Cranberry Harvest

Rotary Beater at work (Haines & Haines Pine Island Cranberry Co. Inc.)

© Don Klotzbeacher

One day, I went to have a look at cranberry harvesting going on at Haines farm near Chatsworth, NJ. It is a very interesting operation. Here we see a rotary beater being used to shake the berries off the bushes so they float to the top of the bog.

Cranberries feed into conveyor belt (Haines & Haines Pine Island Cranberry Co. Inc.)

© Don Klotzbeacher


Hi-Lo discharging cranberries into hopper (Haines & Haines Pine Island Cranberry Co. Inc.)

© Don Klotzbeacher


Conveyor discharging cranberries for transport (Haines & Haines Pine Island Cranberry Co. Inc.)

© Don Klotzbeacher

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