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Fruit pickers? LurfysMa 01-22-2007
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Posted by LurfysMa on January 22, 2007, 3:21 pm


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-With-Handle-GT0715/dp/B000H5QLDI/sr=1-5/qid=1169494769/ref=sr_1_5/105-9100559-5530826?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. 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-the-Twister/dp/B000BBCUD8/sr=1-1/qid=1169494769/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1_s9_rk/105-9100559-5530826?ie=UTF8&s=hi&s9r=8a1080b60d117c11010d28da17020204

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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Posted by on January 22, 2007, 8:33 pm


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-With-Handle-GT0715/dp/B000H5QLDI/sr=1-5/qid=1169494769/ref=sr_1_5/105-9100559-5530826?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. 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-the-Twister/dp/B000BBCUD8/sr=1-1/qid=1169494769/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1_s9_rk/105-9100559-5530826?ie=UTF8&s=hi&s9r=8a1080b60d117c11010d28da17020204
>
>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?


Try posting on <rec.garden>

Posted by LurfysMa on January 23, 2007, 12:48 am


On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:33:59 -0800, aspasia wrote:

>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-With-Handle-GT0715/dp/B000H5QLDI/sr=1-5/qid=1169494769/ref=sr_1_5/105-9100559-5530826?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. 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-the-Twister/dp/B000BBCUD8/sr=1-1/qid=1169494769/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1_s9_rk/105-9100559-5530826?ie=UTF8&s=hi&s9r=8a1080b60d117c11010d28da17020204
>>
>>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?
>
>
>Try posting on <rec.garden>

Ok, thanks.

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Posted by thetiler on January 22, 2007, 9:53 pm



LurfysMa wrote:
> 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. 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.

We pick fruit off our trees also.
You can't force the fruit. If it doesn't want to let
go, it's not ready so you should leave it. When
the fruit is ready to pick, there will be plenty that
will "let go" of the branch.

thetiler


Posted by LurfysMa on January 23, 2007, 12:50 am



>
>LurfysMa wrote:
>> 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. 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.
>
>We pick fruit off our trees also.
>You can't force the fruit. If it doesn't want to let
>go, it's not ready so you should leave it. When
>the fruit is ready to pick, there will be plenty that
>will "let go" of the branch.

It may not be ready to let go, but it's ready to eat. I'm not going to
go out every day and test each orange. I'm not picking for Harry and
David. If I wait, many of them fall onto the ground.

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