On our first full day on the Atherton Tableland with Peter's brother's family, we walked across the road to watch onions being harvested. Days (weeks?) earlier these onions were pulled to the surface to dry out a bit. A rainstorm was not desired at this point until after the actual gathering. Some hand raking was needed at the sides of each row to make them narrow enough for the harvester to gather every onion. When all was ready the onions in each line were scooped into a kind of mobile sorting factory where the chaff was removed partly by machine and partly by the hands of the two travelling workers. It was very interesting to watch it happen.
No comments:
Post a Comment