I understand that scratting is really important especially with manual presses - see below. I do have access to rent a professional setup but £60 a day and I only have enough apples for one press in their kit. For that price I can buy a manual press - but not a scratter.
Are these manual scratters worth the £100 or could I make one? I've seen people use waste disposal systems and garden mulchers and franky it seems it shouldn't be that hard to get something tough enough to chop apples.
That said, I've wondered why you can't just put apples in a sack and jump on them (or get a hammer) to smash them effectively.
Any advice at this kind of scale? I understand I'm on for 35-50L of juice so a couple of barrels of cider... we could've had 10X as many apples but I don't have the need for 200L cider

