Mike Lyle wrote:
JennyC wrote:

"Jaques d'Alltrades"

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All I know is that Brambly are bugger to pick. Huge high trees

and

really large fruit, so that you have to run up and down the

ladder

a lot :~(

Yes, if you let them run away with you. Our trees (when I was an
anklebiter) were no more than fifteen feet, with a trunk diameter

of

around twelve inches at the bases.

We used to run up and down them in plimsolls.

Rusty

These were not my trees........I used to work in the orchards in

Kent

back in the 70's :~)
Enormous wooden ladders, canvas backbags, did my shoulder in :~(
Jenny


It occurs to me, in my Professor Branestawm mode, that there may be a
solution. I have no idea if it would work, but what about a long
narrow tube of cloth, like a skinny giant's stocking, with a hoop of
wire, cane, or withy at the top? You take the hoop end up the tree
with you, leaving the floppy end in a wheelbarrow; drop each apple
into the tube as you pick it. Would the cloth slow down the apple
enough to prevent bruising? Would there be a way of stopping the
whole thing blocking up at the bottom and leaving you clutching a
floppy ten-foot stick of apples?


That sound just like the idea that the airlines were trying, to get
passengers out. Sadly they didn't think of the wheelbarrow at the
bottom as that'd be funny.

It's worth a try though! Your idea, I mean.


Richard.