. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. "BaB" GOTTOCHAI^K is show, watchins as a load .t cranberries is ^hjPg^^d ™^ k"aplds'"S,''TribJil "^M Large Shipping Boxes Cut Cranberry Costs In Wisconsin For the second season, the Gotts- ohalk Cranberry Company of Route 3, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, is us- ing flatbed trucks, hauling harvested cranberries in large boxes contain- ing 800 pounds of fruit. Robert (Bob) A. Gottschalk has said that the use of these ^boxes, 42x48 inches, has cut the size of the crew needed to harvest and haul the crop away. W
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. "BaB" GOTTOCHAI^K is show, watchins as a load .t cranberries is ^hjPg^^d ™^ k"aplds'"S,''TribJil "^M Large Shipping Boxes Cut Cranberry Costs In Wisconsin For the second season, the Gotts- ohalk Cranberry Company of Route 3, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, is us- ing flatbed trucks, hauling harvested cranberries in large boxes contain- ing 800 pounds of fruit. Robert (Bob) A. Gottschalk has said that the use of these ^boxes, 42x48 inches, has cut the size of the crew needed to harvest and haul the crop away. Where he used to have three men, filling, ty- ing and piling bags he now has the berries running frc-m the sorter di- rectly into the boxes. Gottschalk is one of the Ocean Spray growers using this method. "Bob" Gottschalk, a progressive grower has been experimenting with the use of large boxes for several years. He has attempted sxiring ber- ries from the dryer hi large boxes be- fore sorting but found they wouldn't keep the berries dry. However, he has not had that problem with the berries after they have been sorted. He has held berries in storage three Eighteen,; days v/ithout having them "wet ; Shipping in the large boxes elimin- ates the backbreaking work of filling huge trailers with bags of cranber- ries. Loading the 45,000 pounds of berries on the truck is a simple pro- cedure with one man operating a fork lift truck. Ocean Spray also believes that the boxes also make the freezing process more economical for berries which are frozen. The flatbed truck with 48 boxes is unloaded in about half the time at the North Chicago plant. Berries, it is reported, were froz- en in the boxes in about two days, compared to a normal freezing time cf 5 in bags. Ocean Spray last year purchased 6,000 of the collapsible boxes for use in shipping. The fold- ing boxes eliminate the problem of shipping trucks filled with empty boxes to Chicago back to the Wiscon- sin g
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