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Harvests fruits and nuts, such as cherries, strawberries,
grapes, oranges, and pecans, according to method appropriate for
type of fruit, by hand or using tools, such as shears, rubber
mallet, pronged scoop, or hooked pole: Carries and positions
work aids, such as ladders, canvas drop cloths, and buckets.
Selects fruit to be harvested, according to size, shape, and
color. Grasps, twists, and pulls fruit, snips stems, and shakes
trees and vines to separate crop from plant and places fruit
into bags, buckets, or trays, exercising care to avoid plant and
fruit damage. Empties filled containers into clolection boxes
and bins. May stnad on ladders or elevated platforms, stoop over
plants, or crawl along rows to reach fruit. May measure fruit,
using gauges.
May pour furit through screens when removing
foreign matter, such as twigs and grasses. May position hand
held vibrating device against branches of bushes to shake ripe
fruit from branches. May dump friut from containers onto
conveyors or load containers onto trucks or wagons. May remove
ladders, debris, boxes, and discarded fruit from fields and bogs
to clean growing areas.
May collect fallen nuts into piles,
uisng rake. May carry and position irrigation pieps. May be
idetnified with tasks being performed, such as rhubarb trimming,
cranberry screening, and walnut knocking.
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