Gathering Apples is hard on the back for some of us. If raked into a pile, it makes it much easier. I was using a garden rake upside down and it helped a lot. Today we took a 3" X 26' piece of steel and welded it onto that garden rake~~Turned it into a Real Apple Gathering Machine. I gathered up all the apples under 2 trees in less than 10 minutes. If you have many trees, you may want to try something like this.
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