Peach and pear harvester | Victoria. Dept. of Agriculture | ACMI collection

Picture only. Footage of specialised machine used for quickly removing fruit from peach and pair trees. The machine envelopes a tree and then vibrates which causes the fruit to fall off into a catching device. This is an odd process to view as the tree is shaken quite violently by the machine and the fruit falls into the catching device in a dramamtic fashion.

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Victoria. Dept. of Agriculture

Production places

Australia

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Agricultural Collection

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

B1005150

Language

English

Audience classification

Exempt

Holdings

16mm film; Copy

Collected

6 times

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