10 October 2014

How cherries are harvested. And walnuts.


Addendum: Here's a walnut harvest, with a hat tip to reader Wales Larrison:

3 comments:

  1. I've seen similar mechanical shakers used.

    Here's one being used for the Walnut harvest
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV6HsfOOwqg

    Note, since its hard shelled they let the nut fall to the ground, and then it is swept up.

    And for Olives
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi_mBQBtYSc

    In this case, note the use of a mechanical "reverse umbrella" fruit catcher. That speeds things up instead of having to have workers spread a catcher under each tree.

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    1. Thank you for the links, Wales. I've added the walnut one to the post.

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  2. Pecan trees are also shook for their fruit, I would expect other crops are also harvested this way..... just can't think of any others at the moment.

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