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Hop Harvesters What’s Out There? December 7, 2013 Morrisville, NY Chris Callahan UVM Extension Ag Engineering UVM Extension helps individuals and communities put research-based knowledge to work. Issued in furtherance of Cooperative Extension work, Acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914, in cooperation with the United States Department of Agriculture. University of Vermont Extension, Burlington, Vermont. University of Vermont Extension, and U.S. Department of Agriculture, cooperating, offer education and employment to everyone without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation, and marital or familial status.

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Hop Harvesters What’s Out There?

December 7, 2013

Morrisville, NY

Chris Callahan

UVM Extension Ag Engineering

UVM Extension helps individuals and communities put research-based knowledge to work.

Issued in furtherance of Cooperative Extension work, Acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914, in cooperation with the United States

Department of Agriculture. University of Vermont Extension, Burlington, Vermont.

University of Vermont Extension, and U.S. Department of Agriculture, cooperating, offer education and employment to everyone

without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation, and marital or

familial status.

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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

[email protected]

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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

[email protected]

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

[email protected]

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

[email protected]

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

2013 NEHA Presentation/Crafty Hop Plucker Video.MOV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=F9P0ilJRVUM#t=358
2013 NEHA Presentation/UVM Harvester at Yellow Dog.MOV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um59TI3xxB4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDZbv7d-J8A&feature=player_detailpage#t=22
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDZbv7d-J8A&feature=player_detailpage#t=90
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFg15rjKuQQ
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Rutland Office / [email protected] / 802-773-3349

www.uvm.edu/extension/agriculture/engineering

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