On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:21:48 -0800, LurfysMa
wrote:
I have an orange tree that produces decent oranges. Every year, I have
a battle getting the oranges from any but the lowest branches.
Two years ago, I bought one of those pickers with the wire basket,
like this one:
http://www.amazon.com/Fruit-Picker-W...6?ie=UTF8&s=hi
It works more or less, but there are problems. The claws can be
difficult to use, especially if the fruit is close to a branch or
another orange. On my tree, the oranges tend to cluster. It doesn't
really grab the fruit so I have to pull down pretty hard in order to
be able to apply any twisting motion at all. Sometimes I end up
tearing off part of the branch. This shakes the tree and causes other
oranges to fall and get bruised.
I just did another search and the only thing I came up with is this
one:
http://www.amazon.com/Fruit-Picker-t...28da1 7020204
It looks like it might work better.
Has anyone used it? Care to share experiences? It gets good reiews on
Amazon.
Does anyone have a better idea or pointer?
This isn't going to answer your question...
I came across this old patent for a Fruit Picker not too
long ago while searching for something else:
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT174760
I have no idea if it was ever built/produced, but it does
look like a unique design. If you can make stuff or know
somebody who can, this would be a nice design to build from.
--
Leon Fisk
Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b
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