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  • Innovation is the name of the game While the economic downturn has spelt gloom and doom for some businesses, Roger Grant’s engineering business in Snells Beach has become more innovative. He has developed a simple lightweight unit, which will allow olive and nut growers to harvest their crops themselves, avoiding the pitfalls of seriously strained backs and damaged, muddy and squashed fruit endemic in more basic methods of harvesting. It all started when olive grower and member of the Matakana Olive Cooperative, Don Boshier, decided he needed a less labour intensive way of harvesting his 1200 olive trees. He visited Roger and commissioned him to produce something similar to what he’d seen in pictures – a big umbrella structure to catch the fruit as they fell and channel them into a box. Don Boshier works with the prototype Pickapod olive picker on his Laurie Road property. "It has been a great investment," Don says. "We wanted something practical which got us away from spreading nets under the trees to catch the olives, which was labour intensive. Olives ripen in April and May in Rodney and it can be very wet, muddy and unpleasant work – not romantic at all." Roger came up with a Pickapod, a free wheeled up-side-down catching 'umbrella' which can also be attached to a quad bike for transport on uneven ground. The umbrella, which wraps around the tree trunk, unfolds to a six-metre diameter. Fruit is dislodged from branches by a mechanical vibrator and falls into the umbrella, which is tilted to ensure fruit runs to an opening and into a removable collection bin underneath. The unit has a manual level tilt adjustment, to cope with undulating ground. Windy Ridge sail maker Roger Davies provided the heavy-duty UV resistant polyethylene shade material to attach to the lightweight frame. So far
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