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In Videos: Harvesting Nuts
If you're like most people, you'll likely be eating nuts of some sort as part of holiday nut sampler, but do you know how they’re harvested? After the jump, a clip from Our Daily Bread, a documentary by Nikolaus Geyrhalter. Basically, a tractor with a giant arm shakes the crap out of the tree in question, after which a sort of industrial vacuum cleaner–shovel scoops them up and dumps them on a tarp.
The Nut Harvest
With a giant mechanical arm going at the tree, it seems like beating the poor thing with a long stick would be a bit redundant, but I'm sure it serves a purpose. [via Coudal Partners]