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A couple pictures of fresh fruit cranberry harvest today.
A lot slower than your combines...
Grant
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Tony, We do the water harvest thing too.
Those pickers are actually made in Mass. They are called Darlingtons. You can still buy then new today, though mine are probably older than I am. Anyone want to guess what a new unit costs?

Most all fresh fruit from the west and east coast is picked with some form of this machine. In Wisc. its a special water harvester for fresh (slush or paddle wheel I believe they call it) - The fruit would then need to be dried.

Regular water harvest is for processes fruit - juice,sauce, etc...
G
 
Did Furford pickers ever get back to the east coast? They were built by Carl Furford, in Grayland, Washington, and were used by everybody out here, at least when I was involved with the industry in the '70's and 80's. Don't know, maybe everything has changed by now.
 
cbbc,

Nice photos. Love cranberries - eat them right out of the sack. Interesting... I too, thought they were harvested water bog style.

So you are saying that bags of "fresh" cranberries are picked dry like this? And only berries for juice, or jellied/sauce are picked wet?
 
I know of some Furford pickers here in Mass. I spent the better part of one rebuilding about 15 of them. I don"t know how old they were but they had Clinton engines on them. jF
 
Furfords are in use in Mass. Hotflashjr posted a pic last year of a field with them - probably modified.
I had a friend rebuild a coupled Darlingtons with the Clinton engine last year...he got tired ofthem not starting and replaced with Hondas...
G
 
Yes, likely the fresh fruit in the bag is dry harvested...unles they come from Wisc.
Fresh fruit isn't the most interesting thing to watch being picked - kind of like watching 5 guys mowing the lawn...
I will post more pics if something interesting comes up. When water harvest starts I will post as well. Grant
 
Looks like a very labor-intensive process. I can see why they are so expensive in the store. Can a small farmer still make money on cranberries, or are most of the berries done by huge operations?
 
Looks to me like you need to hook at least a couple of those things together and throw a seat behind them...!!

Maybe go a step further and add a little more hp and a cart to haul them.
 
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