Orchard Furniture

[Peter Rideout]

This is why I like having the big space in the barn floor.
Some of our apple pickers still prefer to use these traditional wooden ladders for their ease of placement. I’m just replacing a broken rung with a hand shaped one from the scrap bin.

 

[Ryan Mooney]

I do like the feel of those old wooden ladders, but the metal ones are lighter which gets increasingly more desirable over the years haha.

Nice looking job on the tapers on the rung.

What kind of apples do you have there?

 

[Peter Rideout]

I do like the feel of those old wooden ladders, but the metal ones are lighter which gets increasingly more desirable over the years haha.

Nice looking job on the tapers on the rung.

What kind of apples do you have there?

Thanks Ryan. The job took longer than I planned, but they’ll be ready for transport up to the farm after lunch.
Honeycrisp is our major variety, many of which go to export markets. Others include Ambrosia, Royal Gala and picking starts today on a licensed variety we have great hopes for.
We still grow a few traditional northeast varieties like McIntosh and Cortland for the local farm markets.