Cranberry Harvest in Oregon 10/16-17/2010

This year we joined family members and neighbors to bring in the cranberry harvest at Tom & Virginia's farm in Oregon. The two-day affair was a great experience and a lot of work.

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Photos (C) 2010 George Hamma

Day 1: Early morning play before the harvest
Day 1: Headquarters
Day 1: The pond in front of the house
Day 1:The pond near the barn
Day 1: This is Pond 1 after beating but before the boom is deployed to harvest the cranberries
Day 1: The berries are ready to be collected - the shelter is for lunch, later
Day 1:The cleaning station
Day 1: Cleaned harvested berries come down the big white chute
Day 1: The tractor pulls new containers into place to catch the berries
Day 1: Checking out the apples before the harvest
Day 1: Sprays on the cleaning station. The verticle posts stop big stuff coming up the suction tube
Day 1: The sprays wash small stuff like leaves and small branches away from the berries. The cleaned berries go down the big hole
Day 1: Starting to deploy the floating boom to move the berries to the cleaning station
Day 1:The fruit pump sucks the berries out of the pond and pumps them up to the cleaning station
Day 1:excess water and small stuff washed off by the sprays end up in a nearby field
Day 1: Planning the collection of the berries.
Day 1:Using rakes to move berries inside the floating boom
Day 1:Handling the delicate berries needs supervision
Day 1: Berries inside the boom
Day 1:The boom is pulled down the pond toward the cleaning station
Day 1: Gathering the berries
Day 1: The contained area gets progressively smaller as the boom is pulled in
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