September 8th, 2008 
Spooky 
That’s right folks, if you were lucky enough to stumble across this article, you have the privilege of seeing the latest technology in automated agriculture at work. This invaluable tool comes all the way from Belarus, a country that apparently spares no effort when it comes to investing in new technology.
This revolutionary agricultural device is a state-of-the-art cucumber harvester that uses the newly discovered power of people on their bellies. That’s right, people sitting on their bellies being pulled by a tractor. It’s simple and effective and I for one can’t wait to get my hands on one, cucumber harvesting will never be the same again.
I wish I lived in Belarus (sigh).
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Is this a joke?
I believe these are used for strawberries in the U.S., also.
“That’s right, people sitting on their bellies being pulled by a tractor.”
It has got to be uncomfortable sitting on their bellies all day. : )
you might think it’s a joke, but if you think about farmworkers having to bend over each time they want to pick a cucumber you can see that this is several orders of magnitude more efficient and easier on the human organism.
Some years ago a local IBM mainframe technician made a single person version of this from a disk drive frame (about 6 feet high). He cut it and welded on wheels and electric motors, and he would lay down and harvest his strawberries and other low lying crops. He did have some back problems and this was a lifesaver for him. Pretty fast, too.
Uhh. What exactly is new about this? Have you never been to a farm before?
I guess they dont have mexicans there. 4 mexicans will outproduce the 8 people you can fit on that thing. Im not being racists I am saying mexicans work hard!
Maybe I can bring my g/f
They used machines like this back in the late forties and into the fifties here in Minnesota for pickle harvesting.
I’ve from a farms regions and I worked on these machines for 4 years, and it’s still being used today, 2008, there’s nothing new there, nor special, just a support allowing people to be comfortable to work (habitually by putting a pillow underneath ourselves).
Location, Canada – Quebec
30 years ago, i was working on this machine to pick cucumber. This is realy old.
I’m from quebec, Canada. I think it is a joke. We use this platform 30 years ago.
ahhh, pickle harvesting….nothing like a freshly harvested pickle.
We use this technique for over 40 years here in Canada. Sorry but not a Belarus invention. 20 years ago I work for some farm and we harvest pickle like that. Lying on a wood panel and dragging by a tractor. No invention for me.
ahahahahah omg wtf! this is funny..i hope its a joke..i thought technology was about progressing?
….but what abt farmers who do the business on a small scale as the case with me.i wont b able to afford the machine n also it seems to occupy a very large space.any alternative?
if everybody says it is old then i to i was making a project on mans contribution towards agriculture