My output has never been, how shall we say, multitudinous. I had, as an intent, a post about why I spray Kayolin clay, and the ways in which it inhibits insects. Reality is that I get to the end of the day with a picture of what I did, and no longer have the oomph to document it on the interwebs...

About a week or so from now, I will be picking apples for market. Since I planted trees on root-stocks that wanted to grow to a height above twenty odd feet, I need a way to get me the crop that is that far above the orchard floor. In a laboratory setting, that end would be simple in achievement. This particular orchard is far from conforming.

The common apple ladder has been designed to accommodate fast picking in an orchard that is arranged on a plain as flat as they come. The orchard in consideration is about as steep as one might consider; lest they are truly the bretheren of Don Quixote.

It only goes to follow, that harvest will require the above and beyond, to transverse an apple from tree to your teeth. This results from all of our trees being trained to be about 20 feet tall and 20 feet in diameter once fully developed. Enter the aparatus to level the playing field!

Prior years, as the trees reached for the stars, we had an ad-hoc response to take up a smaller step ladder and scab with clamp an section of ladder to attempt a tri-pod that would allow one to harvest on a complicated multi-directional slope. All the while accomodating my sphincter. Yeee Haw!

Things are looking up. It may not be super efficient in changing up deployments, it will more than make up in having to weigh instability vs. how many apples I retrieve in a particular planting of ladder.....