Molasses making 2016

[Stihlbro]

Our family and friends get together first weekend in October and make molasses. Some call it sourgham or sugar cane. I hope to document this event this year and share how we do it for those that don't know.


Here is the cane patch.

 

[Stihlbro]

The cane is stripped in the field, cut and we use hay wagons to transport to press.

 

[Homelite410]

Man I which I could come n help! What powers the press Joey?

 

[Milkman31]

You taking orders and do you ship??

 

[sgrizz]

I'm eager to hear and see how this is done stihlbro . Thanks for doing this,

 

[Stihlbro]

Here is modernized press. We use the tractor and the post hole auger as the drive.

 

[Stihlbro]

Screen the juice thru metal collendar and then a burlap material.

 

[Stihlbro]

It's 12pm and this is about 60 gallons on the fire.

 

[jakethesnake]

Good *s-word sir

 

[Stihlbro]

Being this is a ope forum. Here are two good saws.

 

[Stihlbro]

 

[Homelite410]

Awesome Joey, we always pressed with a steam engine!

 

[Stihlbro]

70 gallons have been on the fire now. Skimming off gooey stuff.


Got a little break and fixing to make cider

 

[rattler]

I remember back when I was a young boy my dad and paw and uncle made lases I love the stuff Thank you for posting this takes me back to younger days lol.

Mike

 

[Stihlbro]

Sorry got late, I was getting tired. Still on the fire and getting close.

 

[Stihlbro]

This is where we left it last night. Out of the pan and into pots to sit over night and cool.

 

[CR888]

Awesomeness OVERLOAD!!

 

[Stihlbro]

A few more pictures from yesterday. Good group of people showed up. Pile of the stalks reminants. Picking apples.

 

[Ryan Browne]

So, from the juice that's pressed from the stalks, how much needs to be cooked off? In other words, if you press 100 gallons of juice, how much molasses do you end up with?

Cool pictures, by the way. I'd love to check out an operation like that sometime. Thanks for sharing!

 

[Stihlbro]

The ratio works out to about 8 to 9 gallons of juice to 1 gallon of syrup. We had roughly 80 gallons yesterday. It was on the fire for by 10am and came off after 10 pm. The pan only holds 60 gallons, so as it cooks down, we were adding more. Had trouble with the fire as the wood was wet from rain the day before.