Tuesday 1 September 2015

Down with the Press!

It's been on the cards for a while now, but with things progressing in the kitchen and the fact there was a genie lift on site, we decided it was time to take the cider press down...

Mike got to work removing the screws and main mechanism:


Then Steve and Steph brought the lift down to take off the load bearing of the oak:


After a few initial attempts knocking the steels and repositoning the arms:


It was decided that the safest way was to support the oak with a temporary strap:


This was much stronger and allowed the oak to slide down the steels with more ease:


An extra push:


 Unscrewing the strap support: 


And that's how you take down a chunk of cider press!


Now it's down we have a bit of work to do to turn in to a kitchen island, but the bulk of it is there now so another job (almost) done!

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