Apple Picking Machine - Part Deux

Problem: Picking apples manually is time consuming and labour intensive

Goals & Objectives: To create a machine that takes all the manual labour and time out of picking apples

Ideas/Solutions:
* Must be tall enough to pick ALL the apples
* Take down as many apples as possible in one time
* Do not overbruise
* Must be fast

Here are my sketches and initial ideas:




















































































And here are my final drawings for the apple picker:














This design is basically derived from the concept of a cherry picker. Tried and true but works for picking things at tall heights and could just be modified for apple trees.

It would speed up apple picking time by letting workers stay on the ground and not have to climb up and down a ladder and since it's machine driven and user operated, the manual labour of apple picking has gone down considerably.















This concept is basically a long arm that could grab the top of the tree and shake all the apples off. The net below would secure all fallen apples.

Again, this would speed up apple picking time by letting workers stay on the ground and not have to climb up and down a ladder and since it's machine driven and user operated, the manual labour of apple picking has gone down considerably.













This design is a network of ladders and levels that would be designed and created all through the orchard. Workers are not forced to go back up and down the ladder and all the tree can be picked in one go.