Boy.....do I know how to pick lemons

[cmayna]

That's right baby! Getting them Meyer lemons that are way too high on my neighbor's lemon tree.

Recently I bought a gas welder setup and was dying to put it to test. My neighbor's Meyer lemon bush/tree is so tall that we cannot harvest them juicy lemons at the top so last night I decided to get off my buttocks and weld up a lemon pulling cage. I adapted the cage to fit on a standard broom handle. My neighbor's wife was squealin like a little school girl while she watched me in action grabbing each lemon, twisting the cage until the lemon broke loose. Brought it down and simply dumped the contents onto the lawn. Harvested 20+ out of reach lemons in less than 5 minutes. Meyer lemonade for this coming weekend.

TapaYakin' from my iPhone

 

[Flysure1]

I am suprised that works, looks more like a orange picker!

 

[cmayna]

The problem is most fruit picker cages are for grapefruits/oranges, which is way too big for heavily clustered lemons. Thus my idea to make a small cage.

 

[scedd]

Wouldnt it be easier to just ask your neighbours permission!

 

[Flysure1]

That's right baby! Getting them Meyer lemons that are way too high on my neighbor's lemon tree.

Recently I bought a gas welder setup and was dying to put it to test. My neighbor's Meyer lemon bush/tree is so tall that we cannot harvest them juicy lemons at the top so last night I decided to get off my buttocks and weld up a lemon pulling cage. I adapted the cage to fit on a standard broom handle. My neighbor's wife was squealin like a little school girl while she watched me in action grabbing each lemon, twisting the cage until the lemon broke loose. Brought it down and simply dumped the contents onto the lawn. Harvested 20+ out of reach lemons in less than 5 minutes. Meyer lemonade for this coming weekend.

TapaYakin' from my iPhone

My dad was pretty creative also, I remember when I was a kid he made one for apples and peaches out of heavy gauge wire formed in a loop on the end of a heavy cane pole(held on with a hose clamp) with a cloth basket on it that mom sewed. Put it under the fruit, lift and pull, and plunk in the sack. Got heavy quick so 4 was usually enough. Beat the heck of ground bruised fruit--we had a white peach tree that had the best peaches I have eaten ever.

 

[KBMWRS]

Just wait until his neighbor finds out what he adapted to the broom handle was his personal ball scratcher. :barf1

 

[RustyRed]

My neighbor's wife was squealin like a little school girl while she watched me in action grabbing each lemon,

Oh...I see "lemons" is really a code word.

FYI....what you do with the neighbor's wife is private business and should be kept behind closed doors...just sayin.... :shee

 

[B67FSTB]

Oh...I see "lemons" is really a code word.

FYI....what you do with the neighbor's wife is private business and should be kept behind closed doors...just sayin.... :shee

Same thoughts crossed my mind !!!

Craig , stay of your neighbors lemons.You get into trouble like this !!

 

[Teebone]

My neighbor's wife was squealin like a little school girl while she watched me in action grabbing each lemon
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I realize this is taken out of context, but I couldn't resist.... :thu

 

[Midlife]

The Lemon Song, Led Zeppelin

I should have quit you, long time ago. [X2]
I wouldn't be here, my children, down on this killin' floor.

I should have listened, baby, to my second mind [X2]
Everytime I go away and leave you, darling, you send me the blues way down the line.

Said, people worry I can't keep you satisfied.
Let me tell you baby, you ain't nothin but a two-bit, no-good jive.

Went to sleep last night, worked as hard as I can,
Bring home my money, you take my money, give it to another man.
I should have quit you, baby, such a long time ago.
I wouldn't be here with all my troubles, down on this killing floor.

Squeeze me baby, till the juice runs down my leg. [X2]
The way you squeeze my lemon, I'm gonna fall right out of bed.

I'm gonna leave my children down on this killing floor.