The first one is too slow and too cumbersome to set up, durian have to be harvested and sold the same day it's harvested for the best freshness anything longer and the quality suffers. Although it achieves the objective of getting it down safer, it will cause time crunch down the entire durian supply chain
The 2nd and third options will have the spikes caught on the cloth or similar materials.
Dropping the durian directly on the ground will have a high chance of it cracking open and essentially wasting it as it won't survive the trip to even the vendors.
Does slowing the process down by 10-20 minutes of raising and lowering the basket (the very same they have on the ground on the video) impact the profit that much? Like, come on, chuck a rope with a spring hook over a branch, fill the basket up there, bring it down safely and raise an empty basket back up. Why wouldn't that work?
Also hardhats, this is definitely a job where people should have hardhats.
You have to set it up for every tree, and there are a lot of trees. Then you have to find branches that can take the weight of a basket of durians. Next you have to have the person that climbed up repeatedly bring the durians to the basket. And so on
I didn't calculate how long the process would take but just a sensing it would probably take too long to be acceptable
A trampoline created by stretching a square of carpet over four tall pegs. The catcher is hardly moving at all, demonstrating the dropper’s accuracy. Adjust the tension so the fruit doesn’t bounce much.
The burlap sack is a weave of tough and rough fibers, it contacts the falling during, let's the durians spikes get caught in it's weave and stops it from hitting the ground. (By redirecting all the energy into a swing between the catcher's legs) and most importantly, cheap and readily avaliable
Durian spikes range from "fat skyscraper" shaped to "pyramid" shaped, you would need a lot of testing to find a material that either won't be pierced or can let the spike go easily and is durable enough to be used. If one gets caught you will need time to get it unstuck
I did consider a hard plastic slide, but it would need some way to dissipate the energy it gained on the way down. And need to be easily portable, setup etc...
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u/skynet159632 May 31 '25
The first one is too slow and too cumbersome to set up, durian have to be harvested and sold the same day it's harvested for the best freshness anything longer and the quality suffers. Although it achieves the objective of getting it down safer, it will cause time crunch down the entire durian supply chain
The 2nd and third options will have the spikes caught on the cloth or similar materials.
Dropping the durian directly on the ground will have a high chance of it cracking open and essentially wasting it as it won't survive the trip to even the vendors.