Build an Apple Press
For less than £20 I built my own apple press. Here's how you can build an Apple Press for yourself.
Firstly I bought 3 metres of 6x3 softwood and sawed it into two 1 metre and 2 50 com sections. I suggest you do it slightly different and try 2x90cm and 2x60cm.
Then I drilled 8x 16mm holes for dowelling to hold it all together.
heavyweight Coach Screws would have been equally good (or to be honest, better), but they would have added a tenner to the final cost.
My dowels were old aluminum tubes (from those cheap portable plastic greenhouses) with 15 millimetre wood dowels inserted inside them for added rigidity.
An old car jack (inverted) will act as a press. The two logs are just there to show where the jack sits.
A wooden tray similar top this one shown below will sit on the bottom of the press.
On top of it a stacked series of muslin (or net curtain) bags will hold the apple pulp and a flat plate at the top (an old wooden chopping board) will transfer the pressure of the jack down onto the apple pulp. The tray will fill with juice very quickly, so have a hole in one corner leading to a suitably large container.