Yeah, I took a bit of literary license there. My point was that for most crops, the hardest part of mechanical harvesting isn't[1] actually getting the thing of

Yeah, I took a bit of literary license there. My point was that for most crops, the hardest part of mechanical harvesting isn't[1] actually getting the thing off the tree or the bush or the stalk, it's what happens after that. A combine doesn't do its magic at the head, right? Coconuts are the opposite, and I think it's a more difficult problem than it appears to be. 1. Full disclosure, I'm not a farmer or an engineer, just a guy who has spent some time studying agricultural automation.