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Fruit pickers?
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? -- |
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