The Geiger Lund Selective Asparagus Harvester
Custom built asparagus harvesters for sale.
Tractor-pull type single row selective mechanical asparagus
harvester.
The Geiger Lund selective asparagus harvester is ready for production. The harvesters will be custom built to fit your field requirements. We just need to know the row centers, harvestable width of the beds, and how many rows. With this information we can quote you a machine.
We can build you a one, two, three, or four row harvester. If you wish we can provide a trimming saw at the sorting area. That way the spears are already trimmed to length when they get to the packing shed, and you will have little or no butts to haul off.
The cutters have 2" wide blades on 1-3/4" centers. The blades are mounted on high speed air cylinders capable of over 5 full cycles per second. Harvesting speed ranges from 1 to 2.5 mph.
The harvested spears are clean
and undamaged. The harvester is very gentle. Washington
State University studied the effects of harvester on the harvested
spears even after putting them in cold storage for over a week.
They found no damage from machine harvesting the spears. 
The machine requires only minimal
maintenance, consisting mainly of checking the hydraulic fluid level
and the air filter. There are no grease fittings to grease or chains
to oil. All of the ball bearings used are sealed bearings with very
light loads and are run at low rpm resulting in extremely long life.
The fully repairable air cylinders are built more like heavy duty
hydraulic cylinders than air cylinders, with large 5/8 inch diameter
stainless steel piston rods and heavy wall steel tubing barrels. The
cylinders feature welded steel construction eliminating tie rods
which can stretch and can vibrate loose. The cylinders run on dry
air thus there are no lubricators to fill or maintain.
The conveyors run at slow speeds, have virtually no load, and are
V-belt guided for trouble free operation and long life.
The air compressor is a vane type compressor. Vane type air
compressors are known for their long life and trouble free operation
in portable applications. Occasional cleaning of the air filter is
the only maintenance.
Please check out the videos of the harvester:
Movie clips They are
worth viewing.
Or visit YouTube and search for "Asparagus Harvester".
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Bill Lund
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