In Greece, olive farmers let the olives ripen on the tree, place a large tarpaulin under the branches, then shake the tree as hard as they can. The ripe olives fall onto the tarp, which is picked up edges first so all the olives collect around the trunk , from whence they are shoveled into buckets.
I could find olive pullers on amazon, but I had to look up what an olive was:
"An olive is a small metal ring, typically made from copper, brass or steel, and used in plumbing to create a seal in compression fittings. Olives vary in shape and size but are most commonly found in the form of a ring with beveled edges."
Knowledge I could have lived without, but bless the internet for answering our questions. Except I don't know why they call it an olive.
Aha! Thank you, Cheerful Monk! My mental picture had led me astray. Liz's olive is NOT my ball valve. Over here, we might call Liz's olive a ferrule? (Although, I must admit that most of the ferrules with which I've worked were rings swaged onto wire rope to capture a thimble at the terminus of the wire rope.) Cop Car
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Well, I'm glad THAT'S cleared up.
I knew you would be, debra.
Is there any chance that your "olive" is my ball valve?
Cop Car
In Greece, olive farmers let the olives ripen on the tree,
place a large tarpaulin under the branches, then shake the tree as hard as they can.
The ripe olives fall onto the tarp, which is picked up edges first so all the olives
collect around the trunk , from whence they are shoveled into buckets.
So neither pullers nor picker devices are needed.
Been there, done that :-)
I could find olive pullers on amazon, but I had to look up what an olive was:
"An olive is a small metal ring, typically made from copper, brass or steel, and used in plumbing to create a seal in compression fittings. Olives vary in shape and size but are most commonly found in the form of a ring with beveled edges."
Knowledge I could have lived without, but bless the internet for answering our questions. Except I don't know why they call it an olive.
Aha! Thank you, Cheerful Monk! My mental picture had led me astray. Liz's olive is NOT my ball valve. Over here, we might call Liz's olive a ferrule? (Although, I must admit that most of the ferrules with which I've worked were rings swaged onto wire rope to capture a thimble at the terminus of the wire rope.)
Cop Car
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