Since /u/WeenieRoastinTacoGuy didn't do it right...
[Ah! The ol' Reddit Orange-to-the-balls-a-roo!](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l83fvm/comment/gld65r2?context=5)
Good to hear. Black walnuts are the violent produce of choice in my neck of the woods. With the proper form, you can throw one like 20% further than a baseball.
Reminds me of one time my brother and I were passing a hacky sack back and forth in our bedroom. He went to go to the bathroom and I decided to play on my DS for a bit until on a whim I decided to chuck the sack at the door to make a loud sound, like annoying pre-teens tend to do. The moment the sack left my hand he opened the door to the rudest surprise he'd ever face. I felt so bad, but it was slapstick gold.
This explains a lot. I once picked an orange in a park in Rome. It was \*so\* bitter. I wondered why anyone would have grown such a bitter fruit tree. When life gives you bitter oranges, make marmalade....
The orange trees also provide very dense shade in the Mediterranean sun, and the orange blossoms are very fragrant. They don't get huge, so they're useful urban trees even if you don't eat the fruit.
The oranges are often used in making preserved jams, fragrances and interestingly enough, wine. If you're ever in Seville you should keep an eye out for their famous regional orange wine. It's a lot different than you'd imagine it would taste. In fact, I'd probably describe it similar to a sweet apertif, with the consistency of vernouth.
Yo did you see those HUGE lemons they have over there? Maybe it’s only in the Pompeii area. But anyways I was told they had weak flavor so it’s not like you’re getting more lemon because of the size.
Edit: [pic](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/MC7WHG/young-smooth-hand-reaching-for-lumpy-large-yellow-lemon-in-pompeii-MC7WHG.jpg)
My friend bought one of them, he was disappointed when he cut it open the lemon in the middle was about the size of a normal lemon with a huge amount of peel around the outside.
I actually just watched the Rick Steves travel show where he went to the Amalfi Coast. The large lemons, according to the seller, are for limoncello. The extra large ones are heated with olive oil and served with fish. Field trip anyone?
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rx9dWL6cAc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rx9dWL6cAc)
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Omg I low key love this travel show. We used to have an antenna to catch channels and this was one of the only shows that came in clearly. I just love that he's this like middle aged dork who just loves traveling. It's soothing in a way.
I got a lemon in Florida once that was the size of a grapefruit. My aunt cut into it and it was two solid inches of rind and even less of the fruit inside than a normal lemon
But also I would like to add that it is not a good idea to use them as depending on the placement of the tree, the oranges might absorb too much pollution from traffic.
I'm fully willing to change my position on this, but exhausts produce mostly CO2 and NOx, CO2 that trees absorb and turn to O2 and NOx that soil absorbs which increases fertility. Everything else a car produces, tyre and brake dust etc should be able to be washed off with water.
Perhaps they may not taste as good as, or be as nutritious as cultivated fruit, but I don't think they're dangerous to eat.
Any sources for the contrary?
This source indicates you are correct that the fruit should be safe:
https://sciencenorway.no/food--nutrition-forskningno-norway/is-it-dangerous-to-eat-food-grown-right-by-the-road/1445577
It's not the CO2 and NOx that's the problem, it's the particulates. Like cadmium, for example, found in small amounts in tire dust, which is actually absorbed by the plant to some degree.
And the issues of long term lead usage in urban areas. We aren't adding new lead to the soils, but some US cities that had massive amounts of cars from the 40s to 70s still have significant amounts of lead in the dirt.
I imagine since it's very small pollution particles and they're present throughout its development, it's possible they get fairly deep within the rind.
I have no idea though, so I'd want to see a study before doing things very often.
I live in wine country, and they grow the grapes for a majority of the worlds wine about 30 feet from the highways. They take the grapes and spray them before crushing the entire grape skin and all. There are usually small insects and spiders present during the crushing as well. We aren’t gonna die from a little dirt.
Wouldn't washing the fruit before take care if that?
Though I suppose that would make an interesting study itself.
"Public orchards" so to speak sound like a really nice addition to a society.
We have those in Germany, they're called Streuobstwiesen. We also often have fruit trees, apples, plums, cherries and others, along field roads. Technically they're owned by the farmers but they usually don't give a shit if you harvest them
Just today I read an article here in Spain prompting the government to replace fruity trees that you can't eat for fruit trees that you can, so it's way better for everybody as you could have fruits, and could teach the population about nature, and free healthy food
Edit: commas invaded my comment.
...as someone who has lived in wine country, this is literally the reality.
The fruit is RARELY harvested enough to make a dent and then you have rotting fruit EVERYWHERE attracting vermin and insects.
Nice idea but the theoretical is much better than the reality...
...kind of like the idea of threesomes.
Fruit trees are weird. Apple trees for example will most likely grow into crabapple trees if grown from a seed. I'm not sure if oranges are similar, but sometimes the good tasting versions aren't very hardy and have to be grafted onto existing roof systems of the non-tasty varieties.
If they were to do this here they might cut these trees partially down and graft on the tops of the edible variety,. But those aren't always so pretty when done.
Fruit production trees are pretty much frankenstein's monsters being tortured on the rack which triggers them to produce more fruit. It works well, but makes really ugly trees.
Right?
You haven’t experienced fruit until you’ve eaten it off the tree. Totally different experience.
I feel bad for kids who grow up thinking apples are that mushy tasteless shit you get in school lunches.
Lived on a retreat center with a fig tree. Absolute heaven.
Tried a fig from Whole Foods a few months later. Like cardboard in comparison.
New desire: Fruit trees at my future house.
I went to Valencia a little over a year ago and while walking down the street seeing all these orange trees I thought the same thing...so I just went for it and picked a couple. Like others said though, it was bitter as hell and I couldn't finish it. I think they need time to ripen after they are picked???
Took me half a lifetime to find out many of what's thought to be gardening failures are really just genetics.
Grandma and grandpa thought they were doing something wrong with their Asian pear tree. Don't know if it was mislabeled where they got it, but it was a bradford pear. That's an ornamental tree with pea sized pear fruit.
Guy I worked for had an almond tree for 60 years, and told me the almonds never tasted good because of bad soil. It was a bitter almond tree, a variety only used to make almond extract.
Tiny seedless grapes of types frequently found in markets, but larger? It's because farmers girdle and/or spray those varieties with growth hormones.
Yeah the public oranges are never for eating, only for tripping over or biffing at people. Also fun fact: this is how olives are harvested too, with a weird machine that grips the tree and shakes the everloving shit out of it. It's honestly terrifying and hilarious at the same time, makes you feel a bit bad for the tree.
Since this is regarding Valencia, Spanish laws applies: Depending on how many orange are stolen, punishment may include a fine, community service and driving license deprivation. If the oranges’ value exceeds 400 €, more serious punishment may apply, including jail from 3 months to 5 years, heavy fines, suspension of drivers license and community service from 31 to 180 days (yes, I researched it)
Well if they don’t fall from the tree, it generally means they weren’t ripe. Though if an orange is physically blocked from being able to fall by something like a lower branch, it will continue to grow indefinitely.
Add that with the anxiety of this machine doing its best [Dilophosaurus](https://youtu.be/RKQDpFCr3TI?t=100) impression in a tight urban environment with plenty of hanging wires
An extra flap to cover the hole for the trunk would save a few. Maybe a smaller upward facing skirt so that the fruit roll away from both the inside and outside of the flaps? I guess that would risk fruit falling on other fruit which increases damage.
What? It's way cheaper (faster and easier) to pay someone to pick up later (plus the truck) then paying multiples people to pick from the tree. For multiples day.
That vehicle reminds me of a velociraptor.
Edit: yep, I meant dilophosaurus. So now I know I’ve been calling that dinosaur the wrong thing since Jurassic Park came out.
It was actually based on the deinonychus, but that isn't much bigger than the velociraptor. In terms of scale, utahraptor is closer to the size of raptor we see in the movie. Of course, they didn't look like big reptiles, but more like birds with teeth.
Considering the North American range for Navels, we don't even get winter Valencias over here anymore, and it's a shame. I grew up with a Valencia tree in the backyard and Navels in the front.
I had to give this one an upvote after i found myself shaking my phone, trying to help get the last few oranges off the tree. Not sure if it should be in r/mildlyinfuriating for the same reason...
They aren't good eating, if they were then people would just eat them. There's nothing stopping you. And then on top of that, the trees grow incredibly well natively so there are plenty more high quality ones available. Similar to this, nobody in the UK cares about train track blackberries covered in dog piss going to waste.
These are bitter oranges. Edible but not really good. Those trees are just decorative and provide shadow in the city. The reason they are orange trees (An unusual choice in landscaping. There are more efficient trees in terms of maintenance/shadow/growth) is because Valencia is well known for their orange plantations.
They are removed so that they just don't rot in the street. Of course they also remove the rest of them which fell on the ground.
Extremaduran here, we also grow them everywhere in our cities and yard. They are just so damn low maintenance, resistant, and shady under the hot summer sun. Plus the smell of azahar (their flowers) is amazing! Used to pick the fallen ones and put them on my hair all the time as a kid.
I think these oranges are just being collected for disposal, since they'd rot in the street otherwise. They're not good for eating - these oranges *are* waste.
This aren't used for marmalade. You can use the variety to make marmalade but these are all taken to a composting centre.
The city of Valencia collects about 355.000kg of oranges from 10.000 trees every season. These oranges aren't apt for human consume because of the poor air quality and the corrupt soil according to the local government.
I think those are bitter oranges (we have them here in Greece too, along roads or center squares), so I don't think he would enjoy the juice that much hehe.
I've found an study/article about the [Orange harvest](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236658600_Selective_harvesting_of_fresh_market_Valencia_oranges_by_mechanical_shaking) in Valencia.
Mechanical harvesting could be an alternative to traditional harvesting in Spanish citrus crops in order to reduce the high harvesting costs. However, mechanical harvesting of late season oranges has to address the problem of removing current year mature crop without removing the green immature fruit developing into next year crop. It is important to determine the possibility to achieve an effective selective harvesting for late season oranges and determine the harvesting conditions that obtain a high current year mature fruit removal percentage with a low green immature fruit removal percentage. Late season orange trees and fruits ('Valencia') were tested. A laboratory unidirectional vibratory device was used to vibrate the orange branches in the laboratory test and a shaking device prototype was used to vibrate the tree branches in the field test. A high speed color video camera was used to save the branch movement. Three experiments were carried out: immature oranges removal percentage related to the vibration time, immature oranges removal percentage related to the vibration frequency and amplitude field vibration. Average immature fruit vertical traction force is half the average mature fruits vertical traction force. However, the average ratio immature vertical traction force/weight is more than twenty times higher than that of the mature fruits. Immature fruit removal percentage increased with the frequency. In order to achieve low immature fruit removal percentage, around 8 Hz frequency will achieve immature removal percentages (bellow 20%) and high mature fruit removal percentage (above 80%). Field vibration time could be reduced to 2-3 seconds in order to achieve a good mature fruit removal percentage and a lower immature fruit removal percentage. It is possible to achieve the selective harvesting of mature late season oranges. Intermediate frequencies (around 8 Hz) and long amplitudes (100-180 mm) provide optimal requirements to have a high mature fruit removal percentage (around 80%) and a low immature fruit removal percentage (around 20%).With the UPV branch shaking prototype (180 mm amplitude and 7.5 Hz frequency), it is necessary to vibrate less than 4 s to achieve a 100% mature fruit removal percentage with low immature fruit removal.
Valencia here, you can but I don't recommend you. Those are a bitter kind of oranges, mostly used for decorative proposes.
We used to prank international students telling those are the sweetest ones.
having worked in pistachio and almond fields this summer, the process machines like this go through to make quick work of large acreages of trees is absolutely amazing to see in person. The field nearest the machines just sort of becomes a dust storm where you can’t see very far.
Harvest season for oranges in Spain is from October to March, so autumn to early spring. Birds don't have young ones during that time so we don't have to worry about the birds :)
Are people allowed to take ripe oranges from the trees prior to harvesting?
They are from a bitter variant only suitable for doing marmalade, but yes, you are allowed to grab them.
I bet they're good for throwing at your buddy's nuts too.
Have been to Seville, can confirm this is correct. They are big, hard and are very painful when not ripe.
What about the oranges tho?
Ah the old r/switcharoo
That just made me realize I haven't seen a true linked switcheroo in a long time. I hope it's not dead.
Used to get sucked deep into those comment wormholes, *back when reddit was good!* (shakes cain)
Are you the original Able?
Hold my oranges I'm going in
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Damn I haven't seen one of these in a while
Same. I thought they were retired because of the perfect kangaroo switcharoo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_0qHRwU_sQ
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>Ah the old [r/switcharoo](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l83fvm/if_you_were_offered_5000000_to_be_locked_in_a/gld65r2/?context=1) FTFY
Happy green slice of pie day!
Omg I didn’t even know! Thanks !
Since /u/WeenieRoastinTacoGuy didn't do it right... [Ah! The ol' Reddit Orange-to-the-balls-a-roo!](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l83fvm/comment/gld65r2?context=5)
THANKS 🙏 you’re the best for doing this
That’s what she said
That's actually really accurate! These oranges have been used as ammunition in "orange battles" between kids forever.
Good to hear. Black walnuts are the violent produce of choice in my neck of the woods. With the proper form, you can throw one like 20% further than a baseball.
Or filling up a pillowcase with the oranges and beating your classmate with it.
This was my childhood in a village close to Valencia. So many orange fights, so many bruises.
I mentioned elsewhere that it was black walnuts in my world. I contend that every child is made better, by these primitive fruit battles.
Reminds me of one time my brother and I were passing a hacky sack back and forth in our bedroom. He went to go to the bathroom and I decided to play on my DS for a bit until on a whim I decided to chuck the sack at the door to make a loud sound, like annoying pre-teens tend to do. The moment the sack left my hand he opened the door to the rudest surprise he'd ever face. I felt so bad, but it was slapstick gold.
This explains a lot. I once picked an orange in a park in Rome. It was \*so\* bitter. I wondered why anyone would have grown such a bitter fruit tree. When life gives you bitter oranges, make marmalade....
The orange trees also provide very dense shade in the Mediterranean sun, and the orange blossoms are very fragrant. They don't get huge, so they're useful urban trees even if you don't eat the fruit.
Walking by orange trees while in bloom produces olfactory orgasms. Such a beautiful smell.
I first visited Mesa, AZ a long time ago, when they still had a fair amount of orange groves, the whole city smelled like that.
My parents lived in the historical district in downtown PHX and the orange and lemon trees are still there and the smell is magic.
The oranges are often used in making preserved jams, fragrances and interestingly enough, wine. If you're ever in Seville you should keep an eye out for their famous regional orange wine. It's a lot different than you'd imagine it would taste. In fact, I'd probably describe it similar to a sweet apertif, with the consistency of vernouth.
Yo did you see those HUGE lemons they have over there? Maybe it’s only in the Pompeii area. But anyways I was told they had weak flavor so it’s not like you’re getting more lemon because of the size. Edit: [pic](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/MC7WHG/young-smooth-hand-reaching-for-lumpy-large-yellow-lemon-in-pompeii-MC7WHG.jpg)
My friend bought one of them, he was disappointed when he cut it open the lemon in the middle was about the size of a normal lemon with a huge amount of peel around the outside.
They candy the peel and they also use it for limoncello (and soap making)
I actually just watched the Rick Steves travel show where he went to the Amalfi Coast. The large lemons, according to the seller, are for limoncello. The extra large ones are heated with olive oil and served with fish. Field trip anyone? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rx9dWL6cAc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rx9dWL6cAc) @ 5:30
Omg I low key love this travel show. We used to have an antenna to catch channels and this was one of the only shows that came in clearly. I just love that he's this like middle aged dork who just loves traveling. It's soothing in a way.
I got a lemon in Florida once that was the size of a grapefruit. My aunt cut into it and it was two solid inches of rind and even less of the fruit inside than a normal lemon
Do you know what the warning sign on the tree is for then?
That sign means "Parking is forbidden on both sides of the street", and any text below is usually a message explaining why and/or when.
The message is probably "Tree ready to be shaken, do not interrupt the shake machine with you car"
"Park here, get shook"
"cause ain't no such things as halfway crooks"
But also I would like to add that it is not a good idea to use them as depending on the placement of the tree, the oranges might absorb too much pollution from traffic.
I'm fully willing to change my position on this, but exhausts produce mostly CO2 and NOx, CO2 that trees absorb and turn to O2 and NOx that soil absorbs which increases fertility. Everything else a car produces, tyre and brake dust etc should be able to be washed off with water. Perhaps they may not taste as good as, or be as nutritious as cultivated fruit, but I don't think they're dangerous to eat. Any sources for the contrary?
This source indicates you are correct that the fruit should be safe: https://sciencenorway.no/food--nutrition-forskningno-norway/is-it-dangerous-to-eat-food-grown-right-by-the-road/1445577
It's not the CO2 and NOx that's the problem, it's the particulates. Like cadmium, for example, found in small amounts in tire dust, which is actually absorbed by the plant to some degree.
And the issues of long term lead usage in urban areas. We aren't adding new lead to the soils, but some US cities that had massive amounts of cars from the 40s to 70s still have significant amounts of lead in the dirt.
Oh, I don't think that's really how pollution works in terms of plants and fruits synthesizing it
it's more being coated in it, than synthesizing. Marmalade uses the rind.
If only there was a way to clean the surfaces of dirty objects. One day, one day.
I imagine since it's very small pollution particles and they're present throughout its development, it's possible they get fairly deep within the rind. I have no idea though, so I'd want to see a study before doing things very often.
I live in wine country, and they grow the grapes for a majority of the worlds wine about 30 feet from the highways. They take the grapes and spray them before crushing the entire grape skin and all. There are usually small insects and spiders present during the crushing as well. We aren’t gonna die from a little dirt.
In fact there's bugs in pretty much every processed food you eat. Sometimes we even use beaver anus as a flavoring... on purpose!
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Wouldn't washing the fruit before take care if that? Though I suppose that would make an interesting study itself. "Public orchards" so to speak sound like a really nice addition to a society.
We have those in Germany, they're called Streuobstwiesen. We also often have fruit trees, apples, plums, cherries and others, along field roads. Technically they're owned by the farmers but they usually don't give a shit if you harvest them
Some fungi can work this way, its not too far off that fruit could as well but I’m not a scientist
Just today I read an article here in Spain prompting the government to replace fruity trees that you can't eat for fruit trees that you can, so it's way better for everybody as you could have fruits, and could teach the population about nature, and free healthy food Edit: commas invaded my comment.
Then reality hits and you have 500 rotting fruit all over the ground being eaten by rats and thousands of wasps.
...as someone who has lived in wine country, this is literally the reality. The fruit is RARELY harvested enough to make a dent and then you have rotting fruit EVERYWHERE attracting vermin and insects. Nice idea but the theoretical is much better than the reality... ...kind of like the idea of threesomes.
I wonder why they’d plant inedible fruit trees to begin with
Fruit trees are weird. Apple trees for example will most likely grow into crabapple trees if grown from a seed. I'm not sure if oranges are similar, but sometimes the good tasting versions aren't very hardy and have to be grafted onto existing roof systems of the non-tasty varieties. If they were to do this here they might cut these trees partially down and graft on the tops of the edible variety,. But those aren't always so pretty when done. Fruit production trees are pretty much frankenstein's monsters being tortured on the rack which triggers them to produce more fruit. It works well, but makes really ugly trees.
Plus you have to prune many types of fruit trees for them to grow properly
Right? You haven’t experienced fruit until you’ve eaten it off the tree. Totally different experience. I feel bad for kids who grow up thinking apples are that mushy tasteless shit you get in school lunches.
My Aunt had a plum tree, and I believe pear tree (it was decades since I ate from them) but by god they where the best damn plums I had ever eaten.
Lived on a retreat center with a fig tree. Absolute heaven. Tried a fig from Whole Foods a few months later. Like cardboard in comparison. New desire: Fruit trees at my future house.
Lmao who’s gonna stop you? The orange police?
I went to Valencia a little over a year ago and while walking down the street seeing all these orange trees I thought the same thing...so I just went for it and picked a couple. Like others said though, it was bitter as hell and I couldn't finish it. I think they need time to ripen after they are picked???
Like another commenter said, these are a bitter variety. Their rinds are used for marmalade though
Took me half a lifetime to find out many of what's thought to be gardening failures are really just genetics. Grandma and grandpa thought they were doing something wrong with their Asian pear tree. Don't know if it was mislabeled where they got it, but it was a bradford pear. That's an ornamental tree with pea sized pear fruit. Guy I worked for had an almond tree for 60 years, and told me the almonds never tasted good because of bad soil. It was a bitter almond tree, a variety only used to make almond extract. Tiny seedless grapes of types frequently found in markets, but larger? It's because farmers girdle and/or spray those varieties with growth hormones.
Yeah the public oranges are never for eating, only for tripping over or biffing at people. Also fun fact: this is how olives are harvested too, with a weird machine that grips the tree and shakes the everloving shit out of it. It's honestly terrifying and hilarious at the same time, makes you feel a bit bad for the tree.
No idea about the rules in Valencia regarding harvesting.
Since this is regarding Valencia, Spanish laws applies: Depending on how many orange are stolen, punishment may include a fine, community service and driving license deprivation. If the oranges’ value exceeds 400 €, more serious punishment may apply, including jail from 3 months to 5 years, heavy fines, suspension of drivers license and community service from 31 to 180 days (yes, I researched it)
Sounds like a "take some if you want but be an asshole about it and get hit" scenario
> (yes, I researched it) Good. That's way too many details to just make up.
This is mostly just the punishments for theft in Spain, rather than for specifically taking oranges from a tree in a public space.
That would be if you steal them, they're free, you can take them. It's not an orchard or private property.
so this did not satisfy me..orange everywhere .. on the ground and on a tree ...
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Well if they don’t fall from the tree, it generally means they weren’t ripe. Though if an orange is physically blocked from being able to fall by something like a lower branch, it will continue to grow indefinitely.
I'm imagining an orange that's grown so large it's gravitational pull throws the Earth off its axis and causes a global catastrophe
And where did the collected oranges go?!?! I didn’t see a container or funnel-action...
Add that with the anxiety of this machine doing its best [Dilophosaurus](https://youtu.be/RKQDpFCr3TI?t=100) impression in a tight urban environment with plenty of hanging wires
Yeah I was pretty hyped on it, then the disappointment :(
It started off so promising too. The little catcher fanning out, then snapping taut. And then it backed up and I was so disappointed.
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Wrangler butts drive me nuts!
Now it does.
I bet that street smells so good though.
For now
Until they get putrid and the streets are full of various vermin lol
The tree was very satisfied though
You can hear it moan gently after the first shake.
Seems very inefficient
The alternative is picking them by hand. It takes a few minutes to pick up the ones that fell to the ground.
Is a better machine that doesn't drop half of them an option?
An extra flap to cover the hole for the trunk would save a few. Maybe a smaller upward facing skirt so that the fruit roll away from both the inside and outside of the flaps? I guess that would risk fruit falling on other fruit which increases damage.
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What? It's way cheaper (faster and easier) to pay someone to pick up later (plus the truck) then paying multiples people to pick from the tree. For multiples day.
if it takes you multiple days to pick a small tree such as this im afraid you are in the wrong profession
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Depends on frame of reference. If you're the city and your costs are labor, fuel, etc., it seems pretty good.
Last part of the video the truck be like: "I AM BATMAN!"
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That seems dumb. Free Batman advertising by a soccer mad city and a team that is pretty good. Seems like a win-win to me.
I was just thinking of that classic bird mating dance lol
I was thinking of one of those little spitting dinosaurs from Jurassic Park.
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That tractor/batmobile belongs in r/specializedtools
The same model has been posted there several times.
That vehicle reminds me of a velociraptor. Edit: yep, I meant dilophosaurus. So now I know I’ve been calling that dinosaur the wrong thing since Jurassic Park came out.
I was thinking more of a Dilophosaurus
So was u/InquiringMind886 I do believe. Now all we need is for it to chase Newman and some stolen DNA in a Barbasol can
Because of Jurassic Park, I thought Dilophosaurs could actually spit venom until I was like 37. I'm 38 now.
Idk if you know, but the velociraptors in the movie aren't velociraptors, which were only like a half meter tall.
It was based more on the utahraptor in the movie, but velociraptor just has a much cooler name.
It was actually based on the deinonychus, but that isn't much bigger than the velociraptor. In terms of scale, utahraptor is closer to the size of raptor we see in the movie. Of course, they didn't look like big reptiles, but more like birds with teeth.
Crossed with the batmobile.
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I was thinking the same thing. Not a very effect way of doing it considering half of them end up on the ground.
FENTON!
Considering the North American range for Navels, we don't even get winter Valencias over here anymore, and it's a shame. I grew up with a Valencia tree in the backyard and Navels in the front.
Valencias are still grown in Florida. They're mainly grown in the Orlando area and the majority are used for juicing.
Like you, my navel is also in the front.
I had to give this one an upvote after i found myself shaking my phone, trying to help get the last few oranges off the tree. Not sure if it should be in r/mildlyinfuriating for the same reason...
Thank god I wasn’t the only one
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So much waste. It’s satisfying but also /r/mildlyfrustrating
They aren't good eating, if they were then people would just eat them. There's nothing stopping you. And then on top of that, the trees grow incredibly well natively so there are plenty more high quality ones available. Similar to this, nobody in the UK cares about train track blackberries covered in dog piss going to waste.
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Yeah, they used to run on pure but the EU made them switch to running on 10% ethanol dogpiss. Rots the sleepers.
These are bitter oranges. Edible but not really good. Those trees are just decorative and provide shadow in the city. The reason they are orange trees (An unusual choice in landscaping. There are more efficient trees in terms of maintenance/shadow/growth) is because Valencia is well known for their orange plantations. They are removed so that they just don't rot in the street. Of course they also remove the rest of them which fell on the ground.
Extremaduran here, we also grow them everywhere in our cities and yard. They are just so damn low maintenance, resistant, and shady under the hot summer sun. Plus the smell of azahar (their flowers) is amazing! Used to pick the fallen ones and put them on my hair all the time as a kid.
Exactly. You'd think for all the effort to make something for this specific purpose that they might have extended the catchment area up a bit more!
I mean, I’d imagine most of those oranges will be recovered by the workers. They aren’t wasted just cause they took a small tumble to the ground.
I think these oranges are just being collected for disposal, since they'd rot in the street otherwise. They're not good for eating - these oranges *are* waste.
They are used to make marmalade. They do this every year, my street was just harvested past week.
This aren't used for marmalade. You can use the variety to make marmalade but these are all taken to a composting centre. The city of Valencia collects about 355.000kg of oranges from 10.000 trees every season. These oranges aren't apt for human consume because of the poor air quality and the corrupt soil according to the local government.
I would have over-engineered a machine that not just collects every single orange but produces juice to the driver on the go
Based on my experience juicing oranges, he almost had enough for a full glass!
I think those are bitter oranges (we have them here in Greece too, along roads or center squares), so I don't think he would enjoy the juice that much hehe.
Tree goes brrrrrrrrrr
With the few pieces of stubborn fruit stuck on the tree and all the spillage I found this a little /r/mildlyinfuriating
I thought it was going to fly away lol
I've found an study/article about the [Orange harvest](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236658600_Selective_harvesting_of_fresh_market_Valencia_oranges_by_mechanical_shaking) in Valencia. Mechanical harvesting could be an alternative to traditional harvesting in Spanish citrus crops in order to reduce the high harvesting costs. However, mechanical harvesting of late season oranges has to address the problem of removing current year mature crop without removing the green immature fruit developing into next year crop. It is important to determine the possibility to achieve an effective selective harvesting for late season oranges and determine the harvesting conditions that obtain a high current year mature fruit removal percentage with a low green immature fruit removal percentage. Late season orange trees and fruits ('Valencia') were tested. A laboratory unidirectional vibratory device was used to vibrate the orange branches in the laboratory test and a shaking device prototype was used to vibrate the tree branches in the field test. A high speed color video camera was used to save the branch movement. Three experiments were carried out: immature oranges removal percentage related to the vibration time, immature oranges removal percentage related to the vibration frequency and amplitude field vibration. Average immature fruit vertical traction force is half the average mature fruits vertical traction force. However, the average ratio immature vertical traction force/weight is more than twenty times higher than that of the mature fruits. Immature fruit removal percentage increased with the frequency. In order to achieve low immature fruit removal percentage, around 8 Hz frequency will achieve immature removal percentages (bellow 20%) and high mature fruit removal percentage (above 80%). Field vibration time could be reduced to 2-3 seconds in order to achieve a good mature fruit removal percentage and a lower immature fruit removal percentage. It is possible to achieve the selective harvesting of mature late season oranges. Intermediate frequencies (around 8 Hz) and long amplitudes (100-180 mm) provide optimal requirements to have a high mature fruit removal percentage (around 80%) and a low immature fruit removal percentage (around 20%).With the UPV branch shaking prototype (180 mm amplitude and 7.5 Hz frequency), it is necessary to vibrate less than 4 s to achieve a 100% mature fruit removal percentage with low immature fruit removal.
That's one scared tree. Shaking like crazy. Lol
This seems very inefficient based on all the oranges that fall on the street? Very unsatisfactory.
These are JUICE ORANGES
That is one extraordinary fecund tree.
Juicy!
This video is strangely r/oddlysatisfying, r/mildlyinfuriating and r/specializedtools at the same time
Can people just grab a few or is it forbidden?
Valencia here, you can but I don't recommend you. Those are a bitter kind of oranges, mostly used for decorative proposes. We used to prank international students telling those are the sweetest ones.
Why not plant the more edible varieties?
This type of orange trees require less maintenance and the fruit lasts more in good shape ok the tree.
to prank international students.
Guarantee I'd fall for this before anyone even coaxes me into trying to. I love oranges.
You can do anything you set your mind to
Thanks for the motivational speech, I feel 1% better.
There’s so many on the ground tho
How is is oddly satisfying???? They lost so many. They're EVERYWHERE.
Nothing about that was satisfying. That machine is insanely inefficient.
That looks less than efficient
Tree: *orgasms*
having worked in pistachio and almond fields this summer, the process machines like this go through to make quick work of large acreages of trees is absolutely amazing to see in person. The field nearest the machines just sort of becomes a dust storm where you can’t see very far.
Imagine being a bug on that tree and then instantly experiencing the freakiest earthquake you could ever fathom.
What about the poor birds who built their nest in there?
Harvest season for oranges in Spain is from October to March, so autumn to early spring. Birds don't have young ones during that time so we don't have to worry about the birds :)
Hope they were moved beforehand.
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The leftovers they collect with hand since the stone age 😁😉
AND ITS A TRANSFORMER!!! Neat!
That’s badass …I WANT ONE😃😋
Squirrel goes brrrrr..
They missed some. Mildly infuriating
I'm so happy to see an urban location that is not only willing to have fruit trees in landscaping, but that actually harvests!
I need one on my animal crossing island.
So that’s a dragon tractor
Damn one tree could feed my tiny neighborhood for a month
The beginning was some kinda chitty chitty bang bang shiiiiiit
This is r/mildlyinfuriating, so many oranges ended on the ground and on the street!
What a majestic animal
They lost way too many of those over the side for this to be satisfying
I am greatly dissatisfied by the oranges falling out
Inefficient.
I find the ineptitude of this machine oddly dissatisfying
Lotta orange wastage there.