Alternative uses for a Grape Harvester

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Alternative uses for a Grape Harvester

• Adam Hall
• Technical Officer/ Grower Liaison
• The Yalumba Wine Company
• Oxford Landing Estate

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Harvesting
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Machine Thinning

• Over cropping
• High yields for cool climate vineyard
• No labour expensive
• Used harvester

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Pruning
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Spraying
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Dead Wood Harvesting

• Old vines
• Problems with MOG levels during vintage

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Snail Harvesting

• Timing Early season/ budburst to avoid shoot
  damage
• Cool wet mornings best as snails more active
• Ground speed 3.5Km/hr
• Beater speed - too high causes shoot damage
• 2-3 beaters per side targeting trunk of vine

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Olives

• Dwarf olives planted in 2008
• Grown on existing vineyard trellis system
• To be Machine Pruned and Picked

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