Fastest way to Cleaning Wild Blueberries: By The World's Fastest Wild Blueberry Picker
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
- Follow along as we show you how to quickly clean wild blueberries using a ramp. I pick using a berry picker and have a lot of leaves and small sticks in with the berries. Most traditional blueberry pickers will always argue that it is better to pick the berries clean by hand a few at a time, finding having to clean the berries too tedious and time consuming. Well let me show you how to make cleaning berries a fast and efficient process.
rolled 2 gallons twice in less than 5 minutes !! I used 1/4 hardware wire , CRAZY clean and fast !
You think of everything eh Jimmy! Great job. You are a smart man
I never have enough time, so I go full out when I get the chance to pick, I can pick 3 to 1 using a berry picker and with the berry ramp it's super easy to clean them.
thanks Jim, nice to see you keeping busy.....great to see Deb as well. Great content! I loved the minnow and leach trapping as well
Keep them coming. Thanks for doing this for us.
Thank-you. You have no idea how much I appreciate this video.
Good job guys! Innovation at its finest! Don't need much just an idea!!
Ohh thanks for sharing this very nice video 👍 👍 I have an idea on picking up 👍👍 I'm your new supporter here
Keep up the good work and have a great day
Wow! The best video I’ve seen for cleaning blueberries…the audio isn’t great but the content is fantastic! Approximately what 5:10 angle is the screen on would you say? You mentioned that dry blueberries are best for…
Not sure exactly but I play around with the angle to control the speed at which the berries roll down the ramp, to fast and the green ones will not hang up on the ramp. I just use pieces of wood to adjust the angle until I like the speed.
Great video. Very interested in the mesh size. Where did you source the wire mesh. Great job.
being a thirfty person the mesh comes from heavy equipment air filters. The air filter cartridgate comes incase with the wire mesh, just take a small grinder and remove.
Great source. Unfortunately I do not have access to air filters. Could you measure the size of the holes in the screen and let me know. Let me know to the closest 16th or in mm. Thanks.
I would like to know the same 😊
I to wants to know the size also ?
beutiful mic quality 👍
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I also use a Swedish comb, and reduce litter by skimming gently. Then I sort by hand in flat trays. Its not too bad, but I don't have such huge volumes.
Get yourself a berry cleaning tray reduces the work of clean 10-fold.
Did you have a good crop this year? My areas were lots of small berries and not a lot of them.
Good vid Jim!
You had to hunt for good size berries but there was tons of them. It like an addiction for me once I start picking. Lots of small ones found the bigger ones in the shade. I wish I had a week to pick.
@@gibbsadventures12 great vid, great idea, why the fans? thanks
@@TheMississauga333 the fans blow the leafs out and off the ramp. The pickers will always have leaves in with the berries.
Thank you!!
Did you use flat and expanded metal for the filter?
what angle is your ramp set at? Looks like a great berry cleaning method!
I believe it is roughly a 35 degree angle you want the berries to roll down the ramp at a speed that will remove the debris. Too fast and it does not have time for the leaves and small sticks to hang up on the ramp.
this is cool, and effective - your berries look very clean ... my brother in law and I gather wild blueberries way up North in Ontario ... he picks by using his finger tips and I pick by using my hand like a comb ... I pick more but they are very dirty ... and I found that washing them in the sink was miserable ... But I have 3 questions for you 1) what would happen if you had the fans under the mesh and blowing upward, would that be an improvement ? and 2) how do you dry them for selling ? and 3) when you freeze them, don't they just get mushy ? ... meaning, you can't freeze them if you want to sell them can you ?
They freeze fine, but need using quickly after being defrosted. Personally I often sprinkle a few frozen berries right onto my cereal, they thaw instantly.
Whats the angel of your ramp ? and what size screen ?
I will have to check Gary, I am not sure. The angle, I play with a little depending on the size of the berries. Too steep and the berries that have stems on them will not hang up on the ramp. You want the berries to roll down but at a slow enough speed that any problems don't end up in the tub.
Also to know this would be awsome.
Cool but I prefer to pick them by hand and do it carefully. Better on the berry and no cleaning required. I can pick a pound in 30 minutes
Nice video, how can I contact you? Thanks.
Why are the fans running uncle Jim
To blow all the leaves and small sticks away.
I had an old David Bradley seed cleaner purchased from Sears and Roebucks in the fifties. We have about an acre of rabbit eye blueberries on our little place. I bet it would clean them. Similar to this one-ua-cam.com/video/52WAI4isu4E/v-deo.html
Sorry, I got a better method using a hair dryer, cleans 5 gallons of Huckleberries per hour
And how a hand dryer stops berries with green parts?
Still never saw an answer to grate size?
I use the screen off a air filter from large equipment so I honestly don't know the size grate. I suggest you try 1/8 hardware cloth that should do it.
Where to get this kind of filter?
Home hardware has 1/8x1/8 galvanized mesh in a roll worked good for me. 24”x10’ long