r/oddlysatisfying • u/colapepsikinnie • 2d ago

Harvesting blueberries from a blueberry barren

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u/AdEnough2267 2d ago

I was just wondering how blueberries are harvested. Tech is pulling target content straight from our brains now.

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u/_its_a_thing_ 1d ago

I worked the blueberry barrens in Downeast Maine one summer. Wild blueberries are low like this. We did it hunched over with hand rakes about a third the width of this harvester. My back has never been the same. That was in 1980 or so.

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u/Many-Day8308 1d ago

Did it in the 90’s in Cherryfield. I see the old rakes posted from time to time in what is this thing and immediately can smell the sun, sweat, blueberries and immodan(sp?) pesticide

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u/_its_a_thing_ 1d ago

Yup, good ole Cheeryfield. Purly Something-or-other running the crew.