Do it Best Import L&G M3 Fruit Picker
- Fruit picker basket
- For harvesting fresh fruit
- Strong metal tongs to grasp fruit and cushioned metal basket to hold fruit
- Can be ordered assembled with handle model No. M3A or fruit picker basket only, model No. M3
- Fruit picker basket only
Product Description
For harvesting fresh fruit. Strong metal tongs to grasp fruit and cushioned metal basket to hold fruit. Can be ordered assembled with handle model No. M3A or fruit picker basket only, model No. M3. No. M3A: Assembled fruit picker and handle No. M3: Fruit picker basket only… More >>
Do it Best Import L&G M3 Fruit Picker
I have a small pick-your-own apple orchard, and by attaching these pickers to 6 ft.pcv poles most people can reach even the highest and hardest to get fruit. Children love to use them. At the end of the season I attach some of them to 12 ft. poles. The only downside is that after 3-4 years the plastic coating wears off and they can rust. I painted those that did. I have been using fruit pickers for many years.
I purchased 2 of these baskets in the Fall of 2008 (one for my father as a Christmas present). Once I received it, I bought two, 1″ diameter, six foot, wooden rods from Home Depot ($7.79 in Canada). I affixed these to the baskets in seconds with just a Philips screwdriver.
Several months before, I was able to locate several varieties of apple trees on common property in my area and I always had a mind to pick the apples. The trouble is, like most people, I didn’t want to tie my heavy ladder to my car and go picking. With this basket affixed to a 6 foot rod, I’d just toss it into my car and go.
When I came upon the site, many of the apples in the lower branches were already picked away by people visiting the recreation centre nearby, but the best apples were higher in the tree. These were the ripest and largest of all.
After about an hour, I had picked approximately four bags of apples or about 60lbs. worth. At $0.98/lb. (avg. price in Canada), this little basket and rod paid for themselves 3x over and I have a LOT more organic apples to pick (among other things!).
I took all of the apples home and spent a couple of hours peeling and cutting them into freezer bags. We plan to use the frozen slices all year for apple pies, apple crisps and apple bran muffins, all which are fairly expensive at the stores and not organic.
Needless to say, the basket works great and is of superb strength and build quality. I am indeed very happy and would recommend it wholeheartedly.
I have a huge and almost 13′ tall lemon tree, very dense. It was pruned last fall, still lemon is a lemon. This fruit picker is good but has really hard time getting through the branches of tree like this. It does a job with a bit of hasle.
I assume it would work better on apple or peach tree.
For the money I still highly recommend it.
I needed this for my granny smith apples and have attached it to the end of a pole after removing the pruner. It works well, attached easily and firmly, and enables me to pick several apples at a time. Well built, works exactly as hoped. Highly recommended.
This picker can pick fruit from dense trees with some adjustments. It has seven prongs.
Take pliers and twist two adjoining prongs until they meet, and just slightly overlap to avoid tangles. Then twist another pair together, and then another pair.
In total, you will have three pairs, and one single prong. The twisted and joined pairs, do not tangle in the tree’s branches as much, but can still pull the fruit off. And the single one works with them with little problems.
We have picked apples from very dense branches with this adjustment, and it has worked well.