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Hop Harvesters What’s Out There?
December 7, 2013
Morrisville, NY
Chris Callahan
UVM Extension Ag Engineering
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Mechanized Harvesting • Economics
– Capital cost
– Labor savings
• Quality
– Harvest timing and duration
• Logistics
– “Feeding the machine”
– Will need more drying capacity
• Net Yield
Strip and Sort
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Harvester Characteristics
• Cost
– material, labor, assembly, retrofit, recurring
• Capacity (bines/hr)
• Crew
• Power source
• Portable vs. Stationary
• Effectiveness
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Crafty Hop Plucker (CO)
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The Crafty Hop Plucker • $5,000
• 30-60 bines per hour
• 1 person crew
• Electric power
• Stripping only
The Crafty Hop Plucker
Larry Leinhart
Fort Collins, Colorado
970-219-3929
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Bine Implement 3060
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Bine Implement 3060
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Bine Implement 3060
• $14,000
• 20-30 bines per hour
• 1 person to operate
• Electric power
• Strips and sorts
www.bineimplement.com
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Steenland Mobile Structures
Steenland Mobile Structures - Hop Harvester 1000 (Roxbury, NY)
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Steenland Mobile Structures • $12,000 (est.)
• 120 bines/hour (est.)
• 1 person to operate
• Portable
• Electric power
• Strips and sorts
• Rubber fingers
– Anticipate less cone damage
Steve Steenland
www.steenlandmobilestructures.com
607-326-7707
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Larry and Kate Fisher
Foot Hill Hops (NY)
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Stillpoint Farm – Tom Barse (MD)
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LaGasse Hop Harvester
LaGasse Hop Harvester (Lyons, NY)
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LaGasse Hop Harvester
• Price is TBD
• 150-200 bines/hour (est)
• 2 person crew
• Will strip and sort
• Gasoline powered hydraulics
Dan LaGasse & Jason McCormik
LaGasse Works, Inc.
315-946-9202
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UVM Mobile Hop Harvester
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UVM Mobile Hop Harvester
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UVM Mobile Hop Harvester
• Open source design
• $9,500 - 30,000
• 60 - 170 bines per hour
• 2 – 4 person crew
• Hydraulic power (tractor PTO)
• Strips and sorts
• Auto feed
Chris Callahan
UVM Extension
802-773-3349
Google “UVM Hops Wiki”
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Wolf WHE170 – Nicolas Schaut (Ontario)
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Wolf WHE170
Four Star Farms
(Northfield, MA)
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Wolf WHE140 – NEHA Morrisville, NY
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Wolf Harvesters
• $30,000 – $45,000
• WHE140: 120-140 bines/hr
• WHE170: up to 170 bines/hr
• 1-8 person crews
• 3 Phase electrical power
• Strips and sorts (and can chop bines)
• Auto feed
Tom Frazer
Dauenhauer Mfg, Co.
707-546-0577
www.dmfg.com
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Option Initial Cost Crew Bine/Hour
Hand Picking Zero 1 1
Crafty Hop Plucker $5,000 1 30-60
Bine 3060
(Addison Hop Farm, Addison, VT)
$14,250 1 20-30
Steenland Hop Harvester 1000 $12,000 1 120
LaGasse Mobile Harvester TBD 2 150-200
(est.)
UVM Mobile
(UVM and others replicating
Dean Heltemes, Todd Wycoff, Pat
Comerford)
$9,500-$30,000 4 60-120
Wolf WHE140
(NEHA / Foothill Hops)
$30,000
+ labor
2-3 140
Wolf WHE170
(Four Star Farm Northfield, MA)
$30,000
+ 2 weeks labor
8 170
Wolf WHE170
(Big Head Hops, Ontario)
$43,500
complete
1+ 170
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Videos
• Crafty Hop Plucker
• Bine Implement 3060
• UVM Mobile Hops Harvester
• Lunatic Fringe (UVM type)
• Wolf 140 (NEHA) - bines
• Wolf 140 (NEHA) – cones
• Wolf – side by side
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Chris Callahan
Rutland Office / [email protected] / 802-773-3349
www.uvm.edu/extension/agriculture/engineering
blog.uvm.edu/cwcallah
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