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« on: May 19, 2013, 08:13:28 pm » |
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Has anybody used a sugar cane press? I was thinking about getting a hand operated one. How hard is sugar cane to grow?
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« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2013, 10:22:33 pm » |
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Shoot found out sugar cane is easy. I just wish I could find a motor press for less than a couple thousand dollars. This is just for one of my crazy ideas that is fixen to make my wife mad. But they don't look too hard to make. I will start looking for some gears, pipe, flat iron, and belts to attach a motor. I can redneck something that will make my wife mad until I show her how much I could have spent. I can just go buy some sugar cane for now so I can make a big mess now. I may be looking for a new place to live real soon  |
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« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2013, 06:34:56 am » |
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You plan on making syrup or moonshine?
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« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2013, 09:59:18 am » |
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I've never messed with sugar cane but when I worked for the railroad our tracks ran through thousands of acres of it in South LA. The wind would blow it down, and it would grow sideways along the ground. Come planting time, they burned the fields, and through stalks down on top of the ground, and next thing you know sugarcane is growing  |
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« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2013, 10:12:19 am » |
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heck forget the high teck presses and research the old type manuel presses that were powered by a mule or donkey . people give them donkeys away . no more than you will grow that is the way to go .. size it down and have it dog powered lol .
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« Reply #5 on: May 20, 2013, 09:43:55 pm » |
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You plan on making syrup or moonshine?
Maybe both  |
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« Reply #6 on: May 20, 2013, 09:49:45 pm » |
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It seems that starting sugar cane you lay cane down flat and it will grow. I don't really want to grow it as much as use the sugar cane juice to sweeten drinks. I am just playing around right now and maybe one day it will pay off or I will just make a mess like my wife said. I reckoned someone on here would know and could educate me. I did get a PM and maybe I can figure this out without making a mess. I go by a very old sugar mill every day and it got me thinking.
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