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HAND PICKING [4 records]

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Record 1 2009-05-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
  • Culture of Fruit Trees
  • Fruits and Vegetables (Types and Processing - Food Ind.)
CONT

It takes between 3 and 3. 5 kilos of French plums to make one kilo of Agen prunes. Picking is... done entirely by hand. First, the plum trees are "shaken" and the fruit falls into nets held under the trees, ready for collection.... The plums are carefully washed, then sorted and sized. Drying is carried out in three stages, to permit a "gentle" dehydration, in special chambers or continuous-drying tunnels. By the end of the drying process, the plums have transformed into prunes, with a humidity level of between 21 and 23%.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
  • Arboriculture fruitière
  • Fruits et légumes (Types et traitement - Alimentation)
CONT

Les origines du pruneau d'Agen. [...] Le pruneau résulte de la transformation d'une prune appelée «prune d'ente». [...] La prune d'ente, à la jolie robe violette, représente aujourd'hui un verger considérable, seuls les pruneaux issus de la prune d'ente ont droit à l'appellation «pruneau d'Agen».

OBS

Chaque prunier peut donner une centaine de kilos de fruits. Les fruits ramassés sont ensuite lavés à l'eau et prêts à être séchés.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Botánica
  • Fruticultura
  • Frutas y verduras (Tipos y procesamiento - Ind. alimentaria)
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Record 2 2002-10-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Harvesting Techniques
CONT

More cleaning is necessary with mechanical picking than hand picking.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques de récolte
CONT

la cueillette manuelle [...] finit par n'être pas beaucoup plus coûteuse que la cueillette à la machine.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Técnicas de recolección
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Record 3 2002-04-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Processing of Mineral Products
  • Mineral Processing (Metallurgy)
CONT

Washing and Scrubbing the Ore. Washing of run-of-mine ore removes obscuring dust and casual dirt from the surface of the pieces and facilitates recognition when hand picking is to be practised. A second effect may be the removal of primary slimes of no value. Clays, colloidal fines, and similar valueless material can easily be taken out at the earlier stages, but may be difficult to remove once fine crushing has liberated a substantial quantity of finely shattered mineral.... The disintegrating forces used are of a gentle nature, not intended to fracture the ore but simply to tumble particle against particle until the desired amount of cleansing has been accomplished.

OBS

scrubber: A device, such as a wash screen, wash trommel, log washer, and hydraulic jet or monitor, in which a coarse and sticky material, for example, ore or clay, is either washed free of adherents or mildly disintegrated.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Préparation des produits miniers
  • Minéralurgie (Métallurgie)
DEF

Lavage d'un minerai argileux ou boueux pour le débarrasser de l'argile qui l'empâte.

CONT

Débourbage. Dans certaines exploitations, le tout-venant est mêlé d'argile; après concassage, il est débourbé par brassage avec de l'eau, soit dans un cylindre horizontal en rotation lente dont les palettes fixées à l'intérieur font progresser le minerai vers l'extrémité de sortie, soit dans un cylindre vibrant, ou encore sur des vibrocribles violemment arrosés, ou enfin dans une auge brassée par deux arbres munis de pales («log washer»).

Spanish

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Record 4 2000-10-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Physical Fitness Training and Bodybuilding
  • Golf
  • Chiropractic
  • Physiotherapy
CONT

When picking up lightweight objects, never bend from the waist. Face the object; brace one hand on your knee or work surface to help offset the weight of the load and help in stabilizing your body;... bend at the hip,... lifting the opposite leg up and out behind you. Think of a golfer lifting a ball.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Conditionnement physique et culturisme
  • Golf
  • Chiropratique
  • Physiothérapie
OBS

Position du golfeur sur le vert, pour prendre sa balle dans la coupe.

Spanish

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