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Visiting an oliveprocessingplant
During my trip from Cabra to Fuente Piedra 🖱️ I was in the Land of the Olives.
And heard the noise of the machines that are used to "shake, rattle and roll" olives out of the trees. I stopped to have a closer look. Or actually I stopped to have a break. This team was very enthousiastic when I came over with my camera. I love that because it means people are having creativity, one way or another or somehow.
The machine has a long stick with a hook at the end. The operator hooks the hook to a branch and lets the machine run. The whole branch starts shaking awfully and the olives fall off. Hover over or or tap at this picture to start shaking !
The second man is looking for unwilling olives. He hits the braches with a long stick to help them fall off. But first they cover the earth around the tree with nets. That way it is easy to collect the olives.
I find it surprising that I almost never see or hear these workers while I am on the road.
With millions of olivetrees there should be thousands of workers in this season ???
The machine has a combustion engine, so it has a rotating crackshaft, just like the engine in your car. A cranckshaft transfers a rotating movement into a lineair movement. That stick is connected to the connecting rod of the crankshaft. The crankshaft is running at high rpm and so lets the hook shake forth and back.
In the very small village of La Camila I came along an oliveproductionplant in the. One man was very interested in my "way of transport" so we talked. He told me it was no problem to visit that plant so we walked inside.
And so ofcourse I did.
The olives are weighed, cleaned from branches and stones, washed and then transported to large underground silos. They each hold 2000 kgs of olives that are floating there in water. Part of the process is to take samples with which the quality is determined and so the price.
I was in the factory some 25 minutes I guess. And all that time this fan was waiting for me ! He hardly spoke any english and I don't speak any spanish but we managed. He was very interested in the OnTheRoad 4.0 and had a lot of questions. We "talked" about 15 minutes and then I left, maybe we'll meet again.
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