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Cherry hook
Something more funny to finish with for today :
Here is my fishing hook to catch cherries !
A simple piece of iron wire, shaped as a hook in the horizontal plan, but which opens like a funnel.
It's attached at the tip of an old fishing rod with a strip of inner tube rubber.
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And if you practice enough, you don't even need to bend down to pick them up :drool: !!
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Can certainly work for other fruits, but don't try the last trick with a coconut :headscratch:
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I made one years ago albeit with a catch net. I miss living on a farm.
Al
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Good idea for the net Al, but maybe it would be too much cumbersome to get between the branches, but I should add a removable one, you are true !
It's actually for the children, a lot of fun doing that with them, it's not for the big harvesting ;-)
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Direct source ... the cherry looks good.:thumbsup:
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Thanks Christophe! Whimsical and useful, too. Those cherries look great, though now I want pie… :rolleyes:
I've added your Cherry Hook to our Farm and Garden category, as well as to your builder page: Christophe Mineau's Homemade Tools. Your receipt:
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Nice work, Christophe, but what if the cherry you're picking isn't part of a pair. Won't it just fall to the ground?
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That's where the upwardly gaze, mouth agape technique comes in, when the fruit isn't paired. Or the pear; why does it keep increasing in size? Then it hits me...Suggestion to not harvest coconuts is obvious; hello! Staff would need several times length pictured........
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We used to visit the wife's brothers and sisters in Indiana along about Cherry time make a short drive across the line to Mich and spend the day standing on the tops of 10 to 14 ft 3 legged step ladders picking the stupid things. this was done on th e halves with the owner. Only I didn't know that the whole idea was to eat as many as you could then only turn in a small amount they did it mostly just to have something to do.. everyone would grab these tiny little woven baskets and head off to a tree. Ignorant me grabbed a 1/4 bushel basket, headed out filled it swapped it filled it swapped it I did this several times far more than I kept count of when it came time to settle up some how my part was over 2 bushel while all of the others combined 6 of them to be exact only had a 1/4 bushel. One of the sister s said I bet you are going to be the sickest of all of us. WHY? I asked. Well if you ate as many as you turned in you must be about to die.
Not me I don't eat cherries unless they are pitted and covered in milk chocolate and I didn't see any boxes of queen Anne cherries in none of those trees.
So I took the cash instead of the cherries.
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I'll have to remember your cherry hook next year when my pear tree is ready to harvest.
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Hi friends,
Funny to see that post reappearing !
Sadly, this nice cherry tree has died during last year summer. I was in vacation, there was a unusual hot week and no one to give the necessary bucket of water ...
For the pears, not to say the coconuts ! ,you need to wear a helmet !