Sep 20, 2013
Made in Michigan: Vacuum-powered apple picker

A new machine could change the way the apples you buy at the grocery store are harvested. It’s only being tested right now, but in a few years the West Michigan men behind the machine hope to see their invention in use across the country.

The vacuum harvester may change the apple harvest the way digital cameras changed photography. You no longer need film to take pictures, and these workers no longer need ladders to reach apples at the tops of trees. WZZM 13

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