Cucumber Harvest

Cucumber harvesting is fun to watch. I do wish i had better pictures. So bear with me. the huge red machines suck up the cucumber vines and separate the cukes from the vines. The vines shoot out the sides and the cucumber goes up into the hopper. When the hopper is full the white truck pulls along side the red machine and it tips the hopper and all the cucumbers transfer from hopper to truck on a conveyer belt and when the wite truck is full off it goes to the plant and the cycle continues until the field is bare. See the cucumbers shooting into the hopper in the second picture.
The tiny pickling cukes are still hand picked.


Who could of thought of how to separate the cucumber from the vine without mangling it. Amazing. MB