The second cranberry grower that I visited was Lee Brothers with 130 acres.
updated on July 18, 2013: video that I had embedded here about the Lee Brothers operation is no longer available. :-(
I got an opportunity to see a little of the Lee Brother's cranberry harvest when I visited. I understand that the Lee Brothers uses different harvesting techniques from Pine Island. I got to see them deploy the yellow crane-boom, it is on the large spool you will see being pulled by the green tractor. The harvest crew rakes the cranberries with the aid of a large blower into the crane-boom in one corner of the bog.
It was pretty cool to watch them work. I would like to thank the Lee family for taking a few moments out of their busy day to describe what I was seeing.
Enjoy these photos that I took the day of my visit to the Lee Brothers.
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| Lee Brothers Cranberry Bog |
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| Lee Brothers Cranberry Bog |
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| Cran-boom is on the large spool behind the tractor |
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| Tractor with blower |
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| Cran-boom being deployed |
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| Raking cranberries |
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| Cran-boom being deployed, tractor is moving. |
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| Cran-boom being deployed, tractor is moving. |
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| Cran-boom being deployed, tractor is moving. |
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| Cran-boom being deployed, tractor is moving. |
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| Raking and blowing |
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| Raking and blowing |
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| Blowing cranberries |
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