Friday harvest day
Fall time is harvest time for almost everything around here. We have a local harvesting company come over to help with the grape harvest so we dont have to pick them all by hand. We have around 10 acres of grapes planted; this year we only harvest around 7 acres.
I didn't make it out when they first started harvesting as I had some other chores to do first. This photo is about 1/4 to 1/3 the way into picking. You can see them switching bins from the truck to the trailer behind the tractor.
In this photo you can see the harvester working in the vineyard. It's the blue machine to the left. The way the operation goes is that the harvester straddles the vineyard row and picks the grapes. A tractor with a trailer and a grape bin follows in a parallel row. The picker picks the grapes and shoots them into the bin that the tractor pulls. As the bin gets full they change bins and keep going. They load them onto the tractor trailer to transport to the press. This year we had a bumper crop and harvested 18 tons of grapes from the vineyard. They actually ran out of bins and had to go get more so the harvester had to wait for a bin.
Each bin holds roughly 1 ton.
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That sounds like a lot o grapes per acre. I know it is not wine but you can pretend it is a virtual sip of wine and not !BEER.
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