You and Grandma will enjoy picking your back yard fruit with my picker---it is called The Twister Fruit Picker.
The Twister weighs a very light 8.8oz. Compare that weight with other pickers. It is not made in a factory. It is a simple design, carefully crafted by norrisbird from aluminum and plastic in my home shop. Experience teaches that fruit isn't readily available to any type of picker. For instance, a clawed basket gets all tangled up with branches and twigs, while a cutter type requires one to locate the stem. That is not easy.
The size of the picker is extremely important. The Twisterpicker is small and neat 13.5 x 1 x 3 inches allowing you to quickly travel to, and gently get on the fruit. In most cases, both you or Grandma can pick more fruit undamaged, in five minutes with the Twisterpicker than can be picked with a basket or sack device that is designed to hold several fruits. Please see my slide show pictures for hard to get at fruit. The Twisterpicker is a wonderful new experience for familys with fruit trees.
It is called Twisterpicker because it allows you to rotate the fruit on it's stem. As we have all learned when picking the low fruit by hand, twisting, rather than pulling, is often necessary to remove the fruit undamaged. The Twisterpicker twists off fruit leaving them sealed so they will not spoil and if need be, ripen..
So here is how it works. An elastic cord (bungee cord), secured to the bottom of your pole is attached to a nylon cord extending to the picker. The pull of the bungee overcomes a spring on the picker, thus making the default position of the fruit holders circles closed. This makes the tool's profile small and smooth. As you approach the fruit with the Twister, you stretch the bungee, which slacks the rope. This allows the spring on the picker to open the circular fruitholders. When the circles straddle the fruit, you release the bungee cord. The bungee then contracts and closes the fruit holder circles firmly but gently around the fruit. If twisting is necessary, do it, if not, just take the fruit out of the tree, swing the picker over a bucket and release the bungee tension which releases the fruit. You haven't moved.
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Lightweight and easy to handle because it is made of aluminum.
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