A self-propelled strawberry harvester including a series of picking fingers which move along close to the ground so as to engage under and lift the berry clusters for a severing thereof from the plant by a sickle bar. A leafer belt moves the clusters rearwardly up onto and along the fingers to the sickle bar and upwardly therefrom onto an upwardly and rearwardly inclined conveyor elevator which in turn discharges the severed clusters onto a foraminous belt for movement through a cleaning unit consisting of an underlying blower fan and an overlying suction fan. The cleaned clusters are subsequently discharged into a collection box or container. The height of the picking head is vertically adjustable in response to variations in ground level. The sickle utilizes elongated narrow knives and ledger plates on equal spacing with the picking fingers.
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