 mm. As a basis, we take any wide surface(wooden is the easiest to use) and cut a hole under the lower perimeter of the bunker. The motor is used as a drive washing machine. Belt traction is better to take from there. The belt is put on with one side on the engine wheel, and the other on one output of the shaft axis. In this design, the gears will spin in different sides and independently tighten the berries.
This type of grape crusher does not handle waste as well as the destemming roller grape crusher, but has a simpler design.
2.2 Bone crusher and universal grinder
A useful addition to the house will be a garden one, which is suitable for wood chips, bones, solid waste. The device includes the following components:
- power frame;
- working body from saws;
- protective cover;
- bunker for raw materials;
- electric motor.
As a power unit, a gasoline or electric engine is taken. For rough materials, you can use the walk-behind tractor drive. The next step is to create a cutting body. To make it will take 10-15 circular saws with a diameter of at least 6 cm.
All saw blades are assembled together on an axle whose diameter depends on the saw hole. A plastic washer is installed between each pair of saws (can be cut from any polymer plate). Such a gasket will prevent the saws from sticking together during operation. On the sides, the cutting body is reinforced with washers or welded. A pulley is attached to the axle. And in general, the cutting body is ready.
The power frame is welded from 4 corners. An axle with saws is attached to one edge. For this purpose, bearings are used, mounted in clamps, which are attached to the frame by welding or bolts. A casing is installed on top of the cutting unit. It is made from sheet steel. Three walls are located in a vertical position, and the fourth has a slight slope towards the base of the frame. A hopper is put on top of the casing, which is also made of sheet or galvanized steel. The hopper is attached to the casing with bolts for ease of maintenance.
Next, the engine is fixed on the frame. A belt drive disk is put on the pulley and attached to the engine disk. For convenience, the system can be equipped with a control system or tumbler. Thus, you get your own. Suitable for, beets, bones, food waste.
A homemade apple chopper is necessary for those who have a large apple orchard and want to prepare a lot of healthy and tasty juice for the winter without much hassle. It is not so difficult to make a device, and the power and functionality is in no way inferior to store-bought counterparts.
A homemade device will save not only money, but also time.
A finely chopped apple is much easier to crush, and it gives many times more juice. One of the main advantages of the device is the possibility of obtaining a homogeneous apple mass.
In addition, the device has the following advantages:
- In a short time allows you to process a large amount of fruit,
- Waste-free production: after processing, only a little cake remains,
- The device minimizes the physical work of a person,
- Practicality and reliability
- You can process absolutely any number of apples.
Homemade device to general list adds benefits such as:
- Minimum production costs
- Ease of repair and replacement of defective parts.
Making an apple chopper
metal
A do-it-yourself apple crusher is made from materials that are in almost every household, and not so many tools are needed for work.
It is better to start manufacturing by studying the drawings, they can be easily found on specialized forums.
The drawings will help to get an idea about the fastening of parts, dimensions, features of the device. Usually the crusher is made of wood, metal or metal, but with wooden parts.
The first step is to take a sheet of metal, from which steps are made on a lathe for the subsequent mounting of bearings and a steel shaft. With the help of a milling machine, eight faces are removed from the shaft, and then small notches are made in the shape of a triangle on the entire surface of the shaft with a grinder.
The body is most often made from the frame of a vertical washing machine, with a wall thickness of at least two millimeters. The lower part of the sides must be slightly bent so that there is a small gap between the walls and the installed working shaft. For better fastening shaft and its free rotation, it is better to use a bearing torque mechanism, which is available in any circular machine.
The next step is welding from corners or metal profile solid frame, and the manufacture of base boards. It is necessary in order to be able to conveniently put buckets for the finished apple mass. When the frame is ready, proceed to assemble the control panel. It consists of a toggle switch to start and stop work. A handle and several rollers are attached to the frame from below - this will make it easy to move the device. To upper corners the frame is bolted to the frame. If you use the frame of the device without a support frame, then under the pressure of the apples, the bottom and walls of the case will begin to deform. The engine is attached to the body from the side, and covered with a reliable casing.
As an engine, you can use a motor from a washing machine or vacuum cleaner.
from wood
A wooden model is easier to assemble than a metal model.
An important point - the tree must have water-repellent properties. The bunker for loading apples is made of three horizontal and one inclined walls. This design will make it easier to fill apples into the device. The main working element of a wooden crusher is a shaft, which can be made of very durable wood or metal. Screws are screwed into the shaft - the caps will play the role of working teeth, which chop the apples. To increase productivity, the screws are arranged in a spiral.
The working chamber is also made of durable boards. The size of the chamber is selected individually based on the planned number of apples for processing. For greater convenience, the working chamber is installed on a special stand with legs. One side working chamber cut a hole for the exit of the finished apple mass, under which a container is installed.
You can put the shaft into operation using conventional drill without drill. The axis of rotation is brought out of the working chamber and the tip of the drill is mounted on it. Such a device will allow the shaft to rotate at high speed, which will ensure good performance. The crusher is ready!
Apple and pear trees grow on the plot of almost every Russian summer resident or gardener. Someone does not think about their varieties and simply harvests every year. Someone, on the contrary, plants specific species in order to obtain fruits for certain purposes.
Rarely harvested for consumption original form. After all, they cannot be stored for a long time, retaining their qualities. Apples and pears most often become the basis for making jams, jams, liqueurs and juices.
Everyone loves juice. However, those of them that are presented on store shelves do not contain the most useful additives. And to find a natural product, you need to work hard and pay a lot of money for it. It is much easier to be sure of the naturalness of the juice by making it yourself.
In this article we will talk about apple choppers, their features.
Description
Of course, you can always go to the store household appliances and purchase an electric juicer or food processor. But it requires considerable costs. You can build a hydraulic chopper with your own hands using the tools that are available in your garage.
First, let's talk about the main advantages of this device.
- First, as already noted, it is quite cheap way to get juice at home. Secondly, with the help of this equipment you can save time. Large quantities fruits are processed in a short time.
- Thirdly, this method of pressing is the most profitable, because it allows you to get almost all the juice that is contained in an apple. The amount of waste is minimal.
- Fourthly, a homemade chopper will allow you to save not only money, but also own forces. After all, it requires the slightest physical effort from you.
- Fifthly, with the help of equipment, you can quickly put into use the surplus crop.
- And finally, sixth, due to its simplicity, the chopper is endowed with strength and reliability. If for some reason it still fails, you can always fix it yourself with the help of improvised means.
There are three types of apparatus, depending on the materials from which it is made:
- wooden;
- metal;
- combined.
However, specific materials do not play a big role in the operation of the shredder. The main thing is that they are of high quality and able to withstand the necessary load.
How to do
Now let's move on to the main thing - assembling the device at home. First, prepare the materials and tools that you will need. We warn you right away, you will need a lathe and milling machine. Of course, few people have them in their personal household, but one of your friends will definitely be able to help you. Machines do not require large amounts of work. You will need welding machine and "Bulgarian", they are much easier to get.
First of all you will need a metal sheet d80 mm from stainless steel. Steps are made from it to exit gear shaft from under the bearings. For pre-treatment sheet and will need lathe.
The next step is the manufacture of that same shaft. This is where it comes into play milling machine, with which you need to remove eight faces. Experienced engineers recommend making triangular notches on the teeth. This should improve productivity. For this work, a simple grinder is suitable.
Drawing for the manufacture of a gear shaft on a milling machine
Important milestone assemblies - manufacture of the case. The most suitable and often used basis for it is the outer case of a Soviet washing machine with vertical loading. They were made, as a rule, from stainless steel, and the wall thickness was one and a half or two millimeters. good parameters for the future grinder.
The base must be divided into four equal parts. Now the welding machine comes into play to turn the individual parts into a single body. But before proceeding to welding the side fragments, the lower part of the sheets should be slightly bent so that there is a gap between the wall and the shaft.
The toothed shaft must be well fixed in order to rotate smoothly. For these purposes, simple bearing assemblies are used.
The scheme of the finished crusher for apples
The crusher needs a strong support frame. It is usually made from strong wooden planks. A base is attached to the bottom of the frame, on which the waste container will be located. To attach the crusher to the base frame, use metal corners welded with a welding machine.
The engine is the heart of the electric grinder. The motor can be purchased from specialized electronics stores. And you can use the node from the same old washing machine, provided that it is still working.
The main thing is to install the electric motor so that splashes and other processed products do not fall on it during the operation of the chopper. For the correct operation of the motor, it must be equipped with a remote control that regulates the operation process. It is a simple mechanism with a button to turn the electronics on and off. You can also buy a remote control at an electronics store.
By the way, many gardeners note that home crushers are often more reliable and more powerful than electronics from manufacturers. And you can cook with their help not only juices, but also wines.
How to upgrade
Home shredder is quite simple and easy to use. However, there are several ways to improve the operation process.
- Mobility. Not in all areas you can take your own for the crusher comfortable spot. Someone has to move it often, and the design weighs a lot. To facilitate this task, screw the rollers to the frame. It can also be equipped with a handle. Together, these fragments will provide easy transportation.
- Strengthening. During operation, the crusher body may bend. This can be avoided by bolting it to the top corners of the frame.
- Convenience. To ensure it, it is recommended to tighten a special belt. It can be fixed with a special bolt for clamping, as well as by the main block along the guides.
- Spatter reduction. It will give you a lot of problems. As already mentioned, the electric motor must be protected from liquid ingress. To do this, use the widest dishes. In this case, the frame should be slightly lower so that the products do not fall from a great height.
You can find drawings in various reference materials and specialized Internet resources. They will greatly facilitate the assembly process and reflect the improvements of the device.
How to care
Assembling a chopper is a complex process. If you did everything right, then the hardest part is over. However, this does not mean that the device will not require anything else from you. To ensure correct and quality work The shredder needs regular maintenance.
During operation, the crusher is constantly dirty, waste is flying in different directions, but it is easy to clean it. It must be washed thoroughly. Pay Special attention on the hard-to-reach places. Bacteria and molds that accumulate there can get into the juice, causing it to spoil quickly.
And don't forget to unplug the grinder from the mains before cleaning. After washing, the device must be completely dry.
The process of assembling a home chopper is not an easy task. You need to have skills, engineering thinking, and a variety of tools and materials at hand. If you manage to make a chopper yourself, then every summer and autumn you will be able to get natural juice from apples and other products right on your backyard.
For details on how to make an apple chopper with your own hands, see the video below.
The house I'm renting stands on a plot with several apple trees. The trees are old and tall. Apples are hanging - you can't reach them. You can’t even get everyone from a ladder-ladder.
It is not necessary to wait for full maturation. Apples themselves fall to the ground according to the law of attraction. Any worms and wind help.
Carrion is not stored for more than a week. Broken places rot. Worms are fattening.
Cooking jam requires a huge amount of sugar. And takes a lot of time. And more than one bucket of apples is poured.
Here's to squeezing juice from apples. Freshly squeezed juice without sterilization in the refrigerator will stand for a couple of days.
And if it starts to ferment, add a little sugar, but under the shutter. You look, and here the wine turned out for the new year!
You can, of course, buy a factory juicer. Then squeeze it into filled cabinets in a cramped kitchen, drag around when moving.
And here in the yard there is a garage, a bunch of wooden boards. I also bought all sorts of jigsaw drills for work. Self-tapping screws in the garage are laid out on the shelves.
It remains only to file, drill, twist. So this is my favorite thing!
I climbed into the Internet, watched videos on YouTube, who made what. Lots of homemade apple crushers and juice presses. It seems nothing complicated.
Bought a new two ton car jack and mounting tape from galvanization.
I didn't have time to take pictures while I was assembling the accessories, so I'm only showing how it works and works.
I warn you! If you are an esthete and a lover of beauty, it is better to fall in love with. Squeezing juice in the garage is an unsightly sight.
Apple crusher
I pick apples and wash them with water from dirt. First of all, I crush apples in a homemade crusher.
The crusher drive is a small drill with a power of 350 watts, which is enough to crush whole apples.
Apples are poured in small portions into a bunker made from scraps of laminated chipboard and ground by a drum. The hopper itself is simply placed on top and is not attached to anything, which makes it easy to remove it for cleaning.
The work table is a piece of laminated worktop (these remain after inserting the sink into the kitchen furniture). A hole was cut in the tabletop, 60 × 40 mm pine bars were screwed on both sides of it.
In turn, oak planks are fastened with self-tapping screws to pine bars. Holes were drilled in oak planks for a pin on which the crusher drum was mounted. No bearings are used.
The drum is glued together from four pieces of beech board 25 mm thick (an old shelf from the pantry). Boards glued together acrylic adhesive. The resulting beam 100 × 100 mm is slightly rounded with a planer. Then a hole was drilled along the axis and the drum was glued onto a 10 mm diameter stud.
I put the stud with the drum blank in place, securing the long end of the stud in the drill chuck. When you turn on the drill, we get, as it were, a lathe. The drum rotates along with the pin, and using a stand from a bar and a chisel, we give it the shape of an almost perfect cylinder. Having machined the drum, I screwed 25 mm self-tapping screws into it. Self-tapping screws protrude from the wood by about 10 mm.
After the first crushings, the planks were warped due to getting wet and one seam was torn. I had to re-glue and additionally scroll the entire body of the drum with self-tapping screws 70 mm long.
Fifteen to twenty minutes of the crusher, and we already have a bucket of crushed apples, we can move on to squeezing the juice. The frame for wringing is assembled from boards and bars, in places on self-tapping screws, in places on studs.
The lid of the putty bucket serves as a tray for the wringing basket. Of course it would be better to use right size a basin with a flat bottom, in our case we simply tilt the entire frame to drain the juice.
Place the basket on the pallet. The wringing basket is made of slats 20×35 mm fastened together with a perforated galvanized mounting tape. The gaps between the rails were set by eye about 1 cm.
Initially, the basket was about 40 cm high, now it is about 25 cm. At this height, a third of a bucket of chopped apples is placed in the basket.
To filter the juice, we put ordinary gauze folded in half in the basket.
Pour crushed apples into the resulting gauze bag.
The free ends of the gauze are brought together and twisted together.
A piston of two circles of beech board (the same one from which the drum is made) is placed on a bag of gauze. Initially, the piston circles were glued together, but they also warped and the adhesive seam broke. Since everything works in this form, it makes no sense to glue warped mugs.
Juice begins to run even before the piston is pressed down. We tilt the frame so that the juice flows into the substituted bowl. Slightly push the piston by hand. Juice is gone!
We install a two-ton car jack on top of the piston. The jack rod rests against the upper crossbar of the frames reinforced with a strip of metal (to distribute the load).
We tilt the frame for draining the juice into a bowl (we support it with a specially trained rail) and swing the handle of the jack. The process is underway full swing. We squeeze the piston with a jack, wait a bit, we squeeze it again. We give time to drain the juice. For the time being, we can sit down, relax and crack nuts with a homemade nutcracker.
After several spins, instead of a lid, we fit a cropped putty bucket with drilled hole for plum.
As a result, in twenty minutes a bucket of chopped apples turns into 4-5 liters of juice. Apple juice, squeezed out with your own hands with the help of simple homemade devices. What a yummy!!!
Everyone loves homemade apple juice because it is not only tasty but also healthy. But where can you get real apple juice, without chemicals and preservatives, you can hardly buy it in stores. The only solution to this problem is to make your own homemade apple juice.. However, in order to get it, you need to overcome a number of small difficulties. To make your job easier, you will need an apple chopper and juicer. It is thanks to the chopper that you will spend a minimum of time and effort on getting homemade apple juice. In this article, we will look at how to make homemade chopper for apples.
The chopper can be purchased at a store or on the Internet, but real craftsmen will make this unit themselves and spend a minimum of money. A chopper is necessary for crushing apples into small pieces, if the apple is well chopped, then it is easier to crush it, and the juice yield is much greater. It is believed that the more homogeneous the mass after grinding, the easier it will be to squeeze the juice.
What are the advantages of an apple crusher:
- For recycling a large number apples it takes a minimum of time.
- Virtually no waste. All the juice is squeezed out of the apples and a small amount of cake remains.
- To construct home shredder, will need minimum cost.
- Everything is reduced to a minimum physical effort.
- Processing of small batches of apples which is most suitable for household use.
- Reliability and practicality equipment.
- In the event of a malfunction, repair is carried out independently which again saves money.
In order to independently design an apple chopper, you will need a basic set of tools that every owner has. In addition to tools, you also need materials, if they are not on the farm, then you need to make a purchase.
We make a chopper for apples with our own hands, a drawing and diagrams
Choppers can be different types, some are metal, others are wooden, and still others combine both materials. But the main thing is not what the crusher is made of, but how it works.
Combined apple chopper
First we need a sheet of metal, stainless steel, d 80 mm. From this blank we make steps for the shaft exit and for bearings. Work is carried out on a lathe.
Next, we need a milling machine to make a gear shaft. As shown in the drawing, we remove 8 faces. To enhance the crushing effect, we take a grinder and make triangular notches along the entire length of the teeth.
As a housing, you can use a washing machine, namely its outer part. The washing machine must be top-loading stainless steel with a wall thickness of 1.5-2 mm. After we cut it into four parts and get 2 end and 2 side parts. We put all the parts together, making a box, and weld it. Before finishing the welding of the side parts, we bend the sheets of metal a little at the bottom, making a small gap between the working shaft and the chopper wall.
In order for the shaft to rotate smoothly and be well fixed, we use conventional bearing assemblies that are present in circulars. From the corners we cook the support frame. The base of the car is made of wood. The plank base is located below, since containers are placed on it to receive the outgoing mass from the grinder.
To create a control unit, we use special ballasts, basically it is a button responsible for turning on and off. The belt is tensioned by fixing it with a special bolt for clamping and by moving the body along the guides. It is necessary to fasten the handle and rollers to the frame, which increase the comfort of using the device, and allow you to independently transport the chopper to any place.
The crusher body is bolted to the upper corners of the frame, which eliminates pressure bending as the apples have their own weight. To reduce splashing, a wide basin is used, and the frame is made low.. The electric motor is placed on its side so that liquid does not get on it.
1 - housing, 2 - stiffening angle, 3 - working shaft, 4 - bearing boxes, 5 - belt drive pulley, 6 - belt, 7 - electric motor, 8 - frame, 9 - rollers, 10 - control unit, 11 - transportation handle , 12 - bolts for fastening the body with stiffeners
This crusher is made with my own hands, practically does not differ from the factory one, due to its performance and technicality. In order not to buy a motor, you can use the motor from an old and unnecessary washing machine or other equipment. Chopper powered by electric motor, used for crushing apples, not only for juice, but also for wine. Such a crusher will always come in handy on the farm. After one passing through the crusher, even the hardest varieties of apples turn into a monotonous mass, which can be loaded under a press and squeezed juice.
To get a good juice yield, after crushing, the mass must lie down for several hours, then when pressed, the juice will quickly leave itself.
Caring for apple choppers
If you made an apple chopper with your own hands, then taking care of it will be as easy as shelling pears. The most important rule is cleanliness. Wash the unit thoroughly after each use.. Even all hard-to-reach places must be washed and cleaned. There should be no apples, because their remains can start blooming, and when the machine is started again, the bloom will fall into the mixture, and then into the juice, which will lead to its rapid deterioration.
Before washing, be sure to disconnect the appliance from the power supply!
Do not leave the grinder outside in the rain. Moisture will not only rust the metal, but also damage the engine. If your crusher is made of wood, then moisture is also contraindicated for it.. After each use, unplug the grinder from the socket, wash it well and hide it in the room.
Conclusion
In order to enjoy delicious apple juice in summer and winter, it is enough to make a homemade chopper and squeeze out the juice. Making an apple crusher is very simple and fast, plus you will spend a minimum of money. improvised materials, old washing machine and you already have own chopper for apples. With this device you can grind not only apples, but also pears and other fruits. An apple chopper will become simply an indispensable thing in the house, make just a little effort and your work will be rewarded.
