Hey guys-need some advice here.I just bought a Hedlund pickle picker.It is a 3 wheeler with a 4 horse front wheel drive.It has 2 boards where people laid on there stomach and picked pickles and put them in a conveyor between them which carried them up to dump the piclkles into a gunny bag.Any one heard of these?Trying to research them.Any help here?Thanks Mike
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Anonymous-0
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I don't know what brand they were but 35 years ago when pickles were grown around here there were pickle pickers here like you describe, but I think they put them in boxes as they picked them. We only had pickles twice at home and they were all placed in Tomato hampers ( another item from the past). Of course another reason for that was the picles were planted in the center of the drives in the tomato fields. Ah yes farming here 50 years ago!
steve n carolyn
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Interesting, I could never get pickles to grow, never. I always had to plant cucumbers.
when you say ...in the middle of the "drives", are you referring to the area of the furrows where the water would typically flow? ...sl
There were never any places for water to flow, no irigation, just rain. And a pickle is what a cucumber starts out as before they get to the large size, some varieties of pickles will never get to the size they call cucumbers, they will just stop growing before they reach that sise that ia actually beyond use.
big hunter
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The only pickle picker I know off is Peter Piper
J.Wondergem
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The only pickle picker I saw, was a one time picker that took up vines and all. I hauled these to the pickle vats where they were sorted by size. They used this after the hand pickers were done. Hand pickers picked all primes.
Michael Soldan
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I've seen one of those many times, in our part of Ontario cucumbers were grown for the pickle industry, there was a depot not too many miles from us where the cucumbers were weighed, graded and the grower paid. Most growers were Dutchmen that had about 12 kids of their own..but yes, I've seen that type of vehicle, and they used to put a nice tarp canopy over it to protect the pickers from the sun..tough way to make a living but the price of cucumbers was pretty good, at least back then.
greenbeanman in Kansas
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When I first read your post I figured that the cart was probably a Hedlund but with a different name other than Pickle Picker added.
Nope, you are right on the money. A web search tuned up an obituary for the inventor of the Hedlund Pickle Picker. Appears to be out of New York state.
Here is the relevant portion of text:
"Walter N. Johnson, 86, of Boyceville, died Saturday, Jan. 10, 1998, at the Dunn County Health Care Center in Menomonie."
"Walter was born July 29, 1911, in Boyceville to the late Peter and Ida (Larson) Johnson. He married Elva Blodgett of Boyceville on Sept. 22, 1934. Walter worked for 35 years at Hedlund Manufacturing as a machinist."
"He was a charter member of the Boyceville Fire Department, a village trustee, and an active host family member for international students attending UW-Stout. He also was the inventor of the pickle picker in 1953."
Using clues from the obit and diligence one should be able to find out a lot more information about the machine, its manufacture, etc.
Hedlund Pickle Picker Inventor Obit way down page.
Nope, you are right on the money. A web search tuned up an obituary for the inventor of the Hedlund Pickle Picker. Appears to be out of New York state.
Here is the relevant portion of text:
"Walter N. Johnson, 86, of Boyceville, died Saturday, Jan. 10, 1998, at the Dunn County Health Care Center in Menomonie."
"Walter was born July 29, 1911, in Boyceville to the late Peter and Ida (Larson) Johnson. He married Elva Blodgett of Boyceville on Sept. 22, 1934. Walter worked for 35 years at Hedlund Manufacturing as a machinist."
"He was a charter member of the Boyceville Fire Department, a village trustee, and an active host family member for international students attending UW-Stout. He also was the inventor of the pickle picker in 1953."
Using clues from the obit and diligence one should be able to find out a lot more information about the machine, its manufacture, etc.
Hedlund Pickle Picker Inventor Obit way down page.
greenbeanman in Kansas
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Well I was wrong about it being New York. It is in fact Wisconsin.
Here is another tidbit: Hedlund Mfg Co., Inc. 1981 . Boyceville, Wisconsin
a.k.a. Pic Car http://www.dunnconnect.com/articles/2006/08/14/news/news02.txt
Should be fun to research.
a.k.a. Pic Car
Here is another tidbit: Hedlund Mfg Co., Inc. 1981 . Boyceville, Wisconsin
a.k.a. Pic Car http://www.dunnconnect.com/articles/2006/08/14/news/news02.txt
Should be fun to research.
a.k.a. Pic Car
Mathias NY
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Could you post a picture? My wife wants to grow pickles, we just can't figure out a convenient way to pick them.
Thanks.
Thanks.
Anonymous-0
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Reminds me of the time I got fired from my job as a short order cook, for gettin my finger stuck in the pickle slicer. Management didn't think to highly of her either, fired us both! (With apologies to Ron White, for stealin his joke!)
greenbeanman in Kansas
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Thanks for posting the photo. Is a lot simpler than I imagined. Also less comfortable looking.
Again, thanks.
Again, thanks.
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