During the ripening season, a large number of apples fall to the ground, where the fruits begin to rot very quickly. In addition, apples that hit the ground deteriorate much faster than freshly picked ones. Therefore, it is best to collect them before they fall. To do this, you don’t even need to climb a tree, but just use a special device for collecting fruit. It is very simple to make it, while spending almost nothing.
Our video tells in detail how to make a home-made collection of fruits from trees.
For the construction of this fixtures we will need:
- a plastic bottle of 1.5-2 liters;
- a knife;
- scissors;
- long stick;
- drill with a drill;
- a screwdriver.
We proceed to the manufacture of the fruit shed.
We take a plastic bottle, approximately in the middle we pierce with a knife, and then cut with scissors. If that part of the bottle that is wrinkled with a neck - straighten it.
To make it convenient to use the device, we make sawtooth teeth at the cut site.
To keep the bottle on a long stick, we need to drill two holes in its neck with a drill. The diameter of the drill we take 3 mm. The holes are located opposite each other.
We take our long stick and clean it from its side so that it can fit into the neck of a plastic bottle.
Insert into the neck and take two screws. We fasten the stick with them through the drilled holes.
Our device for removing fruit from the tree is ready.
Now, in order to remove an apple from a tree, you only need to approach it, raise the fruit-collector so that the apple falls into it. Scroll the device to the side so that the peduncle catches on the prongs and the apple comes off the branch. It turned out to be in our fruit shed.