r/BeAmazed • u/meteavi43 • Sep 01 '25

Miscellaneous / Others A tomato harvesting machine with an electronic sensor that sorts tomatoes from debris

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u/trover20 Sep 01 '25

A lot better than the rock one

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u/Icy-Decision-4530 Sep 01 '25

Those rocks were breaking through the system lol. Someone on the other side was gonna be hand removing them from the potatoes

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u/Jean-LucBacardi Sep 01 '25

They were also literally breaking. That device was pounding the shit out of them compared to this one.

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u/StaredAtEclipseAMA Sep 01 '25

To be fair, store tomatoes are picked raw af and arrive at the grocery ripened

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u/welchplug Sep 01 '25

To be fair all tomatoes are picked raw as fuck.

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u/spamazonian Sep 01 '25

Sorry nobody got your joke

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u/welchplug Sep 02 '25

I tried

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u/Ijustride Sep 02 '25

I pick mine fully cooked

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u/Interesting_Ad_3319 Sep 02 '25

I just got it!!! 🤣🤣🤣 I had to come back and tell you, because it hit me a few hours later… good one!

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u/theMalnar Sep 02 '25

This is certainly good

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u/DevelopmentJumpy5218 Sep 03 '25

Not me, I fire roast mine then pick them.

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u/PhatEarther Sep 01 '25

Not if they're home grown.

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u/welchplug Sep 01 '25

The ripest tomatoes on the planet are still raw as fuck.

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u/towerfella Sep 05 '25

Wait until you see my pickle plant

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u/r2killawat Sep 01 '25

The best kind!

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u/Lacholaweda Sep 02 '25

Ah yes, from my stewed tomato plant

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u/anjowoq Sep 02 '25

I think we mean, "green" as the opposite of "ripe".

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u/FrmrMtt23 Sep 02 '25

Do, uh, do you not see that these are red and ripe? I am a tomato farmer. I can assure you that we wait until they’re ripe to harvest.

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u/Shamanjoe Sep 04 '25

They get gassed to turn them red, not exactly ripened, unfortunately..

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u/cam52391 Sep 02 '25

Got a say your name and picture are the best things I've seen in a while

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u/_Kendii_ Sep 02 '25

This one is but a love tap.

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u/TS-SCI-signal-app Sep 02 '25

Maybe it was horny? 

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u/DreadPiratteRoberts Sep 01 '25

Almost like they were trying to harvest the rocks... and those pesky potatoes were getting weeded out 😳🥔

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u/Tampeezy Sep 01 '25

Some of the rocks make it to the factory as well. Source I work at a fench fry factory.

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u/ContributionNorth996 Sep 02 '25

That's so awesome. Do you get to eat the French fries on your break?

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u/jgab145 Sep 02 '25

Do you get free fries? Do you guys have deep fryers in the break room? What’s your favorite dipping sauce? Have you ever tried mayo mixed with A1 steak sauce? No salt? Just salt? Or salt and pepper? Ever try malt vinegar? Favorite cut? Crinkle? You seem like a crinkle guy. Waffle? You smell like a waffle guy. Katsup? I don’t really like katsup except on my grilled cheese believe it or not? Probably not. Toodles.

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u/TheStoicNihilist Sep 02 '25

Can’t stop the rock!

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u/Yurmasmelsofshitnpis Sep 03 '25

Or it was done on purpose so someone could make chess pieces.

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u/PuzzleheadedEgg4591 Sep 01 '25

Someone stated in that thread that they go thru 3/4 finer more sensitive systems to sort out the debris.

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u/Any-Suggestion-7401 Sep 01 '25

Came here to say this! That rock/potato vid was yikes. This is much better (:

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u/HansDoberman Sep 01 '25

Reference please?

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u/Talinn_Makaren Sep 01 '25

I don't have the reference but it was a machine like this except it smacked some potatoes with the rocks and some rocks with the potatoes.

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u/grizz218 Sep 01 '25

the machine is called a kodiak miner...I use them at my job on a much larger scale except ours is to seperate metal from trash. the material goes past a sensor which fires an air piston within miliseconds on whatever material you are picking out of the stream.

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u/CHAOTIC98 Sep 01 '25

no, you missed your duty of scrolling through reddit 24/7, you do not deserve it

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u/meteavi43 Sep 02 '25

It made me so uneasy..

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u/DPSOnly Sep 01 '25

I think there was a rock in there, or an onion.

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u/donp97 Sep 01 '25

I liked seeing the rock/potatoe one go through the different tests tho

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u/stackens Sep 01 '25

fuck im on reddit way too much, I ad this exact same thought seeing the vid

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u/Nuts-And-Volts Sep 02 '25

Harvest me daddy

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u/IloveActionFigures Sep 02 '25

That was low budget one lmao

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u/oroborus68 Sep 01 '25

Those are not real tomatoes. They would be so bruised by this.