Ready for Crush! (a little early)

[Rocky]

Hi Mike,
Duct tape and plastic sheeting! Are you kiddng me?! "In for a penny, in for a pound!" Here is what you need:
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It solves your set up and clean up problem in one swell foop.

 

[ibglowin]

Might just have to pull the trigger on that if my Rube Goldberg apparatus fails to contain it!

 

[ibglowin]

OK, What is a mixed jack and grape?

Some kind of a new drink?

there will be mixed jacks and grapes coming out a little- past that

 

[Scott B]

Nice Setup Mike.
You may want to put a trash can under the end where the stems come out.

 

[ibglowin]

What's crazy is it's not that far away. I picked up the grapes last year on Aug 31st..........

 

[Wade E]

With a big enough Tote you wont need the stand. The only thing about the stand IMO would be convenience and better stability possibly.

 

[Rocky]

Mike, If I had your money the first thing I would do would be to burn mine and then I would buy the stand. Maybe your daughter (pictured with you on the site) would get it for you on your birthday. It would be perfect timing with the harvest.

 

[ibglowin]

The reason Los Alamos has the most (per capita) people retiring as millionaires is because we are all "cheap at heart"! I will make this do this year and then reevaluate as they say in the "bidness"....

 

[grapeman]

OK, What is a mixed jack and grape?

Some kind of a new drink?

there will be mixed jacks and grapes coming out a little- past that

Mike grape jacks are just like the jacks used to play the game, except they are pieces of grape stems. And I think you know what a crushed grape looks like.


The plastic curtain has been used many times before. I built my own stand that has the chute the metal ones come with. Mine has been wood, but I will likely get a metal one soon.

 

[Runningwolf]

JACKS....wow thats an oldie but goodie. When was the last time you saw anyone play that game. Probably went out with tiddlywinks. Sorry didn't mean to Hijack the thread.

 

[Rocky]

JACKS, yes that does take us back to a simpler time before computer games and such. We used to spend hours going through "onesies" "twosies" etc. It neveropccurred to me that the stripped grape cluster resembled jacks.

 

[grapeman]

Rocky it isn't the whole stipped cluster. They are small boken off subclusters that are the jacks. Study a cluster of grapes in particular the stem system and it should become apparent what I am referring to.

 

[Rocky]

I understand, Rich. It is like the jack, which had six projections all at 90 degrees from each neighbor. Four of them had a little rounded end that kind of look like that part of the cluster after the grape has been removed. Incidentally, when I was a kid I used to always see a "torch" (as on the Statue of Liberty) when I pulled the short stem off a grape and held it upside down.