Believe it or not, this is how we cleaned and sorted our berries for the first number of years. The rotating drum got rid of small underripe berries, short twigs, etc. As the berries rolled down the table, we picked out the red berries or anything else that didn’t meet with our exacting standards. It was incredibly labour intensive. With four of us on the line working for about 8 hours, we could manage to clean and sort about 300-500 lbs of fruit. Our present day cleaning line can handle up to 5000 lbs/hour.