Fruit picker

It's grapefruit harvesting time at my house, and our tree is loaded with big, fat, sweet grapefruit. I can eat six a day and still be hungry for them. In the past, I used a broom handle with a metal hook (this weird implement came with the house when we bought it) to knock the fruit out of the tree, but the handle wasn't long enough to reach the fruit at the top, and when the grapefruit hit the ground the peel would crack open, spilling precious juice on the ground.

I finally got around to getting a fruit picker like the one shown here. It's very easy to grab the fruit and pull it off the twig. The fruit falls into the basket, safe and unsplit. I think I'll use it right now. $30.99 at Amazon