Fruit harvesting machine

In a machine for harvesting fruit from trees including a supporting vehicle, a hopper mounted on the vehicle, an extensible boom having a bottom arm rotatably mounted on the vehicle, a man-supporting bucket on the outer end of the boom, a conduit system extending through said boom and from said boom to the hopper, and means for maintaining sub-atmospheric pressure in said hopper to conduct fruit from the bucket through the conduit system into said hopper, the improvement comprising the boom having inner, middle and outer telescopically slidable boom sections enclosing inner, middle and outer telescopically slidable fruit conduit sections, the boom sections and conduit sections respectively increasing in size from outside to inside, the outer end of the outer conduit section being fixedly mounted to the outer end of the outer boom section, the inner end of the inner conduit section being fixedly mounted to the inner end of the inner boom section, the outer end of the inner conduit section being supported by slidable support means mounted on the inner end of the middle boom section and the outer end of the middle conduit section being slidably supported on the outer boom section by the outer end of the middle conduit being provided with outwardly extending plug means slidably received in longitudinal groove means on the outer boom section.