Home Made Hop Picker

Hopfarmer · Feb 11, 2009

Everyone wondering how to pick them check out my little invention Glen

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gIOwty7xjg]YouTube - Colorado Hops Picker and Harvest[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnzwIKk0nP0&feature=related]YouTube - Colorado Organic Hops[/ame]

coloradoorganichops.com

polecreek · Feb 11, 2009

Thats alot of hops. I am in Paonia all the time, i have to get by there and see this.

anderj · Feb 12, 2009

are those all first year hops?

Hopfarmer · Feb 12, 2009

All first year this year will be amazing will have almost 12000 bines to pick

Hopfarmer · Feb 12, 2009

come on by

RhodyRed · Feb 12, 2009

So how does the picker work? It looks like you strip the vines of leaves and cones which fall onto the slanted board. The cones roll down the board and the guy with the squegee looking thing pulls the leaves and stems out?

I'm in the process of starting a small-scale commerical farm in New England and am looking for ways to harvest.

wildwest450 · Feb 12, 2009

Nice! Now get to selling those hops to us!

Parker36 · Feb 12, 2009

Next invention: Homemade tripod

david_42 · Feb 12, 2009

A few seconds on the actual stripper would have been nice. Looks like a chicken-wire belt with some plywood to smack the cones through, then a shaker to sieve out leaves.

Milhouse · Feb 12, 2009

What type of hops are you growing?

CentralWABrewing · Mar 1, 2009

Absolutely hilarious!

Awesome.

Pinnah · Mar 6, 2009

Cheers to inovation and the small scale organic farmer!

Hopefully, folks will look back on your pioneering efforts in the North Fork Valley, and say man, remember when you made that first hop stripper... :mug:

Best of luck for harvest 2009!

Sawdustguy · Mar 7, 2009

Great Job! Great Invention! That makes my little hop garden look like a patch of weeds.

HALIFAXHOPS · Mar 27, 2011

Nice job, I am working on one myself. Verry different design though. Once you get a few hundred bines it is to much to do by hand.

LakewoodBrew · Apr 1, 2011

My guess is the Hop Farm, Paddock Wood, Kent, UK

GodsStepBrother · Apr 1, 2011

Impressive! Just thinking of what it took to make that machine work. You sir have an obvious passion for your hops. I will be taking a trip up to Colorado in July, I would love to detour and buy some hops from you, if you have any ready.

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