Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Shaking up the olive harvest

The Nelson Mail | 20 May 2008

For thousands of years, olives have proved a difficult and labour-intensive crop to harvest, but a Moutere grower thought there has to be a better way. Anne Hardie visits a grower who has a knack for inventions.
Harvesting olives can be a labour-intensive process that has been just about begging for a bit of Kiwi ingenuity.

Fortunately, Roger Armstrong likes to tinker with machinery and has used that legendary ingenuity to invent a contraption to simplify the job.

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