I have an orange tree that produces decent oranges. Every year, I have a battle getting the oranges from any but the lowest branches.
Two years ago, I bought one of those pickers with the wire basket, like this one:
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works more or less, but there are problems. The claws can be difficult to use, especially if the fruit is close to a branch or another orange. On my tree, the oranges tend to cluster. It doesn't really grab the fruit so I have to pull down pretty hard in order to be able to apply any twisting motion at all. Sometimes I end up tearing off part of the branch. This shakes the tree and causes other oranges to fall and get bruised.
I just did another search and the only thing I came up with is this one:
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looks like it might work better.
Has anyone used it? Care to share experiences? It gets good reiews on Amazon.
Does anyone have a better idea or pointer?