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This is the text of Nodji Van Wychen telling the story of her family’s cranberry pump, recorded September 15, 2001 by Jamie Yuenger in Warrens, WI. This is the first berry pump that was built in the state of Wisconsin, and it was built by my husband, as a cranberry grower. And, the reason he did this was, because he and I went out to the state of Massachusetts, which is number two in cranberry growing, and we went to one of their Growers’ Field Days where you see what growers in Massachusetts are doing and an educational type fair and the associate members and vendors are there showing their wares. And, out in Massachusetts, they use these berry pumps, and so he went and took some pictures of it and got a hold of a dealer to actually buy the pump part, and he figured he could engineer and build the rest of the part of the apparatus himself. And, the pump is the type of pump that they use, like, to remove fish in fish hatcheries from, like, one large tank area to the other. So, the fish, and so forth, can go through the pump without being harmed or dying or that, so it’s a very gentle process. So, that’s what we’re using with that theory in a cranberry berry pump. And, then the debris is filtered out through air and water. And then of course each winter, he would try it in the fall and each winter he would, kind of, revise and revamp, so he could see how it worked and what things he could do differently to make it work better. Now, they are commercially made in Wisconsin by two machine shops.  |
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