Heritage Corner Heritage Corner is a weekly feature of the Bellevue Reporter. Material is provided by the Eastside Heritage Center. What is it?

Fruit Picker Pole. This tool, a metal basket with prongs on one side affixed to an eight-foot wooden pole, is used to pick apples and other fruits from the tops of trees. Standing on the ground, the farmer puts the basket around the apple and uses the prongs to pull it from the tree. This basket can hold four or five apples. Fruit picker poles still are used today.

September 11, 2008 7:24 pm
Heritage Corner Heritage Corner is a weekly feature of the Bellevue Reporter. Material is provided by the Eastside Heritage Center. What is it?

Fruit Picker Pole. This tool, a metal basket with prongs on one side affixed to an eight-foot wooden pole, is used to pick apples and other fruits from the tops of trees. Standing on the ground, the farmer puts the basket around the apple and uses the prongs to pull it from the tree. This basket can hold four or five apples. Fruit picker poles still are used today.

To learn more about Bellevue and Eastside history, contact the Eastside Heritage Center at 425-450-1049 or visit www.EastsideHeritageCenter.org.