On 27/08/2014 12:11, Martin Brown wrote:

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Get one of the extensible pole apple pickers that's how I get mine off
the higher branches. Is it a cooking, cider or dessert apple?


Dessert.

Buying a picker for one aged tree might not be a very good use of funds.
I might make one though, they aren't complicated.

fx looks online Oh, a tenner for one that reaches to 2.4 metres. Hang
on, I can reach that far without!

Andy