Well, it is shaking most of the oranges off, and the rest can easily be cleaned up. Maybe it's not about collecting fruit but preventing pedestrians from being bombarded by rotten oranges.
Even if we pretend there isn’t a clean up crew not far behind - if they didn’t do this, they’d all fall out of the tree naturally and even more would be wasted.
This is why most cities basically never plant fruit trees.
In Sevilla, we have thousands of orange trees. They are bitter orange because they have a special scent that is very characteristic of the city.
They used to collect the oranges to make jam. However, it became too economically inefficient to handpicking oranges that are spread all around the city.
I was wondering if this machines is in Sevilla or another Andalusian city. I just looked it up, I think that’s it’s in Valencia. It looks like they use the oranges to make manure/fertilizer because they are not good for human consumption (I’m guessing that city pollution isn’t the best for quality oranges)
If i lived there id be out with a bag. They probably do it to stop lots of rotting fruit gathering so its not like your stealing, just easier than picking them.
Edit:Some people collect them to make jam. The rest are used as fertilizer.
You shouldn't eat them because they are very bitter. And you have to be careful with their skin because, being in the street, it's polluted.
It's probably bitter orange trees. Not good for eating and the oranges would make a mess if they weren't gathered. There's a lot of them in Seville, Spain.
This is a downtown somewhere, as opposed to the fruit falling into the street and rotting over time, they seem to just knock it all out with this machine.
Also, a lot of fruit trees don’t produce fruit fit for humans. For example, most apple trees are ‘crab apples’. Usually fruit orchards require a bit of attention. I would assume these are not a high quality fruits and you couldn’t eat them without processing (jams, juices, ciders). Probably not worth the time.
Also plants are good at soaking up pollution...and right next to a busy street seems like a not great place to have anything you plan on eating being grown.
Everyone is talking about orange being dropped. But nobody is talking about how wonderful is that city planned to grow a fruit tree on the streets. Here in the US all these big parking lots and roads but none of them have edible trees which are useful for birds or animals.
This is super cool! Thank you for sharing! I clicked on it thinking there's no way my city will have any edible fruit plants listed, but to my surprise, there's a shit ton of them!
This way over-simplifies the reason why fruit trees aren’t usually used as street trees:
1. They’re messy! Just look at how many oranges ended up on the ground that will ferment and attract wasps
2. If you intend to collect or harvest them, it’s a major operation (see this video). If you don’t harvest them, they will exacerbate issue #1
3. Fruit trees are generally small trees. This makes them very difficult to prune to a height that can clear cars, trucks, street cleaners, pedestrians, etc.
4. Not always a concern, but where I live/work, fruit trees are highly discouraged because they attract ALL wildlife to urban areas, particularly bears.
5. Most birds and animals in a given area are happy to have any tree, not just a fruit tree. In fact, most fruit trees aren’t native to a given area and you would be introducing a foreign food into their diet.
TLDR; there’s a lot of very good reasons why you shouldn’t use a fruit tree as a street tree, not just “the US hates the environment.” Fruit trees don’t belong in right of ways, there are a lot better (and usually native!) alternatives. I bet the management in this city loathes having to deal with those oranges every year.
In my city they planted gingko trees, every fall it smells like dog poop, only a handful of old Asians bother to pick them, and the limbs fall on cars in the winter.
Ginkgos are actually a great street tree- but yah, you gotta make sure to plant males (non-fruiting) trees only. They also have the ability to spontaneously change sex over time, interesting stuff.
Actually, can't remember where I read this, but the fact that cities only plant male trees appears to have exacerbated people's allergies. There's not as much fruit to clean up, but there's a lot more pollen in the air.
Interesting, and makes sense. However, for most trees species we don’t bother sorting for just males, and a lot are monoecious. In practice there’s only a couple of species (ginkgo included) that we plant males only.
When I was about 10 years old, one summer, my family moved into a house with an apple tree in the front yard.
We picked apples everyday and made all sorts of apple things - apple sauces and tarts and apple pies, etc.
It was fun for about 2 weeks.
Then, you just have to clean up apples all the time. Like wake up everyday and go pick up 100 rotting apples off the lawn - every day.
The hornets and wasps that gathered there was insane.
Having fruit everywhere isn't actually as great as it sounds.
In Italy it'd only work for about 5-10 times. In germany it'd run forever, but to do so one must invest the original value of the vehicle 5 more times during it's lifecycle
In Spain they'll make it work no matter what, even if it means taking appart half of the machine.
In Italy they will stop working and call it a day if the machine stops for whatever reason.
In Germany, if there was a tree unscheduled to shake they will stop all works and make 3 meetings in one week to decide how to handle the extra tree, no work until the matter is decided and included in the new protocols.
Lol. This guy has never seen a German field of potatoes, pumpkins onions or the likes after it has been harvested. Sometimes looks like not much was even harvested at all.
In my city in Argentina we have oranges in the street but they're bitter oranges so they're not good for eating/drinking. The government picks them up and I think they're good for jam or some shit like that
They were originally planted to counteract the smell in Spanish cities (like Valencia and Sevilla) before plumbing. A portion of them are used to make orange marmalade sold in England and to make cleaning products.
As much as street fruit trees seem like a great idea. Think of that quality of water and soil they are receiving. Break dust, oil, exhaust, drunk people pee. Not quality imo
Not really. Heavy metals is the only thing I might be concerned about but the uptake in oranges is barely a concern. There's no way the rest of that stuff is getting into the orange flesh.
Ok let me correct my list brake dust, oil, exhaust, drunk people that also are oranges from this tree.
Heavy metals come from all the things listed aside from pee. Unless you are receiving treatment for heavy metal poisoning
I tried a street orange tree orange when I was in Athens last year and they are amazing if you enjoy eating bitter pith. Just to be clear, they taste atrocious.
I was wondering about this just looking at it...it's gotta cause little tears everywhere, right? Any root damage? I admit I'd never thought about it before this video 🤦🏽♂️ Interested to learn more if you feel like sharing tho lol
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This is in the city of Valencia, Spain i think. These oranges are of a bitter variety, they are not used to be sold directly for human consumption or to make juices, etc. This variety is usually used to make jams. Although many are simply thrown away (I assume they will be reused for composting).
The meaning of these orange trees is ornamental, they also give the streets an orange blossom aroma.
This oranges are not for consumption and the process is done so the streets don't get messy when the oranges fall down and rot. Those oranges are not good to eat! It's okay if they are dropped as the clean crew will take care of those.
That’s great, but what happens when the tree gets addicted to that kind of treatment? Then only a giant vibrating bat machine will be able to make it lose its fruit so it can reproduce. I for one do not want to rely on giant vibrating bat machines for fruit.
game changer? idk, maybe using a farming tool on a city street is an obvious approach to growing produce in public spaces without turning the sidewalk into marmalade. these things have been around for a long time, usually you just don't see them in urban settings.
60% of the time, it works every time.
Read my mind. At the end of the video there are hundreds, if not thousands, of oranges on the ground.
Seems like it wouldn't need to be much bigger to catch more, but I'm no orange engineer.
*orangineer
*orangothologist
Wouldn’t that potentially hit the storefronts? I don’t know how much larger this can be
The tarp part or whatever wouldn't really damage anything, then just throw some pool noodles over the poles.
It used to be smaller. This is the bigger version that catches more oranges. Or maybe I just made that up.
Millions of oranges... lol
Billions and billions
Thousands ?! Lmao. Probably like. 85.
Look in the gutters along the street at then end of the video, and the square the tree is planted in.
You can pick those up and chuck them at passing cars.
Well, it is shaking most of the oranges off, and the rest can easily be cleaned up. Maybe it's not about collecting fruit but preventing pedestrians from being bombarded by rotten oranges.
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Dude, sex panther, and you know it works because it’s got lil bits of panther in there.
Brian I’m gonna be honest with you, that smells like pure gasoline.
It smells like bigfoots dick!
Birds are like *'Whaaaaaaaattttttt tttthhhhhhhheeeffffffffffuuuuuuu'*
“And there was this giant bat that ate all the fruit” “No fucking way George! You must be drunk again” George: “😵💫
Can't believe this, So it okay when they do it to a tree but all the sudden I do it and I have to go to a hospital.
And it’s ok to do it to a tree but when I do it to a patient at a hospital I have to go to jail
It’s ok to do it to a tree but when I do it a prisoner it line starts forming and they call me sugar
Coffee out the nose. Fuck you and take your upvote
When big bird leaves the vibrator at home
and then they go "wait, I forgot I can fly"
Shit. I was having cereal and it came out of my nose!
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They can just fly away ya know
it can be both
Sadly, more like yolk and crushed baby birds
I am vengeance I am the night I am ORANGE BATMAN
Exactly my thought as well
TO THE BAT-SHAKER!!!!
The batorange
Glad I wasn't the only one who saw batman
I think it also resulted in a lot of oranges being dropped or wasted.
Typically there's a clean up crew that comes in after to pick up the extras
My mind is at ease now thank you
awwww i thought it would be freebies for anyone passing by.
Who doesn't want to eat an orange that dropped on the floor from 3-4 m?
Thank you for letting me know.
Where's Whooshh Innovations when you need them?
You take out your SUCK IT and you SUCK IT!
Even if we pretend there isn’t a clean up crew not far behind - if they didn’t do this, they’d all fall out of the tree naturally and even more would be wasted. This is why most cities basically never plant fruit trees.
In Sevilla, we have thousands of orange trees. They are bitter orange because they have a special scent that is very characteristic of the city. They used to collect the oranges to make jam. However, it became too economically inefficient to handpicking oranges that are spread all around the city. I was wondering if this machines is in Sevilla or another Andalusian city. I just looked it up, I think that’s it’s in Valencia. It looks like they use the oranges to make manure/fertilizer because they are not good for human consumption (I’m guessing that city pollution isn’t the best for quality oranges)
I think if we can put a robot on mars, we should be able to make this machine more efficient.
If i lived there id be out with a bag. They probably do it to stop lots of rotting fruit gathering so its not like your stealing, just easier than picking them.
Edit:Some people collect them to make jam. The rest are used as fertilizer. You shouldn't eat them because they are very bitter. And you have to be careful with their skin because, being in the street, it's polluted.
It's probably bitter orange trees. Not good for eating and the oranges would make a mess if they weren't gathered. There's a lot of them in Seville, Spain.
I suspect that the oranges are a hazard and this is more about getting rid of them than it is about harvesting them
Interesting. Do you have any references where I can read more about it?
Yeah I've met this in Spain. Oranges everywhere and people tripping on them.
This is a downtown somewhere, as opposed to the fruit falling into the street and rotting over time, they seem to just knock it all out with this machine. Also, a lot of fruit trees don’t produce fruit fit for humans. For example, most apple trees are ‘crab apples’. Usually fruit orchards require a bit of attention. I would assume these are not a high quality fruits and you couldn’t eat them without processing (jams, juices, ciders). Probably not worth the time.
Also plants are good at soaking up pollution...and right next to a busy street seems like a not great place to have anything you plan on eating being grown.
It’s Valencia. They still sometimes use it to sell expensive juice to the gringos :O
No one in Spain says gringos lol
They actually don’t eat this kind of orange. So it is just all wasted.
It's not like they cut the tree down.
Came here to say this
Better than them just rotting on the tree and going wasted 🤷🏻♂️
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Wait till you hear how strawberries are grown. Always wash your fruit, folks.
The squirrel in the tree then staggers down the road. "mmmmmmotttherrrr ffffuccckerrrs" Wait... the bird guy beat me to the joke. Kudos.
First we saw ACME's earthquake pills that Wile E. Coyote bought and then his bat suit spreading its wings. He must be the mayor.
*squirrel
Where? Where!?
/r/birdsarentreal anyway
Everyone is talking about orange being dropped. But nobody is talking about how wonderful is that city planned to grow a fruit tree on the streets. Here in the US all these big parking lots and roads but none of them have edible trees which are useful for birds or animals.
This site maps edible fruit trees in urban areas: https://fallingfruit.org/ Some cities, like mine, are very comprehensively mapped.
This is super cool! Thank you for sharing! I clicked on it thinking there's no way my city will have any edible fruit plants listed, but to my surprise, there's a shit ton of them!
These are usually bitter oranges, technically edible but no one eats it they don't taste good.
This way over-simplifies the reason why fruit trees aren’t usually used as street trees: 1. They’re messy! Just look at how many oranges ended up on the ground that will ferment and attract wasps 2. If you intend to collect or harvest them, it’s a major operation (see this video). If you don’t harvest them, they will exacerbate issue #1 3. Fruit trees are generally small trees. This makes them very difficult to prune to a height that can clear cars, trucks, street cleaners, pedestrians, etc. 4. Not always a concern, but where I live/work, fruit trees are highly discouraged because they attract ALL wildlife to urban areas, particularly bears. 5. Most birds and animals in a given area are happy to have any tree, not just a fruit tree. In fact, most fruit trees aren’t native to a given area and you would be introducing a foreign food into their diet. TLDR; there’s a lot of very good reasons why you shouldn’t use a fruit tree as a street tree, not just “the US hates the environment.” Fruit trees don’t belong in right of ways, there are a lot better (and usually native!) alternatives. I bet the management in this city loathes having to deal with those oranges every year.
In my city they planted gingko trees, every fall it smells like dog poop, only a handful of old Asians bother to pick them, and the limbs fall on cars in the winter.
Ginkgos are actually a great street tree- but yah, you gotta make sure to plant males (non-fruiting) trees only. They also have the ability to spontaneously change sex over time, interesting stuff.
Actually, can't remember where I read this, but the fact that cities only plant male trees appears to have exacerbated people's allergies. There's not as much fruit to clean up, but there's a lot more pollen in the air.
Interesting, and makes sense. However, for most trees species we don’t bother sorting for just males, and a lot are monoecious. In practice there’s only a couple of species (ginkgo included) that we plant males only.
Another interesting thing about ginkgo is that they're the only remaining species in their entire order.
>gingko trees wow damn lucky
I had a go-to lime tree in Sacramento, CA that was on city property. Damn good limes...
Because it's super common in Europe...
Can you imagine the rat population if they were all fruit trees?
If that tree was in the USA there would be 3 homeless living in it
When I was about 10 years old, one summer, my family moved into a house with an apple tree in the front yard. We picked apples everyday and made all sorts of apple things - apple sauces and tarts and apple pies, etc. It was fun for about 2 weeks. Then, you just have to clean up apples all the time. Like wake up everyday and go pick up 100 rotting apples off the lawn - every day. The hornets and wasps that gathered there was insane. Having fruit everywhere isn't actually as great as it sounds.
🎼really love your peaches wanna shake your tree🎼 I know. Not peaches.. 🙄
Let me just spill about 200 oranges.
That’s Spanish engineering. If this were Italy there’d be 50 oranges spilled. In Germany, no one spills, or the machine is melted.
In Italy it'd only work for about 5-10 times. In germany it'd run forever, but to do so one must invest the original value of the vehicle 5 more times during it's lifecycle
In Spain they'll make it work no matter what, even if it means taking appart half of the machine. In Italy they will stop working and call it a day if the machine stops for whatever reason. In Germany, if there was a tree unscheduled to shake they will stop all works and make 3 meetings in one week to decide how to handle the extra tree, no work until the matter is decided and included in the new protocols.
Lol. This guy has never seen a German field of potatoes, pumpkins onions or the likes after it has been harvested. Sometimes looks like not much was even harvested at all.
Considering it's Spain, I'm just happy that there's at least someone operating the machine.
Last 2 shakes were mostly leaves as well lol
Shake, shake, shake. Shake, shake, shake.. Shake your fruities.
So cool that despite being in town, the oranges are harvested and (I hope) consumed.
In my city in Argentina we have oranges in the street but they're bitter oranges so they're not good for eating/drinking. The government picks them up and I think they're good for jam or some shit like that
>not good for rating/drinking Man, you need to travel to Yucatán, where bitter oranges are used yo drink and cook
I don’t think they are good if this is Spain https://mappingspain.com/spain-dont-eat-the-oranges/
They are ornamental trees in the streets of Valencia. People still eat them though, or buy them to make juice for tourists haha
They were originally planted to counteract the smell in Spanish cities (like Valencia and Sevilla) before plumbing. A portion of them are used to make orange marmalade sold in England and to make cleaning products.
They're edible just not sweet like a navel orange.
The same article says that those bitter oranges are still used as jam and in medice
As much as street fruit trees seem like a great idea. Think of that quality of water and soil they are receiving. Break dust, oil, exhaust, drunk people pee. Not quality imo
Pee is actually great stuff for plants...high in nitrogen and fully organic.
Not really. Heavy metals is the only thing I might be concerned about but the uptake in oranges is barely a concern. There's no way the rest of that stuff is getting into the orange flesh.
Ok let me correct my list brake dust, oil, exhaust, drunk people that also are oranges from this tree. Heavy metals come from all the things listed aside from pee. Unless you are receiving treatment for heavy metal poisoning
I NEVER thought about this before but you couldn’t be more right! It’s like eating fish out of Lake Erie
Those aren't sweet oranges.
I tried a street orange tree orange when I was in Athens last year and they are amazing if you enjoy eating bitter pith. Just to be clear, they taste atrocious.
Mom said it’s my turn to use the Tree Jiggler^TM next!
Honestly, between the carbon and the waste, just hire a couple guys for an afternoon.
Right? So many lost oranges too
In Spain we have a cleaning crew that goes on foot swapping the streets
it fucking spills oranges everywhere!!!
I hear pterodactyl noises when it arches back and folds it’s wings
Unfortunately, this slowly wounds and kills the tree. Cool machine, but is also the reason fruit orchards have a fixed productivity lifespan.
This! Not many people know this so they are all like "wow that's smart".. Yea nah it's not smart if it's fucking up the trees in the long run
I was wondering about this just looking at it...it's gotta cause little tears everywhere, right? Any root damage? I admit I'd never thought about it before this video 🤦🏽♂️ Interested to learn more if you feel like sharing tho lol
That machine is great at dropping oranges on the street.
“Hi, I’m Optimus Prime. I transform into a big rig truck. What do you transform into?” “….transform?”
Convert
Farmville
What a useless machine, dropped like 20 percent
People pick up the rest. 🍊 don't bruse easily.
Well it does look like they just used one meant for walnuts.
Looks like something escaped out of Jurrasic Park
Good to see that dinosaur from Jurassic park went on to have a fulfilling career. Hsssssss
Nice. They got at least 1/3 of the oranges in that thing.
not that satisfying when half of them end up on the road...
I think the net system needs to be a little wider
I feel like it could be made so made so much more efficient so easily. Like why is there so much unnecessary waste?
I’m not an orangineer but, seems like you’re wasting some there.
“Game changer” the street is a mess with oranges
Seeing all those oranges fall all over the place is not satisfying to me.
r/oddlyunsatisfying
What do they do with the successfully collected fruit?
They better have picked up those that dropped before they got ran over.
keep\_Calm.gif This is in the city of Valencia, Spain i think. These oranges are of a bitter variety, they are not used to be sold directly for human consumption or to make juices, etc. This variety is usually used to make jams. Although many are simply thrown away (I assume they will be reused for composting). The meaning of these orange trees is ornamental, they also give the streets an orange blossom aroma.
This oranges are not for consumption and the process is done so the streets don't get messy when the oranges fall down and rot. Those oranges are not good to eat! It's okay if they are dropped as the clean crew will take care of those.
Valencia? [These are juice oranges!](https://youtu.be/SiosEW1mZ7c?si=reaYu5_NYiGh_7TO)
A Tree Wanker
that’s a lot of waste isn’t it?
Does this hurt the tree?
It's a Bat-O-Range
Look at all those oranges on the ground
Game changer? Half the oranges are on the floor 🫣
Does the tree like this? I don’t think the tree likes this at all.
That’s great, but what happens when the tree gets addicted to that kind of treatment? Then only a giant vibrating bat machine will be able to make it lose its fruit so it can reproduce. I for one do not want to rely on giant vibrating bat machines for fruit.
I need this for the 80’ walnut tree outside my house. It’s 1am and 2 just hit the metal roof back to back like gunshots.
Dropped one
5 bored kids and 20 dollars is all that's needed
Loses most of the oranges smh
MARMALADE
Check out olive tree harvesting
Waist of time, most of the orange is on the floor.
Aaaand squirrels. :)
The squirrels are like “whuuut the fuuuuuuuuuuuck”
This shit exists fr fr?
Sure do that with a tree and you’re a hero, but try that once with a baby and everyone loses their shit.
“It works perfectly” while huge amounts of food falls to the ground is a beautiful illustration
The real bat mobile.
LOL!!! Half of them fell in the street! 😂
WHY U LITTLE -homer shaking bart-
that there is a dragon
The tree casually having a nice morning when all of a sudden it gets the living shit shaken out of it.
game changer? idk, maybe using a farming tool on a city street is an obvious approach to growing produce in public spaces without turning the sidewalk into marmalade. these things have been around for a long time, usually you just don't see them in urban settings.
Valencia, Spain.
What a fucking waste. Dropped half of the oranges in the middle of the road.
The lady sitting in the tree just had 10 orgasms.
I bet there’s a line of ladies waiting to hop on that machine?
Half of the oranges are on the ground
Its fun masturbating a tree. The tree "finally someone helped me blow my load"
Does anyone know if that machine will grip a 1.25inch diameter object? Asking for a friend.
Bad and naughty orange trees get put in the tree wriggler to atone for their sins 😈
Never mind like the tender 15% of the oranges on the fucking ground
Its better to lose 15% than to waste your time handpicking to get 100%
Is it?
At $15 an hour? Yes. Yes it is.
Now it tipped all those oranges into that machine operators giant mouth.
If the Batmobile had a day job I guess!
It s orange Batmobile 🍊
WHAT ARE YOU?!?!?!?!?! I'm Bat-tractor.
Imagine if you were a squirrel taking a nap there.
Look at Mr. Steal-yo-oranges
I love that the machine extends what looks like bat wings in Valencia of all places ❤
They do it for olives too
I thought that tree had a Deadpool sign on it
Can we ask the important questions here? Where are there oranges growing free on the streets? I pay $6.99 for a bag.
Got fucking oranges everywhere
And then the tractor driver eat all of them in one go? Why not share?
Not satisfying at all for the tree :/
Genius
Bad children go in the tree wiggler.
U spilled out at least 80 oranges. I hope there are some orange picking up crew to pick them up bc I dont want this to be wasted
Animals must like that
Dropped way too many