Rolling Pecan and Nut Picker Upper…It may not bring you the remote…
You can absolutely trust me when I tell you that there are better tools available for this job and they don’t cost near as much as a teenager. The savings on Xbox games alone…. After the failure of my original plan I started looking at tools to more efficiently pick up the pecans and I gotta say this is the coolest I’ve found so far. It is basically a wire spring ball on the end of a four foot long handle and it will pick up nuts whether you can see them or not (You know, in case you don’t have that fantasy golf course lawn), just by rolling it over them. It holds about two quarts of nuts before you empty it out and works for all kinds of things you might have that are roughly pecan size. It is available from Clean Air Gardening for $64.99I have several pecan trees in my yard and 14 years ago I came up with what I thought was a brilliant plan. I convinced the wife that we should have a son. I was young and naïve; I could picture vividly a dutiful son who would bring me the remote when I left it on the TV, do all the more demanding yard work, and this child would delight in picking up all those pecans laying all over the well manicured golf course like lawn I would surely have …well…You can probably guess what reality is like. The kid usually loses the remote, breaks the lawn mower, and when we send the now 14 year old to gather the years harvest he sulks in with half a dozen pecans and goes back to killing zombies on his Xbox. The next day as I go out to my car I hear the sickening crunch as I find all the ones he missed in the ankle tall grass; Kids today.
Sunday ~ October 10, 2007 by Steve W Posted in Garden Tools |
