February is Cherry Month in the USA. Here in the UK, we have to wait until July to enjoy this beautiful fruit. I love this little film showing a new cherry picking contraption in 1951.
Shots of machine with hydraulic arms, pickers on same & are lifted to the height of the fruit trees, CU machinery working the hydraulic arms. MS men picking cherries. MS & CU cherries being placed in baskets. MS arms working.
At a fruit farm near Hamburg, they've been using a new American machine called an "Orchard Monkey", a hydraulic ladder to make fruit-picking easier.
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