#1 - Buy one of these. You'll be glad you did.
#2 - If your apple trees are very tall, you're going to have to "upgrade" your picker in a method we like to call "Jackson Style". i.e. - Using 9/10ths of a roll of duct tape to affix an addition old broom handle or random stick to the existing handle of your picker, thereby extending its reach. Can you appreciate the advantage gained by Jacksonizing our picker?
#3 - PROTECT YOURSELF. I wore only a hoodie and earphones. This was highly dumb on my part. What you need, my friends, is something more along the lines of a welding helmet, or Major League Baseball catcher's uniform. (I'll betcha the Yankees have one that's not being used right now. ZING!)
I took an 8-ounce apple, which fell from a height of 10 or 12 feet, to the "chest region". Annnd that's when I was done for the day. If there are any mathematically gifted among you who can calculate how hard/at what speed that apple slammed into my lady lumps, I'd love to hear the answer, if for no other reason, than to underscore the great dangers of urban farming on a very small scale.
Lets see here...8 oz apple falling from a 12 ft height, going a velocity of 15 MPH...our formula would look like A(CxPI)-345(VxX)=really damn fast and hard!! Was that the specific answer you were hoping for?? Man that must have hurt!!!!! I love the Jacksonizing you've done to your fruit picker. Who knew you were an inventor as well as an urban farmer! :)
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