Perth, Western Australia - Kraut Pounders

[MissCC]

Hi! I hope I am posting in the right section.

I am looking for someone who would be able to make me some Kraut Pounders, like picture below. Looking for the cheapest option, of course. It would be an ongoing project. I would want 20 to start with. Can anyone help with this? Cheers, MissCC

[Sawdust Maker]

Interesting implement
sort of a dumpy baseball bat

I'd volunteer but the shipping would make it uneconomic

what dimensions are you looking for? and type of timber?

[tea lady]

they DO look interesting. So what do they do? Is it how you make sour kraut?

[Frank&Earnest]

I am pretty sure you will be able to find somebody locally. If not, the WW club of which I am a member does this sort of thing for fundraising. My guess is that they would be about 1/2 kilo each, so postage from anywhere in Australia would add about $1.70 each. Once you give the details as SM says, you can get precise answers.

[stuffy]

They'd be quick and easy to turn.

Getting the right timber, at the right price, would be the clincher.

I'll give you a quote if you can give size and timber type.

Steve

[RETIRED]

Normally about 11" long by 2.5" round out. Maple is traditional but have done them out of Tas Oak, not Vic Ash.

[KevM]

Thank you so much for the replies.

If someone could knock a few out at $10 a pop + shipping
if outside of Perth....that would be awesome. I have been
using a $10 pinewood rolling pin and it is ok but the base
is not wide and therefore not as weighty so takes longer.

I suspect that you may not find anyone prepared to make them for that price in anything apart from pine as the raw material cost in the better suited timbers will be greater than half your offered price.

[Frank&Earnest]

Yes, broadly, but it is very good at sucking pollutants out of the ground so it is often used for that purpose in soil rehabilitation projects. Given your stated purposes, be very careful where you get it from.Some European grooves have been classified as biological waste.

I have a club meeting tomorrow, so if you would consider radiata pine for $15 to your door let me know and I will propose it.

[hughie]

Here is the website that makes the ones I sent the picture for:
Kraut Pounder Products Maple wood. It shows an
image of the raw blocks (or whatever you call them) and the
turning.

Oh! is that what they are, I was thinking of something else......

[MissCC]

Thank you very kindly Frank & Earnest! Wow,that is a great
offer! I would take you up on that in a heartbeat however, I
have been fortunate that a local to WA has offered to run a trial.
If that does not work out, I will most certainly let you know
sooner than later!

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This is another type...made of poplar. It is very long because
these fermentation crocks come in up to 40litres +.

Is there an organic food oil that could be used safely to treat the
wood? The Kraut Pounder company wrote to me that they
use walnut oil, but that is fragile so I wondered if it would go rancid
and be harmful or does the wood really drink up all that oil completely?

Thanks!
Miss CC

[John T]

hi from john t
i would think leatherwood would be an ideal timber.but maybe a little bit expensive

[Manuka Jock]

Oh! is that what they are, I was thinking of something else......

A Kraut potato masher grenade perhaps ?

[swallow]

Ah yes kraut pounders, I remember them well. In our family they were known as OAK FENCE POSTS cut off at about four foot with a ten or eleven year old child firmly affixed to one end and the other end stuck in anyone of many twenty gallon red wing stone crocks. Up and down, up and down, thump thump thump until my arms felt like lead and there was NO reprieve as Mother and Grandmother shredded that green Horror and carried it down into the food prep room in the basement where the slave child labored.

The slave child still posses those stone crocks but now they stand in his kitchen filled with flour, sugar and things GOOD to eat.

To this very day the Slave child will not eat that stuff.

By comparison Oliver twist had it Good "Please Sir, I Don't want anymore".

[stuffy]

Here's a couple I did on the weekend. Only pine at the moment.
Small 260 x 45, large 450 x 85.
I've turned a bigger one from green Jacaranda, be interesting to see how it dries. Not quite half a fence post, but big enough to pound any size kraut.