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["Thomas Olenio" <tolenio@sentex.net>]

Hello All,

If anyone has plans for a homemade, manual berry harvestor it would be  
interesting to see them.

In looking at images of large, commercial, small fruit, harvesters you  
cannot see how they work.

Thanks,
Tom

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 06:48:29 -0500, Martha Barrett / Scott Weber  
<bluestem_farm@juno.com> wrote:

> Maybe this is a silly suggestion, but is there any way to put something
> (drop cloth, cafeteria trays, whatever) under the bushes to catch the
> fruit, and then shake them?  I'm guessing that's how it's done on a large
> scale--with machines, the same as raspberries.
> Muffy
> On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 07:15:45 -0500 "Jim Fruth" writes:
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