We harvested our pistachio orchard last week! The harvest is mechanized, and I finally got a chance to video the process. Here's a few videos of the trees being shaken. The nuts fall onto a conveyor that runs past a fan that blows out the leaves, and then fall into a bin. Sorry about the blurry edges; the lense was a bit smudged.
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