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North of London | That is an interesting machine.
I have never seen anything like that.
You still have to pick the pods
There are fresh green peas grown in this area in fields of 20-40 ha (50to100ac) and harvested by special combines.
They used to swath them and load them on dump trucks and haul them to locations with a group of what were called pea viners where the load of vines and pods was forked into the viners by hand.
The peas were conveyed to wheeled bins that weighed half a ton and hauled to a factory to be processed into cans or in more recent times frozen
That was the first paying job I had as a 15 year old, forking the pea vines into the viners and making big money at 78 cents an hour. Got a raise to 82 gets the next year. | |
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Shelling Peas
