Pick fruit/veg from high tree

[jax_maxit]

Hey.
My friend Steve lives in a suburb and has a tree. Steve wants to get the fruits or veg from the top branches of this tree and went online looking for answers. He saw what is called a fruit picker for sale online. It looked pretty neat. There must be some for sale in SA?

Options Steve considered: borrow a ladder, lean it against the tree and use a home made fruit picker that uses a broomstick and some loop at the end. He drives a small sedan (boot does NOT open into the back seats) and most of the fruits are more than 20 metres high.

He wants some sort of folding poles made of strong material that he can attach to each other and extend its reach. Sort of like the one plumbers use for unblocking drains.

Any suggestions or places where one can get fruit pickers in Jhb/Pta?

 

[mh348]

Hire a monkey

 

[Kosmik]

Just use a pool pole with a modified head.

Or buy some pipe, thread the ends ( in and out ) and make your own

 

[jax_maxit]

Thanks Kosmik. Looks like Makro and Mica have pool poles. Also cheaper than fruit pickers on Amazon.

 

[gregmcc]

Buy Steve a chainsaw

 

[Kosmik]

Thanks Kosmik. Looks like Makro and Mica have pool poles. Also cheaper than fruit pickers on Amazon.

We used to have a really massive mango tree. Old man just took a aluminuim pole, about 4m in length, built a wire basket on the end with some hook type fingers and we used to pick our tree like that.

Nothing as sweet as a Durban string mango when picked from the very top of the tree, all that sunlight.

 

[deesef]

20 metres? I don't think that you will have any way to control a 20m pole that is actually light enough to lift!

 

[The_Ogre]

 

[Kosmik]

20 metres? I don't think that you will have any way to control a 20m pole that is actually light enough to lift!

I doubt he has trees 20m high. 20m is 5-6 storeys.

 

[deesef]

I doubt he has trees 20m high. 20m is 5-6 storeys.

He said; "and most of the fruits are more than 20 metres high." I have no reason to call him a liar

 

[Grubscrew]

Vegetable tree

 

[grok]

This sounds like a task suited to a drone..

 

[3WA]

I doubt he has trees 20m high. 20m is 5-6 storeys.

Our avocado tree is that high! I pick from the fourth floor balcony.

 

[Fulcrum29]

Cherry picker

 

[upup]

The eskom workers use something called a link stick, it is 2 meters long, but can extract about 10 meters high, and is light weight.

 

[Kosmik]

Our avocado tree is that high! I pick from the fourth floor balcony.

My father used to hammer planks into our mango trees trunk so he could climb it like a ladder Best view in durbs he used to say, smack in the berea/musgrave suburbs too.

 

[Hemi300c]

Are you sure 20meters?

 

[jax_maxit]

Thanks for the suggestions. @3WA, you're spot on! It is indeed an avo tree. Unfortunately it's a suburb.

Just goes to show how urban some Mybb members are, that people don't believe trees can be that high.

 

[Kosmik]

Thanks for the suggestions. @3WA, you're spot on! It is indeed an avo tree. Unfortunately it's a suburb.

Just goes to show how urban some Mybb members are, that people don't believe trees can be that high.

PICS or GTFO! with the 9gag precision tool of measurement for scale please.

 

[NewPerspectiveStudio]

i would just use those braai thongs mate , or have a kid and send him up the tree kids love climbing stuff for "important tasks"