"axolotl" wrote in message
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On 9/26/2013 3:01 PM, Leon Fisk wrote:

He needs a Brownie:

http://www.philbrownwelding.com/inde...d=1&Ite mid=2

or maybe better yet, a "Picking Platform":

http://www.philbrownwelding.com/inde...52&It emid=66


I submit he needs one of these:

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/06/robo_picker?currentPage=all

My son worked on them as a college project.
Karl can sip cooling beverages and listen to the sweet hum of machinery.

Kevin Gallimore

More than 30 years ago my grandfather and a group of other small grape
farmers entered into a co-op to buy a USED automatic grape harvester. We
could strip the grapes off of 10 acres in a day easily including setup. It
took 3-4 guys to operate and do a good job. One guy drove the picker, one
drove a tractor with a bin trailer in the next row and 2 guys would monitor
the bins to keep the meat and larger sticks out. It was only suitable for
juice grapes, but it worked. 4 guys could do the work of 20.

Anyway, I suppose that there must be lots of technology out there developed
in the last 30 years. You just have to find the right farmer to buy it.