Homemade Sugar Cane Grinder

hey guys and gals homestead prepper and what you're looking at is my attempt to make a homemade King grinder and I have scoured the Internet and I haven't seen any plans or anybody's talked about making one so I'm just going to kind of try and make it by the hip and I know a lot of y'all are saying well why on earth would you want to make one of those when you can just buy one well I looked into buying a cheap one and they're like eight or nine hundred dollars and I read somewhere that they're used overseas to press squid or something so I don't know if that's true or not but they don't look very heavy-duty and eight or nine hundred dollars it's just a little bit more than I want to pay for a fresh-squeezed cup of cane juice with a little bit of lime in it so I looked at some other ones on the internet and they were a little more industrial you know they were like three thousand dollars so there's a guy I know who lives here locally in Plant City and he knows someone who has one in their yard and he inquired about they they don't want to sell it so and and I don't blame them and I'm talking about one of the old antique ones they don't want to show that I looked on Craigslist and they have some those big older ones that say deep rebuilding for fifteen hundred and twenty four hundred dollars and there again that's just a little bit out of my price range so as you can probably imagine I'm going to be trying to make this build as low cost as possible and what I'm going to get started with is the rollers and these are just some mass pipe that somebody was getting rid of and I cut it up and the idea and these are about five and a half inches in diameter as I'm probably going to fill these with concrete and I've got two marked in four locations and I'm going to do and that that's that's a one-inch cold rolled steel rod that's leftover from the dump trailer project is I'm going to put that in there and I'm going to tap these with this 3/8 inch tap right here and I'm going to take some all thread and I'll be able to run that in there and I'll probably be able to Center this rod and then I'll probably tack weld it do it on both ends down here and pour it full of concrete and it should make a pretty substantial roller and I'll probably put some grooves in it and I'm hoping I can crush some cane now the drill press you see right here my dad is letting me borrow that so I didn't have spent any money on that now I did buy the spice from Harbor Freight it was on sale and I use the coupon so I think I've got about sixty dollars invested in that but everything else I'm pretty much have on hand and we'll see we'll see what the final cost is and see if we can even be successful in grinding up our sugarcane so let's get started okay I got all these tap down 16 holes and this is the last one right here and I use some cutting oil which I like to use any old I have available which this compressor all worked so anyway okay I'm using this stuff right here this is a Home Depot it's actually an aquarium sealant but it is its food grade so I'm going to be putting it around the ends of those okay I'm ready to make some concrete up and I'm going to pour it down in here and what I've done is I didn't want to make any holes in my work table so I just got an old board here and I just drilled a hole in it and this thing is just going to set in here just like this and I got the bottom on so I'm just going to pour that and we'll pour this one same way I wanted the whole little closer to the table to hold the weight okay I got the concrete poured in here and I leveled it out with these shims that I got from my dad and it's not perfectly level but you probably noticed this fan here and no that's not to make the concrete drive faster what I'm getting out of that fan is it's giving me just a little bit of vibration here and I'm hoping it'll pack this stuff in here really well that may not work but it's a very low cost option plus I got some more projects and this is going to keep me cool alright I've put some Cypress in here to give it some strength and I went with Cypress because it resists rot in decay and I didn't want to put pressure treat in there and have my cane use with a pressure treated flavor and I didn't want to put just regular white wood in there and have it rot out after a while but basically what you see here is what you get it's going to work something like that I'm going to put a hand crank over here on this end and this one's probably just going to be like an idler if I have to I will make some gears and put these on the end over here and I've already centered drilled out the holes there's a lot of crap in there right now and got them all drilled out in position and there's not much of a gap here as you can see but I will be able to route this out a little bit and there is room for adjustment and I'm going to be using 1/2 inch bolts that's the largest bolt I can put in there I mix the idea of using a quarter inch because I figured it would just snap off and I've got a self-locking thread here so that's where we're at now these bolts are a little stubborn I could hammer on through there but this is going to do less damage to the press okay I need to make a handle for my cane grinder and this is a handle I made and this you're wondering what this contraption is I made this be whitey that's before YouTube and what it is is a chainsaw sawmill but you can see how simply the handle works and I'm just going to make probably something a lot simpler than the Hat so let's do it okay I just tap that out it's in my one inch rule cold rolled steel this is a 3/8 tap you can see these two good ways right here on the bottom all the way through take it all the way which I would press this one compared to that one we're about the same size I bent the handle right here this is flat stock that's just something I have a memo hand you can see it's not that substantial but this is my crude handle if I had some heavier than the flat stock and a little bit longer I think this would this would work we're going to try something okay guys I'm not real sure about this but it just may be possibly the only cordless powered sugarcane grinder in the world that you're looking at right here so all right well I've tried to flatten out some of those wood wedges right there and the drill slips off of the head over there and you already saw what I did to my hand well I need to make something a little more substantial I would like to motorize this I think I could it would be a lot more convenient to do it that way I've looked for some pulleys I haven't seen anything what I wanted and gears I'm probably have to make those myself so well guys what you see is what you get right there the next step is go get some sugarcane and see if it'll if it'll grind it all right well here's my sugarcane patch and today is September 6 2014 and I got some that's 10 to 12 feet tall so we're going to whack it off do with one swipe I got my shirt paint over here and I've pulled the leaves off of it or whatever that stuff is and I rinse it off with a hose I'm not doing a full prep guys because this stuff really isn't ripe it's not really going to be really good until probably December or January so but I need to test it now instead of waiting till December January and find out that I'm having problems with the grinder so got that cleaned off here's the mess now this is what I was talking about it gets used for the seed King so I'm going to be chopping that off I don't know if that will grow or not but I'm probably not going to get much juice out of this thing anyway so I'll be putting this to the side and we're going to try and run those through that grinder all right I've made a much more substantial handle out of this angle iron I guess that's I don't know two and a half inches by quarter inch something like that and it really cranks on it but I tried to stick the sugarcane in there and it just it won't go the the gap in there's not big enough also I need some some ridges I think if I were to cut some ridges in this it would probably graph a lot better you know without having an actual grinder to look at it's very difficult to reverse-engineer it properly so I need to move these bolts here move these and for now I guess put a larger space in there and then I guess for the final squeeze you move them back so we'll see that's good that's good all right guys it was very difficult to try and film that and put the cane in there and turn it how to get mrs. H SP to help move the rollers and the problem is definitely it needs some groove put in here so we have some piece and it will grab so I'm going to call this part one and I'm going to call it for right now a success even though it's not working 100% at least I did get some juice out of it and it does work to some degree these are too far apart so they need to be moved back over but I've got some adjustment holes in closing I also want to say that this thing could probably crack corn if you had some kernels and you needed to be chickens or whatever I was talking to another guy today I was showing him a clip of this off my phone and he said it would make a great pasta thing for making your own pasta so I'm sure it has a bunch of uses and I'll reiterate again this is just the proof of concept so look out for part two

Channel: homesteadprepper

Views: 183,344

Keywords: cane grinder, sugar cane grinder, juicer, masher, juice extractor, prepping, off grid, tools, homemade, homemade grinder, sugar, cane syrup, ethanol, moonshine, organic cane juice, Energy, Power, sugarcane, florida sugarcane, homesteading, backyard gardener, gardening, low cost, diy, do it yourself

Id: WnBoKpNAtGc

Length: 13min 50sec (830 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 06 2014