Walnut picker?

Royse · Apr 24, 2014

Saw this on CL, advertised as a golf ball retriever or walnut picker.
Anyone ever used one? I'm wondering why the baskets would be
wider on one side of the rollers as opposed to the other.
Or why you would even need them on both sides.
No need to explain how they get it up in the tree....... LOL

Bryce Frazier · Apr 24, 2014

DUH!!!!

You clearly just hook it to a chopper and just skim the tops of the trees at a very fast speed!

Bryce

Greg K · Apr 24, 2014

Lol. I had to read the last line twice,
I'm kinda slow. I think the front one gets
the balls that would hit the seam of the
two baskets in the rear. Or not. Pretty
neat concept. How does it pull the golf
balls out of the cup?

Anonymous-0 · Apr 24, 2014

If you look close you'll see the "fingers" that go between the wheels to pluck the balls/walnuts out, right behind the front basket, and you will also see that there are no fingers between the two rear baskets. Greg you were really close. chris

Spook · Apr 24, 2014

Where is that at? My dad built and sold a bunch of units like that back in the late 80's, early 90's. Didn't make any money on them, but him and his business partner got to visit a lot of golf courses. One thing they had was a winch setup, so you could drag it thru a water hazard. Sold them all down south, Fla, GA, Alabama, La. Going into water hazards down there can be, like hazardous!!!

Royse · Apr 24, 2014

Spook, ad says its in Oakley. $250

Sean Feeney · Apr 25, 2014

"why you would even need them on both sides."
It looks like the roller baskets are broken into
thirds so it can hold more before being emptied

Anonymous-0 · Apr 25, 2014

Worth that just to say you own one.

bill mart · Apr 25, 2014

I think there are fingers for the back baskets, otherwise the rollers would be picking up balls all across the rollers and only releasing them from the centers of the roller. Greg is correct. Looks like there are brackets that dislodge the balls from the backs of the rollers. Bill

Steve A W · Apr 25, 2014

Wow, I would like to have one of those thats
sized for a garden tractor.

Steve AW

mkirsch · Apr 25, 2014

If you look close, you will see that there are no "fingers" to flip the balls/nuts out into the baskets along the back of the middle third of each picker.

The fingers for the middle third are in front.

So, the outer parts of each picker flip the balls/nuts into the rear baskets, and the middle section of each picker flips the balls/nuts into the front basket.

Looks like it allows for about 50% more nut-carrying capacity than if the entire machine flipped the nuts into the rear basket only. Each basket is 1/2 the width of the machine.

Indiana Ken · Apr 25, 2014

This would only work well if the trees were surrounded by level ground and close cut grass. Most of my trees are in fence rows, or in tall grass. Even my trees around the buildings would not allow the use of something that size.

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