Crop picker and chipper - GIF

[Altair]

Crop picker and chipper.




Previously:

Root crop cleaning machine - GIF
Radish cleaning and loading conveyor - GIF
Harvesting carrots - GIF
Cassava harvesting tool - GIF
Peanut harvester - GIF

[desbromilow]

Why? is it to destroy the crop too late (or too manky) for harvest, and chip it for turning into the soil? they obvioulsy do this often enough to build a machine to do it - jsut don't understand the why...

[Sockmonster]

Don't understand that either. Seems you would not need to pick it too compost it. Why not just turn plant and gourd over? They look on the big side also.. not for human consumption.. we like ours smaller and tenderer.

[Frank S]

It seems nearly an entire crop was grown for the purpose of composting it back into the soil. Perhaps this was done to raise or lower the PH of the soil or adding nitrogen and other nutrients. Chipping the vegetables would quicken their decomposition while increasing the overall coverage area.

[IntheGroove]

That's probably how they replant. Those things are full of seeds...