Super-efficient picking system

This prototype of a self-propelled apple picking system (pictured from the front) has four tubes at the rear that transport apples from the picker up to a scanner that sorts the culls from the packable fruit. This photograph was supplied by Oxbo. Good Fru Only 30 percent of an apple picker’s time is actually spent picking the fruit. The rest of the time, the worker is climbing up and down the ladder, moving the ladder, or walking back and forth to dump the fruit into the bin. So to orchard and vineyard owners Vince Bryan, Jr., and Vince Bryan III, […]