Pine cone collection tool

A pine cone collecting and holding tool comprising in combination:

• an elongate tubular body defining a medial channel, having an upper end portion opening to said medial channel and a lower end portion opening to said medial channel and defining first fastening means in the lower end portion and;
• an entry structure having an annular peripheral rim defining an orifice geometrically similar to and larger than the lower end portion of the tubular body to fit over the lower portion of the tubular body, said peripheral rim:
• defining second fastening means to releasably interconnect with the first fastening means of the body for releasable positional maintenance of the peripheral rim on the body, and
• at least two resiliently deformable triangular-like bases carried in substantially coplanar relationship about the inner surface of the annular peripheral rim of the entry structure, said at least two fingers
• extending radially inwardly from the annular peripheral rim spacedly distant from each other to define an orifice about and between the inner ends of the at least two fingers,
• having a flat configuration with substantial surface area in a non-vertical plane,
• having sufficient resilient deformability to allow passage of pine cones therepast upon deformation of at least a portion of at least one of said fingers responsive to force exerted upon the at least one finger by a pine cone, and
• having sufficient retentent memory to return after removal of the deforming force to substantially the same configuration as existed prior to deformation.