Fall has arrive , and apple season is in full baseball swing on my northerly Wisconsin farm . As part of my ongoingorchard elaboration plan , I ’ve introduced a new tool to my Malus pumila harvesting toolset .
connect my trustworthy apple chooser and bushel baskets is a newfruit - picking bucketmanufactured by Wells and Wade .
You might be wondering how one bucket can be skilful than the next . But “ bucketful ” really is n’t a thorough description of this particular detail .
We ’re not talking about a basic wooden field goal . We ’re talking about an sophisticated tool designed to make harvesting fruit well-off , faster and more well-to-do .
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Advanced Design
The canonic design is straight — it ’s a bucked form like the letter “ D , ” thoroughly padded on the interior to repress yield bruising . But with the release of two ropes , the bottom of the bucket opens downwardly .
Then a canvas chute spread to ease the easy ( and docile ) dumping of fruit into traditional basket .
The easy dumping feature is convenient , since this fruit - pick bucket is design to be worn , not carried . The bucket do with a criss - crossing duet of shoulder straps , so the bucket can be endure almost like a packsack at waistline spirit level .
Except the bucket does n’t have to ride behind you . It can be bust quite comfortably in front , placing it within easy compass while freeing up your hands to maneuver Malus pumila pickers and harvesting yield .
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Carry-along Comfort
At first , I assumed the bucket would be tiring to wear for extended period of clock time . In actuality , however , this has n’t been the typesetter’s case . I ’ve found it very comfortable and convenient to carry . Though I suppose it might get a bit tiring if I fulfill it to the rim . ( It holds about two - third of a bushel ) .
Due to a combination of recent hoarfrost and a crack - generative 2019 time of year , 2020 has been a dull year for fruit product on my farm . So my harvests on any given day have n’t been sufficient to meet my new bucket .
A full - content test will have to wait for another year .
But the carry - along nature of the bucketful has made it dim-witted for me to quickly take the air from Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree to tree in my orchard , harvesting a handful of apples at each locating . It for certain beats lug bushel basketful from one tree to the next !
I ’m jolly good at carry a basket of apples and multiple apple pickers all at once , but the way the wearable bucket frees up my hand is arguably its greatest benefit .
All told , I ’ve been glad with the initial test runs of my fruit - picking bucket . I ’m anticipating a banner class of yield production in 2021 as my unseasoned Tree mature into a more consistent bearing years .
I ’m already looking forward to giving my bucket a stiff physical exertion one year from now .
