Oil press?
I had never seen one of these until today but I WANT ONE!http://cgi.ebay.com/Manual-Oil-Press-biodiesel-expeller-extruder-extracter-/350318834634?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5190a133ca
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Me too! it would be great for the colony. We could have sunflower and corn oil. Could also make castor oil, I think. I know it has to be cold pressed.
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Yeah, sunflower oil would be pretty easy I think, though I watched a youtube video and the sunflower oil was very dark but just imagine how much use this would get in a colony situation because unless...
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I think oil would keep better than lard, and sunflower oil is great for the skin. It's easily absorbed, so it's a good base for my salve. Hard to find it anymore, though.
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I just wish they weren't so expensive. The cheapest one that I saw was $120. Not sure I could get Phil excited enough about making oil to spend that much money on it, lol. But I sure would love to...
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No way could I justify that right now, but maybe when I get a real job. Probably not, I still haven't won the argument about a milk cow!Or a pig or goat!
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Yeah, I'll work on that pig and goat next spring when I have all the empty pens but then again I want to do at least 25 meat birds too so we'll see what I manage to fit in and how the raccoon...
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I wanted to put fence around the pond & raise a couple of weaned pigs there last spring, but it didn't happen. After all, I was working & we could afford to buy pork! See what happens when you...
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Wow! I didn't know such a thing for home use existed....I want one too.Woner how many sunflowers it would take to make a gallon of oil....if you could grow enough for your own use...and a little...
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LOL...now to answer my own question:http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library/oilpress.htmlThis site tells about a dehuller too...makes sense to me. I'd hate to have to dehull all those sunflower...
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The video I watched on youtube, they didn't bother to hull them. But like I said, the oil was very dark and maybe they just didn't know what they were doing.
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Ok, so I'd be happy just to be able to hull my sunflower seeds! Until there's a need to make my own oil, lol. I sure like to use sunflowers in baking, but they're too expensive (or do I mean I'm too...
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