On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 13:18:32 -0700, Gunner Asch
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On Sat, 23 Aug 2014 15:11:18 -0700, Larry Jaques
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On Sat, 23 Aug 2014 12:02:52 -0700, Gunner Asch
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On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 19:12:00 -0700, Larry Jaques
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On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 07:47:35 -0500, Ignoramus10365
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On 2014-08-21, Lloyd E. Sponenburgh lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote:
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This is quite clever. Have a leg down from the end of your boom, then
you can really apply enormous force without tipping.


Yeah, but guys have been 'popping' trees for decades with 26HP tractors
weighing 1800lb... you don't need a five ton tractor with a one-ton
counterweight!

I've pulled dozens of adult orange trees from clay-bearing soil with a
1948 Ford 8N tractor. Easy-peezy, if you know how (with NO damage to the
tractor or the driver).


I have never seen an orange tree, are they big or small?

I'll never forget the drives from Vista to L.A. At the curve in the
road where Ana(imal)heim lies, there were so many orange groves that
when the trees were in bloom, you could smell the sweet scent for
miles around. I wonder if that's why they called it Orange County...
We'd hit that spot and drop all the windows in the car to catch more
of it. Just heavenly! I like it so much that I still grow mock
orange (Philadelphus Lewisii, IIRC) here to smell the blossoms in the
spring.

Orange trees in LoCal were about 12' tall and round. There were maybe
40 or 50 groves in Vista, San Marcos, Fallbrook, and Escondido when I
was growing up there. Most of those have been uprooted and planted
with TickyTacky houses all in a row. Sickening.

http://hdwhub.com/orange-tree.html

Ive got at least 20 large orchards within 15 miles of the house.
Grapefruit also

We need oranges..we simply stop and pick. They are harvesting
now..though its late in the season and its only Valencias.

Most other oranges are late winter very early spring.

http://www.pickyourown.org/CAharvestcalendar.htm

Aha! I finally have a pick date: September and October in the North.

When you see "orange" in the trees...its pretty much a sign that they
are ready to be picked. Until they are near ripe..they are
green/greenish

This particular tree has some fully orange, and some fully green, with
some turning orange from green. Methinks it's a slice and dice tree.
Green D'anjou, Bosc, and maybe Bartlett.

--
The unexamined life is not worth living.
--Socrates