Pea Shelling Made Easy

Housewives and reluctant husbands pressed into service, will agree that the worst part of providing peas for the family, is the shelling of them. If you've got a pea viner, however, it's as easy as shelling peas. These pictures were taken at the "K" pea viner, Appleby, during the height of the season. Here, the products from many hundreds of acres in the Waimea and Motueka areas are shelled with the minimum of trouble and canned just about as quickly.

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A view of the factory and its loads awaiting processing

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Dick Elliott and Peter Marriott fork vines from stack

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Threshed vines land on Bob Tomlinson's truck to be used as stock food

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Peter O'Connell forks the vines into hungry vining machine

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Beautifully cleaned peas flow into the bins under eye of Ross Irvine.