Pleasant Hill Grain's Fruit Press & Apple Grinder

Fruit Presses & Apple Grinder Sold Separately

Apple Grinders & Fruit Presses from Pleasant Hill Grain

~ Remember real apple cider? ~
Perfectly sweet, perfectly tangy, fresh, natural apple cider: It's ecstasy to the taste buds, and spectacularly healthful. These days, the flavor and nutrients of commercial cider are ruined by heat treatment and preservatives, but you can still enjoy the real thing — and making it is easy and loads of fun! Apple cider & fruit presses from Pleasant Hill Grain will press your apples quickly and conveniently, giving you the freshest, healthiest, most delicious juice and cider to enjoy. Cleanup is super easy, and our fruit presses and grinders require virtually no maintenance. Capacities from 4 to 9-12/ gallons.

Solid & efficient Designs: These machines are durably built for long and trouble-free service, and they're designed for fast work, giving you maximum juice yield with the least time and effort. Every press is backed with a full one year manufacturer's warranty.

Easy to use: Just drop your fruit (in a mesh liner bag) into the pressing basket and turn the ratcheting handle. As you operate the easy-turning ratchet handle, fruit juice flows freely through the slats and down into your juice container. It's that simple!

Apples free for the asking?! In case you don't have your own orchard, hundreds of millions of delicious apples go unharvested every year and most are free for the asking! Help put an end to the waste... harvest bushels of fun and gallons of delicious apple cider!

Great for grapes too! Our presses function equally well as wine presses for grapes, as well as for other fruit, quickly producing maximum juice yield with their fast, convenient, efficient designs. Presses are available with our without the fruit grinder (the grinder is highly recommended when squeezing apple cider.)

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Cider Press Apple Presses

The Maximizer™ features a smart design that produces a lot of juice quickly and gets the maximum yield from your produce. Its simple and robust construction will last many years.

Apple Cider Press Steel

Frame swings open for fastest, easiest reloading.



Press frame construction is full commercial duty, with 3/16" tubing walls and 3/4" solid steel connector pins.


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New! Maximizer™ Commercial Grade Fruit Press

The Maximizer™ Fruit Press: Premium features, construction & capacity

Commercial quality, larger-capacity presses: Whether you have a few apple trees or a full orchard or vineyard, the Maximizer provides the top quality construction and superior design features you want. To call the Maxmizer's construction stout would be an understatement... this is the Sherman Tank of fruit presses. Its frame has the strength to withstand tremendous pressure, and the acme-threaded forcing screw and solid ratchet mechanism make it easy to create that pressure. (The forcing screw is 1" diameter on the 5.3 gallon model & 1-1/4" diameter for the 9.5 gallon model.) With a Maximizer press you can quickly and easily develop pressures that will send other presses to the scrap heap. Higher pressure = higher juice yields and more production in less time.

Fast tip-off design: With the pull of a single pin, the Maximizer's upper yoke tips fully out of your way for full basket loading-and-unloading access. The speed and convenience of this design makes everything work faster and easier.

Best materials: A frame made of 3/16" wall thickness steel tubing combines with a solid oak pressing basket and stainless steel pan to make the Maximizer a press you'll enjoy using for many years.

Features of the Maximizer fruit press:

  • Reversible ratchet turns large-diameter Acme screw & creates extreme pressure with little effort
  • 3/4" high strength solid steel handle
  • Commercial duty construction of 3/16" wall thickness steel tubing
  • Full stainless steel juice pan with 1" drain pipe
  • Heavy duty solid oak basket
  • Upper frame yoke tips 90° to side easily for full basket access
  • Two models: 5.3 gallon or 9.5 gallon pulp capacity
  • Wide, low stance for great stability
  • Fruit press works equally well for apples, grapes, other fruits, wine press
  • Assembles in minutes without tools
  • Cleans up fast with a garden hose
  • Full 1 year warranty
  • Basket dimensions: 14.75" H x 11.5" OD x 10" ID (inside diameter)
  • Includes steel-reinforced hardwood pressing plate
  • Modular design disassembles quickly without tools for easy handling


    Maximizer™ Fruit Press Specifications
    .Model
    20 Liter Model (5.3 Gallons)
    36 Liter Model (9.5 Gallons)
    Frame Dimensions
    36" H x 19.5" W x 15.25" D
    38" H x 19.5" W x 15.25" D
    Basket Dimensions
    10.5" ID x 14" H
    12.5" ID x 17" H
    Net Machine Weight
    86 lbs.
    108 lbs.
Warranty: Full one year warranty

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Maximizer Fruit Press 20 Liter: $399.99 Qty:
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The 20 liter (5.3 gallon) Maximizer press ships by FedEx Ground and we prepay the shipping to you. The box is heavy (a good thing), but the machine can be handled in parts and assembled for use without tools.
Maximizer Fruit Press 36 Liter: $549.99 Qty:
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The 36 liter (9.5 gallon) Maximizer press ships by truck and we prepay the shipping to you. After your order is placed, we will call you on the phone to make shipping arrangements. The box is heavy (a good thing!) but the machine can be handled in parts and assembled for use without tools.
If you'll be squeezing apple cider, be sure to see the optional companion Apple Grinder here.
Mesh Bag for Fruit Press: $11.99 Qty:
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These high strength pressing bags have holes approximately 1/16"/ They keep pulp from squeezing out between basket slats, enabling you to get the maximum juice yield from your produce. Disposable cotton cheesecloth is the traditional material to use for this purpose, but these mesh bags are much handier and they're very durable — one bag will last more than a season in normal use. They also speed the pressing process. Size is 15" diameter x 20" tall and easily fits pressing baskets of smaller dimensions. We recommend getting two or three in case one gets torn by a twig in the pulp, chewed by a critter in the off season, etc.
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Closeup of handle ratchet mechanism. See insert photo of reversible ratchet pin shown removed and inverted for illustration.
View downward into pressing basket. Steel and oak pressing plate is lying at bottom. Large loop handles make removal easy.
Optional mesh pressing bag shown in fruit press basket. Bag prevents pulp from squirting out through slats under high pressure.

A Key Companion to Your Fruit Press
If you'll be using your fruit press for apples, you will need to grind your apples first or you'll leave quite a bit of juice in the apples. Click here to jump to the apple grinder that will give you the most juice from your apples!


See additional fruit pressing & fruit harvesting accessories below.

After four years of experience with Pleasant Hill Grain, I can't think of another company of any kind that I can recommend as highly as yours. Your service is outstanding; it's a real pleasure doing business with you. – Lori Itano, Wheaton IL

Ratchet Cider Press Apple Press

Country Estate Fruit Press

Cider Press Pressing Apples

Kids love to make their own apple cider — and with this quality cider press they can, thanks to the powerful leverage provided by the ratchet drive design.

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Optional Maximizer™
fruit grinder: See it here

Mesh bag for cider press

Optional mesh pressing bag in basket
Country Estate Apple Cider & Fruit Press (5.2 Gallon)

Built with skill and quality construction for generations of enjoyment. The Country Estate fruit press is solidly built, with quality features that ensure enjoyable use and long service. Pressing apple or grape juice is so easy, and the product so delicious, your only regret will be that you didn't discover this fun pastime years earlier!

Features of the Country Estate fruit press:
  • Ratchet turns easily on 1" diameter Acme screw & exerts high crushing pressure
  • Compact design stores easily
  • Durable frame & pan of high strength steel with beautiful food-grade finish
  • Strong hardwood pressing basket has factory-applied sealant
  • Pressing basket splits in two parts in 10 seconds for easy cleanup
  • 5.2 gallon fruit capacity
  • Fruit press has wide, low stance for great stability
  • Fruit press works equally well for apples, grapes, other fruits, wine press
  • Assembles in minutes without tools
  • Cleans up fast with a garden hose
  • 1 year manufacturer's warranty
  • Basket dimensions: 14.75" H x 11.5" OD x 10.25" ID (inside diameter)
  • Includes split hardwood pressing plate and six hardwood pressing blocks
  • Dimensions: 36.5" H x 18 " W x 18" D exclusive of handle
  • Weight: 49 lbs
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Country Estate Fruit Press 5.2 Gal: $299.99 Qty:
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If you'll be squeezing apple cider, be sure to see the optional companion Apple Grinder here.
Mesh Bag for Fruit Press: $11.99 Qty:
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These high strength pressing bags have holes approximately 1/16" and keep pulp from squeezing out between basket slats, enabling you to get the maximum juice yield from your produce. Disposable cotton cheesecloth is the traditional material to use for this purpose, but these mesh bags are much handier and they're very durable — one bag will last more than a season in normal use. They also speed the pressing process. Size is 15" diameter x 20" tall and easily fits pressing baskets of smaller dimensions. We recommend getting two or three in case one gets torn by a twig in the pulp, chewed by a critter in the off season, etc.
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Key Companion to Your Fruit Press
If you'll use your press for apples, you will need to grind your apples first or you'll leave quite a bit of juice in the apples. Click here to jump to the apple grinder that will maximize your juice yield!

See additional fruit pressing & fruit harvesting accessories below.

Dear Pleasant Hill Grain: I've received my fruit press and found it to be well made and really much more than I expected. This is a top of the line press that will give me many years of service, and the help & courtesy demonstrated by your people were greatly appreciated. — Richard Chartier, Clarkston MI

Apple Grinder Fruit Grinder
Maximizer™ Apple Grinder shown with optional hopper extension. The Maximizer™ grinder is an exclusive product of Pleasant Hill Grain, with superior features found on no other fruit grinder.

Mazimizer Apple Grinder
Stainless steel teeth grind apples to pulp, maximizing the yield from your fruit


Optional extension for grinder hopper
Maximizer™ Apple Grinder

If you'll be using your fruit press for apples, you can get much more juice from your apples if you grind them first, before pressing. Our exclusive Maximizer™ apple grinder uses stainless steel teeth set into a large hardwood rotor. It has a plate and holes for mounting to your sawhorse or similar support. Some people prefer to grind into a bucket and dump into press, others prefer to mount the grinder higher and grind directly into the pressing basket. Mounting so you can grind into a bucket allows one person to press while another grinds, speeding up the whole operation. The grinder is self-feeding, so you don't need to push apples downward.

Maximizer™ Apple Grinder Features:
  • Stainless steel teeth set in hardwood rotor
  • Cast iron body
  • Large heavy flywheel for smooth operation
  • Beefy wood handle
  • Stainless steel lower chute
  • Solid stainless steel axle rod
  • Self-feeding design eliminates fruit-stomping
Warranty: Full one year warranty

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Maximizer Fruit Grinder: $217.99 Qty:
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Hopper Extension for Maximizer Grinder: $39.99 Qty:
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This handy hopper extension for the grinder allows you to load up more apples that will self-feed into the grinder.
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After four years of experience with Pleasant Hill Grain, I can't think of another company of any kind that I can recommend as highly as yours. Your service is outstanding; it's a real pleasure doing business with you. – Lori Itano, Wheaton IL

I'm so happy to have discovered Pleasant Hill Grain. Not only do you have an excellent selection and variety of quality products, but the prices and customer service are great. No hype, just good old fashioned integrity and service. My hat is off to your company and its principles. I'll recommend you to my friends and acquaintances. – Catherine Arias, San Jose CA

Fruit Pressing & Fruit Harvesting Accessories







Wells & Wade fruit picking bags

Wells & Wade Fruit Picking Bags

These comfortable & durable fruit harvesting bags are constructed of waterproof Cordura nylon that's resistant to mold, mildew and abrasion and has a strong steel upper frame and leather edge protector. They're excellent for any type of fruit and have 2" wide, adjustable straps and an 8" x 14" padded suede cushion extending down from rear edge of top opening that protects both the picker and the fruit. The draw ropes are adjustable for bag depth and unhook easily to empty fruit through bottom. Two sizes are available. Top opening of each measures 9" x 18". The medium bag (color blue) holds one bushel (42 lbs.) of apples. Its opened length is 28". The larger bag (green color) holds 1-1/3 bushel and has an opened length of 34". Either bag can be shortened for smaller capacity by simply re-knotting the tie ropes. Wells & Wade is the Cadillac, the quality standard of the fruit harvesting business. Also on this page see the shoulder strap pads.

Harvesting Bag W&W Std.: $42.99 Qty:
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Reinforced PVC fruit picking bag
PVC Fruit Picking Bags

High capacity & adjustable: This fruit harvesting bag is very durably constructed of tough PVC coated fabric, essentially the same material as commercial truck tarps are made of. It will hold up to two bushels of apples (80 lbs!) but you can also easily adjust the rope to move the fold-line up, so you have a one bushel bag — or anywhere in between. Adjustable strap is an extra wide 3.5", with soft cotton backing. Opening loop is steel reinforced, and the side that rides against user's hip is flexible for comfort. Unloads easily by unsnapping one hook.

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Wells & Wade fruit picking bucket
Wells & Wade Fruit Picking Bucket

Wells & Wade padded bucket: The Wells & Wade fully-padded picking bucket is similar to their picking bags, but features a full polymer shell for overall rigidity, and full laminated foam liner, including padded bottom. Capacity is 2/3 bushel. Opening measures 11" x 15" and height (with bottom closed) is 11.5". Weight is 5.4 lbs. Includes adjustable 2" cotton strap. Also on this page see the shoulder strap pads.

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Shoulder Strap Pads

Shoulder Strap Pads
Strap Pads for Bag & Bucket Straps

Pamper your neck & shoulders with these slip-on strap pads. They come as a pair, and each pad has two black straps (just one is visible in photo), through which you pass the strap of your harvesting bag or harvesting bucket. Works on straps up to 2" wide. Really makes a difference after a few hours!

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Mesh Bag 15x20

Mesh pressing bag in basket

Mesh Press Basket Liner Bags

These high strength pressing bags have holes approximately 1/16" and keep pulp from squeezing out between basket slats, enabling you to get the maximum juice yield from your produce. Disposable cotton cheesecloth is the traditional material to use for this purpose, but these mesh bags are much handier and they're very durable — one bag will last more than a season in normal use. They also speed the pressing process. Size is 15" diameter x 20" tall and easily fits pressing baskets of smaller dimensions. We recommend getting two or three in case one gets torn by a twig in the pulp, chewed by a critter in the off season, etc.

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Fruit Picking Pole
Fruit Picking Pole

Holds 4-5 apples & reaches to the top of most trees w/o ladder. Illustrated at left. Has 8' wooden pole that stores in two sections. Basket is made of lightweight but strong steel with tough plastic coating.

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Cider Book: Making, Using & Enjoying Sweet & Hard Cider

Step-by-step instructions, recipes, illustrations, countless tips, plus interesting bits of the history & lore of cider. You get them all in the 188 page book Cider, by Annie Proulx & Lew Nichols. It's a great book, the ideal companion to your fruit press, and shipping is free when purchased with your fruit press!

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We ordered your apple press for my Dad for Father's Day and he loves it! We have 160 Fuji apple trees so we get a lot of use from it. Thank you for your prompt and friendly service. – Katherine Angle, Arroyo Grande CA  
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